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Biography of the Famous Intellectual Brice Augustin Sinsin

June 10, 2015

Photo Credit: Dr. Roland Holou (www.RolandHolou.com).

Engaging with the international diaspora implies also helping the diaspora to better know the people that they left behind in their home country. It also implies assisting those in the country of residence of the diaspora to value, celebrate and cherish the good achievements of their peers who are succeeding. When it comes to the contemporary African intellectuals, scientists, leaders, developers, managers, reformers, and educators, one name has been locally and internationally leading the list: Prof Brice Augustin Sinsin.

His sense of teamwork, franchise, and reputation allowed him to extensively build a strong network of collaborators across the globe from Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, China, France, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Iran, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Namibia, Netherlands, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of Central Africa, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Togo, Uganda, United Kingdom, USA, etc. He has supervised more than 50 Ph.D. Students in Africa, Europe, America, Asia, etc. Prof Brice Sinsin is the Director of the “Laboratory of Applied Ecology”.Brice Augustin Sinsin was born in 1959, a year before the independence of his native country, Benin Republic (West Africa). Despite the challenges surrounding his childhood, Brice Sinsin worked very hard until he earned a Ph.D. with distinction in Agronomy at the Free University of Brussels (Belgium) in 1993. Having overcome every challenge on his way, Prof Brice Sinsin is today internationally applauded not only for his scientific achievements but also for his management and leadership ability that has been best known after he became the Rector/Chancellor of the University of Abomey Calavi (UAC), the biggest university (consisting of more than 100,000 students) of Benin. During his tenure at the head of UAC, Prof Sinsin won several awards including the “Best Manager of the Year in Science and Education” in 2013 from the International Socrates Committee in Europe. In less than 4 years, his undeniable leadership and reforms brought more than a dozen international prizes and awards to UAC.


A few days ago, the Biography of Prof Brice Sinsin was published. The 18 chapters of that book revealed the true facets and secrets of his masterful journey. Indeed, Brice Sinsin is a Beninese, a beloved father, a tireless leader, a rigorous developer, a generous educator, an undeniable reformer, and a proven scientist that has braved everything in his life, from childhood to the top of modern science where the sweat of his brow raised him to an internationally acclaimed reputation. Forerunner of a new approach to science policy for the emergence and development of nations, Prof Brice Sinsin is a model that all generations are invited to imitate and seek to surpass. His biography explains how this Beninese works on the basis of principles and passions that hide the code of his success that many seek to emulate without wanting to pay the price. In the 300 page biography, Prof Sinsin also proposes strategies to reform the African democracy and constitutions to suit the needs of the African people, learn from traditional leadership systems in Africa, make African countries more national and patriotic, reform politics in Africa and better train the African diplomats. The author ended the biography with a critical conclusion and a fervent prayer. To learn more about this biography, please visit www.BriceSinsin.com. To get your copy of the biography, please click here:

This biography was written by Dr. Roland Holou (www.RolandHolou.com), a scientist, a businessman, a published author, and an international consultant. He obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Agronomy and his Master of Science Degree in Agricultural Engineering at the University of Abomey Calavi in Benin. He has a Ph.D. in Plant, Insect and Microbial Sciences at the University of Missouri (USA) where he graduated as the Doctoral Marshal (first of his class). Roland Holou is the Founder and CEO of DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com), the premier global diaspora engagement network platform that connects the international diasporas to each other and to opportunities anywhere.

Biographie du Réformateur Africain Brice Augustin Sinsin

Photo Credit: Dr. Roland Holou (www.RolandHolou.com).

Au temps des philosophes antiques, l’Afrique était le centre du savoir. Ai-je besoin de vous rappeler la place des penseurs Africains dans l’histoire de la science ? De nos jours, un autre vent scientifique, réformateur et développeur est en train de souffler au Bénin, le quartier latin de l’Afrique. La biographie du leader, Brice Augustin Sinsin (www.BriceSinsin.com) capitalise les faits se rapportant à ce vent réformateur qui est applaudi des 4 coins du globe.

