Press Release
The Central
Working Committee (CWC) of Africa’s biggest youth event, The Future Awards
Africa (TFAA) has announced the date and host state for the 2014 edition of the
event: “We are excited to announce that The Future Awards Africa 2014 will be
hosted in Lagos, Nigeria on Sunday, 7 December.”
This is the
9th edition of the awards, which became an African prize last year, with a
commemorative ceremony hosted by the President of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa in Aso Rock, Abuja.
“We are
thrilled to have the awards return to Lagos where it all started,” said Ohimai
Atafo, Chair of the CWC and one of Africa’s leading fashion entrepreneurs.
“TFAA has always been excited to fuse inspiration with the best of pop culture,
and this year’s event will underline that tradition – an evening of
inspiration, of hope, and of a continent renewed.”
This year’s
event is also dedicated to the cause of fighting Ebola in West Africa. On
11.11.2014, TFAA will launch a global campaign to get 1 million young Africans
involved in the fight against Ebola via stopebola.com.
In an interview
with Yahoo! News last week, CNN’s Isha Sesay made clear: “We have to realize
that the clock is ticking. We have an Ebola UN emergency fund and there’s very
little money in it. We have pledges being made, but the pledges aren’t being
translated into action,” Sesay said.
“We are
answering to that call to action,” said Mfon Ekpo, Vice-Chair of the CWC and
West Africa Representative on the Mandela Washington Fellowship Advisory Board.
“If Africa will be saved by Africans, then young people need to take the lead
on the problems we face and take ownership in the solutions we need.”
Ebola cases
are doubling every 20 days in the worst affected countries, and the World
Health Organisation (WHO) has called it “the largest, most complex and most
severe we’ve ever seen”.
TFAA will be
deploying its network of winners, nominees, alumni, celebrity, brain trust and
continental media partners for this #StopEbola campaign – to get 1 million
young Africans to donate social media updates and then for young people to
donate a minimum of $25 (4,250naira) each directly to the WHO through the
United Nations Ebola Response Fund. It has also selected 50 of Africa’s most influential
celebrities to headline the campaign.
The Future
Awards Africa 2014 is presented in partnership with Microsoft, the Tony Elumelu
Foundation and Vitafoam.
Official Media
Partners are EbonyLife TV, AfricaMagic, Ventures Africa, and Y! Africa. Official
Online Partners are MemeBurn, BellaNaija, Premium Times and 360nobs.
The official
bloggers for 2014 are LindaIkeji, Omojuwa, LadunLiadi, Olorisupergal, Ameyaw,
NigeriaNewsDesk and GidiTraffic. Country partners are Silverbird TV, HipTV, The
Cable, LadunLiadi, The Trent, Information Nigeria, News Wire Nigeria and
Pulse.ng.
Cool FM is the
host radio station. Channels Television is the host TV station.
For more
information, visit @TFAAfrica on Twitter/Instagram or the
websitewww.thefutureafrica.com/awards. The official hashtags for the 2014
awards are #TheFutureAwardsAfrica and #TheFutureAwards2014.
All the
information on the #StopEbola global campaign for young Africans is on
www.stopebola.com.
ABOUT THE FUTURE PROJECT
The Future Project has a simple 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, The m-Hub, TheFuture
Enterprise Support Scheme and The Future Africa Awards & Summit, described
as 'The Nobel Prize for Young Africans'.
With a network of funders and partners
including the Tony Elumelu Foundation, the US Government, First Bank, MTN, HP,
the Nigerian Government and the British Council, our work has spanned Nigeria,
Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania, Liberia, Burkina Faso, Uganda, Malawi, Cameroon,
Somalia, Equitorial Guinea, Ivory Coast and Kenya.
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.
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