Mahama joins world leaders to discuss unlocking Africa's economic potential

More than 300 global and African thought leaders, eminent and emerging leaders from Africa and other parts of the Commonwealth, and friends of Africa will converge at the 5th Annual Commonwealth Africa Summit on March 12–15 2018 in London, United Kingdom.

The event will spark new thinking on how to achieve Shared Prosperity and Common Good in Commonwealth Africa and how Africa’s growing youth population can transform the continent leveraging on their relationship with the commonwealth family of nations.

Organised by the Commonwealth Africa Initiative (CAFI) and supported by The Ghana Society, the three-day event kicks off on Commonwealth Day (12th March) - under the theme 'Common Good'.

The Summit aims to spark new thinking on how to promote collective action, achieve shared prosperity and common good for Africans.

Through a series of discussions the event will encourage dialogue on how to strategies and mobilise valuable African resources that are critical to shaping the continent’s emerging economies. The 5th in its annual series, the 2018 Commonwealth Africa Summit themed Common Good will have as Keynote Speaker former President John Dramani Mahama, Amina J Mohammed (UN Deputy Secretary General rep), Ashish Thakkar (founder of Mara Group and Mara Foundation, and co-founder of Atlas Mara).

The event, usually hosted in the past as part of activities to celebrate the Commonwealth Week in London, is organised by the Commonwealth Africa Initiative to provide a veritable platform for the generation of new ideas, trade agreements, business relationships and investments.

Under the theme: Common Good, the summit conversations seeks to promote the benefits and interests of all through improved collective action for the common good of humanity within and outside the commonwealth.

The Commonwealth Africa Summit provides an opportunity not just to contribute to re-imagining what the continent might be, but an opportunity to network, strategies and mobilise valuable resources so as to bring the Africa Dream to fruition.

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