INITIATIVE N° 180

Pasteur NTUMI
Delegate General for the promotion of peace and post-war reconstruction.




INITIATIVE N° 179

Lubna AHMAD Al-HUSSEIN
Journalist




INITIATIVE N° 178

Fally IPUPA
Singer




INITIATIVE N° 177

Fodé BARO
Singer




INITIATIVE N° 176

Jean PING
Chairperson of the African Union Commision




INITIATIVE N° 175

Panduleni-Kaino SHINGENGE
Namibian ambassador toFrance




INITIATIVE N° 174

Rost
Rapper




INITIATIVE N° 173

Tidiane DIOH
Head of the media programme at the International Organisation for Francophony



INITIATIVE N° 172

Pasteur NTUMI
Delegate General for the promotion of peace and post-war reconstruction


INITIATIVE N° 171

Lubna Ahmad Al-Hussein
Sudanese Journalist


INITIATIVE N° 170

Fally IPUPA
Congolese singer


INITIATIVE N° 169

Mounkaïla GOUMANDAKOYE
Africa Regional Director - UNEP


INITIATIVE N° 168

Jean-Claude MBVOUMIN
President of Foot Solidaire


INITIATIVE N° 167

Abdoulaye FADIGA
World Champion in Thai boxing


INITIATIVE N° 165 - 166

Ilham MEKRAMI
Marketing Manager – Europe Outbound to Africa – Western Union

Folly BAH-THIBAUL
Journalist – France 24

Dominique SAATENANG
kung fu Master

Cheick Sidi DIARRA
Under-Secretary-General
- United Nations


INITIATIVE N° 164

Oxmo Puccino
Rapper


INITIATIVE N° 163

Doctor Hansjörg NEUN
Director of CTA
Cece FADOPE
International Women's Media Foundation
Larry THOMAS
Secretariat of the South Pacific Community


INITIATIVE N° 162

Abdoulaye  BARRY
Journalist at the RTS – Senegal
James ONYANGO
KAIPPG executive director – Kenya
Diana FRANCIS
IICA specialist policy and trade negotiations



INITIATIVE N° 159

Rama Yade
originally from Senegal, is the Secretary of State for Human Rights in France.
Aïssatou Seck
trained as an economist and published her first novel while working on development in the Ivory Coast
Elé Asu from Nigeria and Michèle Rakotoson from Madagascar
are both journalists


INITIATIVE N° 154

Dr Matshidiso MOETI

Director of the Division for the Prevention of, and Campaign against, non-transmissible diseases for the WHO in Africa.

Dr Jean Pierre BATISTE

Regional advisor for the division’s anti-smoking campaign.

Rosalie LIKIBI

«focal point Congo tobacco ».


INITIATIVE N° 153

Dr Matshidiso MOETI

Director of the Division for the Prevention of, and Campaign against, non-transmissible diseases for the WHO in Africa.


Dr Jean Pierre BATISTE

Regional advisor for the division’s anti-smoking campaign.


INITIATIVE N° 152

Doctor Hansjörg NEUN

Director of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation for the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific region

and
leading specialists, observers of climate and actors in agricultural sectors


INITIATIVE N° 151

Doctor Hansjörg NEUN

Director of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation for the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific region – an organisation funded by the European Union. Its principal mission is to provide the ACP nations with the information they need to promote agricultural and rural development.


INITIATIVE N° 150

Benjamin BOUKPETI

Togo’s first ever Olympic medallist. In the Beijing Olympics, he won bronze in the Kayak K1 slalom.


INITIATIVE N° 149

Mamane


Living in France for over ten years he chose humour to express himself. A comic with a cause, he is back with a new show ‘Mamane malmène les mots.’ - Mamane mistreats words.


INITIATIVE N° 148

John DOSSAVI

Founder and president of RAPEC, the African Network for Promoters of Cultural Events such as the Afrikakeur in Senegal, FESPACO and SIAO in Burkina Faso or the well-known Koras festival in South Africa.


