At the 9th International Forum on African-Caribbean Leadership (IFAL), Mr. Daniel Edah, the former presidential candidate of the Benin Republic, was honourably awarded the Distinguished African Inspirational Leadership.
Mr. Edah was honoured by African Leadership Magazine at the 9th IFAL event “Theme: Caribbean Cooperation and Today’s Global Geo-Politics” in the New York Hilton Midtown, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, USA, in recognition of his leadership and innovative policies in partnership facilitation and youth participation in the Benin Republic.
At the International Forum on African-Caribbean Leadership (IFAL) in New York, Mr. Edah was honoured, alongside the President of Guyana, H.E. Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali; the Vice President of The Gambia, H.E. Muhammad B. S. Jallow; and the Minister for Sea, Culture, and Tourism, Cabo Verde, Hon. Jose Gonçalves.
Other high-level policymakers and business and diplomatic leaders at the event in New York include H.E. Dr. Mamadou Tangara, Minister of Foreign Affairs of The Gambia; Hon. Serign Modou Njie, Minister of Defence, The Gambia; Amb. Dr. Lamin B. Dibba, The Gambian Ambassador to the United Nations; Amb. Momodou Lamine Bah, The Gambian Ambassador to the United States; Dr. Anselmo Monteiro, President, National Institute of Social Security, Angola; Prof. Yakubu Ochefu, Secretary-General, Committee of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities; Hon. Rosalyn Myers, Member, South Carolina House of Representatives, USA; Mrs. Kanayo Awani, Executive Vice President, Intra-African Trade, Afrexim Bank; among others.
The International Forum on African-Caribbean Leadership (IFAL) is a global platform for leaders to network, share literature, and engage with other world leaders and policymakers, international investor groupings, African business leaders, policy titans, and opinion leaders during the event in New York.
IFAL is an exclusive flagship event of the African Leadership Magazine, held annually on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to bring leaders together in setting policy direction and as a peer-review mechanism.
About African Leadership Magazine:
The African Leadership magazine is published by African Leadership (U.K.) Limited, a company registered in the United Kingdom. The magazine focuses on bringing Africa’s best to a global audience, telling the African story from an African perspective, and evolving solutions to the peculiar challenges the continent faces today.
Since its maiden edition, African Leadership Magazine has become a leading pan-African flagship leadership-focused publication read by over 1 200 000 targeted international investors, business executives, government policymakers, and multilateral agencies in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and the U.S. It is distributed at major international and African leadership events around the world. The magazine has over 1,000,000 subscribers and followers on Facebook and other social media platforms. It is a niche and unbiased African voice born out of a desire to tell the African story from an African perspective by focusing on individuals and corporations known for their legacy-based approach to leadership.
