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| Dr. Ken Giami, Publisher, African Leadership Magazine & Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, President, African Development Bank. |
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Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, President of
the African Development Bank, AfDB, is confirmed to present the Keynote address
during the 8th edition of the African Leadership Magazine Persons of the Year
event. The event with the theme: Africa for Africans - Exploring the Gains of a
Connected Continent, is billed to hold on the 28th- 29th February 2020, in
Johannesburg, South Africa.
He shall also be officially
conferred with the award of African of the Year 2019 during the event which is
set to host over 200 leading African political, business and diplomatic
leaders.
Dr Adesina, Nigeria's former
minister of Agriculture, largely responsible for setting the stage for the
country's agro-revolution, emerged winner in the polls for the African
Leadership Magazine Persons of the Year Awards 2019, with over 60% of the total
votes/submissions for this category.
He was elected 8th President of the
African Development Bank in 2015 and credited with several firsts and major
development milestones in the history of the Bank. Dr Akinwumi Adesina has been
a leader in agricultural innovation space in Africa for over 30 years, bringing
great improvement to Africa's food security, and positioning a robust
agribusiness model, thereby contributing to Africa's economic growth story.
The publisher, Dr Ken Giami, who was
at the Bank's headquarters in Abidjan recently to meet with the President and
formally invite him to the presentation ceremonies, stated that, "This
year, the event will focus on the following broad themes, - 'Driving Foreign
Investments into Africa, as well as Africa to Africa Investments; jobs &
wealth creation; promotion of sustainable peace & development; and the
promotion of Africa's image globally." The event presents a unique
opportunity for delegates to contribute to the conversations towards the
onerous task of advancing Africa's future - a responsibility that African
Leadership has continued to drive over last 10 years.
The African Leadership Magazine
Persons of the Year Awards is the continent's premier vote-based endorsement
and selection process for the Africans who are contributing towards promoting
the continent and bolstering positively Africa's image. The event which is in
its 8th year, has become a referendum of some sorts by Africans on purposeful
leadership in the continent. A shortlist of nominees are selected from results
gathered via a Call for nomination - traditionally promoted via online and
offline campaigns across the continent, and globally. The call for nomination
and subsequent selection of Africans with the largest number of entries in 7
categories, is followed by a poll on the ALM website: www.africanleadershipmagazine.co.uk
and our social media platforms - through which the winners emerge.
The keenly contested poll attracted
over 300,000 entries and Winners shall be decorated and presented with the
instruments of honour on the 29th February 2020 in Johannesburg, South Africa,
at a colourful ceremony that will attract a wide spectrum of African policy,
diplomatic and business leaders. The winners were unveiled by the Publisher of
the Magazine Dr. Ken Giami, at the UK Head Office of the group, after the
awards committee working with the editorial team concluded the collation of
entries.
Expected to attend the event are
over 200 business, political and diplomatic leaders from the continent. Other
winners to be honoured as winners are:
African Female Leader of the Year
2019:
Rawya Mansour, Founder, RAMSCO
Company - Winner
ALM Person of the Year
2019-Educational Development
Dr. Yusuf Karodia, Founder, Regent
Business School and MANCOSA - Winner
ALM Person of the Year 2019 -
Employment Generation
Ashish Thakkar, CEO, Mara Phone -
Winner
ALM Person of the Year 2019 -
Political Leadership
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, President of
Egypt - Winner
ALM Person of the Year 2019 -
Philanthropy & Charitable Contributions to Society
Femi Otedola, Founder, Femi Otedola
Foundation - Winner
ALM Young Person of the Year 2019
Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, Wizkid, Music
Artist - Winner
The African Leadership Magazine
Persons of the Year Awards, which has become the leading vote-based third-party
endorsement in the continent, recorded an upsurge of over 45% votes from
Africans within and the Diaspora this year.
Distributed by African Media Agency
(AMA) on behalf of African Leadership Magazine.
About African Leadership Magazine
The African Leadership magazine is
published by African Leadership (UK) Limited, and focuses on showcasing the
best of Africa to a global audience, telling the African story from an African
perspective; while evolving solutions to peculiar challenges being faced by the
continent today.
Since its maiden edition in
September 2008, African Leadership Magazine has grown to become a leading
Pan-African flagship leadership-focused publication read by over 1, 000, 000
targeted international investors, business executives, government policymakers,
and multilateral agencies across Africa, the Middle East and Asia, Europe, and
the US. It is distributed at major international and African Leadership events
around the world. The magazine has over 900,000 subscribers/Followers on
Facebook and a virile readership on other social media platforms. It is a niche
and unbiased African voice born out of a desire to ameliorate a lot of Africans
by focusing on individuals and corporates that are known for their legacy-based
approach to leadership.
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