The second African Heritage Awards (AHA) 2024 earlier slated to carry in Johannesburg, South Africa, has now been affirmed to carry Lagos, Nigeria.
A press release issued yesterday by the organisers, Heritage Occasions HT, said that the choice to vary the occasion location is “as a consequence of unavoidable bottlenecks encountered.”
The occasion is now slated to in Ikeja, Lagos, on April 13, 2024 (identical date as earlier scheduled). The selection of Lagos State for the AHA 2024 based on the organisers, “is strategic, being that Lagos is the leisure hub of Africa, and the colourful metropolis recognized for its excessive urge for food for world occasions, with the pedigree to present the distinguished occasion a pan-African footprint, in step with the goals of the organisers.”
Earlier, the organisers had disclosed that these nominated embrace African-American billionaire and philanthropist, Robert. F. Smith, Chairman/CEO of Vista Fairness Companions, Texas, United States; Dr. George Weah, former President of Liberia; John Dramani Mahama, former President of Ghana; Mama Rachael Ruto, First Girl of the Republic of Kenya and Founding father of Mama Doing Good Organisation; and Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Commerce Organisation (WTO).
Others nominated for honours are: Mr. and Mrs. Try Masiyiwa, founder and government chairman of Worldwide Expertise Teams, Econet International and Cassava Applied sciences; Adebayo Ogunlesi, chairman/managing companion, International Infrastructure Companions; Professor Thulisile Nomkhosi Madonsela, founding father of the Thuli Madonsela Basis; Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, prime minister of Togo; Mrs. Folorunsho Alakija, managing director of the Rose of Sharon Group and government vice chairman of Famfa Oil Restricted; Othman Benjelloun, co-chair of BMCE Financial institution Basis, and Madam Graca Machel, founding father of Graca Machel Belief.
The pan-African occasion which is a sequel to the inaugural version held on April 1, 2023, in Kigali, Rwanda, is a gathering strategically organised to have fun and recognise excellent world accomplishments of Africans throughout the continent and within the Diaspora in areas of Enterprise, Politics, Philanthropy, Leisure and Arts, Tradition, Science and Expertise, and Social Innovation.
The organisers mentioned this 12 months’s AHA could be chaired by Sir Seretse Khama Ian Khama, former president of Botswana, and might be attended by former Heads of States and captains of industries throughout the African continent.
They added that the popularity and awards have turn into crucial to sustainably foster the African tradition of excellence, promote Afrocentrism, and create an ecosystem that can additional retell the true African story in direction of the development of the continent’s full potential.
