7th - 9th August, 2019 KEMPINSKI HOTEL, ACCRA
Linking, Reconciling and Reuniting Communities 400 Years after the start of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
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Page 01 Goodwill Message - Ambassador Johanna Odonkor Svanikier
Page 03 Speach - Hon. Barbara Oteng Gyasi
Page 05 Letter from UNESCO
Page 06 About HACSA
Page 07 About the Summit
Page 08 Summit Structure
Page 09 About Ghaha
Page 10 Programme Order
Page 17 Lifetime achievement awards
Page 19 Speakers
Page 26 GIRLS CAN CODE
Page 27 About Sponsors
Page 30 Advertisment
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Ambassador Johanna Odonkor Svanikier President, Heritage and Cultural Society of Africa
A warm welcome to the HACSA Summit 2019! Conference and brought people from all over the In 2016 while I was working as Ambassador of Diaspora to Ghana to debate these issues. Ghana to UNESCO I had 3 major concerns: Elmina Castle or ‘The Mine’ in Portuguese, was 1. The history of Ghana and especially how it was built in 1482 when the first Europeans came to the related to the African diaspora and all peoples of shores of what is now modern day Ghana in search African descent was not being told. We needed of gold. They brought guns for sale which led to to tell our own stories! the proliferation of war amongst ethnic groups and resulted in the capture of many prisoners of 2. The main stakeholders of the monuments war. This was a catalyst for the development of which bear witness to the transatlantic slave the devastating transatlantic slave trade which trade were in the diaspora, far away, separated was then followed by colonialism. Finally it was in and unaware of these forts and castles which litter Ghana again, the very same place they arrived, the coast of Ghana and the challenges involved that the liberation of Africa and peoples of African in and the imperative for preserving them. We descent began. In my speech of 2017 I referred needed to reconnect with the Diaspora! to this as “the Full Circle”!
3. The rich living heritage and culture of Africa Ghana’s independence celebrations were in general and Ghana in particular was not attended by people from all over the diaspora. being used sufficiently for the socioeconomic Some even came to settle here. People like betterment of its people. We needed to change WEB Dubois, Martin Luther King, Maya Angelou, that and make technological innovation and Muhammed Ali, Malcom X, Kwame Touré and women’s empowerment a part of that culture! Nina Simon all passed through Ghana. Many were inspired by the way Nkrumah had mobilised These 3 concerns are the main reasons HACSA Ghanaians to demand their independence and was founded in 2016. In 2017 we held the first returned to kick start the civil rights movement in HACSA Summit to address some of these issues. their own homeland. We called it The African Diaspora Homecoming
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The impact of the HACSA Summit in 2017 which Presentation of HACSA Sankofa Lifetime we at HACSA organised to commemorate 60 Achievement Awards, over 60 amazing speakers Years of Ghana’s Independence has been truly and much more! far-reaching. The vision is finally being realised with the “Full Circle Festival” and the Declaration Our heartfelt thanks go to our sponsors and of “The Year of Return” both occurring last year. patrons who have made this all possible. Our Last week the Congressional Black Caucus made thanks also go to our selfless volunteers and a symbolic ‘Year of Return’ visit to Ghana and service providers, our trustees and advisory I was privileged to witness the moving speech councils in Ghana and abroad. I also give thanks given by Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the Ghanaian to my husband, children and wider HACSA Parliament. family. Yes HACSA is a family and if you’re here today we hope you will join the HACSA family! I Since it was founded, HACSA has organised know the great sacrifices you have all made to book launches, musical concerts and festivals, be here. You’re all sponsors of HACSA. Thank exhibitions of art, photography, made in Africa you all so much! I’d like to leave you with a quote goods and archaeological relics. Home made from Joel Ruffin one of the newest members of brands like Smockyworld, Red Cotton, Kaeme the HACSA family who will be a speaker at the Shea butter, Decocraft chocolates and Judy HACSA Summit 2019: Foods have benefitted from the consistent patronage, endorsement and exposure given to “HACSA is a Movement!”, “HACSA Delivers!” them by HACSA. We also have taken tours to “HACSA creates, designs and delivers liberating many regions of Ghana creating and promoting and empowering social, cultural and technological new tourist trails around the country. One of experiences, leaving you whole, complete and our proudest initiatives is the Girls Can Code aligned”. programme which we partnered with UNESCO to deliver. 150 girls in government schools in 5 We are finally telling our stories! different regions of Ghana have been trained to We are finally reconnecting with the Diaspora! build websites and make animated short films. We are finally leveraging our heritage and culture We hope to grow this project to new heights. In for socioeconomic progress and are empowering addition HACSA has facilitated the first visits and women and girls through technology! even moves to Ghana of many in the diaspora. The vision is being realised! Please help to keep HACSA alive! At The HACSA Summit 2019, We are offering you a packed programme: An archaeological exhibition, an Investment Trade and Innovation Exposition, a Corporate Lunch, a Girls Can Code Workshop & Roundtable, a Gala evening, A Welcome and Remembrance Ceremony,