Pourquoi Dr Ir. Roland Holou a-t-il décidé faire la biographie du Prof. Brice Sinsin? Prof. Guy Apollinaire Mensah repondit à cette question dans la préface du livre en soulignant que « Dr Holou veut faire découvrir au lecteur toutes les facettes du parcours magistral et majestueux de ce Professeur hors pair qui devient un modèle que la génération montante et de relève est invitée à imiter et chercher à surpasser ». Dans cette biographie, l’auteur ne conduit pas le lecteur dans un labyrinthe de la vie de Prof. Sinsin, mais il lui souligne et lui montre plutôt comment un homme, un scientifique et un vrai passionné peut se tracer une ligne de conduite et se doter de principe afin de surmonter tous les obstacles jonchant son chemin en se remettant tout temps en cause pour atteindre son but et obtenir la satisfaction et le réconfort moral du travail bien accompli.

Sinsin Augustin Brice est venu au monde le 03 mars 1959 à Djidja, à la veille de l’indépendance du Dahomey qui, plus tard, devint «République Populaire du Bénin» sous le règne du Président Mathieu Kérékou, puis «République du Bénin» avec l’arrivée du Renouveau Démocratique. Le lecteur de cette biographie saura que Prof. Sinsin est reconnu comme celui qui 1) aime lire et respecter les hommes et les normes sociales, 2) aime rendre compte des ressources à lui allouer, 3) aime écouter son prochain pour pouvoir bien l’aider, 4) veille sur ces principes dans une simplicité et une ouverture d’esprit avérées, 5) aime la culture du travail, de la confiance et de la libéralité, 6) dédaigne les amateurs des problèmes, 7) déteste le gain facile, 8) aime bien payer ses ouvriers et collaborateurs, 9) a trop œuvré pour la promotion des bras valides, 10) adore la collaboration avec les autres et le travail en équipe, 11) a formé une kyrielle de cadres pour le développement de nombreux pays, 12) est l’un des rares cerveaux ayant consacré leur vie à protéger et à valoriser les ressources naturelles (végétaux et animaux sauvages) et les humains …

Cette biographie explique comment cet Africain fonctionne sur la base de passions et principes qui cachent le code de sa réussite que beaucoup cherchent à imiter sans vouloir payer le prix. Il propose aussi des stratégies pour réformer la démocratie et les constitutions africaines en vue de les adapter aux besoins du peuple africain, tirer leçons des systèmes de chefferies traditionnelles en Afrique, faire des pays africains des États-Nations, reformer la politique en Afrique et la formation des diplomates Africains. L’auteur termine cet ouvrage par une conclusion critique et une prière fervente.Le temps manquerait s’il fallait énumérer le nombre de dossiers et de cadres que le Prof Sinsin a défendus et promus. Les Béninois sont très intelligents certes, mais s’ils décident d’employer leur intelligence pour vous nuire, vous êtes grillés. Ai-je besoin de vous rappeler ce que disait le célèbre philosophe français Emmanuel Mounier bien avant les indépendances du Dahomey (actuel Bénin) en 1960 : « Le Dahomey est le quartier latin de l’Afrique. Mais cet intellectualisme fait de méchanceté et de mesquinerie est de nature à retarder le développement du pays». Sans l’intervention et la libéralité du Prof Sinsin A. Brice, plusieurs cadres Béninois seraient bloqués par ce que Maître Robert Dossou qualifie de ‘‘Béninoiserie’’, ce jeu de blocage des uns et des autres bien reconnu à certains méchants génies Béninois qui aiment aussi compliquer les choses avec la sorcellerie, le Vodou et bien d’autres forces spirituelles que je ne saurais vraiment expliquer dans l’espace de cette biographie. Malgré ces menaces et actions parfois occultes, le professeur Sinsin a toujours le souci de voir ses étudiants réussir.

