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What to expect from WEF Africa 2019
More than 1,000 regional and global leaders from politics, business, civil society and academia will meet to discuss how Africa build on its potential.
It's home to almost half of the 40 fastest-growing emerging and developing countries and has the youngest population of any continent: so how can Africa build on its potential?
That's what the more than 1,000 regional and global leaders from politics, business, civil society and academia will discuss at the 28th World Economic Forum on Africa, from 4 to 6 September.
Many of Africa's leaders will be in Cape Town for #AF19 whose theme this year is ‘Shaping Inclusive Growth and Shared Futures in the Fourth Industrial Revolution’. The agenda will cover four key areas: innovation, sustainable development, digitalisation and governance.
A LEG-UP FOR START-UPS
While young Africans are 13% more entrepreneurial than the global average, start-ups on the continent are 14% more likely to fail than elsewhere in the world. That’s why the World Economic Forum will launch the Africa Growth Programme at #AF19, a new platform to bring enterprises together with investors and institutions, helping them secure smarter funding. Among the 29 entrepreneurs heading to the meeting are fintech start-up Flutterwave and Evergreen, a Tanzanian company recycling waste plastic into furniture.
MEET THE CO-CHAIRS
Helping guide talks on Africa’s regional priorities are: Sipho M Pityana, chairman of AngloGold Ashanti in South Africa; Arancha Gonzalez Laya, executive director of the International Trade Centre, Geneva; Jeremy Farrar, director of the UK-based Wellcome Trust; André Hoffmann, vice-chairman of Roche, Switzerland; Ellen Agler, CEO of The END Fund; Jim Ovia, chairman of Nigeria’s Zenith Bank; and Alex Liu, managing partner and chairman of AT Kearney.
INSPIRING STORIES
Beyond the political and business leaders, delegates will include Africans with unique stories that could help inspire others, such as Peter Tabichi, who won this year's Global Teacher Prize for his success teaching science in a remote part of Kenya; South African model and activist Thando Hopa, who has changed the way albinism is viewed in Africa and beyond; and Yetnebersh Nigussie from Ethopia, who has won global acclaim for her work on disability rights.
Written by Robin Pomeroy, journalist, World Economic Forum.
Republished courtesy of the World Economic Forum.
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