Dear Friend,
Re: The 4th African Ambassadors Interactive Forum with the Global African Diaspora and the African Investment Forum
Ambassador Wesley Johnson, Liberian Ambassador to the Court of St. James United Kingdom and Councillor Marianne Alapini, Goodwill African Ambassador of INGO Third Sector Resource UK, personally invites you to the fourth African Ambassadors Interactive Forum with the African Diaspora and the African Investment Showcase. The forum is being organised by INGO in collaboration with Diaspora and International development agencies which includes:
Africarecruit, Ben Television, ECOWAS Commission, Liberian Embassy in the UK, NEPAD Business Group, World Bank Group-IMF Africa Society, Africa Business Roundtable, African Development Forum, United Nations Office for International Partnerships, Christian Aid, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Book Aid International among others.
The forum will take place at the Kensington Town Hall, London, from 10am to 6pm on Wednesday and Thursday, the 28th 29th of November 2007. The event will provide a forum to meet with senior delegates, stakeholders and financiers who will be available to deliberate on the possibilities of building business linkages, partnership building and attracting International Capital investment to Africa. The event is also aimed at bringing together African Ambassadors to the Court of St. James and the Africa Diaspora, to explore ways by which a reasonable framework and level of cooperation and collaborative network can be established. It is essential to bring new investment to the Continent using the sustainable resource of the African Diaspora Community.
Other attendees will include; Immediate past Secretary General of United Nations Kofi Annan, Dr Salim Ahmed Salim, Former Prime Minister of Tanzania, Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, Managing Director, World Bank Group, The Director General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, Prof. Ndi Okereke Onyiuke, The Governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone, Dr David Rogers, Phuthuma Nhleko, Group Chief Executive Officer, MTN South Africa among others.
Whilst we have addressed this invitation to you personally, we very much hope that you will also consider extending it to others in your organisation or network who are directly involved in making investment recommendations those investment analysts and managers who have the greatest need to monitor developments in Africa.
A complete programme of this event will be sent to you as soon as they are finalised. In the meantime, it would help us if you could register your interest in participating.
If you would like to attend, please respond to either of these email addresses: info@ingo.org.uk, ingounitedkingdom@yahoo.co.uk, or Telephone no: +44(0) 208 801 0493, Fax: +44(0) 208 801 7774.
We look forward to seeing you on the 28th 29th of November
Kind Regards
Ambassador Wesley M. Johnson
Draft Programme
Day 1
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
10.00 10.50 Arrival of Guests/Dignitaries
10.55 - 11.00 Welcome Address
11.00 11.40 Goodwill Messages/Keynote Addresses
and Media Launch
Dean of AU Ambassadors to UK
UK Minister to Africa, Asia and United
Nations
President, African Business Roundtable
President of Nigeria
Head of Christian Aid
Chairperson, African Union Commission
CEO, NEPAD
11.40 12.40 1st Plenary
Africa. Investment and Tourism destination of choice
Chairperson Hon. Kofi Osei Ameyaw (Ghana Deputy Minister for Tourism and
Diaspora Affairs)
Discussants Anver Versi (The Editor, Africa Business Magazine)
International Marketing Council of South Africa
Kenya Tourist Board
Mr. Michael Sudarkasa (CEO, African Business Group, South Africa)
Robert Ahomka-Lindsey (CEO, Ghana Investment Board)
General Discussion and Chairpersons summary
1.10 2.00 Lunch/ Networking
2nd Plenary
2.10 3.00 How Africa can become the new China or Tiger economy
Chairperson: Dr Titi Banjoko (President, AfricaRecruit)
Discussants: Ms Beldina Auma (Chair, Worldbank Group IMF African
Society)
Mr. Kofi Annan (Former United Nations Secretary General) TBC
Mrs Yinka Fayomi ( Executive Director, Fin Magazine)
Dr. Bamanga Tukur (Executive President, ABR and Chairman NEPAD
Business Group)
Mr. Chin Xing Yao (China Alliance Africa)
General Discussions and Chairpersons Summary
3.30 4.00 Coffee Break
4.10 5.10 Breakaway session
(A Moderator, discussants and 2 rapporteurs will lead each breakaway session)
The African Ambassadors working with the African Diaspora
As economic gateways
Moderator: Ambassador Cyprien Mbonimpa (Former Foreign Affairs Minister of Malawi)
HE Annan Cato (Ghana High Commissioner UK)
HE Joan Rwabyomere (Uganda High Commissioner UK)
HE Claver Gatete (Rwanda Ambassador to UK)
HE Mr. Melvin Chalobah (Sierra Leone High Commissioner to UK)
Mr. DCB Nwanna (AHC Nigeria High Commission to UK)
