What is the Safari Tour 2011?
Greetings my name is Anthony “Amp” Elmore and I am from Memphis, Tennessee. We created a project called "SAFARI" an acromyn for "Styled African Family Academic Reporation Initiative. In common sense terms we use education and enlightenment to heal the African family. The human family comes from Africa. Education will let every know that the origins of human kind is in Ethiopia at the Kenyan border. If you notice in the picture I am wearing my formal African Style Tuxedo because the Safari Tour 2011 is a formal occasion. One writer wrote that the greatest treasure on earth is the treasure of the heart. If you deny your mind rest for a few days the mind will hallucinate and shut down, however there is one organ in the body never rest and that is the heart. One of the treasures of my heart is my love and passion for Africa and I can never rest until I fulfill my obligation to tell people to “come home” to Mother Africa. In 1990 I took my first trip to Nairobi, Kenya when I had the opportunity to travel to Kenya to premier my movie “The Contemporary Gladiator” and now called “Iron Thunder” on video. Once during an early visit to Kenya I sat in my room crying tears realizing that I had made it home and my African ancestors thanked me for coming and I promised my ancestors that I would tell the world about Africa.
For almost 20 years every time that I see my friend Memphis Mayor W.W. Herenton I beg the Mayor to please go to Africa and make a difference. Going to Africa takes a passion and heart. One young man did have the heart to visit Africa a few times and Africa changed his life. Today that young man is the most noted man in world history Barack Obama Jr. the President of the United States of America. In 1958 another young man made his first trip overseas to witness the independence of the 1st African Country to gain its freedom from colonization.
That young man was Dr. Martin Luther King. In the photograph Dr. King stands side by side with Ghana's 1st Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah.
In plain in simple terms the Safari Tour 2011 is a peace, educational, spiritual, entertainment and trade journey organized by Anthony “Amp” Elmore that takes a group on a Safari adventure to the three African Countries of Ethiopia, Kenya and Ghana. The 1st leg of the tour will be a visit to Ethiopia and Kenya in the summer of 2011 and Ghana one year later in 2012.
Ghana Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah & Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
This is a picture of me in Kenya a few years ago with the current minister of Tourism the honorable Najib Balala. In 2003 we asked Africa and April founder Dr. David Acey to honor Kenya and Minister Balala actually visited Memphis. If Memphiams are serious about visiting Africa they will get the best treatment in Kenya. Kenya has an economy based on tourism and service is their business it is like being on a big cruise ship.
On March 25, 2010 we asked Memphis Congressman Steve Cohen to arrange a meeting with us and the Kenya Ambassador the honorable Peter Ogego. Before even going into the meeting I knew what Kenya would offer and how well we would be treated. We asked the Kenya Ambassador to arrange for the Prime minister or the President to meet with our group of Americans and honor every African/American with an honorary citizenship and welcome Africans/Americans home. Kenya will go over and beyond the call of duty to assist and accomodate. In 1990 I 1st traveled to Kenya to premier my movie "The Contemporary Gladiator on video titled "Iron Thunder." Kenya treated us so well that for over a decade i took groups to Kenya. In 1995 I married a Kenyan woman, we have sinced divorced but we have a wonderful 11 year old son who is half Kenyan like President Obama. For almost 20 years we tried to get our former Mayor my friend Dr. W.W. Herenton to visit Kenya and build a partnership between Memphis and Kenya. In 2007 we mention the idea to Congressman Steve Cohen and he immediatly called his staff to set us a meeting this the Ethiopian Ambassador who was excited about our ideas. Memphis Mayor A.C. Wharton has written us twice about our African project and we expect him to be on board with us and actually traveling to Kenya to vacation with us.
Kenya Ambassador The Honorable Peter Ogego
