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Florie Liser
Florie Liser is the President and CEO of Corporate Council on Africa and is the first woman to lead the Council since 1993. Before Presiding CCA, she was the Assistant US Trade Representative for Africa where she led trade and investment policy towards 49 sub-Saharan African countries and oversaw the implementation of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA).
Ambassador David Shinn
Ambassador David Shinn is a Professor of International Affairs at the George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs. Ambassador Shinn is an American Diplomat who has served for 37 years in the United States Foreign Service with assignments in Lebanon, Kenya, Tanzania, Mauritania, Cameroon, and Sudan and was a former Ambassador to Burkina Faso and Ethiopia. He has written extensively and co-authored of “China and Africa: A Century of Engagement”.
US vs China in Africa China has been expanding its footprint in Africa while the US has been challenged to maintain its favorability. How will Biden Administration embolden the US agenda in Africa?
Dr. Joseph N. Sany
Joseph N. Sany is the Vice President of the newly established Africa Center. For the past 20 years, Joseph has been working on peacebuilding with civil society, governments, businesses and international organizations in Africa. Prior to joining USIP, Joseph provided technical leadership in the design and implementation of multi-year, multi-million-dollar peacebuilding and civil society development programs in several countries in Africa and Asia.
Ambassador Cindy Courville
Former US Ambassador to the African Union was the special assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the NSC where she helped craft US policy towards Africa. Ambassador Courville worked at the National Security Council, Defense Intelligence Agency and Office of the Secretary of Defence and served as the Chair of the department of Geostrategic Studies at the National Intelligence University.
Dr. Mohamed Camara
Dr. Mohamed Camara is the Chair of the Department of Africana Studies at Howard University. Dr. Camara was the Director of Mc Nair Scholars Program, Speaker of the Faculty Senate and Associate Vice President for Academics at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida. Dr Camara has authored several books and numerous articles on Africa’s political history, media and society, religion and philosophy, military and politics and intra-African foreign relations. Holding a Ph.D. in history from Northwestern University, he is the author of Political History of Guinea since World War Two.
US Education Diplomacy The US has been pushing the Education diplomacy to counterbalance China. By increasing educational institutions partnerships the US holds greater positioning in Africa, will the Biden Administration continue to invest in education in Africa and providing greater student visas to Africans?
Gregory Simpkins
Gregory Simpkins is the Executive Director of the African Merchants Association. Before going into the private sector, Gregory worked for the government as a Senior Advisor in the Africa Bureau at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) focusing on trade and helping with the operational management of the Trump’s Initiative Prosper Africa.
Frank Samolis
Frank Samolis is the Co-Chair of the International Trade Practice. He advises clients on International trade matters, including trade law, trade policy and legislation, and International trade negotiations. Frank handles matters before the Office of the US Trade Representative, other Executive Branch Trade agencies, the US International Trade Commission, US Court of International Trade, US Customs Service and the US Congress.
Witney Schneidman
Has 40 years of experience working across Sub-Saharan Africa and is the current senior international advisor for Africa at Covington & Burling LLP. Witney was the co-chair of the Africa Experts Group and a member of the Presidential Transition Team.
Koffi Alle
Koffi Alle is a Senior Advisor to the International Monetary Fund’s Executive Director representing 23 Sub-Saharan African countries at the IMF Board. In that capacity since 2006, he has been assisting African government authorities in negotiating IMFsupported programs and in implementing growth-enhancing economic reforms. He has also contributed to designing the IMF’s policy responses to global economic issues including the debt relief under the Initiative for Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC Initiative), the global financial crisis, the challenge of structural transformation in Africa and the coronavirus pandemic.
Best of Africa Streaming to the USA and Canada
Africa Today TV (ATTV) trading as Africa Prime is a high quality streaming video on demand service dedicated to celebrating Africa’s talent and successes from all walks of life. With its 1.2 billion inhabitants and 54 nations, each with unique histories, Africa has a story to tell, the story of Africa by Africans and Africa’s view of the world. Such a story is often ignored or distorted by the mainstream international media. Africa Prime’s mission is to lend the continent the media platform for an untold, balanced and captivating narration.
Africa Prime offers best in class original African content in multiple channels exclusively to the USA and Canadian markets. Dedicated channels offer Business, Documentaries, Lifestyle, Travel and Food. Africa Prime is viewable in a variety of apps and platforms such as Android App, Apple TV App, iOS App, Android TV, Roku Chanel as well as our website.
Africa by Africans
Africa Prime is the streaming brand of Africa Today TV, a media company founded by Mr Yaya Moussa. Mr Moussa’s vision is encapsulated in the motto “Africa by Africans”, namely, Africa’s stories, past, present and future, should be primarily told by Africans.
It is time to move from the passive complaint about how Africa is unfairly depicted by foreign media to a more proactive promotion of the continent’s endeavours and achievements by Africans themselves. It is time to move away from the distorted 5D portrayal of Africa (Disorder, Disease, Death, Devastation and Desperation) and to acknowledge the continent’s steady progress towards Democracy, Development and Dignity (3Ds). Those 3Ds are defining the next Africa. Africa Prime envisions an Africa open to the rest of the world, but reliant on self-help and self-responsibility.
While confident in Africa’s future, Africa Prime is not oblivious of the continent’s current challenges and discusses them without complacency. Indeed, it is our view that Africa’s strength starts with the recognition by Africa of its own weaknesses.
Founder, President & CEO.
Mr. Yaya Moussa is the Founder, President & CEO of AFRICA TODAY TV, a media company based in Washington DC, USA. AFRICA PRIME is the trade name of the company’s SVOD division. Dr. Moussa’s objective is twofold: (i) rectify the negative perceptions about Africa by showcasing the continent’s success stories and great potential, and (ii) lend a face and a voice to Africa, by letting Africans themselves speak about their land, without interpreters. Established in 2014 on the occasion of the first USA-Africa Leaders’ Summit in Washington, AFRICA TODAY TV has attracted the attention of governments, corporations, think tanks and leading individuals in Africa and the USA.
Mr. Moussa’s professional background covers areas as diverse as venture capital (Société Générale Bank, Paris, France), public/private partnerships (Caisse des Depots et Consignation, Paris, France), credit rating (IBCA, Paris and London) and international development (International Monetary Fund, Washington DC, USA). Dr. Moussa was educated in France (Paris Institute of Political Studies and PhD from Paris-Dauphine), UK (M.Sc. Oxford University) and the USA (MPA from Columbia University and MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
The Africa Prime Team.
Africa Prime have multiyear contracts signed with several leading African & European Content & European Providers
Africa Prime has a wide team of specialists who provide and curate the very best of African content, manage their Video on Demand services and provide marketing insights and platforms for their advertisers and sponsors.
https://africaprime.com/
