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Imani Kali-Nyah is an investigative
researcher/reporter, journalist, writer/author, and
television producer, and historian specializing in ancient
and modern Ethiopian and Egyptian history; she is
internationally recognized as an expert on the subject of
Mussolini’s systematic mass extermination campaign in
Ethiopia from 1935-1941, having conducted 25 years
investigative research on the subject. As founder, Chairman
and CEO of the Ethiopian Holocaust Remembrance Committee,
Kali-Nyah’s inspired works have gained international
attention and support. In 2000, her work culminated with
the publication of a history book and a traveling museum
exhibit which is based on her book, the Special
Year 2000 Edition of Italy’s War Crimes in Ethiopia
1935-1941, which was edited by internationally renown
scholar, educator and historian, Professor Richard Pankhurst
whose mother, Sylvia Pankhurst, published the original war
crimes pamphlet, of the same title, in 1946. The traveling
museum exhibit , entitled “The Day the Angels Cried, which
is based on the book and has toured numerous colleges and
universities and enjoyed a four month display and record
attendance at the Carter G. Woodson Library’s
Vivian G. Harsh Research Center in Chicago. Through Kali-Nyah’s
“inspired works,” the Ethiopian Holocaust Remembrance
Committee has gained international attention and support.
Imani Kali-Nyah is a talented prolific public speaker; she
has a degree from Chicago State University in Mass
Communications, specializing in radio and television
productions, with an emphasis on investigative research and
reporting; she has been the executive producer of the
African World View weekly television program for the
past ten years, which is cablecast prime time Thursday
nights in Chicago. Kali-Nyah has traveled extensively and
has appeared on numerous radio and television programs and
cultural, educational and religious events across the US, in
the Caribbean, the South Pacific, and
Africa. |