Africa Dialogues wins best corporate event
The Africa Dialogues
(www.AfricaDialogues.com) won the best corporate event at the Ghana Event
Awards 2018 by Event Guide organized annually to celebrate and honor indigenous
Ghanaian events and organizers who go the extra mile for excellence in their
respective fields.
Africa Dialogues emerged winner
out of the 12 nominees including CIMG Awards, Ghana Banking Awards, Women CEOs
Summit, and MTN Heroes of Change.
Speaking on behalf of Africa
Dialogues, Emmanuel Leslie Addae of People Initiative Foundation, said, “The
journey started with the first license in 2013 to organize TEDxLabone with only
100 audience. This first event sparked the interest of the team to focus on
curating programs and initiatives that promote cultural diversity while
nurturing and mentoring the vision, talents and ideas of young people who are
positively changing Africa. Our first event was at the Kama Conference Center
in April 2014 with speakers like Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, now the Minister of
Information, Hannah Tettey, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Papa Arkhurst,
Uche Ofodile, now CEO of MTN Liberia, Patricia Oboi-Naa of Vodafone Ghana and
others.”
According to him, over the past 5
years, events organized by People Initiatives Foundation include TEDxLabone,
TEDxAccra, TEDxAccraWomen, Africa Initiatives Summit, and over 60 social impact
events in Ghana and beyond that have attracted millions of views and likes
online, live streams events in over 150 countries, and its last conference was
actually the sixth top trending hashtag on Twitter worldwide.
After five years of organizing
TEDx events in Ghana, Addae and his longtime standing partner, Daniel
Amoako-Antwi, decided to move a step ahead by creating AFRICA DIALOGUES, The
Africa We Want which is seen as Africa’s TED Talks version.
Africa Dialogues is an African
thought-leadership platform that brings together policy makers, innovative
business leaders, accomplished academics, leaders of civil society
organizations and other distinguished individuals that focused on broad-ranging
discussions on governance and human rights, education, youth unemployment,
infrastructure, public health, gender and income inequality, Africa’s economies
and urban development towards helping our continent attain AGENDA 2063 and SDGs
2030.
Talks are centered towards
helping our continent attain the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 and AGENDA
2063, Africa Dialogues endeavors to move beyond raising awareness about the
challenges facing Africa by highlighting innovative thinking and promoting
those who are working to effect real change in Africa.
The first Africa Dialogues event
was in April 2017, and it took place with over 500 audience. Some of the
speakers were Sarkodie, Constance Elizabeth Swaniker, Emmanuel Awumee, Mami Serwa
Amankohene, Sarah Begum, Aisha Addo and others.
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