The Chief Executive Officer of Ovation Media Group, Publisher of the popular Ovation International Magazine, the Boss Newspapers on line and Ovation on TV, Chief Dele Momodu, is set to appear as a Guest Speaker at the Eight Annual African Development Conference scheduled to hold at the Prestigious Harvard University between March 31 and April 1, 2017.
The event, which is powered by gold sponsors such as Harvard University Centre for African Studies, HLB International, ETG, OCP Africa, also has other partners which include African Food and Peace Foundation, Harvard Kennedy School, Centre for Public Leadership, DOS Grant Fund among others.
Momodu was chosen to speak at this prestigious event as a result of his all time achievement in the world of journalism. He will be speaking on Africa: The Anglophone and Francophone Divide.
A prolific traveller, Momodu is the Writer of Pendulum, a weekly column that dwells on checkmating the excesses of government and any other social or economic misdemeanor, published on the Boss, ThisDay and other major print and online media in Nigeria.
The two-day event will take place at Harvard Institute of Politics, Harvard Kennedy School of Governance, 79 John F. Kennedy Street Cambridge, and Wasserstein Hall, Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge on each respectively.
According to www.harvardadc.com, the official website for the event, registration is still ongoing for would-be participants.
It also stated that Africa: Imagining New Frontiers for Collaboration, the umbrella body organising the conference, is revisiting the enduring, yet dynamic and elusive, concept of “Pan-Africanism” as it takes shape in the twenty-first century and invites conversations on the increasing importance of cross-border and international cooperation and partnership for the continent.
The conference, the website further stated, will explore creative, collaborative approaches to African challenges and opportunities. These include governance and human rights, education, infrastructure, public health, gender and income inequality, Africa’s economies and urban development.
The conference will bring together policy makers, innovative business leaders, accomplished academics, leaders of civil society organizations and other distinguished individuals to foster productive dialogue about Africa’s future.
Other keynote speakers include, Nigeria’s Folorunso Alakija, immediate past President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, Zimbabwe’s Beatrice Mtewa and Forbes African Person of the Year, Thulisile Madosela from South Africa.
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