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by Hon. Barbara Oteng Gyasi Minister of Tourism, Arts & Culture
YOUR EXCELLENCY JEWEL HOWARD industry, innovation and infrastructure, SDG 11.4 TAYLOR VICE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC protect the world’s cultural and natural heritage, OF LIBERIA SDG 17 partnerships for the goals. HONOURABLE MINISTERS HONOURABLE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT Ladies and Gentlemen YOUR EXCELLENCIES MEMBERS OF THE The year 2019 symbolically marks 400 years DIPLOMATIC CORPS since the beginning of the trade in enslaved DISTINGUISHED GUESTS Africans in the US. It is a time for remembrance, DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS AND sober reflection and commemoration of those PARTICIPANTS OF THE 2019 HACSA SUMMIT who suffered untold anguish and whose lives LADIES AND GENTLEMEN were destroyed in the process, and for the rebuilding of communities that were affected by Good morning and welcome to the international this scourge. The HACSA Summit 2019, aims to HACSA Summit 2019. The Heritage and Cultural re-unite, reconcile and link communities that were Society of Africa Summit 2019 is organised in directly or indirectly affected by the transatlantic line with the UN international decade for people slave trade. of African descent and officially endorsed by UNESCO, the Year of Return, Ghana 2019 and In the last two years of its existence HACSA has the Ministry of Tourism, Ghana. HACSA seeks organised the African Diaspora Homecoming to promote and celebrate African heritage and Conference to Commemorate Ghana’s 60th culture for socioeconomic development and Anniversary in a meaningful and significant way, poverty alleviation in Africa. HACSA is a volunteer- undertaken several exhibitions promoting African led non-profit NGO and social enterprise founded Art, crafts and photography, has assisted in 2 book by Ambassador Johanna Odonkor Svanikier in launches, has held several concerts showcasing 2016. HACSA advocates for the preservation of the best in African music and organised tours heritage and culture, showcases excellence in to heritage sites around the country. HACSA Africa and the diaspora and promotes African- continuously advocates for the preservation and made goods and services. It’s ethos is inspired conservation of historic buildings and heritage by the activities of UNESCO and is in line with the sites and the safeguarding of our intangible UN Sustainable Development Goals and Targets; heritage and culture. It is the goal of HACSA to in particular SDG 5 gender equality; SDG 8 project the richness and beauty of Africa to the decent work and economic growth, SDG 9 world, vibrantly visible in our language, people,
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traditions and land. objectives and goals are consistent with the 17 Sector goals of the SDG. Prominent among the Ladies and Gentlemen programmes being implemented are the Tourism Knowledge and promotion of our culture and Product Development Programmed which seeks heritage provides flourishing avenues for tourism to improve on already existing events such as and revenue generation. HACSA has led the way PANAFEST, EMANCIPATION DAY, Paragliding with its pioneering work to enrich government Festival and our Festivals to draw tourists into policy on heritage and culture by inspiring the the country. Year of Return and The Full Circle Festival. It successfully led the way by bringing the African Also, Government under a World Bank assistance Diaspora back home in March 2017 to reengage is embarking on the renovation and rehabilitation with the continent. of existing tourism facilities, particularly the Heritage sites, Forts and Castles located in the Throughout the Summit you as opinion leaders, country. practitioners, academics and participants from Africa, the diaspora and around the world, are Government’s agenda to improve on tourism encouraged to drive the discussion on how to Private-Sector driven and also under the Public- harness the abundance of resources in Africa Private Partnership arrangement. for the improvement of the quality of life of its people both Africa and in the Diaspora. Through I wish to therefore take this opportunity to call on embracing our legacy, we shall strive ahead the Business Community and our brothers and together as one united community, to inspire and sisters in the Diaspora to take advantage of the establish innovative solutions for our development vast Tourism potentials in the country to either and progress. partner with Government or invest in Tourism in our country. Ladies and Gentlemen In Ghana, the growth and development in the Ladies and Gentlemen Tourism Industry is hinged on the country’s The HACSA have done a formidable job to diverse historical, cultural and eco-tourism bring us all together in the spirit of unity in assets. Available data indicated that Tourism ‘The Year of Return’ to listen to a host of fresh, accounts for nearly 6% of the total employment vibrant and brilliant speakers who will engage and contributes 5.3% to GDP as a result of us in discussions about the themes of legacy, the increasing Public-Private Investment in communities and innovation. I wish to extend infrastructure, and superstructure inflow of tourist a warm welcome to all of you on behalf of the arrivals and tourism receipts. government and people of Ghana! Please enjoy, engage and engulf yourself in the rich culture Whilst some modest achievements were made Ghana has to offer and take advantage of the over the years, there has been a quantum leap rich programme the HACSA has worked so hard since 2017. This is because H.E the President to put together for you in the coming week. Ye has set a clear transformation agenda to rely on ma mu Akwaaba! Welcome Home! Tourism, Arts and Culture Industry and a tool to advance national development. As a multi- sectoral sector, Ghana’s Policy Framework,
