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Kufuor to contribute to State of Africa Report
Accra, Feb. 6, GNA -
President Kufuor has been invited to participate in the
Boston University’s “African Leaders State of Africa Report
2007,” which features the visions and strategies of heads of
state.
President John Agyekum Kufuor,
who has been invited for the sixth time,.is one of 15
African leaders to be represented in the a statement
in Accra said on Wednesday.
The programme, scheduled for February 19, 2008 at the
University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg would also
feature other African countries including Benin, Botswana,
Cape Verde, Kenya Liberia, Malawi, Mali South Africa and
Zambia.
The statement said American Ambassador Charles R. Stith,
Director of African Presidential Archives and Research
Centre at Boston University (APARC) and former US Ambassador
to Tanzania would travel to eight African nations in
conjunction with the official release of the African Leaders
State of Africa report 2007.
The Research Centre at Boston University is a resource for
fostering efforts at free-market reforms and democratisation
in Africa. A repository for the papers of former and current
African leaders, it offers a residency programme for former
democratically elected heads of state and would host an
annual African Presidential Roundtable in April.
The African Leaders State Report is one of APARC’s core
projects and provides selected African leaders a forum to
address the world about the goals, programmes and policies
of their respective countries. This is the sixth edition of
the Report jointly funded by Coca-Cola Africa and USIAD.
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