President Akufo-Addo brings Africa beyond the message of aid to Harvard University

General News of Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Source: face2faceafrica.com

2019-03-20

The President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, presents an impressive list of speakers for this year's Africa Conference, organized by students at Harvard University.

The Ghanaian President, who has been hailed by the international community for his message "Africa Beyond Aid", will deliver the keynote address at an event organized by the Harvard Kennedy School Policy Institute and the Center for International Relations. African studies of the University.

Professor Emmanuel Acheampong, Director of the Center for African Studies, said: "The President of Ghana is one of the leading voices of the continent's development. He has a deep understanding of what needs to be done to improve the well-being of the people on the continent. He defends ideas about the development of the continent and its people. It will certainly give Africans and African enthusiasts the good impetus to advance the course of development of the continent. "

The Africa Development Conference is celebrating its tenth year at Harvard University to bring together smart minds to reflect on the state of the continent and its people, as well as the world of the world. opportunities still untapped in many countries. The event scheduled for March 29 and 30, 2019 focuses on the theme "New Global Partnerships for Africa's Development: Creating Together Our Desired Future".

"We want to look at all the moving elements in Africa's development journey, especially those of our international partners," said Thebe Tsatsimpe, chair of the Africa Caucus at Harvard Kennedy School.

"We are aware of what China is doing on the continent, of the European Union's new commitment policy of investing 100 billion euros in direct investment, the States' Build Act. As a counterweight to China and what other international actors are doing on the continent. . Meanwhile, Africa is creating a continental free trade area that, once fully operational, will be worth $ 2 trillion. As students and professionals participating in the conference, we ask ourselves the following question: how can we connect to these exciting platforms to help create the future of Africa? Tsatsimpe said.

Among the titans who will speak at the conference are the Hon. Babatunde Raji Fashola SAN, Minister of Energy, Public Works and Housing of Nigeria, the largest economy in Africa, Mr. Albert G. Zeufack, World Bank Chief Economist for the World Bank. Africa and Bience Philomena Gawannas, Deputy Secretary General and Special Adviser of UN Africa.

Ambbadador Fatima Kyari Mohammed, Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations, Biendi Maganga-Moussavou, Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Food (GRAINE program) of Gabon and Ipumbu W. Shimi, President of the Central Bank of Namibia.

Some speakers at the conference on the development of Africa in 2019

The star of African-American business, Bozoma St. John, is the marketing director of William Morris Endeavor, the global talent management agency also on the list of top speakers. Described as a "unicorn" (black women with such rare success believe that it does not even exist) "The Boz Journey" from Apple Inc. to Uber via Uber, is crystallized by linking Africans from the diaspora to the continent of origin. through the Full Circle festival that she helped establish in Ghana.

The Africa Development Conference in 2019 will consist of eleven panels, four main sessions and more than 50 speakers. At least four hundred Africans and enthusiasts from Africa are expected to attend the event this year. A Harvard tour, an Open Mic Networking badtail party and an African ball at which the culinary delights of the continent will be explored, dubbed the "taste of Africa", are part of the conference experience.

Afrexim Bank and Nigerian law firm Aluko And Oyebode are at the forefront of foreign trade finance activities in Africa. Several institutions and centers at Harvard University, including the Center for Public Leadership, the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, and the Kennedy School Government all participate. Other centers such as East Asia Legal Studies, Harvard Africa Law Association, Africa Health Forum, Graduate School of Design and Hutchins Center for African and African American Research also support the conference.

The Conference on African Development is organized by students from several Harvard University graduate schools in partnership with the University's Center for African Studies.

The participating doctoral schools are Harvard Law School, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Graduate School of Design. Other schools are Harvard College of Arts and Sciences, Harvard School of Dentistry, Harvard Extension School, Paul Johnson Paulson School of Engineering, and Paulson School of Government. Harvard Kennedy, place of the demonstration.

Face2Face Africa, a website dedicated to the correction of some of the erratic documentation of the history of African peoples and the recreation of a new narrative for Africans and African Americans, is the media partner of the 2019 Africa Development Conference at Harvard University.