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The Heritage and Cultural Society of Africa Descent and the year 2019 symbolically marks (HACSA) is a nonprofit NGO and social 400 years since the beginning of the trade in enterprise registered in Ghana with a mission to enslaved Africans in the US which robbed Africa highlight the importance of heritage and culture of a staggering number of its human resource. It for sustainable socio-economic development is a time for remembrance, sober reflection and and progress in Africa and among the African commemoration of those who suffered untold Diaspora. We promote and celebrate African anguish and whose lives were destroyed in heritage and culture and the dynamism and the process, and also for the reunification and blending of cultures. Our work is inspired by the reconciliation of communities that were affected activities of UNESCO and is in line with the UN by this scourge. To that end the President of Sustainable Development Goals particularly SDG Ghana, His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa 5 - ‘Gender Equality’, SDG 8 - ‘Good Jobs and Akufo-Addo has declared this year ‘the Year Economic Growth’ and SDG 11.4 ‘strengthen of Return’ and Ghana, which was arguably the efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s epicenter of the trade, as the host. cultural and natural heritage. The HACSA logo features the Adinkra symbol for To that end we strive to project the richness Sankofa meaning ‘return and get it’. It’s a symbol and beauty which can be found in the land, the of the importance of learning from the past to people, and the culture and create fora in which move forward with purpose and action, depicted serious debate can take place on how to harness by a bird, feet facing forward with its head facing its abundant resources for the improvement of backward to pick up an egg capturing the the quality of life of its people both in Africa and essence of HACSA. in the Diaspora.
The United Nations has proclaimed 2015-2024 the International Decade for People of African
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The Heritage and Cultural Society of Africa The HACSA Summit 2019 will explore (HACSA) will host an international summit in the 400-year legacy of the transatlantic Ghana to discuss legacy, communities and trade in enslaved Africans to link, reunite innovation, 400 years since the beginning and reconcile affected communities and of the transatlantic slave trade. The HACSA share examples of innovation and creative Summit 2019 has received patronage of strategies to overcome its debilitating and UNESCO and is officially endorsed by ‘The persisting effects. It brings together Heads Year of Return, Ghana 2019’. The HACSA of State, opinion leaders, practitioners, Summit will take place in Accra from August academics and participants from Africa and 5th-11th, 2019 at the Kempinski Hotel, the diaspora to have open and meaningful Gold Coast City, Accra. debates. The Summit will include keynote speakers, panel discussions, academic Previously HACSA has organised the African presentations, exhibitions, a film screening, Diaspora Homecoming 2017 Conference to a remembrance and candlelight vigil, a gala Commemorate Ghana’s 60th Anniversary dinner dance showcasing African food, in a meaningful and significant way. The fashion and music and guided tours of key conference hinged on the themes; History heritage sites in Ghana. and Memory for Reflection and Dialogue, Heritage and Culture of Peoples of African Origin and Diaspora Trade and Investment in Africa.
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August 6 Aguste 8 HACSA Heritage Tours Welcome & Remembrance Ceremony The Osu Slave Route to Independence Welcome & Remembrance Ceremony Tour and The Jamestown Slave Route to at Cedar Gardens, Kempinski Hotel with Independence Tour will provide visits to Ambassador Kwesi Quartey as the Guest historical and cultural sites in the capital city Speaker Accra, Ghana. August 9 August 6 Girls Can Code Roundtable and Workshop Exhibition Lunch Event Exhibition Launch, HACSA ‘400 Years On: The Girls Can Code Roundtable and Marine Drive Salvage Exhibition’ University Workshop Lunch event will be an informative of Ghana. The Summit will showcase an session building on the success of the Archaeological Exhibition to inform and Girls Can Code Project in Ghana, which enlighten participants about the history, provided girls with access to technological culture and lifestyle of communities living innovations, empowering participants with around Jamestown showing items collected tools to successfully engage in a competitive during an excavation labour market.
August 6 August 9 Film Screening Red Carpet Gala Dinner Film Screening of the ‘Black Panther’ movie The Gala dinner dance will include a dinner, including a highly anticipated discussion with fashion show and music concert. Delegates a member of the cast as Guest of Honour. will witness the finest of African fashion with music provided by Gyakie, Sofie, Jojo August 7 Addison, Asabea E.L., and Joey B. A raffle Film Screening will be drawn during the evening by Special Film Screening of ‘Les Routes De L’esclavage’ Guest Her Excellency Rebecca Akufo-Addo, A documentary produced by Daniel Cattier, First Lady of the Republic of Ghana. Fanny Glissant & Juan Gélas with Juan Gélas as the Guest of Honour.