L’auteur de cette biographie, Dr Roland Holou, est un citoyen Américain et Béninois, scientifique, écrivain, businessman, développeur, et consultant international. Roland a obtenu un doctorat en sciences végétales, entomologie et microbiologie aux États-Unis. Il est récipiendaire de plusieurs prix et titres honorifiques dont: “Top Ranked U.S. Executive Award”, “Who’s Who in the World”, “Who’s Who in America”. Il est le Fondateur et PDG de DiasporaEngager, www.DiasporaEngager.com, la première plateforme mondiale des diasporas et parties prenantes. Pour savoir plus sur Roland, visiter www.RolandHolou.com

Global Diaspora Advocating for the Development of Nations

July 30, 2014

Photo Credit: Dr. Roland Holou (www.RolandHolou.com).

To advocate for something is to plead or argue in favor of that thing. People and organizations usually advocate for causes they care for. For instance, to push their agendas forward, several nations, institutions, and organizations hire professionals that advocate on their behalf for things critical to their well-being (e.g. security, economy, politics, and development). Why does diaspora advocacy for development matter?

While almost every country has an interest in others, millions of people are moving every year to new countries or places without being really engaged in the development of their home country as it should. At the same time, the potential of the diaspora is usually ignored even in their new country of residence. With the globalization of the world’s economy and the increasing human migration, the potential of the global diaspora is needed more than ever.

Usually, because they know more about their country of residence than their fellow citizens living in their home country, the global Diaspora can better advocate for their people at key institutions or places in their country of residence. By doing so, advocacy service providers will have a channel to reach the customers that were unknown to them, whereas the Diasporas and their people will finally know who to talk to and how to solve their advocacy problems based on their respective realities.

Each country should have advocacy centers where they should be training and educating its diaspora in helping them carry their developmental agendas. Governmental agencies (e.g. consulates and embassies) should be highly involved in this kind of advocacy initiatives. Unfortunately, the consulates and embassies of many developing countries are mostly known for delivering visas and passports or for negotiating deals that can be better won if their diaspora can be tactically more involved! Several intellectuals living in the diaspora have complained that they never receive a letter or a newsletter from the embassy or the consulate of their country trying to engage them in development conversations. Therefore, the potential of these diaspora pundits is ignored by their own nations that nominate unqualified diplomats to negotiate very complex issues that they (the diplomats) were not trained for. At the same time, the international diaspora neglect to make the first move by approaching their country to start discussions that can develop them.

Normally, in every country, there should be advocacy institutes at least at university levels to help harvest the potential of the professionals in the diaspora as a positive force that can enlighten people and unleash development. By doing so, more advocacy for development jobs can be created in each country and also among the diaspora. The educated people living in the diaspora must be motivated to know that their country of origin needs them no less than their current country of residence where they are sometimes strategically forced to pay a lot for their education and integration before starting to pay high interest for their loans without forgetting their taxes!

 

 

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This is part of the noble mission DiasporaEngager is carrying: brings together the advocacy industry and the Diasporas as well as their home country to cooperate and resolve their problems. In addition, DiasporaEngager can assist you if you are interested in opportunities related to:

  • Advocacy campaign
  • Advocacy law or lawyer
  • Advocacy mediation
  • Advocacy networking
  • Advocacy organization
  • Advocacy program and services
  • Advocacy support and training
  • Consumer advocacy
  • Diaspora advocacy
  • Educational advocacy
  • Human rights advocacy
  • Immigrant advocacy
  • Etc.

Do you have an agenda that you need to push forward?

Do you want to plea the cause of your country?

Do you know that your Diaspora can do the same thing for you?

Do you have any advocacy skills you want to use for any country?

Do you want to advocate on behalf of your country of origin or residence?

Do you want to represent your country somewhere?

