In line with the mission of Empower Africa Initiative, EAI founded by Nigeria-born International TV host, Prof Princess Halliday, personalities from all over the world will be converging on Washington, United States of America in August 2017 for a summit on women and leadership in Africa. Halliday, in a press statement to commemorate the 2017 International Day of Women, disclosed that the event, World African Women Leaders Forum and Honours (WAWLF&H) will avail a platform for distinguished personalities of both genders to converge and have a developmental discourse on issues surrounding leadership in Africa and the role of women.
According to the statement, “The forum envisions a world where amazing things can happen when empowered men and women broaden perspectives and harness values positively while giving a platform where EVERY girl receives quality education, her inherent potential is fully realised and she is able to influence her world. WAWLF& H- a global platform, will discover, honour and celebrate women who demonstrate authentic leadership that will empower others to follow. Each year we will celebrate fifteen amazing women on national stage. Through our digital community, we will be amplified by fifteen million, sharing these experiences with the world. Over the next thirteen years (In line with UN Women Vision 2030),we expect a change in the Narrative of Leadership, a positive shift in paradigm and a change in the conversation where the world will fully embrace female leadership.”
Some of the distinguished personalities expected at the event include: Wife of the President of Nigeria, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, President of Liberia, Mrs. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Mrs. Hillary Clinton, the immediate past Democratic candidate at the 2016 US election.
Halliday, who was honoured by the Canadian government recently for championing the cause of African women, is also a young guest lecturer at the California State University, and achieved international consciousness for championing mindset empowerment, gender equality and giving equal access to quality education for all children, especially the African girl child through Empower Africa Initiative, EAI, a non-profit project she founded.
-Rahman Is’mail
