The 1st ALL AFRIKANA YOUTH CONGRESS 2017 (1stAAFYC2017) AT HILLTOPHOTEL & COUNTRY CLUB ,KIGALI- RWANDA 15th - 18th OCTOBER, 2017;DECLARATION BRIEF STATEMENT

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The 1^st ALL AFRIKANA FIRST YOUTH CONGRESS 2017 (AAFYC 2017)

HILLTOP KIGALI, RWANDA

15^th - 18^th OCTOBER, 2017

A brief declaration statement on the outcome of the 1^st AAFYC

            1^st ALL AFRIKANA YOUTH CONGRESS was successfully held in Kigali, Rwanda at Hilltop Hotel between 15^th - 18^th, October 2017. October 15^th was the time when the historic 5^th pan African congress was held. We chose this moment to recall the decisive actions that Africans took to fully decolonize Africa. The time has come for the entire African youths (between the ages of 5-35 years) to shape Africa’s future by employing creativity, inventions, innovations, startups; incubations, entrepreneurship, job creators and building sustainable new networks and trustful relationships. Delegates came from all regions of Africa and some of the creative demonstrations or exhibitions were made. We will share the full declarations in the next few weeks, but in the meantime, we are very delighted to share some of the innovative demonstrations that were presented in the First All Afrikana Youth Congress as follows:

1.      African youths should join hands to save Africa and the time to unite Africa is long overdue: The youth must take the responsibility to build the integrated Africa with sustainable development by promoting without fail African unity for renaissance

2.      It has been highly inspiring to learn from, the youth coming from different parts of Africa presenting innovative creations that made us all believe the African youth is true change, makers and game changers.

One of the presentations I has been on Youth role in the Afrikana Creative industry, art and music: The inventor presented on Boneza Ball as a game where two teams of six players, compete on any flat surface, be it synthetic grass, concrete or tarmac court (28m x 14m) which is divided into two sides with a straight line. On this line, there are two vertical posts standing at the edge of Urutavogerwa, connected by two parallel, horizontal ropes. Imbonezo is mounted in the center of the ropes, into which a ball is targeted to score goals. Boneza Ball also came to contribute in prevention and reduction of non-communicable diseases such as depression, diabetes, heart attack, etc. through its sport and entertainment services.

The other was on GOORA as a new android application that has been innovated for advertisement and marketing of local products in Rwanda but currently it is used in other neighboring countries. The application is used in understanding market needs with its an application for the local producers to know to sell their producer and buy. The advantage of this technology is that the products are sold from homes and no need to access market

3.      Environment and sustainable development by using new technologies and innovation for water management;

There is also innovation for developing small and micro enterprises for youth to develop green Business:

4.      RICAD Rwanda is an initiative for Culture and Arts Development. It includes environmental sustainability like justice, health and climate change, peace education programs, food for people and so on.

5.      Benefit of Blockchain technology to benefit Africa by creating innovation that creates a system that can be used to fight against poverty by using technology like android

6.      The importance   of using indigenous knowledge by relying more to use traditional medicine in order to treat different diseases as our people know a lot of traditional medicine.

The youth should be learning and appreciating Ubuntu philosophy.  All the youth from, kindergarten to tertiary level must learn the African Knowledge; spiritual and struggle contributions: Everything original from, humanity to the sciences came out of Africa but our youth do not know this because the education system has not been fully decolonized: There is an urgent need to decolonize the whole education system, across the Africana world to wean generations of African youth to grow with confidence, independence, freedom; dignity and self-worth. The general purpose of this discussion was what Africans youth should do to so that the future generation should be better;

The 1^st AAFYC congratulated H E President Paul Kagame for leading the African union reform and getting African state to start funding the African Union. This is a great inspiration for the youth to see Africans taking their ownership to fund the Africa Union and stopping to rely on donners.

Finally, there will be a full declaration of 1^st AAFYC 2017 in next few weeks. This is the pre-declaration, brief statement to highlight some of the activities that were presented by delegates from different parts from Africa. We expect all the youth to share the outcome that we briefly outlined here with all the youth in Africa. We ask you to prepare to join us in the 2^nd AAFYC.

Africa has to move from resource curse to innovation blessing by removing the current unfortunate challenges of leadership, governance, institution and system curses. The youth of Africa will suffer if the prevailing curse continues. There is thus an urgent need for the entire youth of Africa to unite and make a big difference to Africa. If Africans learn how to own Africa; there is no doubt all will have their wellbeing fully taken care of. Let the youth of Africa make a difference to make up where the leadership failed. Let all the youth make Africa a great success. Let all the youth make our lives the struggle for Africa by appreciating and relearning all the rich values and heritage that originated from Africa.

The 1st ALL AFRIKANA YOUTH CONGRESS 2017 (1stAAFYC2017) HILLTOP KIGALI, RWANDA 15th - 18th OCTOBER, 2017;PRE-DECLARATION BRIEF STATEMENT

KIGALI-RWANDA to Host the 1st All Afrikana First Youth Congress , From Sunday October 15th to Wednesday October 18th, 2017.

