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IN THE ROOM
80% of the room was young, and that was deliberate. They are Africa’s next generation of leaders, and
the conversations shaping the continent should happen with the, in the room.
ASG President, Francis Gatare, opened the
forum. Co-convenors H.E. Paul Kagame,
President of Rwanda and H.E. Hailemariam
Desalegn, Former Prime Minister of Ethiopia
joined H.E. Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang,
Vice President of Ghana, in the Leaders'
Dialogue.
H.E. Thabo Mbeki, former President of South
Africa, delivered a keynote, and Prof. PLO
Lumumba
joined
ministers,
scholars,
founders and students on the programme.
Speakers were introduced panel by panel, so emerging young leaders’ voices appeared in the same
frame as eminent ones. A forum arguing that Africa's reset must be intergenerational could hardly have
been assembled any other way.
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