HE Wesley M. Johnson (Liberian Ambassador to the UK)
General Discussions and Moderators Summary
6.00 close
7.00 Awards Dinner
Day 2
Thursday, November 29, 2007
10.00 11.00 1st Plenary
Africa Engaging the Global African Diaspora
Chairperson Dr Erieka Bennett (Head of Mission, Diaspora Africa Forum)
Discussants Cameroon Forum
(Reps from) Kenya Club
Sierra Leone Diaspora Network
Tanzania Diaspora
Rwanda Diaspora
Nigeria Diaspora
Ghana Diaspora
Cape Verde Diaspora
USA Stan Straughter (Chairman, The City of Philadelphia Mayors Commission on African and the Caribbean Immigrant Affairs and the Coordinator of the African-American Unity Coalition, USA)
General Discussions and Chairpersons Summary
11.10 12.30 African Investment Showcase and Media Launch
Chairperson Professor Ndi Okereke Onyiuke (CEO, Nigeria Stock Exchange)
12.30 1.30 Networking Lunch
Working Group 2
1.40 2.40 Poverty has a face and its an African Female
Chairperson Counselor Marianne Alapini
Discussants Janet Narh (Womens Hour Ben Television)
Litha Musyimi-Ogana (Advisor: Gender, Parliamentary Affairs and Civil
Societies Organizations (CSO)
Thoko Mashe (Former Executive Director, Akina Mama Wa Africa)
Catherine Ampaw (Executive Director OBE TV)
Laureen Katiyo (Commonwealth Business Council)
General Discussions and Chairpersons Summary
2.50 3.50 2nd Plenary
5LINX Telecommunication Business Opportunity for Africa and NGOs
Chairperson Dr. Dominic Ntube (Adjunct Professor of Managerial and
Macroeconomics for Business, Howard University School of Business also Head, World Bank Group IMF African Society Secretariat, Washington, DC)
Discussants Mohammed Bagudu (National Director, 5Linx Telecommunication Company)
Gerald Osong Nkwako (Platinum Senior Vice President, 5LINX
Telecommunication Company)
General Discussions and Chairpersons Summary
4:30 - 5:30 Tea Break and Preparation of the General Report by the Rapporteur
5:30 - 6:30 Presentation of the Report by the Rapporteur - General
6.40 Close
Contact www.ingo.org.uk
Re: The 4th African Ambassadors Interactive Forum with the Global African Diaspora and the African Investment Forum
Ambassador Wesley Johnson, Liberian Ambassador to the Court of St. James United Kingdom and Councillor Marianne Alapini, Goodwill African Ambassador of INGO Third Sector Resource UK, personally invites you to the fourth African Ambassadors Interactive Forum with the African Diaspora and the African Investment Showcase. The forum is being organised by INGO in collaboration with Diaspora and International development agencies which includes:
Africarecruit, Ben Television, ECOWAS Commission, Liberian Embassy in the UK, NEPAD Business Group, World Bank Group-IMF Africa Society, Africa Business Roundtable, African Development Forum, United Nations Office for International Partnerships, Christian Aid, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Book Aid International among others.
The forum will take place at the Kensington Town Hall, London, from 10am to 6pm on Wednesday and Thursday, the 28th 29th of November 2007. The event will provide a forum to meet with senior delegates, stakeholders and financiers who will be available to deliberate on the possibilities of building business linkages, partnership building and attracting International Capital investment to Africa. The event is also aimed at bringing together African Ambassadors to the Court of St. James and the Africa Diaspora, to explore ways by which a reasonable framework and level of cooperation and collaborative network can be established. It is essential to bring new investment to the Continent using the sustainable resource of the African Diaspora Community.
Other attendees will include; Immediate past Secretary General of United Nations Kofi Annan, Dr Salim Ahmed Salim, Former Prime Minister of Tanzania, Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, Managing Director, World Bank Group, The Director General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, Prof. Ndi Okereke Onyiuke, The Governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone, Dr David Rogers, Phuthuma Nhleko, Group Chief Executive Officer, MTN South Africa among others.
Whilst we have addressed this invitation to you personally, we very much hope that you will also consider extending it to others in your organisation or network who are directly involved in making investment recommendations those investment analysts and managers who have the greatest need to monitor developments in Africa.
A complete programme of this event will be sent to you as soon as they are finalised. In the meantime, it would help us if you could register your interest in participating.
If you would like to attend, please respond to either of these email addresses: info@ingo.org.uk, ingounitedkingdom@yahoo.co.uk, or Telephone no: +44(0) 208 801 0493, Fax: +44(0) 208 801 7774.
