The #AfricaSoftPowerSeries is back today Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 5 pm WAT [12 pm EST]
via Zoom with another engaging session on building real and effective transnational solidarity.
It is the 10th session with the theme โGoing all the Way: Africa and the Diasporaโ. To discuss the topic โBlack Lives Matter: Global Blackness, Transnational Solidarity and Allyship among black people. A time for introspectionโ are: Uzodinma-Iweala (moderator), Matthew Ryder, Aaron Mitchell, Ebele Okobi and Paula Moreno.
Donโt miss it! Register at www.theafricasoftpowerproject.com and you can follow @africasoftpower on social media, for all updates on the series.
The organisers said in a statement announcing the virtual summit, which is now in it third week that with so many negative stories about Africa, the theme, โCreative Power: Content, Culture and Platformsโ sets the stage for crucial dialogues on how Africa can harness its soft power effectively, to advance strategic interests and shape global conversations.
โAs the worldโs last large, underdeveloped market, the importance of the creative and knowledge industries takes on added significance when we consider that the continent will be home to more than a third of the worldโs population and half of the worldโs youth by 2100. In addition, current global affairs underscore that the struggles of African-Americans and people of African heritage are equally the continentโs struggle. Africa must ensure that its creative, technological and cultural assets translate into tangible engines of social and economic growth for all its people,โ said the statement.