Zosimli Naa II Ife Bell celebrating Damba festival with northerners in New Jersey
Zosimli Naa II, Ife Bell, has led the first Damba festival as the honorary chief at New Jersey In the United States of America.
As customs demands, Zosimli Naa welcomed the delegation from Ghana, the Ghanaian community in the US especially the Northern people and chiefs who came to celebrate the beautiful culture of the Northern people.
She urged the good people of the North in the United States to join her in the development agenda for the people of Tamale and the Northern Region as a whole.
“ We have to produce a greater impact, especially the vulnerable in the society. I believe that leadership is a lifestyle and the people are our greatest resource in life. It is my mission to expand the capacity of people to bring their very best. As leaders, our actions and decisions are to make strong connections, friendships with other leaders in support of accomplishing a goal. Today we as leaders came together in support of the goal of celebrating our culture and the second goal of fostering development and I assure you of my commitment to the development of the people of Tamale and the Northern Region by leveraging my network and platforms.”
The international speaker, leader, coach, and philanthropist who serves on several non-governmental boards outlined three strategies for action to achieve the developmental goals for the good people of the Northern region.
According to her, her palace will bring diverse leaders who are young, energetic, and committed in particular professionals who will register with a yearly fee, and be members of the Tamale-Louisville Sister Cities Committee noting that the Tamale and Louisville have been Sister Cities, collaborating and achieving a lot for over 40 years by members in both cities and encouraged the youth especially professionals to register, join, and pay annual dues to keep the committee in Tamale vibrant, as well as take-up leadership positions within the sister cities group.
“This approach will demonstrate the preparedness of the youth to be stakeholders in the work of development for Tamale and I encourage everyone to reach out to Tamale- Louisville sister cities office to join the movement.
She disclosed that the office of Zosimli Naa is committed to establishing a formidable group known as the “Friends of Tamale” and that the group will be a diverse group of Americans; African Americans and White, women, and men, young and old with a particular focus on the African American community, who desire to visit their ancestral home to participate in building or to investing in Ghana as well as visiting tourist sites to boost tourism in Northern Ghana and Ghana as a whole.
“Members of this association will be organized by their areas of specialty and partnered with their Ghanaian counterparts to work together towards the development of the North while also learning from each other and I have already begun to invite interested persons and groups to sign-up and support this movement to create developmental opportunities for the good people of the north and also showing our culture and tourist site to the world.”
“ I will again focus on bolstering existing programs and strengthening relationships with the individuals and professionals from the Northern Region who are now living in the US to make connections with every Northerner abroad or within the US to join the movement and develop a database and share a link for individuals to sign-up to help us keep in touch and support one another when the need arises.”
Naa Ife Bell II assured that the New Jersey community and all of the many communities present in the US that will have the first opportunity to register.
“ The existing programs and activities that the planning committee has been engaged, and implored will help to strengthen the current initiatives such as the Dagombas Youth Association, Northern Youth Association, and the other groups So that together, we will make Northern Region strong. We are leaders, and together we are ready to take action today to develop Northern Ghana.”
She appealed to the good people of the North to ensure that the current peace in Dagbon is sustained to attract developmental opportunities for the region.
FROM Eric Kombat