We look forward to seeing you on the 28th 29th of November
Kind Regards
Ambassador Wesley M. Johnson
Draft Programme
Day 1
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
10.00 10.50 Arrival of Guests/Dignitaries
10.55 - 11.00 Welcome Address
11.00 11.40 Goodwill Messages/Keynote Addresses
and Media Launch
Dean of AU Ambassadors to UK
UK Minister to Africa, Asia and United
Nations
President, African Business Roundtable
President of Nigeria
Head of Christian Aid
Chairperson, African Union Commission
CEO, NEPAD
11.40 12.40 1st Plenary
Africa. Investment and Tourism destination of choice
Chairperson Hon. Kofi Osei Ameyaw (Ghana Deputy Minister for Tourism and
Diaspora Affairs)
Discussants Anver Versi (The Editor, Africa Business Magazine)
International Marketing Council of South Africa
Kenya Tourist Board
Mr. Michael Sudarkasa (CEO, African Business Group, South Africa)
Robert Ahomka-Lindsey (CEO, Ghana Investment Board)
General Discussion and Chairpersons summary
1.10 2.00 Lunch/ Networking
2nd Plenary
2.10 3.00 How Africa can become the new China or Tiger economy
Chairperson: Dr Titi Banjoko (President, AfricaRecruit)
Discussants: Ms Beldina Auma (Chair, Worldbank Group IMF African
Society)
Mr. Kofi Annan (Former United Nations Secretary General) TBC
Mrs Yinka Fayomi ( Executive Director, Fin Magazine)
Dr. Bamanga Tukur (Executive President, ABR and Chairman NEPAD
Business Group)
Mr. Chin Xing Yao (China Alliance Africa)
General Discussions and Chairpersons Summary
3.30 4.00 Coffee Break
4.10 5.10 Breakaway session
(A Moderator, discussants and 2 rapporteurs will lead each breakaway session)
The African Ambassadors working with the African Diaspora
As economic gateways
Moderator: Ambassador Cyprien Mbonimpa (Former Foreign Affairs Minister of Malawi)
HE Annan Cato (Ghana High Commissioner UK)
HE Joan Rwabyomere (Uganda High Commissioner UK)
HE Claver Gatete (Rwanda Ambassador to UK)
HE Mr. Melvin Chalobah (Sierra Leone High Commissioner to UK)
Mr. DCB Nwanna (AHC Nigeria High Commission to UK)
HE Wesley M. Johnson (Liberian Ambassador to the UK)
General Discussions and Moderators Summary
6.00 close
7.00 Awards Dinner
Day 2
Thursday, November 29, 2007
10.00 11.00 1st Plenary
Africa Engaging the Global African Diaspora
Chairperson Dr Erieka Bennett (Head of Mission, Diaspora Africa Forum)
Discussants Cameroon Forum
(Reps from) Kenya Club
Sierra Leone Diaspora Network
Tanzania Diaspora
Rwanda Diaspora
Nigeria Diaspora
Ghana Diaspora
Cape Verde Diaspora
USA Stan Straughter (Chairman, The City of Philadelphia Mayors Commission on African and the Caribbean Immigrant Affairs and the Coordinator of the African-American Unity Coalition, USA)
General Discussions and Chairpersons Summary
11.10 12.30 African Investment Showcase and Media Launch
Chairperson Professor Ndi Okereke Onyiuke (CEO, Nigeria Stock Exchange)
12.30 1.30 Networking Lunch
Working Group 2
1.40 2.40 Poverty has a face and its an African Female
Chairperson Counselor Marianne Alapini
Discussants Janet Narh (Womens Hour Ben Television)
Litha Musyimi-Ogana (Advisor: Gender, Parliamentary Affairs and Civil
Societies Organizations (CSO)
Thoko Mashe (Former Executive Director, Akina Mama Wa Africa)
Catherine Ampaw (Executive Director OBE TV)
Laureen Katiyo (Commonwealth Business Council)
General Discussions and Chairpersons Summary
2.50 3.50 2nd Plenary
5LINX Telecommunication Business Opportunity for Africa and NGOs
Chairperson Dr. Dominic Ntube (Adjunct Professor of Managerial and
Macroeconomics for Business, Howard University School of Business also Head, World Bank Group IMF African Society Secretariat, Washington, DC)
Discussants Mohammed Bagudu (National Director, 5Linx Telecommunication Company)
Gerald Osong Nkwako (Platinum Senior Vice President, 5LINX
Telecommunication Company)
General Discussions and Chairpersons Summary
4:30 - 5:30 Tea Break and Preparation of the General Report by the Rapporteur
5:30 - 6:30 Presentation of the Report by the Rapporteur - General
6.40 Close
Contact www.ingo.org.uk