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Ghana, formerly known as the Gold Coast, was the first black African nation in Sub-Saharan Africa to achieve independence from colonial power on 6th March 1957 led
by Kwame Nkrumah. Ghana was at the centre of the slave Advocacy trade for almost 150 years, it has the greatest concentration of colonial-era forts in Africa, journeying from Beyin in the Western Region to Keta in the Volta Region. Ghana boats of cultural and natural sites of outstanding universal value identified by The UNESCO Listed World Heritage Site including Elmina Castle; Cape Coast Castle; Kakum National Park amongst others.
The flag of Ghana consists of the colours red, gold, green Education and the black star. It symbolises her deep-rooted history of wealth, sacrifice and emancipation. It is a widely known fact the gold centre stripe of the flag signifies the country’s mineral wealth. Ghana is the second largest cocoa producer in the world and African’s biggest gold miner after South Africa.
Ghana boats of an abundance of festivals throughout the year celebrating many cultures and traditions of various tribes and communities. Her highly accessible geographical position and refurbished world class airport ensures she is Collaboration visited by people from all over the world. Consequently, her rich culture and heritage, beautiful natural sites and deep- rooted history earned her a much-deserved place on the CNN travel list of best places to visit in 2019.
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PRE-SUMMIT DAY ONE Monday, 5th August, 2019 01 10.00am - 2.00pm - TEDx Osu
02 2.30pm - 5.00pm - HACSA Heritage Tour Osu Slave Route to Independence Tour
PRE-SUMMIT DAY TWO Tuesday, 6th August, 2019 01 9.30am - 12.00pm Osu Slave Route to Independence Tour Jamestown Slave Route to IndependenceTour
02 10am to 8pm Registration
03 4.00pm - 5.00pm Exhibition Launch 400 Years On: Marine Drive Heritage Salvage Exhibition Guests of Honour: Hon. Barbara Oteng-Gyasi, Minister of Tourism, Arts & Culture H.E. Stephanie Sullivan, Ambassador of the U.S. to Ghana.
5.00pm - 6.30pm 04 HACSA Summit 2019 Welcome Reception
05 6.30pm - 9.00pm Discussion & Film Screening: Black Panther Guest of Honour: Dr. John Kani (The Lion King, Black Panther)
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SUMMIT DAY ONE Wednesday 7th August 2019 - LEGACY
Item Activity 01 8.00am - 8.30am Registration and Continental Breakfast
02 8.30am -10.30am Opening Ceremony Chair: Ambassador Kwesi Quartey, Deputy Chairperson African Union Commission Guests of Honour: Hon. Barbara Oteng-Gyasi, Minister of Tourism Arts & Culcure Mr. Abdourahamane Diallo, Country Director, UNESCO, Ghana Hon. Samia Nkrumah, Former Minister of Parliament
Keynote Speaker 1 H.E. Jewel Howard Taylor, Vice President of the Republic of Liberia
03 10.30am - 10.45am Coffee Break
04 10.45am - 12.15pm Panel 1: How can the evidence from the transatlantic slave trade be more effectively shared and preserved? Prof. Akosua Perbi Prof. Gavua Juan Gelas Dr. Biveridge Kwame Akoto-Bamfo Moderator: Dr. Dede Esi Amanor-Wilks
05 12.15pm - 1.45pm Panel 2: What is the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism? Does it still have a major impact on institutions and individual lives today? Barry Ford Joel Ruffin Kweku Adoboli Dr. Obadele Kambon Dr. Augustine Konneh Moderator: GT Svanikier
06 1.45pm - 2.45pm Lunch Break
07 2.45pm - 4.15pm Panel 3: How have communities that either benefited or suffered from the transatlantic slave trade dealt with their past? Ambassador Kwesi Quartey Lisa Mensah Pierre de Gaétan Njikam Mouliom Julio Cesar Sanchez Adewale Adjadi Moderator: Dr. Antoinette Tsiboe-Darko
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SUMMIT DAY ONE Wednesday 7th August 2019 - LEGACY
Item Activity 08 4.15pm - 4.30pm Coffee Break
09 4.30pm - 6.00pm Panel 4: Can African economies be transformed by promoting heritage and culture? Fergus Maclaren Dr. Wazi Apoh Viola Labi Kojo Bentum-Williams Sylvie Cazes Moderator: Dr. Jemima Nunoo
10 6.00pm - 8.00pm Film Screening: Les Routes de L’esclavage The Slave Routes, Film 2 & 3 A documentary directed by Daniel Cattier, Fanny Glissant & Juan Gélas Guest of Honour: Juan Gélas, Director
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SUMMIT DAY TWO Thursday 8th August 2019 - COMMUNITIES
Item Activity 01 8.00am - 8.30am Continental Breakfast
02 8.30am - 10.00am Panel 1: What is the importance of linking and reconnecting communities involved or divided by the transatlantic slave trade? Prof. Henry Nii Agyiri Wellington Hugh Quarshie Humphrey Barclay Keith Stokes Patrick Clerk Moderator: AJ Sarpong
