Ugandan social and political critic Frank Gashumba has been acknowledged in Ghana as one in every of Africa’s Most Influential Neighborhood Strategists within the 12 months 2023, with capability to influence the continent.

Gashumba scooped this prestigious award from the African Public Service Optimum Awards on the fifteenth December 2023 by the awarding Committee which acknowledge notable Africans who by way of their work are driving Africa’s ongoing social financial renaissance to allow the continent to take its place as an equal companion within the international group.

On the awards nights in Accra, The African Public Service Optimum Organisaion (APSO) awards secretariat chief government officer Baroness Paulette Kpopo stated the company depends on analysis and professional analyses guided by established and standards to determine award winners.

Gashumba has constructed an enormous model in areas of mindset change, enterprise, media and group empowerment, in addition to social and political commentary which he has performed by way of quite a lot of platforms. He’s the founding father of the Nationwide Motion for Awakening Uganda generally generally known as “Sisimuka Uganda” whose imaginative and prescient is Altering Mindsets, Creating Self perception, Reworking lives and Communities. This group has positively impacted on hundreds of thousands of younger folks throughout Africa encouraging them to work onerous, to be revolutionary, inventive and to be humane amongst others. Gashumba can be the Vice Chairman of the MK Motion a political group headed by the primary son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba which is billed because the attainable alternative for President Museveni when he retires.

The philanthropist heads the Banyarwanda group in Uganda below the Council for Abavandimwe the place he has campaigned towards segregation of Banyarwanda by businesses like Immigration division which denies them passports, but they’re a acknowledged tribe by the 1995 Structure.

His firm, Mali Group of Corporations, is a conglomerate that features Bunga Holdings, Sarafina Occasions, Sarafina Safaris and Mali Combined farm.

APSO Awards was launched by the internationally acclaimed agency The Enterprise Govt (TBE) Media Group with the intention of figuring out and publicly recognizing exemplary efficiency by public servants and public establishments throughout Africa.

Gashumba joins a gaggle of nice leaders in Africa which have received themselves this award.

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