via Dennis Onyango RAILA LEAVES FOR US AND MOZAMBIQUE: Hon Raila Odinga leaves the country this evening for a visit to the US and later Mozambique. Mr Odinga is scheduled for Yale University, US to deliver the Coca Cola World Fund at Yale Lecture on October 9 2014. The Coca Cola Fund Lecture has been organized by the MacMillan Center, Yale University. It will focus on Africa as the next frontier of global economy and how to make the optimism is realistic. Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale University dates back to 1992. It has supported an annual lecture on topics of international significance. The lecture is sponsored by the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, and it is one of its signature events. Previous lecturers have include Roberto Goizueta, Sam Nunn, Thomas Friedman, Enrique Iglesias, Supachai Panitchpakdi, Sadako Ogata, Mary Robinson, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Douglas Daft, Nicholas Kristof, Samantha Power, Muhtar Kent, Peter Hart, Raghura Rajan, Eboo Patel, Mo Ibrahim, and Marwan Muasher. Apart from the Coca Cola Fund Lecture, the former PM will also speak to an Economics class on Building Democratic Institutions for Inclusive Economic and Social Transformation. This will be a panel discussion that will also feature H.E. Ernesto Zedillo, former President of Mexico. He is scheduled to meet with the leadership of Yale School of Management to discuss how the school can expand its efforts and presence. At the school he will also share his Personal leadership journey. From Yale, Mr Odinga will travel to Maputo, Mozambique, where he will lead an election observation mission of the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa ( EISA) for October 15 elections. Mr Odinga is expected in Maputo on October 12. This will be the second time Mr Odinga will be getting involved in Mozambique’s political activities. In the 1990s, he worked with the International Republican Institute as a resource person for peace and conflict resolution in the then war-torn country, helping restore stability. Mr Odinga will return from the US and Mozambique missions towards the final week of October.
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 11:11:55 +0000
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