03 10.00am - 11.30am Panel 2: Unleashing the power of unity; Workshop Building bridges through dialogue: Reconciling and reuniting the African diaspora Dr. Margaret Spearmon Eric Opoku Agyemang Nikia Washington Zynovia Hetherington Arnold Sarfo-Kantanka Moderator: Morris Sinclair
04 11.30am - 11.45am Coffee break
05 11.45am - 12.30pm Keynote Speaker 2 A conversation with H.E. John Agyekum Kufour, Former President, Republic of Ghana Moderator: Hugh Quarshie
06 12.30pm to 2.00pm Corporate Council Lunch Chair: Julian Opuni
07 2.00pm to 3.30pm Panel 3: Breaking the glass ceiling: perspectives from the diaspora Dr. Anino Emuwa Lady Gifty Tetteh Dr. Samantha Tross Susan Reid Moderator: Klorkor Okai-Mills
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SUMMIT DAY TWO Thursday 8th August 2019 - COMMUNITIES
Item Activity 08 3.30pm - 3.45pm Coffee Break
09 3.45pm - 5.15pm Panel 4: Is changing engineering education in Ghana the solution to economic development? Dr. Lucy Agyemang Dr. Victor Atiemo-Obeng Ing. Lesley Alex Aryeh Prof. Kwadwo Osseo-Asare Prof. Fred McBagonluri Moderator: Dr. Kwame Boakye
10 7.00pm to 8.00pm Welcome & Remembrance Ceremony, Cedar Gardens, Kempinski Hotel Guest Speaker: Ambassador Kwesi Quartey
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SUMMIT DAY THREE Friday, 9th August, 2019 - INNOVATION
Item Activity 01 8.00am - 8.30am Continental Breakfast
02 8.30am - 9.15am Keynote Speaker 3 Embracing the fourth industrial revolution: Is Africa at a crossroads? Prof. Arthur Mutambara, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
03 9.15am - 10.45am Panel 1: Innovation, incubators and startups: How can Africa be an accelerator? Christine Souffrant Ntim Dr. Thomas Mensah Charles Kollo Ambassador Moïse Kérékou George Madjitey Moderator: Amma Aboagye
04 10.45am - 11.00am Coffee Break
05 11.00am - 12.30pm Panel 2: Can innovation in financial services and fintech transform African Economies? Lisa Opoku Lucy Quist Yaw Asamoah Maria Gotsch Calvin Holmes Moderator: Peter Akwaboah
06 12.30pm - 1.00pm Summit Closing Ceremony
07 1.00pm - 3.00pm Girls Can Code Roundtable and Workshop Lunch Event Partners and Invitees: UNESCO, Blue Crest College, MEST, Siemens, MTN, IBM, Oracle, Dreamoval, Soronko Foundation, Academic City University, Ashesi University Chair: Ms. Lisa Opoku Guest of Honour: Hon. Cynthia Mamle Morrison, Minister for Gender
08 7.00pm - 11.00pm HACSA Charity Gala Dinner Dance Guest Speaker - H.E. Rebecca Akufo-Addo, First Lady of the Republic of Ghana
Performances by: Asabea & Kenteman, Joey B, EL, Sofie, Jojo Addison, Gyakie
Fashion Show Designers: Red Cotton, Smockyworld, Kenneth Tetteh
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POST-SUMMIT DAY ONE Saturday, 10th August
Eastern Slave Route & NatureTour (Optional pre-paid tour)
01 1.30pm - 3.00pm Bus transfer from Kempinski Hotel to Royal Senchi Resort, Senchi
02 3.30pm to 4.00pm Hotel Check-in
03 4.00pm to 9.00pm Private Themed White Party hosted by the Svanikiers HACSA Summit Participants invited
POST-SUMMIT DAY TWO Sunday, 11th August
01 8.00am to 10.00am - Breakfast
02 10.30am - 12.00pm Boat ride on the River Volta to the Akosombo Dam
03 12.30 to 2.00pm - Lunch
04 2.30pm to 4.30pm Visit to the Akwamufie Royal Palace & Museum
05 7.00pm - 10.00pm - Dinner
POST-SUMMIT DAY THREE Monday, 11th August
01 8.00am to 10.00am - Breakfast
02 10.30am - 1.00pm Hotel check-out & transfer to Kempinski Hotel, Accra
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transition: Ghana moving toward Independence, and London becoming a multicultural metropolis. In the early 1950s, Barnor opened his Ever Young photography studio in the Jamestown district of Accra. During this period, he captured luminaries and key political figures, including Ghana’s first prime minister, Kwame Nkrumah. After moving to the UK in 1959, he studied photography at Medway College of Art in Kent and continued to work on commissions for Drum, in London, James Barnor shooting covers with multinational models. He returned to Ghana in the early 1970s to open James Barnor is a Ghanaian photographer with the first colour processing studio in the country, a lucrative career spanning over six decades. becoming the first photographer to shoot and Born in 1929 in Ghana, Barnor experienced first- process images in full colour. There he stayed hand the country’s move towards independence for the next 20 years, working in his new X23 from colonial rule. In his street and studio studio as an independent photographer and for photography Barnor represents societies in a handful of State agencies in Accra.