INITIATIVE N° 147

Bibi TANGA

He was born in Central Africa, a country that has little media coverage. He has just released « Yellow Gauze ». His music is a mix of styles: jazz, funk, hip-hop and even gospel.


INITIATIVE N° 146

Elé ASU

She was born in Calabar, Nigeria, to a Nigerian mother and a French diplomat father. After studying political science, she worked for a short period at the Ministry of Culture here in France. Then she headed for television working on cable channel, Direct 8, before joining Canal + in 2006



INITIATIVE N° 144

Dominique SAATENANG

World vice-champion in wushu kung-fu, he is an ambassador for this traditional Chinese martial art. He has been studying kung-fu for 20 or more years. The traditional martial art that many people discovered through the films Bruce Lee



INITIATIVE N° 143

Anicet MOBÉ

A social science researcher from the Democratic Republic of Congo



INITIATIVE N° 142

The OUATTARA brothers

Masters of masks and polychromes



INITIATIVE N° 141

Ousmane SOW

He is considered one of the best African sculptors



INITIATIVE N° 140

JURY AWARDS

Nathalie Ferrant, you are Africa Director of Development for Western Union;
Mariana RAMOS, one of Cape Verde’s new wave of singers. Her new album Mornador is a runaway success
;
Bertin Mampaka. originally from DR Congo he is now an MP and Deputy Mayor in Brussels, Belgium;
Bakary Sanogo, communication officer at the World Bank;
Zéphirin Diabré, the jury president, after being Deputy Director General of the United Nations Development Programme he is now President of the African and Middle Eastern region – for French nuclear energy multinational, Areva



INITIATIVE N° 139

JURY AWARDS

Nathalie Ferrant, you are Africa Director of Development for Western Union;
Mariana RAMOS, one of Cape Verde’s new wave of singers. Her new album Mornador is a runaway success
;
Bertin Mampaka. originally from DR Congo he is now an MP and Deputy Mayor in Brussels, Belgium;
Bakary Sanogo, communication officer at the World Bank;
Zéphirin Diabré, the jury president, after being Deputy Director General of the United Nations Development Programme he is now President of the African and Middle Eastern region – for French nuclear energy multinational, Areva



INITIATIVE N° 138

Doctor Hansjörg NEUN

Director of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation for the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific region – an organisation funded by the European Union. Its principal mission is to provide the ACP nations with the information they need to promote agricultural and rural development.



INITIATIVE N° 137

Doctor Hansjörg NEUN

Director of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation for the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific region – an organisation funded by the European Union. Its principal mission is to provide the ACP nations with the information they need to promote agricultural and rural development.


INITIATIVE N° 136

Benjamin BOUKPETI

Togo’s first ever Olympic medallist. In the Beijing Olympics, Benjamin Boukpeti won bronze in the Kayak K1 slalom.


INITIATIVE N° 135

Mamane

Arrived in France a decade ago to study a for a masters degree in plant physiology. Living in France he chose humour to express himself. A comic with a cause, he is back with a new show ‘Mamane malmène les mots.’ - Mamane mistreats words.


INITIATIVE N° 134

Crystal FLEMING

Phd candidate at Harvard University, and members of the US Democrats abroad.


INITIATIVE N° 133

Serge COMPAORE

President of the Junior Chamber International-Africa in Paris. An association providing young Africans from the diaspora with leadership and entrepreneurial skills. A competition, the « Creative Young Entrepreneur Award», has even been launched to help the cream of the crop concretise their business projects.


INITIATIVE N° 132

Dr Alimata DIARRA-NAMA and Dr Ossy KASILO

Respectvily, t he Director of the Africa Division of Health Systems and Services Development and the Division’s Regional Advisor, lynchpin of a vast programme launched by his division.


INITIATIVE N° 131

Dr Alimata DIARRA-NAMA and Dr Ossy KASILO

Respectvily, t he Director of the Africa Division of Health Systems and Services Development and the Division’s Regional Advisor.