If you said yes to any of the above questions, you can solve your problem and/or help someone else use your skills by just connecting with people and opportunities on DiasporaEngager: https://DiasporaEngager.com

All it takes to start using the diaspora advocacy platform is to register a free account. If you are not a DiasporaEngager User yet, please click here to register today: https://DiasporaEngager.com/miniRegister. It is free!

If you already have an account with DiasporaEngager, please log in today (www.DiasporaEngager.com) and post your consulting needs and/or offers.

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We wish you the best!

The International Diaspora Engagement Network Platform

May 18, 2014

Photo Credit: Dr. Roland Holou (www.RolandHolou.com).

 

SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI (USA) (PRWEB) MAY 14, 2014

DiasporaEngager (DiasporaEngager.com) is the global diaspora community platform that connects international diasporas to opportunities with governments, nonprofits, businesses, laboratories, international institutions, schools, and research institutions. DiasporaEngager allows diaspora and institutions to provide effective working, networking, and development strategies in their home country as well as within their current country of residence.

DiasporaEngager (http://www.DiasporaEngager.com) is pleased to announce the launch of the global diaspora platform that strategically connects diasporas with one another and with organizations to build effective networking, job placement, consulting, capacity building, and other sources of professional development. The website allows international diaspora to transfer resources, services, and skilled labor amongst people, organizations, and nations. Since most people’s lineage can be traced to a foreign nation, DiasporaEngager’s services can be used by anyone who wishes to network with other professionals and to build a sustaining career or business market.

To begin using DiasporaEngager, a user can simply register a free account at (http://www.DiasporaEngager.com/miniRegister). Inside the account, users can create a profile reflecting their competency, needs, and marketable skills. Users can post needs/offers and search for opportunities. The search tool makes it easy for users to find opportunities that match their specified requirements locally or worldwide.

DiasporaEngager assists the global diaspora network with finding opportunities in government agencies and educational institutions. Students can use the platform to connect with professors, students, and counselors, vice versa, in order to find scholarships, grants, study abroad programs, and mentors that will help them attain an affordable education and better compete on the global job market. Scientists who are looking for research grants, publishing, investment, technology, collaborators or partners can do so through this specialized social media website.

Additionally, anyone who is seeking to build business partnerships and to grow a healthy career in any country will find that DiasporaEngager is a useful and pragmatic tool for finding recruiters and other people with an entrepreneurial and professional mindset. In addition, salespeople can use the site to attract more customers, while consumers can also locate and purchase commodities. Registered users get free tools to find and engage with local and global philanthropic donations, including directly giving and/or receiving goods/services to or from others. Unemployed people receive free tips to get a job, start a new business, or solve their unemployment needs. This global resource site also helps with local and international volunteering opportunities. More information about the services provided to customers after registering an account with DiasporaEngager can be found at the links below:

https://www.diasporaengager.com/extPage/Business
https://www.diasporaengager.com/extPage/GovernmentalAgency
https://www.diasporaengager.com/extPage/SchoolOrEducationalInstitution
https://www.diasporaengager.com/extPage/ResearchCollaborationGrant
https://www.diasporaengager.com/extPage/Recruiting
https://www.diasporaengager.com/extPage/ImmigrantDiasporaMembers
https://www.diasporaengager.com/extPage/Volunteer 

“The diasporas are oftentimes unknown by organizations that help them succeed, vice versa. This global problem impoverishes nations and deprives institutions of reaching most of their potential market, clients, and customers. With the increasing rise of crises, wars, and catastrophic events around the globe, human migration will keep growing and its corresponding problems will get worse if appropriate actions are not taken now. To solve this problem, a global system must be built where the diaspora, the people and organizations in their country of origin and in their host country can work together to help each other mutually. DiasporaEngager was created to help solve this problem,” says Dr. Roland Holou, founder of DiasporaEngager.

