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DEC 8-9, 2020 - LAKESIDE, KISUMU, KENYA
THE
KUSI a leading player in global politics
and economics.
IDEAS
The inaugural festival
successfully convened under the
theme, “The Next 60 years in
Africa” on 8-9 December 2019, in
Kigali, Rwanda. The conference
FEST I VA L attracted 1,600 delegates from
five continents. They included
co-host President Paul Kagame
...was launched by Nation Media of Rwanda, President Felix
Group (NMG), Nairobi, Kenya, Tshisekedi of the Democratic
Africa’s second largest publicly
Republic of Congo, Africa Union
listed company in 2019.
Commission Chairperson
Moussa Faki Mahamat and Africa
Union High Representative for
Infrastructure Development
and former Prime Minister of
The festival seeks to build a Kenya, Rt. Hon Raila Odinga. In
“Pan-African ideas transaction attendance also were business
market” to capitalise on the leaders, policy makers, diplomats,
opportunities and innovations innovators, researchers, young
available to Africa to help her win entrepreneurs, and students,
in the 21st Century. This is line among others. The festival was
with NMG’s vision of being the covered widely by media across
“Media of Africa for Africa”, which Africa and had a large social
aims to contribute to shaping the media engagement averaging
agenda that will enable Africa be 500 million impressions.
2
Kit Mikayi “the stone of the first wife”
| K U S I I D E A S F E S T I VA L - 2 0 2 0
*Muhoroni sugar-belt
The 2nd edition, a hybrid in-person and virtual progress in poverty reduction and achievement
conference, on the theme “Toward a Post-Covid of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Africa: Recovering Together”, will be held in Compared to the pre-COVID-19 forecast,
collaboration with County Government of Kisumu Africa’s economy will be between US$349
at the lakeside City of Kisumu on December 8th IMPACT OF COVID-19 billion and US$643 billion smaller in 2030. In a
262.5
and 9th, 2020. best-case scenario, GDP per capita will recover
It an unprecedented moment in Africa’s history. to 2019 levels in 2024. In the worst case, Africa
We confront what has described as a “once in a
century” event, the Covid-19 pandemic that has MILLION will only return to 2019 levels in 2030.
According to the African Development
severely impacted countries large and small. The AFRICAN Bank, Africa may lose 25-30 million jobs in
CHILDREN
global economy will lose $12 trillion, or more, by 2020. By June, Kenya had lost over one million
the end of 2021 even with the $18 trillion that has jobs.
already been spent to stimulate economies around
the world.
ARE Schooling has been hard hit. About 262.5
million African children are out of school
Some economies in Africa have shrunk the OUT OF because of pandemic. And, going by what
most in 40 years, and South Africa, the most in 100
years. SCHOOL happened in previous epidemics on the
continent, like the 2014-2016 West African
The pandemic is projected to send 50 million Ebola, it’s project that 13% to 25% of pupils
Sub-Saharan Africans into poverty, a huge setback who might not resume their education once
that would erase several years of hard-won schools re-open.
Towards a Post-Covid-19 Africa: Recovering Together | 3
THE GOOD NEWS THERE’S
A LOT
w
WORTH
FIGHTING
FOR
HILE THE ABOVE picture were among the first to develop among the Hence, digital uptake and digital
might be alarming, Africa has world’s fastest and cheapest Covid-19 tests. dependency has been dramatic across
demonstrated remarkable The Bill Gates Foundation funds “The most countries, and during the pandemic
resilience and innovation too. Exemplars in Global Health” project that Africa became the world’s largest market
Although Africa accounts for compiles data on the countries that have for cryptocurrency (like Bitcoin) and South
17% of the world’s population, made the most progress on health with Africa, Nigeria, Kenya being far out the
it has just 1.5% of the world’s confirmed limited resources. Bill Gates just presented leaders.
Covid-19 cases and 0.1% of its deaths. their first report. Of the nine leaders, 4 Conservative courts were forced
At the start of the pandemic, about of them were African – Rwanda, Senegal, to embrace digital registries and virtual
three countries had labs that could test Liberia, and Ethiopia. hearings. In Kenya alone by the end of July,
for Covid-19. Today, some countries have COVID-19 has accelerated digital the Judiciary had resolved over 27,000
30 and more labs. Countries like Senegal transformation in ways unimaginable. cases and delivered 12,000 rulings digitally.
