PAN AFRICAN VISIONS MARKETING AFRICAN SUCCESS STORIES & MORE MAG 1219 Vol 2, December 2019 www.panafricanvisions.com Bobi Wine and the Looming David v Goliath Fight In Uganda Botswana Enters a New Era World on his shoulders: Will Cameroon’s Paul Biya Survive? African Mayors Take On NJ Ayuk On Billions At Play In Climate Change Africa The Year of Eliud Kipchoge PAN-AFRICAN PRO-AFRICAN www.centurionlg.com Contents PAN AFRICAN VISIONs CONTENTS A Complicated Year For Africa's Naked Emperors ______________2 There is still Tremendous Potential for US-African Trade Ties- Prince Ayo- tunde Adebayo on 2020 Trade Expo_________________________33 Botswana Enters a New Era ______________________________3 Demonizing Oil and Gas companies is not a constructive way forward on Ugandan opposition MP Bobi Wine set to oust incumbent President Musev- energy transition. Africa will push for 'the Right to Drill' __________35 eni _______________________________________________4 Contentions over Malawi elections continue: Eyes on the Constitutional Africa Needs Servant Leaders- Ugandan Opposition figure Bobi Wine _5 court _____________________________________________37 Zimbabwe after Mugabe: A Perfect Testimony That Change Is Not Always Considerations for School Choice at the K-12 Level _______________39 For the Better _______________________________________9 South Sudan Launches 100 MW Power Plant To Light Up Capital For First From Friends To Foes: Things Fall Apart for President Kenyatta and VP Time ______________________________________________40 Ruto In Kenya _______________________________________11 Africa's Growth Lies on Competition for Sustainable Economies in the 4th What Next For Mozambique after big election wins for Frelimo and Filipe Industrial Revolution. __________________________________42 Nyusi? _____________________________________________12 Africa's development agency rebrands _______________________44 AU, Commonwealth, Francophonie Join Forces to End Cameroon's simmer- ing Crisis ___________________________________________13 Gambia Tourism Industry expects Booming Seasons Ahead; After Record 250,000 Visitors in 2019 ________________________________45 Parliamentary/Municipal Elections: Biya Convenes Electorate amid Armed Conflict ____________________________________________16 The 4th Industrial Revolution and Knowledge Based Economies Take Cen- tre Stage In Africa ARIPO Region. __________________________48 Cameroon: President Paul Biya, Africa's longest serving President Marks 37 Years in Power _______________________________________17 African Xenophobia: A Diagnosis __________________________49 Insight Into Tshisekedi's DR Congo: Is The Presidency Living Up to The A Change of Mindset the Only Way to Root out Xenophobia for Good in Promise? ___________________________________________20 South Africa ________________________________________51 Rwanda -Uganda Feud Stalls Progress In East Africa ____________21 African Countries Begin To Adopt Global Initiatives To Enhance Transpar- ency In The Management Of The Natural Resources Sector _______53 A Recipe For African Success In NJ Ayuk's Billions At Play _________22 A Mother Theresa Emerges For Maternity Health in Zimbabwe ______54 Investigation links Global oil giants, influential Westerners as facilitators and benefactors of South Sudan war ________________________26 World leaders have no choice but to listen to climate change young activists, BirdLife International official says __________________________57 Celebrating Africans Who Made History in 2019 ________________27 Sports: What a 2019 for Eliud Kipchoge! ______________________58 A Robust Response in Gestation from African Mayors to Fight Climate Change ____________________________________________28 Key Political Events to Watch Out in 2020 ____________________59 Q & A with Twiga Foods Co-founder & CEO, Peter Njonjo __________32 Managing Editor Adama Makasuba, Graphic Designer Pan African Visions Ajong Mbapndah L Bah Uzman Unis, Atemnkeng Jerry M, Mohammed M Mupenda, (Young Jerry) 7614 Green Willow Court, Hyattsville, MD Contributors Pierre Afadhali EC designs, Abudhabi - UAE 20785 Wallace Mawire Teslim Olawore +971 52 863 7744 Deng Machol Nevson Mpofu [email protected] Tel: 2404292177, Papisdaff Abdullah Boris Esono Nwenfor email: [email protected], Ajayi Olyinka Amos Fofung Prince Kuripati [email protected] Jean d’Amour Mugabo Hategeka Moses Jessica Ahedor _______ Asong Zelifac Samuel Ouma Advertising Primus Tazanu Email: Alexandre Nhampossa, marketing@ Ishmael Sallieu panafricanvisions.com Koroma, PAV - APR. 2019 - MAG 0419 Vol 3 1 PAN AFRICAN VISIONs Inside Africa A Complicated Year For Africa's Naked Emperors By Ajong Mbapndah L n a visit to Paris enable him to seek a third political leaders have not recently, the