Viola Davis Selected to Join Team of African Diaspora Advisors to US President Joe Biden

Viola Davis Selected to Join Team of African Diaspora Advisors to US President Joe Biden

  • Viola Davis has been honoured by US President Joe Biden to be part of his special envoy
  • She has joined part of the President’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement as the country tries to strengthen ties with the continent
  • Bishop Silvester Beaman of the African Methodist Episcopal Church will be chair of the group

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Viola Davis attended The 2023 Met Gala in New York City, Amazon Studios' world premiere of "AIR" at Regency Village Theatre in California, 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at Fairmont Century Plaza in California.
Viola David has been appointed to join the US President’s special advisory team for African relations. Images: Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic, Mike Coppola/Getty Images, Amy Sussman/WireImage
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American veteran actress Viola Davis is now playing with the big boys of international relations as the US president has appointed her to join a special advisory team.

Viola Davis joins the President’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement

The How to Get Away With Murder star will be helping President Joe Biden in strengthening ties with African countries after Biden announced the formation of the task team last year chaired by the Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Silvester Beaman.

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According to a TshisaLive report, their duties will include shedding light to strengthen relations between African communities and the United States, promoting trade and investment and building educational exchanges, among other issues.

Viola Davis spends 58th birthday in Cape Town

Rooted in her African heritage, The Woman King star celebrated her 58th birthday in Cape Town. She showed her gratitude by thanking the locals for their hospitality using an isiXhosa phrase and said:

"Another year...full of revelations, joy, loss, triumphs....and another year to wake up and be grateful for it all! Thank you 58!! Thank you all for the birthday love. Enkosi!!!"

She was spoilt with three cakes and some dessert, with locals flooding her comment sections, offering to host birthday parties for her. Check out how her birthday looked like in the video below:

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The pictures of the two actors were too close for comfort, setting off alarm bells from netizens who were curious to know if the Blackish star, who had spent many weeks enjoying his time in South Africa, was romantically linked to Miss Thulo.

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Molebogeng Seemela (Entertainment Editor) Molebogeng Seemela is a journalist and a current affairs reporter for Briefly News (joined in 2023) with over 10 years of experience. She obtained her National Diploma in 2013, and Bachelor of Technology in 2014 at TUT, majoring in Editorial Management. Specialist Reporting: Print, Features and Reviews; Advanced Reporting; and Advanced Editing and Design for Print. She has been a freelance journalist for several years but cemented her place as a reporter with the SABC, and Cosmopolitan SA.

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