The Africa Future Leaders Summit and Awards ceremony is an event which celebrates, honours and recognises achievement from the next generation of African leaders.The Awards will be one of the most significant events within the African community; it is anticipated that it will become a major annual event. A pioneering, unique and prestigious event, the African Diaspora Awards is an event which pays
tribute to African success across all walks of life; emphasising achievement and highlighting inspirational role models in the fields of business, sport, entertainment, philanthropy and popular arts and culture. These awards celebrate diversity and multiculturalism and the achievements of the contemporary and historical African diaspora community in the UK. The African diaspora in the UK has, over the past decade, achieved greater recognition for their positive contrbution to Africa's development as well as to that of the United Kingdom. This is a momentous time for the wider African diaspora, and for Africa; in recognition of the achievements and sacrifices on which any success is based , the Awards provide a unique and prestigious celebration of the African Diaporans who have followed their dreams and overcome hardship to achieve success. Our Vision is to:
• Highlight the positive contributions the African diaspora community makes to the UK and to Africa.
• Recognise and reward the contributions of migrants to the UK Community.
• Recognise the achievements of multiculturalism and help to promote new thinking on multiculturalism.
• Highlight and recognise the partnerships and achievements between the African diaspora and Africa.
• Highlight the entrepreneurial spirit and resilience of the African diaspora and multicultural communities in the UK. The African Diaspora is broadly defined by the African Union Commission as "peoples of African origin living outside the continent, irrespective of their citizenship and nationality and who are willing to contribute to the development of the continent and the building of the African Union." Globally, Africans in the diaspora are spread out across the continents. In North America, there are 39 million from the African Diaspora; 113 million in Latin America; 13.6 million in the Caribbean; and 3.5 million in Europe, the World Bank estimates.
