Jambo! *
The secret is out: CACE has launched its much anticipated website!

Having crossed the threshold of a new millennium some four years ago, launching a website in the post Y2K era may not seem like a significant feat. Ironically, just like the hype of technology and the new millennium, the quest for educational empowerment of African Nova Scotian learners is reaching its own apex. This is evidenced by a burgeoning awareness among educators and learners that our cultural survival and educational progress will depend not on our well established ability to make away out of no way but rather our proficiency at communicating the stories, testimonials, and personal narratives of those who have successfully made a way out of no way - so that such accounts may inspire a conscientiousness of victory. I believe the central role of the world wide web in advancing this goal, cannot be overstated.

Currently, the CACE website is an information tool which houses details on the vision, mission, mandate, and activities of CACE. Visitors to our site can also download reports, position papers and documents produced by CACE. However, in the future, we envision this website becoming a fully interactive online clearing-house were ideas are exchanged and where those interested in the developments taking place within the educational sector will go to as their primary source of information.

This is why CACE joins those who recognize technology and the world wide web, not as an instrument that marginalizes those who may not have ready access, but as a tool which can empower the marginalized by taking their message to the world.

Lastly, we can never forget that information is power; and if African Nova Scotian learners and educators are to gain the power necessary to direct their own steps and make decisions that affect their life outcomes – let its begin with gaining control of information tools such as the world wide web, that define who we are in this new millennium.

Delvina E. Bernard

*Swahili word – means hello