The Future Awards Africa holds on Dec 7th, launches campaign for 1m young Africans to fight Ebola

The Central Working Committee (CWC) of
Africa’s biggest youth event, The Future
Awards Africa (TFAA) has announced the
date and host state for the 2014 edition of
the event: “We are excited to announce that
The Future Awards Africa 2014 will be hosted
in Lagos, Nigeria on Sunday, Dec. 7th.
This is the 9th edition of the awards, which
became an African prize last year, with a
commemorative ceremony hosted by the
President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,
Dr. Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential
Villa in Aso Rock, Abuja.
“We are thrilled to have the awards return to
Lagos where it all started,” said Ohimai Atafo,
Chair of the CWC and one of Africa’s leading
fashion entrepreneurs. “TFAA has always
been excited to fuse inspiration with the best
of pop culture, and this year’s event will
underline that tradition – an evening of
inspiration, of hope, and of a continent
renewed.”
This year’s event is also dedicated to the
cause of fighting Ebola in West Africa. On
11.11.2014, TFAA will launch a global
campaign to get 1 million young Africans
involved in the fight against Ebola via
stopebola.com .
In an interview with Yahoo! News last week,
CNN’s Isha Sesay made clear:
“We have to realize that the clock is ticking.
We have an Ebola UN emergency fund and
there’s very little money in it. We have
pledges being made, but the pledges aren’t
being translated into action,” Sesay said.
“We are answering to that call to action,”
said Mfon Ekpo, Vice-Chair of the CWC and
West Africa Representative on the Mandela
Washington Fellowship Advisory Board. “If
Africa will be saved by Africans, then young
people need to take the lead on the problems
we face and take ownership in the solutions
we need.”
Ebola cases are doubling every 2o days in
the worst affected countries, and the World
Health Organisation (WHO) has called it “the
largest, most complex and most severe we’ve
ever seen”.
TFAA will be deploying its network of winners,
nominees, alumni, celebrity, brain trust and
continental media partners for this
#StopEbola campaign – to get 1 million
young Africans to donate social media
updates and then for young people to donate
a minimum of $25
(4,250naira) each directly to the WHO
through the United Nations Ebola Response
Fund. It has also selected 50 of Africa’s most
influential celebrities to headline the
campaign.
The Future Awards Africa 2014 is presented
in partnership with Microsoft, the Tony
Elumelu Foundation and Vitafoam.
Official Media Partners are EbonyLife TV,
AfricaMagic, Ventures Africa, and Y! Africa.
Official Online Partners are MemeBurn,
BellaNaija, Premium Times and 360nobs.
The official bloggers for 2014 are LindaIkeji,
Omojuwa, LadunLiadi, Olorisupergal, Ameyaw,
NigeriaNewsDesk and GidiTraffic. Country
partners are Silverbird TV, HipTV, The Cable,
LadunLiadi, The Trent, Information Nigeria,
News Wire Nigeria and Pulse.ng.
Cool FM is the host radio station. Channels
Television is the host TV station.
For more information, visit @TFAAfrica on
Twitter/Instagram or the
websitewww.thefutureafrica.com/awards . The
official hashtags for the
2014 awards are #TheFutureAwardsAfrica
and #TheFutureAwards2014.
All the information on the #StopEbola global
campaign for young Africans is on
www.stopebola.com .