Hadeel Ibrahim, Co-Chair, The Africa Center; Aliko Dangote, Chairman, Aliko Dangote Foundation; Mo Ibrahim, Chair, Mo Ibrahim Foundation; Bill Gates, co-founder, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Halima Dangote, Board President, The Africa Center cut a cake at the Future Africa Forum at The Africa Center in New York, where a transformative $20 million donation by the Aliko Dangote Foundation was announced. In recognition of this historic donation, the Center renamed its venue The Africa Center at Aliko Dangote Hall at a ceremony during the Future Africa Forum. Photo taken on Monday, Sept. 23, 2019 in New York. (Loren Matthew /AP Images for The Africa Center)
Philanthropists, business leaders, African heads of state and celebrities from Africa and other parts of the word were gathered in New York to open the Africa Center, a socio-cultural platform and also to dialogue on the future of business in Africa.
There was the cutting of the cake to mark the inaugural Forum of the Center on Monday.