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ADS2021: Public Policy Forum (May 27)
NOTE: These are recorded virtual events. Videos start after the end of the "This Meeting is Closed" banner.
Session IV: Roundtable on Harnessing Culture and Heritage For Economic Transformation
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NOTE: This is a recorded virtual event. Video starts at 9:56 after the "This Meeting is Closed" banner.
This thematic roundtable discussion will explore the potential of Africa’s culture and heritage for sustainable economic transformation. In adopting 2021 as its year of “Arts, Culture and Heritage: Levers for Building the Africa We Want”, the African Union has acknowledged the role of Africa’s cultural workers in building stronger and more resilient social, education and health sectors, as well as higher rates of equality, inclusion, social cohesion and solidarity. From visual arts, film and music to fashion, design and cuisine, countries across the continent have shown potential to capitalize on the development benefits of their cultural enterprises, but there is still much to be gained.
CHAIR OF THE SESSION: Mr. David Wright, Economic Affairs Officer, OSAA
PANELISTS:
- H.E. Ms. Amira Elfadil, Commissioner for Health, Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development, African Union Commission
- Ms. Ahunna Eziakonwa, Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Regional Bureau for Africa, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- Mr. Patrick Kabanda, Author on Arts and Culture, Africa, Intellectual Property, International Trade and Development
- Prof. George Henry Okello Abungu, Founding Chairman of Africa 2009, the International Standing Committee on the Traffic in Illicit Antiquities, and the Centre for Heritage Development in Africa
- Dr. Harriet Deacon, Expert on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Property Law, Visiting Research Fellow, Coventry University, United Kingdom
- Dr. Ismail Ali El Fihail, Director General of the House of Heritage, Sudan
- Ms. Marisa Henderson, Chief, Creative Economy Programme, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
MODERATOR: Mr. Muhammad Juma, Chief of Africa Unit, World Heritage Centre, UNESCO
Session V: Geopolitical Session
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The Geopolitical Sessions provide a platform to enable a debate on global issues with a focus on their impact on Africa's development. Each of the Geopolitical Sessions will start with a keynote speech to frame the issue, after which a high-level panel will delve into three selected areas. After the panel’s intervention, the floor will be then open for Permanent Representatives and UN entities to deliver remarks on one or several of the selected areas, reflecting on the ideas that the keynote speaker and the panel have presented. The moderator will facilitate the interaction between the panel members and the participants from the floor. This second Geopolitical Session will focus on the following areas: Climate action and energy mix: Africa's leadership role in a mutual accountability framework; Africa’s industrialization opportunity; and Science, technology, and innovation: the key to economic transformation.
Session V: Geopolitical Session
CHAIR OF THE SESSION: Mr. David Mehdi Hamam, Director, OSAA
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: H.E. Prof. Ibrahim Mayaki, Chief Executive Officer, African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD)
PANELISTS:
- H.E. Mr. Omar Hilale, Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations, on “Climate Action and Energy Mix: Africa’s Leadership Role in a Mutual Accountability Framework”
- H.E. Mr. Martin Kimani, Permanent Representative of Kenya to the United Nations, on “Africa’s Industrialization Opportunity”
- H.E. Mr. Kennedy Godfrey Gastorn, Permanent Representative of the United Republic of Tanzania to the United Nations, on “Science, Technology and Innovation: The Key to Economic Transformation”
MODERATOR: H.E. Ms. Fatima Kyari Mohammed, Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations
Speaker Biographies for Session V: Geopolitical Session
Kongo and the Scramble for Africa - History Of Africa with Zeinab Badawi [Episode 19]
In this episode Zeinab Badawi travels to Angola, DRC and Congo in central Africa to bring the history of the great Kongo Empire. She hears about the critical role played by women in African history such as Queen Nzinga who battled the Portuguese for a quarter of a century in the 1600s and a few decades later Kimpa Vita who was burned alive after her failed resistance. Why were Africans unable to resist the tide of European control? One woman of nearly 100 relates her memory of Belgian rule in the Congo, during what became known as the 'Scramble for Africa’.