The
Central Working Committee for Africa’s biggest youth event, The Future Awards
Africa (TFAA), has announced its plans for the next 10 years of the awards. The
move follows a review of the last ten years by its Global Board of Advisors - meeting
in July 2016.
Based
on that decision, the series of events that make up TFAA will hold from country
to country, focused on the peculiar issues of that country’s youth – and will
be implemented through a mixture of centrally organized events, and franchises
to organize events across the continent and outside.
“TFAA
is deliberately a cultural event – gathering the influencers, leaders and media
to spotlight achievement and value and growth,” said Obiageli Ezekwesili,
former Vice President of the World Bank, who is a member of the Global Board of
Advisors for TFAA. “However at its core, of course, it is about impact – the
celebration and acceleration of impact, especially on communities.
“We
have decided that this is the best funnel to deepen that imperative moving
forward.”
Over
the next three years, TFAA will hold in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya – with an
approved franchise to hold in Cote D’Ivoire. 10 franchises have also been
opened up by the committee for approval.
“This
will culminate every three years in an African event that will be a meeting of
minds of the brightest and best of Young Africa – to collaborate, to network
impact, and to cross-learn,” said Jamie Drummond, co-founder of ONE and another
member of the board.
This
year, the award will host a Nigeria edition – that will focus on finding bright
spots in what has been a difficult year for Nigeria; identifying the
innovators, entrepreneurs, creative and leaders who have built, or extended models
of growth and change regardless.
“The
Future Project has a simple purpose: to build empowered citizens,” says Bukonla
Adebakin, who is deputy chief operating officer. “We are excited by our board
mandate to actualize that purpose through its project, The Future Awards
Africa. Africa needs more active citizens making a marked difference for the
continent through their countries. We look forward to working with them,
community to community.”
The
Future Awards Africa 2016 is powered by RED. The event holds in Lagos, Nigeria
on Sunday, 18 December, 2016
For
more information, visit awards.thefutureafrica.com. Follow @TFAAfrica to keep
up with the latest news on TFAA. The official hashtags for 2016 is #TFAA2016.
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ABOUT THE FUTURE AWARDS AFRICA
The
Future Awards Africa has been called the ‘Nobel Prize for Young Africans’, and
the ‘most important youth awards’ by Forbes. It is a set of prizes given
annually to celebrate and accelerate innovation, creativity and enterprise
amongst young Africans aged 18 – 31. It has produced over 150 winners and over
1550 nominees since its first edition in 2006.
It
is presented in conjunction with The Future Project, which has a mandate to
build empowered citizens across Africa, through (inclusive) enterprise and
(active) citizenship. This focus on Human Capital Development is informed by
our value proposition: Africa's growth needs a generation of young people who
are gainfully employed and able to demand and secure better leadership.
Our
projects include Aiki.ng, an employability portal presented with Microsoft; the
Nigeria Symposium for Young & Emerging Leaders, #StartupsAfrica,
Intern4Jobs, YMonitor.org presented with National Endowment for Democracy
(NED), The Future Enterprise Support Scheme and The Future Awards Africa,
described as 'The Nobel Prize for Young Africans'.
Founded
by the Chude Jideonwo and Adebola Williams, TFP is supervised by a Global Board
of Advisors drawn from Africa, Europe, North America and the Middle East,
including the Coordinating Minister of the Nigerian Economy, Dr. Ngozi
Okonjo-Iweala; Senior Economic Advisor with the Open Society Foundations, Dr.
Obiageli Ezekwesili; co-founder of ONE, Jamie Drummond and the Chief of Cabinet
with the Africa Development Bank, Anne Kabagambe.
About Red
Media Africa
Red Media
Africa (www.redmediaafrica.com) is the PR & Empowerment
Marketing division under the parent brand, RED.
It focuses on
using inspiration, empowerment and action to help brands and organisations
connect with their audiences, enhance their bottom-lines and lead in their
industries. It has 6 major practice areas: Corporate Practice, Technology
Practice, SME Practice, Governance Practice, Faith Practice and the
International Practice - with work for brands across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and
South Africa. RED owns the continent's largest portfolio of youth media brands.
Its Content Division holds brands across TV, radio, online and events including
Y! Magazine,YNaija.com, Rubbin' Minds, #YTech100 and the The RED Summit. It
also anchors a development firm, The Future Project, which projects include
Africa's leading youth platform, The Future Awards Africa, HowCanIGetInvolved.com
and Aiki.ng, which is run in conjunction with Microsoft.
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