CONSTITUTION
OF BLACK DIAMOND BEAUTY AFRICANA ENTERTAINERS
1. Name
The name of the group shall be Black
Diamond Beauty Africana Entertainers
2. Aim
To preserve, protect and promote
African arts, culture, tourism and to foster the unification of all African
nations states into a United States of Africa using the power of arts as its
main tool.
3. Objectives
Black Diamond Beauty Africana
Entertainers will fulfil the aim by:
* Improving the well-being
of the African people, working together with them regardless of age, ethnic
origin, ability, sex, belief or political affiliation, recognising the value of
its many differences.
* Involving the African people in the
protection, preservation and promotion of the African arts, culture, tradition,
tourism and participate in the global war against the ills of climate change.
* Using purely ancient African approach in
keeping the planet green, to carry out and promote environmental improvement
and purely practical African conservation methods, educating, encouraging and
supporting the African population through the use of arts in environmental
practices by working with statutory and non statutory agencies.
* Promoting the almost extinct African
science of arts such as the science of fast and slow dance mostly applied in
ancient African traditional ekpe society.
* To raise funds and receive contributions
where appropriate to finance the continental activities of Black Diamond Beauty
Africana Entertainers
* To publicise and promote Black Diamond
Beauty Africana Entertainers cross continental activities through the public
media
* Open bank accounts for. Black Diamond
Beauty Africana Entertainers
* Make rules and standing orders for
categories of Black Diamond Beauty Africana Entertainers members and their
rights.
* Take out insurances.
* Organise meetings, training and
educational courses and events strictly within the African continent.
* Work with similar African groups aiming
at preserving and promoting the African culture and fostering African unity, and
exchange information and advice with them.
* Take lawful actions which would help
Black Diamond Beauty Africana Entertainers fulfil its aims and objectives.
4. Membership
(a) Membership of Black Diamond
Beauty Africana Entertainers shall be open to primarily African artists and any
anyone interested in helping Black Diamond Beauty Africana Entertainers achieve
its aim and objectives, also willing to abide by the rules of the group. Upon acceptance
as member, members are henceforth recognized as African nationals and neither
nationals of any other nation or African nation.
(b) Every member shall have one vote at general
meetings except authentic, recognized and registered artists who will have three
votes.
(c) Members of the Board of Trustees shall have
the power to refuse membership to any applicant, where it is considered such
membership would be detrimental to the aims, purposes or activities of Black
Diamond Beauty Africana Entertainers.
(d) Registration and termination of membership.
* Any member of Black Diamond
Beauty Africana Entertainers may resign his/her membership and any
representative of any member organisation or section may resign such position,
by giving to the Secretary
General of Black Diamond Beauty Africana
Entertainers a written notice to that effect.
* The Board of Trustees may, by resolution passed at a meeting thereof,
terminate or suspend the membership of any member, if in its opinion his/her
conduct is prejudicial to the interests and objects of the Black Diamond Beauty
Africana Entertainers, PROVIDED THAT the individual member or representative of
the associated member organisation (as the case may be) shall have the right to
be heard by the African Annual General Assembly before the final decision is
made by the Board of Trustees. There
shall be a right of appeal to an independent arbitrator appointed by mutual
agreement.
(e) Termination of membership
Termination of membership shall be by:
1. Death
2. Permanent disability
3. Sanction
4. Free volition through resignation
5. STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONING OF BOARD OF
TRUSTEES and Management of Black
Diamond Beauty Africana Entertainers
Black Diamond Beauty Africana
Entertainers as a liberal arts organization is strictly an association for
artists. Therefore its board of trustees shall enjoy the majority of artists
comprise:
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80%
legalised, registered and recognized artists earning author’s rights with
acceptable work of arts already published that befits their composition as true
artists. They have a majority right of vote three votes (3) as against other
board of trustees members not known as artists with a single (1) single vote
only. They are entitld to a natural shares of Black Diamond Beauty Africana
Entertainers in the neighbouhood of 10%-20%.
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10% None artists but professionals in other
fields interested in the aims and objectives of Black Diamond Beauty Africana
Entertainers.
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10%
None African nationals working towards the realization of the dreams of Black
Diamond Beauty Africana Entertainers
(a) Black Diamond Beauty Africana Entertainers shall be administered by the
Board of Trustee of not less than ten (10) people and not more than fifteen
(30) members elected at the group’s African Annual General Assembly, Board of
Trustees Members must be at least 25 years old.
