Dr. Abena Nyarkoa, a Ghanaian educational and inclusion advocate, will participate in a high-level panel dialogue in the course of the Africa Collectively Convention 2026 (ATC 2026) to be held on the College of Cambridge.
The convention, organized by the Cambridge College Africa Society, will probably be held from twenty second to twenty third Could underneath the theme ‘Africa in an Age of Destruction’.
Based mostly within the UK, Dr Nyarkoa is one in every of various African specialists and changemakers invited to contribute to discussions about Africa’s future amidst international political, financial and technological modifications.
In introducing her as one of many convention contributors, organizers defined that her work lies on the “highly effective intersection of training, commerce, advocacy, and sustainable development.”
Organizers say her contribution displays the convention’s broader goal of exploring problems with inclusion, management and entry in occasions of speedy change.
“Voices like hers matter at ATC 2026, as a result of disruption extends past expertise and markets. It additionally issues who has entry, who participates, and the way management is reimagined,” mentioned the College of Cambridge Africa Society.
Different audio system embody His Excellency Makolo Morris, Excessive Commissioner of Kenya to the UK. Masenje Mazoka, Excessive Commissioner of Zambia to the UK; Honkawaale Silwak, former Somaliland Minister of Planning and Improvement; and different younger and middle-aged African entrepreneurs and builders.
The occasion will function a collection of panel discussions and initiatives targeted on Africa’s improvement trajectory and its function within the altering world order.
Dr. Nyarkoa will be a part of Dr. Memuna Williams and Dr. Kwabena Bempah-Tandoh on a panel dialogue on “Africa’s demographic dividend: Youth as drivers of change.”
One other session will study “Africa’s place in a fragmenting world order”, that includes the Kenyan Excessive Commissioner and different outstanding audio system.
Africa Collectively is the flagship annual program of the College of Cambridge Africa Society and has developed over the previous six years right into a outstanding platform for dialogue on African management, innovation and sustainable improvement.
About Dr. Abena Nyarkoa
Dr. Abena Nyarkoa, popularly generally known as Abby, is an training advocate, lecturer, and gender analyst whose work focuses on instructional fairness, human rights advocacy, and sustainable improvement.
She is the founding father of the NKUNIM Schooling Venture, which goals to handle disparities in instructional alternatives, and co-founder of the Commerce Progress Community, which promotes sustainable commerce and regional integration.
A Fellow of the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations and a International Goodwill Ambassador for the UK and Ghana, she has held advisory and director roles within the analysis and NGO sectors.
Dr. Nyarkoa can also be a youth coach, media presenter, and worldwide speaker. She accomplished her PhD on the College of Warwick, the place her analysis targeted on fairness, entry and fairness in training.
