By Halimah Olamide
The Global Patriot Newspaper is set host its dialogue on media tomorrow (Friday).
This was contained in a statement made available to NPO Reports on Thursday.
The virtual dialogue themed “The Media of the Future: Bridging the Gap Between the West and People of African Descent,” a side event of the Black Futures Summit
It is slated to hold on the sidelines of the 2024 United Nations Summit of the Future in New York, United States of America (USA).
The UN Summit of the Future is taking place during the 2024 United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), which will feature High Level Debates by leaders from different countries of the world who will congregate in New York.
Amongst the panelists are well grounded personalities as Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, CEO, NiDCOM, Professor Akil Khalfani, Director, Africana Institute, Essex County College, New Jersey, USA, Oyiza Adaba, CEO AfricaRelated, Yul Anderson, President, African America Future Society, Simon Kolawole, CEO, The Cable Newspaper, Toyin Umesiri, CEO, Nazarau, Laolu Akande, Editor-in-Chief, Empowered Newswire and Nicky S. Coker Esq., Spokesperson, Permanent Mission of Sierra Leone to the UN.
The Dialogue, according to a statement by Simon Ibe, Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Global Patriot Newspapers, will attempt a review of the current state of the media of People of African Descent in comparison with that of the West, make projections concerning what the ideal should be, and recommend what must be done for the existing gulf to be bridged, and for the media of People of African Descent to attain the desirable heights, in the interest of all.