world term at the end of his deterred others in diverse Owas treated to constitutional two term fields from moving the the comic, yet agonizing mandates met with stiff continent forward. Taking the spectacle of President Paul oppositions from Guineans list of the 100 most influential Biya of Cameroon, aged 86 home, and abroad. The Africans published recently struggling with his steps massive protests in the by the famed New African to meet the 41 year old streets of Conakry against magazine, only a handful of French President Emmanuel the move were amongst the African Presidents made it. Macron. A few weeks later defining pictures of 2019 in Kagame of Rwanda, Akuffo on yet another trip to France Africa. For someone who Addo of Ghana, Mahamadou for the Paris Peace Forum, went through thick and thin Issoufou, and Prime Minister President Biya was literally to bring about democratic Abiy of Ethiopia are lucky to treated to another dose of reforms in Guinea, many make the cut. public ridicule at a panel found it scary that Conde will On the list are some of the discussion animated by Mo even entertain that kind of most brilliant minds pushing Ibrahim. When you add to thought, talk less of toiling Africa forward, Akinwunmi this the protests that trailed hard to bring it to fruition. Adesina at the African him during the second trip, After serving as President Development Bank, NJ Ayuk the conclusion is that indeed, for 20 years and wheelchair of Centurion Law Firm and Ajong Mbapndah L, Managing Editor the Emperor is naked. bound, 82-year-old the African Energy Chamber, For African leaders, few Abdelaziz Bouteflika had his Paul Biya in Cameroon, if the decades. The crisis is today Prof Benedict Oramah, have had the kind of rough eyes set on a fifth term when man is subject of ridicule and hanging like an albatross on President and Chairman of the year that Mr. Biya had. The weeks of massive protests scorn around the continent Biya’s neck. In one of our Afreximbank, Aliko Dangote, two cubes of sugar that they compelled him to resign in and the world today, he is editorials earlier in the year, Strive Masiyiwa,Karim Awad, expected the two English April. His departure was just earning the wages of we opined that the crisis in and others. The change that speaking provinces to be have overwhelmingly received bad leadership. He inherited the English speaking regions the continent needs will not refused to melt in the big with huge jubilations. one of the most promising will not be wished away. For necessarily be driven by the teacup that French speaking Until April 2019 for the countries in Africa in 1982. a leader who has been in political leader,. but also, Cameroon is expected to last thirty years, Sudan was Cameroonians offered him power for 37 years, Mr. Biya by these dynamic Africans. be. The safe haven that literally under the spell all the tranquility needed to has been scored very low on Add in the mix the talent Switzerland has been for him of Omar al-Bashir. He move the country forward. his handling of the crisis. that is taking African music for decades has become a had absolute power in the Even when salaries were The more he toys with it, the global, the fashion gurus, the living hell. Demonstrations by country, and Sudan’s track brutally slashed amid a more it grows serious and out sports men and women and irate Cameroonians against record on issues of human crippling devaluation of the of control. For a man who upcoming entrepreneurs. the presence of President rights and democracy was local currency, Cameroonians shuns the spotlight, the world Moving the continent Biya at the InterContinental far from flattery. Few are soldiered on with stoicism. has its eyes firmly focused on forward requires big dreams, Geneva hotel resulted in those who shed tears when Asked about the crisis him and developments in the it requires people who are serious clashes with the Swiss he left. Curiously, prior to his in the English speaking country. Talk of the wages of bold, innovative, and daring. police, and the arrests of fall, he was a key figure talks regions, while he spent time a life presidency and that is One of those who fits well some members of his security between President Salva Kiir dwelling on the colonial what is Mr. Biya is enjoying in this category is Robert detail in June. and his estranged VP Riek legacy as the genesis of the now. Those who refuse to Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, In Guinea, Alpha Conde, Machar to bring peace to crisis , in moment of rare learn, the examples Bokassa, aka Bobi Wine. The MP a cult figure in African South Sudan. The jubilations candidness, he indicated to Idi Amin, to Samuel Doe, representing Kyaddondo East opposition politics prior to that reverberate across the