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 Message from Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro - President, WACC

  
Africa, the ‘cradle of civilization’, has a higher proportion of people living on less than $1 a day than anywhere in the world. Wars and other conflicts, drought, and economic stagnation have caused millions of people to become poorer than just a decade ago.

Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest prevalence of HIV & AIDS and deaths from malaria. Children under the age of five die of treatable diseases, often due to malnutrition and lack of basic healthcare.
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Musimbi 
   

 Message from The Rev. Achowah Umunei - President, WACC-Africa

  
 Welcome to Africa. Welcome to South Africa. And welcome to Cape Town. By travelling to Congress 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa, some of you may be touching ground of Mother Africa for the first time and others doing so for the second or more times. As they say in Ghana,“Akwaaba”, welcome! 

Here is Africa. Perhaps you first read of it in books, heard about it from someone or saw a movie depicting its people wrongly. Mort Rosenblum, in his analysis of news coverage of Africa, talked of how the continent is portrayed primarily in terms of wars and earthquakes. Read more...		  Achowah
   

Message from Randy Naylor - General Secretary, WACC

  
Media headlines make it painfully clear that war and violence are a common element in the lives of millions of people throughout the world.  "Peace" is not part of those headlines.  That WACC should chose to focus on peace at Congress 2008 is both a counter-headline and counter-cultural decision.  At the same time WACC asserts that "peace" is about much more than just the absence of "war".  We hold that communication and peace are part and parcel of the same faith-based conviction that people are meant to enjoy life - life in all its fullness. 
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Message from Kristine Greenaway - Congress coordinator

 
With the theme of Congress 2008, WACC is affirming that ‘Communication is peace’ and that communicators have a role to play in ‘Building viable communities’ centred on peace with justice. 

The faith-based and civil society communicators from around the globe who gather in Cape Town in October 2008 will have a chance to analyze the role of communication in conflict and peace-building situations.
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