Nursing in the United Kingdom. The programme provided opportunities for Mrs. Effah to work in a range of hospitals throughout the UK; including St. Thomas’ Addingbrookes, Cambridge, The University College Hospital, London and The Royal Eye Hospital, Waterloo offering practical training in the various branches of Nursing. Impressed with the quality of care provided for mothers and babies during a placement at a Maternity ward in Bristol, Mrs. Effah trained to teach Mother Craft classes with the intention Mrs. Lucy Effah to deliver similar programmes back home in Ghana. In February 1955, Mrs. Effah returned From a young age Mrs. Lucy Effah aspired to Ghana but faced opposition from expatriates to become a midwife. Having expressed her in the field unwilling to distribute opportunities vision with her father, Chief Albert Osei Tuto of fairly. Despite such barriers, Mrs. Effah fought Bekwai she completed an application form for tirelessly for equal working conditions, pay and a new Nursing Training College in Accra and benefits for local works in the health sector. She enrolled into Nursing School in 1945. One of served as the first Board Chair of the Council of eighteen girls to be recruited from Achimota Nursing and Midwifery from 1974 to 1982. She School and Wesley Girls’ High School, Mrs. has trained midwives for 23 years and witnessed Effah joined a pre-nursing three-year course. approximately 2,000 students pass through her Mrs. Effah pursued a midwifery qualification hands. Mrs. Effah was recognised in the book qualifying in 1951, taking charge of the A1 Ward ‘Women of Distinction’ by Ms Cornelia Rowena at Korle Bu as the most Senior Nurse. She was Amoah, celebrating the contribution of women awarded a Government scholarship to practice distinguished in their fields to the history of Ward Administration at The Royal College of Ghana.
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Henri Lopez Naa Amanua
Henri Lopes is a Congolese writer, politician and Madam Naa Amanua is a Ghanaian Ga folklore diplomat. Lopes was a history professor at the music and songwriter. Amanua began singing as Ecole normale supérieure d’Afrique Centrale in a child, joining the choir at St. Georges Garrison Brazzaville from 1965 to 1966 before working as the Anglican Church, Burma Cap and later attended Director-General of education from 1966 to 1968. Abokobi Presbyterian Mix-Middle School where In 1969 he became Minister of National Education she became the lead singer in the school during proceeding to Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1971. the late sixties. Amanua is known for being the Subsequently, Lopes became Prime Minister of the founding member of Wulomei founded in 1973, Republic of Congo from 1973 to 1975 and became with celebrated hits including ‘Wala tu wala sa’ and the Congo-Brazzaville’s Ambassador to France ‘Mbe shie din’. Wulomei toured the country before in 1998. As a writer, Henri Lopes is considered journeying to Togo, the US and the UK. Amanua one of the best-known representatives of modern later joined the group, Suku Troup, which toured African literature as the author of several novels. through West African countries and performed in In 1972 he won the Black African Literary Grand Kenya for President Jomo in 1978. After a decade Prix of the French Language Writers’ Association with Suku Troupe, Amanua left to form her own for his book Tribaliques. Furthermore, in 1993, group in 1988 and released ‘Mi yen Maya’ in 1989. the French Academy awarded him the Grand Prix She is the recipient of the 2018 Vodafone Ghana de la Francophonie; in the same year he became Music Awards Lifetime Achievement Honours and doctor of honor at the University of Paris XII and in was awarded the Ga title ‘Nye Kpakpa’ by the 2002 at the University of Quebec. Ga-Adangme Concern Youth Group under the leadership of Nii Ayaafio for her contribution to Ga- Adangme music from the grass roots.