Other areas of interest of DiasporaEngager include advocacy for development, benchmarking, civil and human rights, cultural issues, dating, democracy, diplomacy, migrations policies strategies, governance, hobbies and games, innovation, international affairs, investment, labor issues, legal services, lobbying, marketing, policy development, refugee services, spirituality, technology, town twinning, and much more.

  •     To register an account for yourself and/or for your organization to start using the International Diaspora Engagement Platform today go to https://DiasporaEngager.com/miniRegister.
  •     In addition to the platform, sign up for https://DiasporaEngager newsletter at https://DiasporaEngager.com/Newsletter and start receiving updates and opportunities from the global diaspora.

Connect with DiasporaEngager at:

DiasporasNews.com
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About DiasporaEngager’s Founder:
DiasporaEngager was founded by Dr. Roland Holou (https://www.RolandHolou.com), a dual citizen of the US and Benin Republic. Prior to founding this company, Roland worked as a Plant Biotechnology Research Scientist in the USA. He also chaired several international organizations. Roland authored several books related to leadership, education, development, politics, sociology, and economics. He is available for interviews, conferences, and consultations related to his expertise, including diaspora engagement and brain drain management.

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Global Diaspora Engagement Platform Help People & Nations

March 2, 2014

Photo Credit: Dr. Roland Holou (www.RolandHolou.com).

 

What is DiasporaEngager?

DiasporaEngager is the world’s premier and largest Diaspora network that addresses problems related to brain drain, education, business, philanthropy, traveling, immigration, volunteering, and much more. Usually, Diaspora refers to people who are living in a country or town that is not their place of origin/ancestry or the place they call home. Most people can be remotely linked to a country of ancestry, and because our services relate to everybody, “Diaspora” as used here applies to any human being.

Why the Global Diaspora Engagement Platform was created?

Millions of people are leaving their home country to go to other countries each year. Even within a country, many people are moving all the time, seeking better opportunities, or trying to adjust to life’s challenges and solicitations. The situation has been worsening in developing countries in a way that the brain drain is seen as one of the greatest threats against their development. Nevertheless, some developed countries are promoting policies and immigration laws that encourage foreign educated pundits or talented graduate students to leave their home country and come to those developed countries where they are “maintained” after graduation. So far, the efforts to stop or properly manage brain drain have been unsuccessful.

Unfortunately, many people are usually disappointed by what they see after moving, and others are disconnected from people and opportunities in their home country as well as in their host country. In other situations, people travel to new places without having a contact that can assist or mentor them if a need arises. Because of a lack of information or the right connections, several aliens and travelers do not produce the best of themselves or successfully integrate into their new environment. Those who succeed often don’t collaborate/network with the newly arriving immigrants or with those who are not reaching their dreams.

Besides the money they send back to their relatives, the global Diasporas do not contribute to the development of their country of origin as wished. Those who want to engage in humanitarian, fundraising, or philanthropy activities to give back don’t know how, where, and whom to contact to reach the real needy or to solve the real problems. At the same time, the Diasporas are usually unknown by many businesses, nonprofits and other organizations that can help them in their country of residence. This global problem impoverishes nations and deprives many organizations of reaching most of their potential market, clients, and customers.

With the increasing rise of crises, wars, and catastrophic events around the globe, human migration will keep growing and its corresponding problems will get worse if appropriate actions are not taken now. To sustainably solve this problem, a global system must be built where the Diaspora, the people, and organizations in their country of origin and in their host country can work together to help each other mutually. That’s what DiasporaEngager was created for!

To register to DiasporaEngager in order to start using the platform to address your problems or help others, please click here: https://diasporaengager.com/miniRegister.php.

