PAN AFRICAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP FORUM (PAYLF)

DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA: RENEWING THE VISION

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UNE 18 – 25, 2007

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CCRA, GHANA

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RIENDS OF AFRICA INTERNATIONAL (FAI)

 

  

The Progressive Youth Movements Zimbabwe Youth Movement and Free-Zim Youth are to attend Youth Leadership Forum in Accra,Ghana.This follows an invitation by the organisers; Friends of Africa for the young Africans in Zimbabwe to be involved and submit their own analysis of the struggle in Zimbabwe.
 
Collen Chibango President of ZYM will represent the youth in Ghana from the 18-25 June ahead of the  African Union Summit, where he is expected to meet AU chair President John Kofour and other high level Union representatives to discuss the Zimbabwean crisis.
 
This follows cries by young Zimbabweans that the bloc has been ignoring the situation in their motherland.
 
Chibango will also attend pre-Summit civil society meetings aimed at pushing the Zimbabwean the agenda.
 
This visit comes as a boost to the youths who are seeking to promote the Zimbabwe Youth Charter which was recently (16 June )launched in  Zimbabwe(Bulawayo) ,Botswana, South Africa and London.
 
 
More info: Freeman Chari   0026772666980    Zimbabwe Youth Movement
 
  Alois Mbawara    00447960333568   Free-Zim Youth Movement
 

 

 

Democracy in Africa: Renewing the Vision - Accra, Ghana. June 18 – 25, 2005

African countries are confronted by countless obstacles to development. Governments and civil society organizations toil to combat poverty, illiteracy, unemployment and underemployment, conflicts and displacement, and the HIV/AIDS crisis. The socio-economic problems faced by African nations have deeply rooted historical antecedents.

 

http://www.pambazuka.org/aumonitor/index.php/AUMONITOR/comments/pan_african_youth_leadership_forum/

 

Some of the issues to be discussed include but not limited to the following:

  1. Democracy in Africa: Past, Present and Future Perspective – by Prof. Ali A. Mazrui, Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities; Director, Institute of Global Cultural Studies; Professor of Political Science, African Studies and Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture, Binghamton University, State University of New York. Binghamton.
  2. Democracy and Leadership: Success Stories – by Mary Robinson, President, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative; former President of Ireland (1990 - 1997) and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997 – 2002)
  3. The State of Human Rights in Contemporary Africa – By H. E. Ambassador Kamel Razag-Bara, African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
  4. Armed Conflicts in Africa: The Role of Youth as Change Agents – By Olara A. Otunnu and/or Francis M. Deng
  5. Free and Fair Elections in Africa: A Possibility? – by Pansy Tlakula, Chief Electoral Officer, Electoral Commission of South Africa
  6. Other resource persons include: Prof. Adebayo O. Olukoshi, Executive Secretary, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Dakar, Senegal.
  7. Firoze Manji – Editor, Pambazuka.
  8. Prof. Kwame Karikari – Media Foundation, Accra Ghana.

Some of the proposed conference speakers include:

  1. Prof. Ibrahim Agboola Gambari – Under Secretary General and Special Advisor to the United Nations Secretary General on International Compact on Iraq and other related matters.
  2. African Union (AU) Chairperson, H.E. President John Kufor of Ghana
  3. The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Mr. Alpha Oumar Konaré
  4. Kofi A. Annan of Ghana, the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations
  5. Her Excellency President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia.
  6. Prof. Firmino Mucavele – Executive Head, NEPAD secretariat, South Africa