Alhaji Farouk Aliu Mahama, son of the late Vice President of Ghana, Alhaji Aliu Mahama, has received a special invitation from the world celebrated institution, Oxford University, in the United Kingdom to address the 9th Annual Oxford Africa Conference at the University.
He will leave the shores of Ghana today, Friday, May 10, 2019, for London.
Farouk Aliu Mahama will be the first young politician from Northern Ghana to speak to students of the prestigious Oxford University.
This years’ conference will convene around the theme: Asserting Africa’s Relevance: Locally, Continentally and Globally.
Through interactive panels, keynote speeches and a BBC moderated debate, this theme will explore pathways to asserting Africa’s relevance by: leveraging indigenous assets, critically reflecting on regional integration, and engaging with global priorities.
Farouk Aliu Mahama, together with other distinguished speakers, is however billed to speak on the topic “Showcasing and Scaling up Indigenous Innovations in Healthcare and Wellness”.
The Oxford Africa Conference is one of the largest and most globally recognized African conferences of its type, organized by the long-established Oxford Africa Society in collaboration with the Oxford Africa Business Network.
It is aimed at providing a vibrant platform for new thinking about an international Africa across all disciplines such as politics, business, arts, technology and academia, connecting inter-generational leaders from around the world to shape an integrated and innovative perspective on African issues.
The Conference which is in its night year, is widely recognized as an influential platform and the speakers in the most recent past conferences have included Dr. Donald Kaberuka (7th President of the African Development Bank), H.E Amina Mohammed (Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations), H.E John Dramani Mahama ( Ex-President of Ghana) and H.E Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana.
This year is a particularly exciting year for the conference as it marks several monumental milestones such as the 100th year anniversary of the 1919 Pan- African Conference, the 400th year anniversary of the 1619 arrival of enslaved African Americans, and the declaration of the United Nations Decade of People of African Descent. The Conference is held at a crucial moment in time, in the midst of a critical global discourse on Africa and Africans in the diaspora.
Students, academics, innovators and trailblazers are invited to explore the challenges of Africa’s 21st-century realities and chart ways forward for the prosperity of Africa.
On the sidelines, Alhaji Farouk Aliu Mahama will hold meetings aimed at attracting juicy opportunities for the Yendi Constituency in Ghana’s Northern Region, in furtherance of his vision to create a sister-city relationship for Yendi.
Farouk Mahama speaks at Black History Month event in UK Parliament
In November 2018, Alhaji Farouk Aliu Mahama, visited the Palace of the Westminster House of Parliament, United Kingdom, as part of activities marking the Black History Month celebration in the UK.
The event was organized by Tony Tokumbu Fernandez, an International multi-award winning author, broadcast journalist & Poet, in collaboration with MPs Alok Sharma and Hellen Grant.
Farouk Aliu Mahama, a business executive, who aspires to be a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Yendi Constituency delivered a speech as a guest speaker at the 6th edition of the celebration.
About Farouk Aliu Mahama
Born on April 27, 1981, Alhaji Umar Farouk Aliu Mahama belongs to a prominent political family as the son of H.E Alhaji Aliu Mahama and H.E Hajia Ramatu Mahama( Former Second Lady of the Republic of Ghana, 2001-2009).
His father was Ghana’s first Muslim Vice-President and the first and only Dagomba to have risen to that political height.
His paternal grandfather, Zongo Naa Mahama, was the Zongo Chief of Yendi, the traditional capital of Dagon.
Farouk Aliu Mahama’s maternal grandfather, Alhaji Imoro Egala, was Ghana’s Foreign Affairs Minister in the First Republic (1960-1961) and later Trade and Industries Minister.
His maternal grandfather was the first black chairman of Ghana Cocoa Board and the founder of People’s National Party, the mother party of People’s National Convention (PNC).
Education
He began his basic education at Sakasaka Experimental Presby, Tamale and was later enrolled in the Achimota School.
He proceeded to Prempeh College in Kumasi for his secondary education and later to Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
Later, Farouk earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA).
He now holds a Master’s degree in Supply Chain Management from the Coventry University in England.