Digital Economy Summit: Tony Elumelu, Kamala Harris attend gender inclusion meeting in Zambia

Group Chairman of United Bank for Africa (UBA) and Heirs Holdings, the leading Pan-African investor, Tony O. Elumelu, CFR, at the invitation of United States Vice President, Kamala Harris, travelled to Zambia for gender inclusion meeting.

Mr. Elumelu joined other global leaders at the inaugural meeting of the Steering Committee of the United States Government’s initiative “Gender Inclusion in the Digital Economy” which took place on Saturday, April 1, 2023, in Lusaka, Zambia.

His attendance represents a further recognition of his advocacy of the transformation of Africa, through a dynamic private-public sector approach, made most recently at the USAfrica Leaders’ Summit, held in Washington D.C, hosted by President Biden in December 2022.

Elumelu said he welcomes the increased engagement of the U.S. Administration with Africa, a partnership that he has stressed should be based on equity and mutual respect. As one of Africa’s leading entrepreneurs, Mr. Elumelu sees many common values, between the entrepreneurially driven U.S. economy and the opportunities in Africa, not least in creating the enabling environment to support Africa’s highly entrepreneurial youth.

He is an ardent advocate of Africapitalism, his belief that Africa’s economic renaissance will be catalysed by the collaboration between public and private sectors, and that the private sector must create social good, as well as economic wealth.