Presidents to speak at 2010 Pan Africa Media Conference

The conference will host Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, Mwai Kibaki of Kenya, as well as Joaquim Alberto Chissano, former president of Mozambique, and John Agyekum Kufuor, former president of Ghana.

The convention will also bring together renowned media, academicians and business executives from the United States of America, South Africa, Ghana and France.

The conference, themed Media and the African Promise, is a collaboration of the Africa Media Initiative and the Nation Media Group (NMG) and will reflect on the African media's past, present and prospects for the future against the challenges of a dynamic globalised environment, according to communication from Linus Gitahi, the chief executive officer of NMG.

“The forum will encourage contribution and development of robust policy related to the operation and development of media in Africa,” Gitahi says.

Aga Khan, the main proprietor of NMG under the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development, is to be the guest of honour and is expected to launch a book branded; Birth of a Nation, The story of a newspaper in Kenya. Media awards to honour outstanding contributors to Africa's media are also planned for the conference.

For more information, go to www.panafricamedia2010kenya.com.