Graca Machel to deliver lecture at African Development Institute

 

Former Mozambique minister and eminent women’s rights advocate Graca Machel will be the Special Guest Speaker at the African Development Institute’s Eminent Speakers’ Lecture Series on 16 November 2018. The lecture will start at 2.15 pm in the Babacar N’diaye Auditorium of the African Development Bank headquarters in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire.

The topic of the lecture is “Educating the Girl Child, Empowering Women, and Enhancing Female Entrepreneurship in Africa.”

Machel is presently the Chair of the Graca Machel Trust, which was established in 2010, for promoting women’s economic and financial empowerment, food security and nutrition, education for all, and good governance.

Honoured with an honorary British Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 1997 for her humanitarian work, she is the widow of the former South African President Nelson Mandela and former Mozambican President Samora Machel.

The African Development Institute has always backed African leaders’ needs for evidence-based policy guidance, training, capacity building, and policy dialogue to achieve inclusive development in Africa.

Over the years, more than 20 eminent persons have delivered lectures during the previous editions of the Seminar. The list includes former Heads of States, Nobel Laureates, distinguished academics and professionals.

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