August 12, 2010
Address by Ambassador Juma V. Mwapachu, Secretary General, East African Community during the commissioning of the new printing press and celebrations of 10 years of the founding of Mwananchi Communications Limited
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As you celebrate your 10th Anniversary, it is important to dedicate your achievements to the bold and inspiring vision of His Highness, the Aga Khan who, fifty years ago, established the Nation Media Group, your associate company.
His Highness stands out in the world as a leading pillar of democratic and human values. His intense and steadfast commitment to knowledge advancement has underlined the strategic investment of Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) in the media industry and in broad-based education amongst other ventures for social development. It also underscores his fundamental thesis about the nature of current global and regional tensions, including terrorism, which the late Professor Samuel Huntington associated with a clash of civilisations. In contrast, the view of His Highness, the Aga Khan is that such tensions manifest “a clash of ignorance”.
This is the thesis that drives His Highness, the Aga Khan’s commitment to using the instruments of formal education and the media to eradicate ignorance. On the education front specifically, AKDN is establishing 18 academies in South Asia, Central Asia, Middle East and Africa at a cost of nearly US$ 1 billion.
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