African Cannabis Company Partners With Long-Time Cannabis Activist
April 15, 2021
For Immediate Release
Dr. Desta Meghoo brings decades of experience as a cannabis activist, academic, creative consultant, and community leader to her new position as an advisory board member of AphriHelios. For Dr. Meghoo, joining AphriHelios creates an opportunity for development and empowerment for the continent. A long-time resident of Africa, Dr. Meghoo believes that this new company can address many social-economic needs.
“I want to see AphriHelios launch in a major way and get massive support with particularly from the African diaspora.,” said Dr. Desta Meghoo on a recent episode of Your Highness Podcast.
Desta Y. Meghoo was born in Jamaica, W.I. August 15, 1961, and migrated to the USA in the 1970s with her family, where she began her cultural activism journey. Throughout the 1980s, she took part in the Pan African and Rastafari Movement in New York and the Reggae industry, managing music icons Augustus Pablo and two of Bob Marley’s I-Three, wife Dr. Nana Rita Marley and Judy Mowatt, amongst others. Influenced by leading Rastafari Elders Ras Mortimer Planno and Ras Bonargees, she simultaneously promoted Rastafari gatherings and cultural events. By the 1990s embarked on promotion and management in Africa with Nigeria’s world music icon, Sonny Okosuns. Mentored by Pan African jurist and diplomat, Ambassador “Baba” Dudley Thompson, she completed her Juris Doctorate at the University of Florida and subsequently took the post Ag. Director for the Center for Race and Race Relations at UF Levin College of Law by 2001.
About AphriHelios Global LLC
AphriHelios Global LLC. is poised to become the leading vertically integrated cannabis cultivation, processing, and distribution company on the African Continent, bringing Africa and African diaspora cannabis product brands to the global market. AphriHelios Global has also democratized access to their cannabis-related investment for communities that the industry has historically marginalized. Partnering with Dr. Meghoo helps fill a critical need to include the African Diaspora in the cannabis space.
According to co-founder and company CEO Darin Hickman, “There was a critical need to include the African Diaspora and friends of Africa both to ensure social equity in the burgeoning and highly profitable global cannabis industry market.”
AphriHelios Global is headquartered in Bethesda, MD, with active offices in Cape Town, South Africa, and Maseru, Lesotho. The team has a combined 60 years of corporate finance, agribusiness, and project management industry expertise. The company was awarded its initial license in 2019 from the Kingdom of Lesotho’s Ministry of Health to cultivate, process, package, and export cannabis-related products to global markets from the capital Maseru.
For more information, press only:
Diana Krach
410-533-1312
krachkreative@gmail.com
African Cannabis Company Partners With Long-Time Cannabis Activist
April 15, 2021
For Immediate Release
Dr. Desta Meghoo brings decades of experience as a cannabis activist, academic, creative consultant, and community leader to her new position as an advisory board member of AphriHelios. For Dr. Meghoo, joining AphriHelios creates an opportunity for development and empowerment for the continent. A long-time resident of Africa, Dr. Meghoo believes that this new company can address many social-economic needs.
“I want to see AphriHelios launch in a major way and get massive support with particularly from the African diaspora.,” said Dr. Desta Meghoo on a recent episode of Your Highness Podcast.
Desta Y. Meghoo was born in Jamaica, W.I. August 15, 1961, and migrated to the USA in the 1970s with her family, where she began her cultural activism journey. Throughout the 1980s, she took part in the Pan African and Rastafari Movement in New York and the Reggae industry, managing music icons Augustus Pablo and two of Bob Marley’s I-Three, wife Dr. Nana Rita Marley and Judy Mowatt, amongst others. Influenced by leading Rastafari Elders Ras Mortimer Planno and Ras Bonargees, she simultaneously promoted Rastafari gatherings and cultural events. By the 1990s embarked on promotion and management in Africa with Nigeria’s world music icon, Sonny Okosuns. Mentored by Pan African jurist and diplomat, Ambassador “Baba” Dudley Thompson, she completed her Juris Doctorate at the University of Florida and subsequently took the post Ag. Director for the Center for Race and Race Relations at UF Levin College of Law by 2001.
