Details are emerging about the much-touted Africa Prosperity Network (APN)-powered maiden edition of the Africa Prosperity Dialogues conferences–dubbed the Kwahu Summit on Africa’s Prosperity, and it beholds the eye.
Chapter and verse of the programme line-up seen by this paper revealed that the strictly-by- invitation summit would be seeing all invitees and participants arriving for onward transportation to Kwahu in the Eastern region on 25 January (next week Wednesday), this year.
On 26 and 27 January, 2023, at the plush Safari Valley Resort at Aburi Mountains, President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo would host the Presidential dialogues as part of his commitments towards the realisation of an Africa Beyond Aid and the Host President of the AfCFTA Secretariat.
That session of round table discussions would be held with invited African heads of state, business leaders, academia, and notable personalities passionate about the development of Africa.
The Ghana Investment Promotions Centre (GIPC), would later on 28 January, between 7 and 10pm, co-host the Africa Prosperity Awards Dinner Gala and launch of the Association of Africa Investment Promotion Agencies at Peduase, off the Aburi Mountains, also in the Eastern region.
The Africa Prosperity Dialogues, an initiative of APN has been uniquely designed to offer a strategic and trusted annual platform to rive intra-African trade. It is a platform where the highest political and business decision makers in Africa, supported by other thought leaders, will meet to discourse, and come out with clear, actionable initiatives to enhance trade and prosperity in Africa as aligned with the AU’s Agenda 2063.
Curated under the theme “AfCFTA: From Ambition to Action, Delivering Prosperity Through Continental Trade”, the 2023 dialogues will focus on the role of leadership in transitioning from Ambition to Action: productive capacity – transportation, food and energy sectors, finance, technology, and innovation with a focus on payment systems.
Also, issues on critical legal and Institutional Constraints to creating a Single African market under the AfCFTA, free moment of people across borders and intra-Africa direct investment would be discussed.
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the President of the Republic of Ghana is expected to be joined by many of his colleagues, including Presidents of Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Egypt, Rwanda, Togo, Cote d’Ivoire, DRC, Mozambique and Angola.
Other notable leaders invited to participate in the Summit are Alhaji Aliko Dangote (Chairman, Dangote Group), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (Director General, WTO), Dr. Adesina Akinwumi (President, AfDB), Mr. Tidjane Thiam (Special Envoy of the AU), Prof. Benedict Oramah (President, Afremimbank), Mr. Ralph Mupita (Group CEO, MTN), Hadi Halloche (Global Co-Head, Trafigura Group Pte Ltd), Mr. Anthony Elumelu (Chairman, Heirs Holdings), Mr. Samaila Zubairu (President/CEO Africa Finance Corporation), H.E. Kayra Harding Bart (Vice President, National Assembly of Panana), Mr. Strive Masiyiwa (Chairman, Econet Global Ltd), Maria Ramos (Chairperson, AngloGold Ashanti), Mr. Thomas Kogolo, CEO South African Airways, Mr. Julius Mwale (Principal Investor, Mwale Medical and technology City) and other captains of industry.
