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The High-level conversation on ¡°Human Capital: culture and heritage unleashing the potential, organized as part of the 2021 Africa Dialogue Series, offers valuable insights into the role of culture in unleashing human potential.

Despite Africa¡¯s wealth and diversity, the continent's human capital has neither been fully harnessed nor meaningfully incorporated into development strategies. In this conversation, experts discuss the historical roots of the current situation and prerequisites necessary for Africa to unleash the potential of this rich human capital. The conversations also highlights the importance of the UNESCO¡¯s Cultural Conventions and African Union frameworks and strategies as drivers for sustainable development, the renewal of the curriculum and educational systems at different implementation levels, the link between cultural heritage and sustainable development, the use and teaching of languages as being of strategic importance for the development of societies; and the role of new actors like the diaspora, the youth, local communities and African civil society organizations (CSOs) in all aspects of Africa¡¯s development. All of this shall be done through the scope of the various cultural conventions and working instruments that the continent and its partners have adopted over the years.

In this episode, we see how city states and kingdoms gave rise to rich and diverse civilisations, including some of the most iconic works of art on the continent: the Benin bronzes, dating back to the 13th century. Zeinab Badawi travels to Nigeria where she is granted a rare interview with the King of the Benin kingdom in southern Nigeria. She meets the Queen Mother of Lagos, at her ancestral palace on Lagos Island where she relates the history of the Yoruba people. And Zeinab also has an audience with the former governor of Nigeria¡¯s central bank who became the Emir of Kano, one of northern Nigeria¡¯s Muslim city states.

• ADS2021 Schedule
• Concept Note
• Advocacy Paper on Sustainable Peace for Development: Factoring in History
• Advocacy Paper on Harnessing Culture and Heritage for Economic Transformation
• Advocacy Paper on Human Capital - Culture and Heritage, Unleashing the Potential
• Africa Lusophone reacts actively to OSAA's ADS

ADS2021 Public Policy Forum

• ADS2021 Public Policy Forum Programme (May 26 - 28)
• Concept Note: Sustainable Peace for Development: Factoring in History
• Concept Note: Harnessing Culture and Heritage for Economic Transformation
• Concept Note: Human Capital: Culture and Heritage Unleashing the Potential
• Speaker Biographies for Opening Session
• Speaker Biographies for Session II: Roundtable on Sustainable Peace for Development: Factoring in History
• Speaker Biographies for Session II: Geopolitical Session
• Speaker Biographies for Session IV: Roundtable on Harnessing Culture and Heritage For Economic Transformation
• Speaker Biographies for Session V: Geopolitical Session
• Speaker Biographies for Session VI: Human Capital: Culture and Heritage, Unleashing the Potential
• Speaker Biographies for Session VII: Closing of Africa Dialogue Series
• United Nations Secretary-General Ant¨®nio Guterres' introductory remarks at the Africa Dialogue Series 2021
• United Nations Under Secretary General and Special Adviser on Africa Cristina Duarte's welcome address at the Africa Dialogue Series 2021
• Remarks by H.E. Mr. Volkan Bozkir, President of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly
• Keynote Address by Dr. Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, Chief Executive Officer, AUDA_NEPAD
• Remarks by H.E Amb. Fatima Kyari Mohammed, Permanent Observer Mission of the African Union to the United Nations
• Remarks by H.E Amb. Mr. Nuno Mathias, Deputy Permanent Representative of Portugal to the UN
• Remarks by H.E. Amb. Issimail Chanfi, Permanent Representative of the Comoros to the UN
• Remarks by H.E. Prof. Kennedy Gastorn, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the United Republic of Tanzania to the UN
• Statement by H. E. Amb. Ishikane Kimihiro, Permanent Representative of Japan to the UN
• Statement by H. E. Amb. Martin Kimani, Permanent Representative of Kenya to the UN
• Statement by H.E. Amb. Mohamed Fathi Ahmed Edrees, Permanent Representative of Egypt to the UN
• Welcome Address by Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser, Cristina Duarte, at the Africa Dialogue Series 2021
• Time to invest more in African culture - Prof. Eddy Maloka
• A new narrative on Africa is possible, with a new mindset - H.E. Amb. Issimail Chanfi, Permanent Representative of the Comoros to the UN
• Closing Remarks by H.E Amb. Fatima Kyari Mohammed, Permanent Observer Mission of the African Union to the United Nations at the ADS2021
• Keynote Address by Dr. Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, Chief Executive Officer, AUDA-NEPAD
• Statement of His Excellency Ambassador Sofiane Mimouni Permanent Representative of Algeria On African dialogue series Financing for development: IFFs and international tax cooperation
• Statement by H. E. Amb. Martin Kimani, Permanent Representative of Kenya to the UN
• H. E. Amb. Omar Hilale, Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations remarks at the Africa Dialogue Series
• Statement by H.E. Amb. Mohamed Fathi Ahmed Edrees, Permanent Representative of Egypt to the UN
• Ms. Amina Mohammed Deputy Secretary-General Message to the Africa Dialogue Series Public Policy Forum
• H.E. Mr. Mohamed Siad Doualeh, Permanent Representative of Djibouti to the United Nations, on ¡°Human Capital and Building Forward Better after COVID-19¡±