AAI Trustee, Maurice Tempelsman, Chairman of Lazare Kaplan International and The Africa-America Institute hosted a well-attended reception and book signing for H.E. Quett Ketumile Joni Masire, former President of the Republic of Botswana, in honor of his new book, Very Brave or Very Foolish: Memoirs of an African Democrat. The reception was held at the Century Club in New York City. Over 40 representatives from the New York and international diplomatic community were attendance, including H.E. Martti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland, Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate and Professor at Columbia University, Ambassador Donald Steinberg, Vice President of Multilateral Affairs at the International Crisis Group, and Stephen Lewis, Jr., Editor of Very Brave or Very Foolish and Former President of Carleton College. The event also was attended by the Ambassadors to the United Nations from Angola, Finland, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, and Tanzania as well as other prominent African diplomats and representatives from the corporate and NGO arenas.