About AphriHelios Global LLC
AphriHelios Global LLC. is poised to become the leading vertically integrated cannabis cultivation, processing, and distribution company on the African Continent, bringing Africa and African diaspora cannabis product brands to the global market. AphriHelios Global has also democratized access to their cannabis-related investment for communities that the industry has historically marginalized. Partnering with Dr. Meghoo helps fill a critical need to include the African Diaspora in the cannabis space.
According to co-founder and company CEO Darin Hickman, “There was a critical need to include the African Diaspora and friends of Africa both to ensure social equity in the burgeoning and highly profitable global cannabis industry market.”
AphriHelios Global is headquartered in Bethesda, MD, with active offices in Cape Town, South Africa, and Maseru, Lesotho. The team has a combined 60 years of corporate finance, agribusiness, and project management industry expertise. The company was awarded its initial license in 2019 from the Kingdom of Lesotho’s Ministry of Health to cultivate, process, package, and export cannabis-related products to global markets from the capital Maseru.
For more information, press only:
Diana Krach
410-533-1312
krachkreative@gmail.com
African Cannabis Company Partners With Long-Time Cannabis Activist
April 15, 2021
For Immediate Release
Dr. Desta Meghoo brings decades of experience as a cannabis activist, academic, creative consultant, and community leader to her new position as an advisory board member of AphriHelios. For Dr. Meghoo, joining AphriHelios creates an opportunity for development and empowerment for the continent. A long-time resident of Africa, Dr. Meghoo believes that this new company can address many social-economic needs.
“I want to see AphriHelios launch in a major way and get massive support with particularly from the African diaspora.,” said Dr. Desta Meghoo on a recent episode of Your Highness Podcast.
Desta Y. Meghoo was born in Jamaica, W.I. August 15, 1961, and migrated to the USA in the 1970s with her family, where she began her cultural activism journey. Throughout the 1980s, she took part in the Pan African and Rastafari Movement in New York and the Reggae industry, managing music icons Augustus Pablo and two of Bob Marley’s I-Three, wife Dr. Nana Rita Marley and Judy Mowatt, amongst others. Influenced by leading Rastafari Elders Ras Mortimer Planno and Ras Bonargees, she simultaneously promoted Rastafari gatherings and cultural events. By the 1990s embarked on promotion and management in Africa with Nigeria’s world music icon, Sonny Okosuns. Mentored by Pan African jurist and diplomat, Ambassador “Baba” Dudley Thompson, she completed her Juris Doctorate at the University of Florida and subsequently took the post Ag. Director for the Center for Race and Race Relations at UF Levin College of Law by 2001.
About AphriHelios Global LLC
AphriHelios Global LLC. is poised to become the leading vertically integrated cannabis cultivation, processing, and distribution company on the African Continent, bringing Africa and African diaspora cannabis product brands to the global market. AphriHelios Global has also democratized access to their cannabis-related investment for communities that the industry has historically marginalized. Partnering with Dr. Meghoo helps fill a critical need to include the African Diaspora in the cannabis space.
According to co-founder and company CEO Darin Hickman, “There was a critical need to include the African Diaspora and friends of Africa both to ensure social equity in the burgeoning and highly profitable global cannabis industry market.”
AphriHelios Global is headquartered in Bethesda, MD, with active offices in Cape Town, South Africa, and Maseru, Lesotho. The team has a combined 60 years of corporate finance, agribusiness, and project management industry expertise. The company was awarded its initial license in 2019 from the Kingdom of Lesotho’s Ministry of Health to cultivate, process, package, and export cannabis-related products to global markets from the capital Maseru.
For more information, press only:
Diana Krach
410-533-1312
krachkreative@gmail.com
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