FINAL PROGRAM FOR DAY 2 FOR 1^st All Afrikana First Youth Congress on Monday 16/10/2017 (9:00 AM- 2:00 PM)

1^st AUSC International Conference:

Theme: "Challenges to overcome in mobilizing the Afrikana youth to create the Africa united and renascent"

1^st Session: Opening

Time	Presenter	Activity	Allocated time
9:00 am	President and founder of African Union Students Council	Welcoming notes	10 minutes
9:10 am	Rwanda National Students Association president	Declares opening of the 1st All-Afrikana Youth Congress and invite the guest of honor	10 minutes
9:20 am	Guest of honor	Addressing The audience and delivering of key note speech on the introduction of the 1st AAFYC	10 minutes

2^nd Session: Presentations

Time	Presenter	Activity (Presentations)	Allocated time
9:30 am	Diane	Environmental and sustainable development.	10minutes
9:40am	Vedaste Ndizera	African Development	10minutes
9:50 am	Peter Samson Peter	Block chain Technology	10minutes
10:00 am	Dr Ahmed Sheriff	Video	10 minutes
10:10 am	RICHARD	Health promotion	10 minutes
10:20 am	John Anthony	Emerging non communicable diseases	10 minutes

3^rd Session: Panel moderation (10:30 am-12:20 pm)

1^st Panelist: Professor Mamou Muchie (Presentation by the African Federal Congress, Revisiting the Pan-African Congresses)

2^rd Panelist: UWAYO Yves Rene (The Africa Unity for renaissance)

3^rd Panelist: Richard (The Pan-African Talent Initiative)

4^th Panelist: Marriam (The Afrikana Post-Graduate Academy)

5^th Panelist: Dr IRAGUHA BANDORA Yves (AUSC and it agenda)

Moderator: NENGO Ally

4^th Session: Innovations

Time	Innovator	Innovation	Allocated time
12:30 pm	Diane	RICAD	15 minutes
12:45 pm	Sylvere	Mining in youth	15 minutes
1:00 pm	Walter	Goora	15 minutes
1:15 pm	NGIRINSHUTI Jonas	Game : Boneza	15 minutes
1:30 pm	Jilo	Innovation in health	15 minutes
1:45 pm-2 pm	Andre	Web development	15 minutes

MCs: NENGO Ally, UWAYO Yves Rene, RUGAMBA Happy Mario Marius

Prepared and approved by the organizing committee of the 1^st AAFYC 2017

Rwanda to host the Transform Africa Summit 2018 7 - 10 May 2018 | Kigali Convention Center | Rwanda What would you like to do?.

Rwanda to host the Transform Africa Summit 2018 7 - 10 May 2018 | Kigali Convention Center | Rwanda; What would you like to do?.

H.E. Paul Kagame | Chairman of the Smart Africa Board

The next decade 2016-2025 promises to be the decade of Africa’s development through ICT. Smart Africa came out of The Transform Africa Summit organized in Kigali in October 2013. The Smart Africa Manifesto, the foundation of this initiative, is based on 5 principles: To put ICT at the center of our national socio-economic development agenda; To improve access to ICT especially Broadband; To improve accountability, efficiency and openness through ICT; To put the Private Sector First; To leverage ICT to promote sustainable development. The creation of Smart Africa is a testimony of our resolve to put in place the right policy and regulatory environment that will encourage partnerships, entrepreneurship, job creation and knowledge sharing. Our move towards an ICT and knowledge driven economy together intends to increase Africa’s competitiveness in the global economy. ICTs have the ability to level the global playing field, unlock human capital and harness its full potential. The Smart Africa Board is committed to lead this transformative agenda in our respective countries. Our goals are ambitious yet realistic and with our leadership, commitment, strategic work and support from our partners, I am fully confident that we will soon achieve our vision of modern economies and wealthy citizen that will lead to a prosperous future for Africa. Have you registered for Transform Africa Summit 2018? It is a pleasure to all Leaders of African Union Students" Council (AUSC)"For The Better Africa We Deserve" to have been invited by the Organizers of the Transform Africa Summit 2018  from 7 - 10 May 2018 in Rwanda in Kigali Convention Center .  AUSC of its sponsorship part to the Africa Summits  Transform Africa Summit 2018  from 7 - 10 May 2018 by engaging in Communication Partnership to the SMART. Therefore, the office of President and Founder  of African Union Students" Council (AUSC)"For The Better Africa We Deserve" would like to share the invitation for registration and disseminate this exceptional opportunity to all  Africans especially young generation who is the source of innovations and leadership development that will keep the way to make Africa a more SMART Continent and build the Better Africa We All Deserve. Registration & Accreditation Deadlines Below is original INVITATION to the Office of President and Founder of African Union Students" Council (AUSC)"For The Better Africa We Deserve": Dear Iraguha Bandora Yves Founder Registration to the 4th annual Transform Africa Summit is open. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Under the theme, Accelerating Africa's Single Digital Market, this years' summit is going to host the largest number of Heads of State & Government, policy makers and ICT influencers from around the world in the summits history.

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