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he excellence of Africa’s past, present and future is measured by the achievements of her people and support by her friends. Each year there are those who distinguish themselves in service and achievement to warrant recognition and since 1991, it is the Africa Achievement Awards that honor them.
The 2009 Honorees will join a distinguished group of individuals and organizations who have received this honor before them.
Past Honorees include: President Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mariam Makeba, Stevie Wonder, President William J. Clinton, President Olusegun Obasanjo, President Abdoulaye Wade, First Lady Chief (Mrs.) Stella Obasanjo, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Congressman Mervyn Dymally , Dr. Mathias Fobi, Rev. Dr. Michael B. Beckwith, Dr. Dora Nkem Akunyili, and many outstanding and highly deserving organizations: National Geographic Society Television, Western Union International, Association of Nigerian Physicians In The Americas and the National Broadcasting Company-NBC.
The Africa Achievement Awards in their seventeenth year are produced and presented on behalf of the Celebrate Africa Foundation by The African Times Publications, publishers of The African Times/USA national news journal, published and edited in the USA since 1989, and acknowledged as “Africa’s Influential Media Voice in America.”
Of the Awards and the Africa Day Celebrations, the Awards Committee Chairman, Charles C. Anyiam stated: “The Awards have brought a public and media recognition of Africa achievers and those who do her good—America needed this awareness to be made.
“The seventeen years that the African Times have presented the Awards, from a modest beginning, now have become an internationally recognized and media-covered event.
“And as in the past five years, the Awards now incorporate Africa Day Celebration. This was the first-ever event that America joined the Continent in celebrating the day, when in 1963, in Addis Ababa, the Organization of African Unity (OAU) came into being and is now followed by the African Union (AU).
“This gala yearly event has become a social, political and diplomatic institution, that Presidents have acknowledged and honored, and the African Union, typically honors by the presence of Keynote Speaker, the African Union Ambassador to the United States.” |
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The African Times/USA invites you
to join the U.S. Delegation attending the 19th Africa Achievement Awards
& Africa Day Celebrations
in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
May 25, 2012
19th Africa Achievement Awards
hosts Economic Forum
at the Addis Ababa University
Major American event celebrating Africa's position on the global scene is moving to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia this May 25.
The Africa Achievement Awards which have been presented in the U.S. since 1991 and have become a part of America's observance of Africa Day celebrations, will for the second time in its nineteen years move from its traditional Beverly Hills, California venue to Africa. Last year, the event which honored Ghana was held in Accra, the Ghanaian capital.
Sanctioned by the African Union, the event will be held at the Addis Ababa University Main Auditorium for the Economic Forum and the Yod-Abyssinia for the Awards ceremony.
"This year's event will highlight Africa's need to become part of the rush for technological advancement", according to C. Charles Anyiam, Chairman of the Organizing Committee and the Editor-in-Chief/Publisher of The African Times-USA, producers of this leading pan-African event. "We are teaming up with a group of scientists and engineers at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland to hold the first in the series of such workshops all over Africa entitled: "Science & Technology Transfer/Capacity Building in Africa. We are desirous to be involved in bringing the Transfer/Capacity Building in Africa. We are desirous to be involved in bringing the magic of technology to Africa's grassroots as part of the solution to economic emancipation of the continent."
The event has so far received impressive endorsements from the Ethiopian Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Education and is expected to attended by top and middle-level government officials, NGO's, members of the diplomatic community in Addis Ababa. "The workshop which will commence May 24 will be attended by faculty members and students of four of Ethiopia's major universities - Addis Ababa University, Hawassa University, Mekele University, and Adama University. At the end of the workshop, we will donate 100 computers to the participating institutions as part of our corporate social responsibility to the people of Ethiopia", said Mr. Anyiam.
Sponsors of this year's event include Ethiopian Airlines, Morgan State University, the Africa Consult Group, Agape International Spiritual Center, the Marcus Garvey Foundation, Analog Devices Inc., Pan African Technical Association, UNIA&ACL, Futron Corp, among others.
For those wishing to join the U.S. delegation can contact the organizers at:
CelebrateAfrica@TheAfricanTimes.com
