Amara Kanu, of course, is the stunning wife of legendary Nigerian
footballer, Kanu Nwankwo. She's been working on this project for a
while. It's called Global African Students Education Summit (GASES).
Amara is coming to the end of her Masters degree
in Entrepreneurial Management in the European Business School London and
noticed that all the Africans she's come in contact with are spread
out in different directions and no common platform to build upon
knowledge and share experience to make things better. Hence the idea of
GASES
Read what Amara said about GASES below...
It's
a pioneer summit I'm involved in- bringing all African students
together to share best practices, network and gain opportunity for
scholarships and mentoring.
I put together a small team is and we managed to pull about 80 people to attend the first summit which took place on Saturday at the University College London (UCL)
This year, the theme was celebrating the Rich African Education Narratives, telling our stories....
We
also awarded 35 presidents and Vice Presidents of Student Unions in
British universities who are African. Majority which are Nigerian
students (see program brochure attached). I think this is amazing
considering the fact that we are in the U.K. And this year alone, 44
Africans are holding excellent leadership positions in U.K.
Universities. I think this needs to be encouraged thus the reason for
GASES and my concern for more collaboration between Africans to sustain
the leadership of our African future....
Mrs Chika Balogun
director general of the Institute of Hospitality and Tourism Nigeria
also came from Nigeria to deliver a Keynote Speech. Another remarkable
speech was given by the SUP of Cambridge University, Amatey who is a
Ghanaian. How amazing!
DAAD-
the largest scholarship body in the world based in Germany sent in
their rep Dr Birk from Germany to deliver a presentation on how they
would like to work with more African scholars exchanges and
universities.I've also been working with Dr Ayobami who is a product of
university PhD scholarship from Nigeria to Germany and now a lecturer at
Hatfield University has also been helpful in coordinating with me.
Next
year we hope to have GASES Africa to celebrate once again excellence in
education and encourage knowledge interaction and inspire the young
ones to keep going.
More photos below...
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