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H.E. John Agyekum Kufuor H.E. Rebecca Akufo-Addo Ambassador Kwesi Quartey Former President of Ghana First Lady of Ghana Deputy Chairperson African Union Commission
Lisa Opoku H.E. Jewel Howard Taylo H.E. Henri Lopes Partner & Managing Director Vice President Author / Former Prime Minister Goldman Sachs Republic of Liberia The Republic of Congo
Pierre De Gaétan Ambassador Moïse Kérékou Eric Opoku Agyemang Njikam Mouliom Author Co-Founder & Executive Director Partner & Managing Director Former Ambassador of Benin to Turkey Cheerful Hearts Foundation Goldman Sachs
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Prof. Arthur Mutambara Susan Reid Peter Akwaboah Former Deputy Prime Minister Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Zimbabwe. Morgan Stanley
Maria Gotsch Dr. Patrick Adukwei Clerk Dr. Samantha Tross President & CEO Descendant of Alex Worthy Clerk Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, UK Partnership Funds for New York City Dentist, Los Angeles, California Co-founder, Fintech Innovation Lab
Fergus Maclaren Arnold Sarfo-Kantanka Lucy Quist President President & CEO Managing Director at Morgan Stanley ICOMOS International Cultural Partnership Funds for New York City Tourism Committee. Co-founder, Fintech Innovation Lab
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Dr. Margaret Spearmon Hugh Quarshie Humphrey Barclay Senior Lecturer Actor, Holby City Author University of Washington, WA Former Ambassador of Benin to Turkey
Calvin Holmes Christine Souffrant Ntim Charles Kollo President Entrepreneur & Emerging Market Expert. Senior Vice President Chicago Community Loan Fund Dreamoval
Fred McBagonluri Dr Thomas Mensah George Madjitey Chemical Engineer & Pioneer of Fibre Optics Chief Executive Officer GEM Industrial Solutions
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Prof. Akosua-Perbi Prof. Kodzo Gavua Juan Gelas Film Director Les Routes de L’esclavage
Barry Ford Viola Labi Joel E. Ruffin Sr President & CEO Council Founder of Woven Worldwide Vice President & Senior Engineer for a Strong America Technology Division Goldman Sachs
Kweku Adoboli Dr Obadele Kambon Dr. Wazi Apoh Author, Former Trader Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, University of Ghana
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Dr Augustine Konneh Lisa Mensah Adewale Ajidi Dean of the Graduate School African Founder & Former Executive Director Creative Consultant, Leadership Educator Methodist Episcopal University in Aspen Institute Initiative on Financial Change agent & Storyteller. Monrovia, Liberia Security (Aspen IFS)
Yaw Asamoah Samia Nkrumah Nikia Washington Board Chairman Foundation Daughter of Dr Kwame Nkrumah Ghana’s Consultant, Inclusive Engagement llc Orthopedics & Complex Spine First President (FOCOS USA)
Keith Stokes Lady Gifty Tetteh Prof Kweku Assoe-Asare Vice President, 1696 Heritage Group Barister & Head of Chambers Descendant of the Barclay Family, at Chambers of G D Tetteh–UK. Rhode Island
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Mr. Kojo Bentum-Williams Mme. Sylvie Cazes Zynovia Y. Hetherington Senior Expert on Communications in Owner, Bordeaux Saveurs Director of Child Welfare Training & Africa for the United Nations World Advancement Program Tourism Organization
Dr. Anino Emuwa Kwame Akoto-Banfo International Management Consultant Artist Founder, Avandis Consulting
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AJ Sarpong GT Svanikier Dr Dede Amanor-Wilks Radio Presenter, CitiFM Technology & Engineering Strategist Communications Director, African Goldman Sachs Center for Economic Transformation (ACET)
Dr. Jemima Nunoo Amma Aboagye Morris Sinclair Lecturer, (GIMPA)
Klorkor Okai-Mills Dr. Kwame Boakye Antoinette Tsiboe-Darko Assistant Judge Advocate General Ministry Research Fellow & Lecturer Centre of Defence, Accra Ghana for Social Policy Studies University of Ghana
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• Girls Can Code Workshop on the sidelines of the HACSA Summit 2019. • In collaboration with UNESCO. • Discussion of transformative impact for Africa of training Girls in ICT in line with SDG Goal 5. • Discussion of the sustainability, enhancement and expansion of the project. • Appeal for funding to continue the project.
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“Let the competition beware”
( ) Fidelity Bank Ghana Ltd. set out to become a Svani limited (former utc motors) operates a motor world-class financial institution that provides import, servicing workshops, leasing and rentals superior returns for all stakeholders. People who of vehicles, generators and equipment business are professional and proactive, state of the art in west africa. We are a registered limited liability technology, exceptional Corporate Governance company incorporated on the 22nd march 1990 standards, good knowledge of the Local Market, with registration number #39,477 and became and above all, a Customer-Centric Culture. certified to commence business on 23rd march 1990. We have been promoting and marketing various products together with bukkehave, kjaer group, mahindra & mahindra, eicher motors and others. Our vision is to become the west African sub-region’s leading consumer company for automotive products and services.