About the Founder of DiasporaEngager

DiasporaEngager was founded by Roland Holou, a dual citizen of the US and Benin (West Africa). Prior to founding this company, Roland worked as a Plant Biotechnology Research Scientist in the USA. He also served as the International Chair of the “Sweet Sorghum Ethanol Association”. He also chaired the “International Service in Agronomy Award Committee” at the American Society of Agronomy. Roland Holou obtained his Ph.D. in Plant, Insect and Microbial Sciences at the University of Missouri in Columbia (USA), where he graduated as the Doctoral Marshal. He also holds a Bachelor Degree in Agronomy and a Master of Science Degree in Agricultural Engineering. He authored several books related to Sociology, Leadership, Education, Development, Politics, and Economics. Roland is available for interviews, consultations, and conferences related to his area of expertise including the international diaspora engagement and brain drain management.

Thank you very much for taking your time to read us.

In our next blog, we will share with you how DiasporaEngager can help individuals, organizations, and nations.

Stay tuned.

 

 

Bénin: Un livre qui donne un train de réponses aux souffrances de l’Afrique. Revue du livre « Pourquoi l’Afrique pleure et s’enfonce ? » de l’auteur Béninois, Roland Holou. Révue faite par Théodore Kouadio (Journaliste, Cote d’Ivoire), Paru dans Fraternité Matin

October 16, 2008

En lisant le livre « Pourquoi l’Afrique pleure et s’enfonce ? » de l’auteur Béninois, Roland Holou de Trafford Publishing (Canada) on s’aperçoit bien qu’il y a là dedans trente raisons pour lesquelles l’Afrique s’enfonce dans des jérémiades continues et ininterrompues. Et notre auteur a su les citer et les développer avec simplicité et maîtrise.

C’est surtout ce qui fait le charme de ce livre, qui s’est privé exprès de protocoles langagiers afin de rendre accessible le propos à tout le monde. Principalement à tous les africains, puisqu’ils sont les premiers concernés.

Education, mépris face au bien public, haine, méchanceté, forte natalité, sorcellerie, fuite des cerveaux, blocage de réflexion. Décidément pour Roland Holou, le tableau n’est pas exhaustif.

Voilà pourquoi son livre est à lire absolument pour permettre un enchaînement de propositions de la part du lecteur. En ceci, le livre est une invite à la réflexion. Un ouvrage direct débarrassé de la langue de bois avec des contours tout à fait originaux.

Ce livre est intéressant parce qu’il procède de l’expérience et du vécu de son auteur.

L’ingénieur qu’il est et forcément préoccupé par les questions de développement a de lumineuses raisons de se faire une place dans l’ensemble des réflexions autour du devenir de l’Afrique. René Dumont n’avait il pas mis à profit son expérience professionnelle d’agents de terrain pour parvenir à la conclusion que l’Afrique noire était mal partie ?

Il y a deux choses dans ce livre qui en viennent à se croiser. L’originalité et le libertinage du ton de l’auteur qui l’amènent à aborder sans gêne la question de la sorcellerie comme un facteur de blocage du continent africain. Et c’est à ce niveau que beaucoup d’auteurs ont manqué de courage.

Les diagnostics posés jusque là se sont beaucoup recoupés sur des trivialités et des sujets passe-partout. Aujourd’hui, Roland Holou saute le pas et fait intervenir des éléments de taille. D’où le côté spirituel abondamment mouliné dans son essai. Et le mot est lâché.

Ce livre est un essai.Il ouvre les chantiers déterminants et majeurs autour desquels tout devrait désormais s’organiser. Mais pour que l’Afrique se réorganise mieux, il lui faut vaincre la crise intellectuelle qui piège son inspiration selon l’auteur.

Toute chose qui passe par la réforme de l’éducation, qui doit véritablement former plutôt que de « fermer » les apprenants dans une espèce de dépendance d’idées.

Pour ce jeune chercheur de 33 ans, on peut dire que ça se passe vraiment bien, après son livre « Le bûching et le développement de l’Afrique ».

 

Revue par Mr. Théodore Kouadio (Journaliste, Cote d’Ivoire)

Paru dans Fraternité Matin, 16 Octobre 2008

Source: http://www.fratmat.info

 

 


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