CFUW Mississauga congratulates recently honoured member at the Canada International Black Women Event (Cibwe) held Friday June 10th.
Fatmatta Rawdatu Kanu received an award for pioneering families, Refugees and Communities in Canada. One year ago, she also gained recognition as an author at the gala celebration of “100 Black Women to Watch in Canada”.
Not only is Fatmatta an active member of the community she is a active member of CFUW working with the Issues Group on resolutions and supporting the Shoebox Project to provide gifts for women in our shelters.
Titles of her books include:
Fatmatta Rawdatu Kanu received an award for pioneering families, Refugees and Communities in Canada. One year ago, she also gained recognition as an author at the gala celebration of “100 Black Women to Watch in Canada”.
Not only is Fatmatta an active member of the community she is a active member of CFUW working with the Issues Group on resolutions and supporting the Shoebox Project to provide gifts for women in our shelters.
Titles of her books include:
- Through the Calabash, recounting the memories and reflections on growing up in an ordinary African family in Sierra Leone;
- Taste of the Kola Nut, the story of young African students who moved to Canada for a time to study in the 1960s;
- Rock Behind the Waterfall, book is more than an autobiographical account of a woman and her family in the period between 1971 and 1981. It covers the life of a diplomat couple abroad – in the social and economic impact on their extended families. It also gives an insider’s account of the behind-the-scene activities that contributed to the successes of a diplomatic mission.