MEST recruits Africa’s most promising software entrepreneurs for a fully sponsored, intensive 12 month training program. Entrepreneurs-in-Training (EITs) learn tech, business and communications from a team of global experienced fellows. ( ) The “Year of Return, Ghana 2019” is a major landmark spiritual and birth-right journey inviting the Global African family, home and abroad, to mark 400 years of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Jamestown, Virginia. The arrival of enslaved Africans marked a sordid and sad period, when our kith and kin were forcefully Dreamoval develop smart IT products for taken away from Africa into years of deprivation, Consumers, Businesses and Financial Institutions. humiliation and torture. While August 2019 marks Their aim is to disrupt the African Financial 400 years since enslaved Africans arrived in the ecosystem with innovative solutions and platforms United States, “The Year of Return, Ghana 2019” celebrates the cumulative resilience of all the victims of the Trans Atlantic slave Trade who were scattered and displaced through the world in North America, South America, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia.
The Future of Ghana is a nonprofit organisation connecting young & talented ghanaians at home & abroad to support development in ghana and thecommunities we operate thehacsa [email protected] www.thehacsa.org THE HACSA SUMMIT 2019 For updates, pictures and biographies of speakers, visit www.thehacsa.org 27 About Sponsors
The Oxford University Africa society (afrisoc) The University of Ghana, the premier university and focuses on African affairs at the university of oxford. the largest university in Ghana was founded as the The society seeks to set the agenda for the future University College of the Gold Coast by Ordinance of the African continent by providing a platform on August 11, 1948 for the purpose of providing for students hailing from or interested in Africa to and promoting university education, learning and critically engage. Above all, afrisoc is a community research. of change agents passionate about Africa.
Bank of Africa - Ghana (boa-Ghana) limited commenced operations in the country after The Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture has obtaining its banking license from the central bank been realigned through Executive Instrument (E.I. on 11th November, 2011. The bank’s focus and 2013) to provide a firm, stable policy environment commitment to developing deep relationships with for effective mainstreaming of Ghanaian culture customers have driven its growth in recent years. Into all aspects of national life and to ensure the With a current branch network of 26 spread across strong emergence of a vibrant creative economy 6 regions in Ghana, the bank’s expansion strategy to improve and advance the tourism industry. is set to bring banking closer to its existing and The Ministry is to facilitate the interface between potential clients. Bank of Africa is focused on government, implementing bodies in tourism, providing exceptional services that affords clients culture and the Creative Industries as well as with convenience whiles meeting their banking international civil society partners. The vision of the needs. This has informed the bank’s continuous Ministry is to develop sustainable tourism pivoted investment into technology to provide safe and on Ghanaian culture and creative arts as a key to secure banking and also improve customer accelerated national development. experience. To further carve its niche as a customer focused and a model retail bank, bank of Africa adopted the customer first model where customers have the advantage of a one stop –shop service in the banking halls. The bank has to its credit, five bespoke products, dubbed ‘customer-first’ which are unique to the Ghanaian market and specially designed to suit the needs of its retail customers.
BlueCrest College is one of the front runners in Information and Communication Technology Education and Training with the core objective of addressing the ICT needs of Ghana and beyond.
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Kempinski hotel gold coast city - Accra is the only Zaina Lodge in Ghana offers unparalleled service five-star luxury hotel offering state of the art meeting and luxury accommodation in Ghana’s national facilities and services in the city. Conveniently parks and community wildlife destinations. located in the downtown area and in close Zaina lodge has earned numerous accolades proximity to the state house, the Accra international and recognition. These include the 2017 world conference centre and the national theatre. The luxury hotel award, 2017 trip advisor certificate of property has 269 luxury rooms (largest room size excellence, and 2018 luxury for development gem in Accra), 24 suites, a variety of f&b offerings as award. well as large conference facilities and the largest spa in west Africa (opening soon), a perfect mix of categories to meet the needs of both corporate and conference visitors to the country.
UNESCO is the united nations educational, scientific and cultural organization. It seeks to build peace through international cooperation in education, the sciences and culture. Unesco’s UNFPA is the united nations sexual and programmes contribute to the achievement of the reproductive health agency. Our mission is to sustainable development goals defined in agenda deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, 2030, adopted by the un general assembly in 2015. every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.
First Atlantic bank is a full-scale commercial bank with over 20 years’ experience in Ghana. Originally Brussels Airlines is belgium’s national airline, founded as a merchant bank, first Atlantic bank, in connecting the capital of europe to more than 120 2011 became a universal bank with an expanded destinations, whereof 22 in Africa, the continent product portfolio. They have won several awards brussels airlines considers its second home. recognizing our excelling leadership in customer Besides africa, brussels airlines offers more than care, trade finance and corporate banking. They 90 destinations in europe, 3 in north america and offer distinctive service in retail, corporate and tel aviv. The company has over 4,000 employees institutional banking as well as private banking and 48 aircraft operating some 250 flights daily, and electronic banking. Each category comprises flying more than 10 million passengers a year to, a range of innovative services designed to provide via and from Brussels airport. convenience to our customers.
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