arcVision Prize 2015 – Women and Architecture – SAMIA NKRUMAH
Channel: Amor Vacui
Date: 2015-06-04

arcVision Prize 2015 – Women and Architecture – SAMIA NKRUMAH
i.lab Italcementi Group, Bergamo (Italy) – March, 5/6 2015

Samia Nkrumah, President of the Kwame Nkrumah Panafrican Center, is a Ghanaian politician and Chairwoman of the Convention People’s Party, the first female to chair a political party in Ghana. She is the daughter of Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, and his Egyptian wife Fathia Rizk. She is one of the founders of Africa Must Unite, which aims to promote Kwame Nkrumah’s vision and political culture. In an article entitled “The new Mandela is a woman”, the prestigious Huffington Post analyzes her impact on Ghanaian and African politics. She is a member of the International Board of the “Women in Diplomacy” Committee, established in May 2013 at the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Chaired by the then Minister Emma Bonino, to further promote the role of women at international level. Samia Nkrumah is married to Michele Melega, an Italian-Danish man. Samia and Michele have a son, Kwame Thomas Melega.

ArcVision Prize 2015 by Italcementi Group, III edition: http://www.italcementi.it/ITA/Media+Center/News/20150205.htm 

SCIENTIFIC DIRECTOR
Stefano Casciani

THE JURY
Shaikha Al Maskari
Vera Baboun
Daria Bignardi
Odile Decq
Yvonne Farrell
Louisa Hutton
Suhasini Mani Ratnam
Samia Nkrumah
Benedetta Tagliabue
Martha Thorne
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