(b) The officers of the Board of
Trustees shall be:
The Chairperson
The Treasurer
The Finance Secretary.
(c) The Management Committee
shall meet at least twice a year.
(d) At least five (7) Board of
Trustees members must be present for the Board of Trustees meeting to take
place.
(e) Voting at the Board of
Trustees meetings shall be by show of hands on a majority basis. If there is a tied vote then the chairperson
shall have two, three or four exttra votes.
(f) Members of the Board of
Trustees shall have the power to set up sub-groups and working parties as
deemed necessary who shall be accountable to the Board of Trustees.
6. Finance
(a) Any
money obtained by Black Diamond Beauty
Africana Entertainers shall be used only for Black Diamond Beauty Africanan
Entertainers.
(b) Any bank accounts opened for
Black Diamond Beauty Africana Entertainers
shall be in the name of the Black Diamond Beauty Africana Entertainers.
(c) Any cheque issued shall be
signed by at least two of any three nominated signatures
(d) The Board of Trustees will
ensure that the group Black Diamond Beauty Africana Entertainers stays within
the budget.
7. Board
of Trustees Meetings
(a) The Board of Trustees shall
meet as regularly as position depending on arising matters but at least (4)
times each year
(b) The quorum for a meeting
shall be five (7).
(c) The Board of Trustees shall
be accountable to the members at all times.
(d) All meetings must be minuted
and made available to any interested party.
(e) All Board of Trustees
Members shall be given at least three (3) days’ notice of a meeting unless it
is deemed an emergency meeting.
(f) Members of the Board of Trustees shall end alowances for each each
offically announced meeting
8. General
Public Meetings
(a) Black Diamond Beauty
Africana Entertainers shall call at least two general public meetings each year
with the participation of its entire African members, the purpose of these
meetings is for the group to account for its actions and consider the
regeneration and development of Black
Diamond Beauty Africana Entertainers according to Black Diamond Beauty Africana Entertainers
objectives.
(b) The Chair of the group shall
normally chair these meetings and in his absence, the deputy chair.
(c) At least fourteen (14)
days’ notice of such a meeting involving the entire continent must be given and
advertised in at least five (5) public medias.
(d) All meetings, including AAGA,
must be minuted and made available to any interested party
(e) The quorum for al African
Annual General Assemblies is thirty (30).
9. Black
Diamond Beauty Africana Entertainers African Annual General Assembly
(a) Black Diamond Beauty
Africana Entertainers shall hold an African Annual General Asembly (AAGA) at
not more than seven years intervals.
(b) Where possible members shall
be notified personally, otherwise notice will be deemed served by advertising
the annual assembly in at least five public medias giving at least 14 days’
notice of the AAGA.
(c) The business of AAGA shall
include:
* Receiving
a report from the Chairperson of Black Diamond Beauty Africana Entertainers
activities over the year.
* Receiving
a report and presentation of the last financial year’s accounts from the
Treasurer and Financial Secretary on the financial situation of . Black Diamond
Beauty Africana Entertainers
* Electing
a new Board of Trustees Members and considering any other matter as may be
appropriate at such a meeting.
(d) The quorum for Annual
African Annual General Assembly shall be at least eight (30) persons of which
no more than four (4) shall be committee members. Transportaion of eligible
voting members from all over Africa shall be decided by members of the Board of
Trustees
10. Alteration
of the Constitution
(a) Proposals for amendments to
this constitution, or dissolution (see Clause 11) must be delivered to the
Secretary General in writing. The
Secretary General in conjunction with all other officers of the Board of
Trustees shall then decide on the date of a forum meeting to discuss such
proposals, giving at least four weeks (28 days) clear notice.
(b) Any
changes to this constitution must be agreed by at least two thirds of those
members present and voting at any African Annual General Assembly.
11. Dissolution
The group may be wound up at any time
if agreed by two thirds of those members present and voting at any general
meeting. Any assets owned by Black
Diamond Beauty Africana Entertainers shall be returned to their providers, if
they require it, or shall be passed on to another group with similar aims.
12. Adoption of the Constitution
This constitution was adopted by the
members present at the AAGA held the Cultural Center Complex of Calabar, Nigeria,
West Africa of the United States of Africa on:
