The Ninth Annual U.S. Africa Sister Cities Conference, June 28- July 2, 2000 was held concurrently with Sister Cities International Conference (SCI) in Denver. Many thanks to Mayor Wellington E. Webb and his wife, Mrs. Wilma Webb, for their support. We are also most grateful to John & Edna Mosley and the Denver - Nairobi Sister City Committee for their incredible job of organizing a great conference. From the first-class shared opening ceremony with SCI to the luncheon with a keynote speaker, Leonard Robinson, President/CEO, National Summit on Africa, the Mayor’s marvelous reception, the wonderful Cleo Parker Robinson Dancers, the closing keynote speaker our own Congresswoman Maxine Waters to the great farewell Mile High Barbecue in Denver Nairobi Sister Cities Park, we were made to feel special. More than 150 delegates participated in panel discussions and workshops on issues pertaining to health, youth education, immigration, economics and technology. Many thanks to all the participants that continue to help make the conferences successful.

Sister Cities International - Executive

Director, Tim Honey

As the new Executive Director at Sister Cities International (SCI), I am committed to supporting and enhancing the US Africa sister

city network. It is vitally important that sister city programs between the United States and Africa be strengthened, and that many new relationships are formed in the months and years ahead.

The importance of the sister city movement has never been greater. As globalization sweeps our planet, we must find new ways within our communities to engage internationally in an effort to:

_ understand  and create "globally competitive communities";

_ build bridges to foster word peace and human rights;

_ take tangible steps to lessen the growing economic divide between the developed and the developing world.