INITIATIVE N° 117 (Rerun)

Bibi TANGA

He was born in a country that has little media coverage: Central Africas. He sings in 4 languages: French, English, Spanish and Sango. He has just released « Yellow Gauze » which is a mix of styles: jazz, funk, hip-hop and even gospel.


INITIATIVE N° 115 (Rerun)

Kristo NUMPUBY


He has just released his latest album « Brassens en Afrique ». Africanised versions of songs by a legendary French songwriter and singer. born in Paris you raised in a village in Cameroon’s tropical rainforest where he learned to play ‘assiko’ music – among other styles.


INITIATIVE N° 130

Modeste SALLAH


Togolese singer and co-author of the documentary 10th of May – Africaphonie, you also co-organised the 1st edition of the Africaphonie Festival. The 2nd edition, which you participated in, ended a few days ago in Paris.


INITIATIVE N° 129

Eva ROGO-LEVENEZ


After studying art at Nairobi University she started her professional career as a painter and designer.  She is now a translator with 40 books under her belt.


INITIATIVE N° 128

Dr Matshidiso MOETI,
and Dr Jean-Pierre BAPTISTE


Respectively, Director of the Division for the Prevention of, and Campaign against, non-transmissible diseases for the WHO in Africa,
and regional advisor for the division’s anti-smoking campaign


INITIATIVE N° 118

David Monsoh


INITIATIVE N° 117

Bibi Tanga

A Centre African singer


INITIATIVE N° 114

Elizabeth Kontomanou,


INITIATIVE N° 109

Yaya Loketo

Master in congolese dance


INITIATIVE N° 108

Doctor Tiguest Ketsela

 

Doctor Luis Gomes Sambo

 

 


INITIATIVE N° 107

Rama YADE


INITIATIVE N° 106

Daby Touré


INITIATIVE N° 105

Dee Dee BRIDGEWATER, Jazz singer

Dee Dee BRIDGEWATER, the world famous American jazz singer, has just released her latest and extremely moving album, recorded in Mali.


INITIATIVE N° 104

Alice DEKESSA, Ivory Coast singer

The Ivory Coast singer, Alice DEKESSA, is taking a break from her mission to bring Soukouss and 'coupé-décalé' to the four corners of the Earth.


INITIATIVE N° 103

Bachir HADJAJ, Algerian writer and development specialist

He will tell us more about his just released book "Les voleurs de rêves" (i.e "the dreams stealers"), dealing with his intricate relationship towards his country and its history.


INITIATIVE N° 102

Queen Etémé, Cameroonian gospel singer

With her unique voice and a range of styles - from Gospel to Blues to African music - she sings of peace, love and hope.


INITIATIVE N° 101

Polycarpe ABAH ABAH

Javier PUYOL

European Union Ambassador in Cameroon


INITIATIVE N° 100

Liz McComb, American gospel singer

Gospel is her life. She will be telling us how she turns these gospel chants into a universal style.


INITIATIVE N° 99

Sophia Nelson, Ghanaian singer

This Ghanaian " Latin Funk " singer has performed with the likes of Céline Dion, Lionel Ritchie and Johnny Hallyday. But that's not all! She is also engaged in the campaign against sexual tourism in Africa and around the world.


INITIATIVE N° 98

Dr Hansjörg NEUN, CTA Director

Doctor Hansjörg NEUN is the director of the CTA since May 2005. The CTA is the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation for the 79 countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific zone - an organisation financed entirely by the European Commission.


INITIATIVE N° 97

Thierno MONONEMBO, Guinean writer

With 8 published novels including 'Les écailles du ciel', 'Un attiéké pour Elgasss', and 'Peuls', many see him as the greatest living Guinean writer


INITIATIVE N° 96

Jean-Claude BVOUMIN, President of Culture Foot Solidaire

Former Cameroon international footballer, Jean-Claude MBVOUMIN has created, 7 years ago,'Culture Foot Solidaire', an association that supervises young African footballers newly arrived in Europe.

 


INITIATIVE N° 95

Kaysha, DR Congo singer

Kaysha, the DR Congo-born musician and producer who has played to packed houses in Europe, the Americas and Africa of course.