Popular Africa youth-oriented awards ceremony, The Future Awards Africa (TFAA) has been scheduled to hold on December 7, 2014 in Lagos, Nigeria. According to the Central Working Committee (CWC) of the awards ceremony, ‘We are excited to announce that The Future Awards Africa 2014 will be hosted in Lagos, Nigeria on Sunday, December 7.’ ‘We are thrilled to have the awards return to Lagos where it all started. TFAA has always been excited to fuse inspiration with the best of pop culture, and this year’s event will underline that tradition – an evening of inspiration, of hope, and of a continent renewed,’ said Ohimai Atafo, Chairman of the CWC and one of Africa’s leading fashion entrepreneurs. Dedicating this year’s edition on the war against Ebola in West Africa, the TFAA will launch a global campaign to get 1 million young Africans involved in the fight against Ebola via stopebola.com on November 11, 2014. ‘We are answering to a call made by CNN’s Isha Sesay on UN’s effort towards ending Ebola. If Africa will be saved by Africans, then young people need to take the lead on the problems we face and take ownership in the solutions we need,’ said Mfon Ekpo, Vice-Chair of the CWC and West Africa Representative on the Mandela Washington Fellowship Advisory Board TFAA will be deploying its network of winners, nominees, alumni, celebrity, brain trust and continental media partners for this #StopEbola campaign – to get 1 million young Africans to donate social media updates and then for young people to donate a minimum of $25 (4,250naira) each directly to the World Health Organisation through the United Nations Ebola Response Fund. In its 9th edition, the awards ceremony, became an African prize last year, with a commemorative ceremony hosted by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa in Abuja....
“We are thrilled to have the awards return to Lagos where it all started,” said Ohimai Atafo, Chair of the CWC and one of Africa’s leading fashion entrepreneurs. “TFAA has always been excited to fuse inspiration with the best of pop culture, and this year’s event will underline that tradition – an evening of inspiration, of hope, and of a continent renewed.”
This year’s event is also dedicated to the cause of fighting Ebola in West Africa. On 11.11.2014, TFAA will launch a global campaign to get 1 million young Africans involved in the fight against Ebola via stopebola.com.
In an interview with Yahoo! News last week, CNN’s Isha Sesay made clear: “We have to realize that the clock is ticking. We have an Ebola UN emergency fund and there’s very little money in it. We have pledges being made, but the pledges aren’t being translated into action,” Sesay said.
Source: thenet.ng
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