4 | K U S I I D E A S F E S T I VA L - 2 0 2 0The Date and Place
Kusi 2 will be on December 8th
and 9th, 2020 with the first day
being the Pan-African event, and
the second day an East African
event, focused cities (a primer
for the Africities Summit in 2021
in Kisumu) and the Lake Victoria
Region Blue Economy. Format
Kusi Ideas Festival 2 It will be a hybrid format,
Seen against this backdrop, KIF2 aims at
a socially-distanced in-
two functions.
person event in Kisumu
First, to be an umbrella that brings
combined with a virtual
together the best insights and
event. A few Kenya-based
innovations in dealing with the impact
experts and speakers, will
of the virus in the economic, health,
present to an audience of
educational, social areas to generate
about 200 people. It will be
ideas for overcoming the crisis.
beamed globally, and they
It will look at experiences that are
would also be engaged
transferable; what to be avoided;
via screens too. Global
how might we foolproof the future
participants will present
against the kind of ravages that have
virtually.
been visited by Covid-19; and to draw
a picture of what a post-Covid Africa
might look like.
Secondly, through the virtual
conference and related reporting to
have a record on Africa in the Pandemic.
Towards a Post-Covid-19 Africa: Recovering Together | 5Toward a Post-Covid Africa:
Recovering Together
It will cover three broad categories of issues:
The The things How does Post-
pandemic, that worked; Covid Africa
it’s cost (lives, economy, the economic and social look like across a range of
jobs, media, education etc.), sectors that survived and sectors. What will change?
and what it revealed about grew, the innovation. Why What can be done for those
African resilience and often they worked, and the path hit most or despairing, like the
underappreciated capacities. they point us to in terms youth? What opportunities for
of getting out of the crisis. working together regionally
A glossary of best practice and internationally present?
and examples. What winning ideas are on
offer?
6 | K U S I I D E A S F E S T I VA L - 2 0 2 0DAY 1 - DEC. 8 PRO GRAMME
AGENDA
TIME SUBJECT, THEMES, ACTIONS
09:45 - 10:00 Curtain Raiser Revisiting the moonshots from Kigali in the context of the
Video/Animation pandemic
10:00 - 10:05 Inauguration We Survived And Reinvented During The Pandemic
Dr. Wilfred Kiboro, NMG Board Chair
10:05 – 11:05 High Level Panel 1 The African Exemplars: How African resilience and smarts
African Health Ministers, specialists, and were revealed by the pandemic.
activists.
11:05 - 11:15 High Level Presentation A crisis makes a case for international cooperation and
new social investments in Africa
11:15 - 12:30 Presidential Panel The Pandemic Taught Us That African
Four African Heads of State Expected To Integration Is A Winner
Participate, with Two In-Person
12:30 - 01:30 Securing Growth: The Shape of the Post-Covid African
Economy
13:30 - 14:30 Covid-19 And The Case For New Ways; Urbanisation and
new Uses of Space, Technology, and Global Leadership***
14:30 - 15:30 A Panel on Media and Culture Making From the Ashes: Virtual Fashion Shows, Art, Concerts,
And African Story-Telling
15:30 – 16:30 Business and finance leaders, Central A Panel on Digging the African Economy Out of the Crisis
Bankers, innovators – with a focus on finance, tech, trade, tourism etc.
Towards a Post-Covid-19 Africa: Recovering Together | 716:30 - 16:45 A Presentation Protecting the Environment Is the Best Weapon Against
Virus, and the Secret to a Sustainable post-Pandemic
economy
16:30 - 17:30 -With Pfizer, Novartis, and someone from The Vaccine Race: Africa Shouldn’t Be Left Behind
Health
17:30 - 17:35 NMG CEO Closing with a brief presentation on “How we See the
Coming Times”
17:35 - 18:00 Short Videos on Visit Kenya, Visit Rwanda, Visit Kisumu
DAY 2 - DEC. 9
TIME SUBJECT, THEMES, ACTIONS
09:00 - 09:02 Opener
09:02 - 09:10 Video/Kisumu County Welcoming Africa, The World To the Lakeside
A Panel Covid-19 And Reinventing African Cities: Towards the
09:10 – 10:10 Africities Conference 2021, Kisumu****
10:10 – 11:00 A Kenyan Recovery, An East African Recovery
11:10 - 12:00 High Level Panel 1 Blue Economy: Intra East African Trade, and the new
Opportunities on Lake Victoria
12:00 - 12:07 Closing
13:00 Kisumu Hosts Lakeside city tour and Trip to the scenic Rusinga Island
or Golf
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