ROLE MODEL AFRICAReport on the first edition

• The Role Model Africa Project seeks to engage Africans whose influence span beyond the continent.

• The platform will host African Presidents, Business Magnates, Investors, Religious Leaders, and all who have a made a mark in society and have a story to tell. The concept of this project seeks to be a personality interview that engages the corporate contribution of the person and a wider perspective on Africa.

• The concept is rooted in the idea that Africans can serve as their own Role models by telling their stories and mentoring younger ones.

• The idea is to bring together several key stakeholders to serve as mentors to persons who are in their field or rather interested in taking the similar paths they have engaged in.

About Role Model Africa

Development of the concept

There shall be a mobile application launched, Role Model App. The mobile application

shall be an online interface will bring together Role Models to mentor individuals and

organizations in the quest of sustaining their brands and take the products and services

to several parts of Africa and the Globe at large. There is a platform in place on

www.inventsfoundation.org where, the youth can come into contact with mentors

The Platform is expected to be a television program which will take off as an interview

with a live audience and several episodes will be recorded and later shot on

television. The episodes will be aired on various television channels across the

country, continent and the globe

Objectives

1. Hold a globally recognized platform via our online model, televised show and

our monthly platform attracting audience from various parts of Africa and the

world at large.

2. Provide a mentoring platform to coach and train start-up organizations

3. Provide our audience with direct contact to Role models and mentors

4. Spread the impact African’s are making

Mode

The event shall be held on a quarterly basis. Thus, four times in a year It shall be held such that, there shall be a live audience The venues may vary

ROLE MODEL AFRICATheme: Doing Business with

Integrity

• The first edition of Role Model Africa was held on Sunday, 27th September, 2015 at the African Regent Hotel in Accra. It was massively attended by youth, comprising tertiary students, young professionals, and entrepreneurs. The first edition hosted an audience of about 250 people in the auditorium.

• The Role model for the first edition was Dr. Samuel Ofori Onwona, an Ex-World Bank Official. The master of ceremony for the day was Mr. Samuel Fiifi Bartels and the interview carried out Dr. William Okyere-Frempong, Country CEO(HuD Group)

• The occasion was graced by personalities such as Chief Kuffour , Mr. Mensah Seneadza (Marketing Manager, Coca Cola West Africa), Michael Ohene- Effah (Co-founder, LeadAfrique and Former Governance Advisor to the UK Government in Ghana) and International Journalist Mr. Martin Luther C. King (Journalist for Regional Integration) from Nigeria.

Role Model Africa 2015

Role Model Africa 2015

• Dr. Onwona shared in perspective the invaluable nature of integrity and the price we pay for not upholding such a value. In what can be described as call to action, he urged individuals and organizations not to interchange integrity with smartness. He encouraged the youth to identify period of youthfulness as a strategic stage for preparation instead of just waiting.

• In an attempt to bring into perspective the subject, he mentioned that, ‘Integrity is not a function of poverty. It is what you do when no one is watching’.

• ‘’We have overemphasized smartness at the expense of integrity, and that is killing our society”, Dr. Onwona iterated. He further urged young Africans to consciously and intentionally re-write and re-tell the African story. He described Africa as a continent with a stronger vision and a resolve to transform itself and the world.

Samuel Agyeman-Prempeh, C.E.O of INVENTS in an acknowledgment speech to the audience showed excitement at the many young people who have gathered for the dialogue, underscoring the value that young people place on mentorship.

He also, assured the audience of the existence of the event, and that it was scheduled to be held quarterly.

He iterates that the platform was been birthed with the idea of enabling the individual have direct access to mentors who can help them scale their businesses and careers.

Samuel believes that mentorship is an invaluable ingredient in training and sharpening an individual and organization.

Message from the C.E.O.

Coverage

• The event was widely advertised on various media platforms; notable among them is Citi FM, a radio station based in Accra

• It was also reported across the globe on a number of media houses such as Africa Rizing, an off-shoot of Voice of America (VOA), The Daily Sun Newspaper (Nigeria’s largest newspaper) and a number of blogs within Ghana.

A featured article on the Africa Rizing website A portion of the Daily Sun Newspaper dedicated to Role Model Africa

Dr. Samuel Ofori Onwona

Dr. Samuel Onwona is a Ghanaian national and Agricultural Economist by profession. He joined the World Bank Young Professional’s Program in October 1986 and worked mainly in the African Region of the Bank. He has worked with the African Development Bank, as the Resident Representative of AfDB in Sierra Leone with oversight responsibilities for the Bank’s portfolio in Liberia. His key tasks at the AfDB included the formulation of the Bank Group’s Agricultural and Rural Development Policy, the Rural Finance Policy and the Bank Group’s Vision Paper.

Dr. Samuel Onwona was Advisor to two Operations Vice Presidents prior to his appointment as Resident Representative of the AfDB in Sierra Leone with oversight responsibilities for the Bank’s portfolio in Liberia. Following the three-year field assignment in Sierra Leone, he took an early retirement from the ADB in December 2011 and returned home to Ghana from where he works as an independent consultant.

He currently serves as a member of the Advisory Board of the College of Basic and Applied Sciences of the University of Ghana, Legon.

Role Model Africa is an initiative by INVENTS, under the leadership of Mr. Samuel Agyema-Prempeh (CEO, INVENTS). INVENTS is a mentoring organization that focuses on raising young people as Leaders and Entrepreneurs before they turn 25.INVENTS operates Leadership/Mentoring hubs on a number of university and Senior High School Campuses

Since 2007, INVENTS has been consistent in using personal Leadership models and projects to reach out to millions of young people. Our flagship programs include: Purple Experience, She Magnate Project and Ideas Pulpit.

Our events have attracted remarkable personalities such as Bishop N.A. Tackie-Yarboi ; Founder and Presiding Bishop of VBCI, Dr. Yaw Perbi ; Global C.E.O. of the HuD Group , Dr. Mrs. Ellen Hagan; Founder and C.E.O. of L’aine Services, and Mrs. Comfort Ocran; Co-Founder of Legacy & Legacy

About INVENTS

Gallery

A cross-section of participants Dr. Onwona, Dr. Okyere-Frempong, Mr. Michael Ohene-Effah and Eunice Onwona

Dr. Okyere-Frempong, moderating the session with Dr. OnwonaMr. Samuel Fiifi Bartels, MC of the event

Gallery

Mr. Michael Ohene-Effah (Co-founder, LeadAfrique)

Mr. Samuel Agyeman – Prempeh (CEO, INVENTS)

Some invited guests at the event with INVENTS CEO

Dr. Onwona and Dr. Okyere-Frempong

Sponsors and Partners

The event was made successful by the help of some sponsors and partners

Contact INVENTS

+233 203433177/ +233 271812380

@InventsGhana

INVENTS

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