page_title: Catherine Odora Hoppers
section_title: Awards
hierarchical_section_title: Catherine Odora Hoppers / Awards
caption_attribution_description: English: Participants in a high level segment on "Africa in a Knowledge-Based Economy-Challenges and Opportunities" organized in the context of the African Ministerial Conference 2015: Intellectual Property for an Emerging Africa, which met from November 3 – 5, 2015 in Dakar, Senegal. From left to right: Mr. Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu, Professor of Practice in International Business and Public Policy, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Mr. Martial De-Paul Ikounga, Commissioner for Human Resources, Science and Technology, African Union CNBC Africa journalist Nozipho Mbanjwa, Ms. Oluwatoyin Sanni, Group Chief Executive Officer, United Capital, Nigeria Mr. Julius Akinyemi, Resident Entrepreneur, MIT Media Lab, Ms. Catherine Odora-Hoppers, Professor, University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria, Mr. Mactar Silla, Chief Executive Officer, MS Consulting Libreville and Dr. Snowy Khoza Chief Executive Officer, Bigen Africa, Pretoria. Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Cheikh Saya Diop. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO License.
context_page_description: Catherine A. Odora Hoppers is a Ugandan-born Professor in Development Education in South Africa. She has worked in Sweden and now is based in South Africa.
context_section_description: Odora Hoppers was awarded an honorary doctorate from Örebro University in Philosophy in 2008 and another from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa in 2012. The following year she received The President's Award (2013) from Uganda's President on the 50th Anniversary of Uganda's Declaration of Independence. She has also received The National Pioneers Award (2014) from " The Elders " for promoting the African knowledge system over the past 20 years since South Africa's democratic liberation.
  On July 3, 2015, the Nelson Mandela Distinguished Africanist Award was presented to Odora Hoppers by HE Thabo Mbeki at the University of South Africa in Pretoria, South Africa and that year she was named "Woman of the Year" and "Leading Educationist" by the University of South Africa.
  In 2017 she became an honorary fellow of UNESCO's Institute for Lifelong Learning.
caption: Discussing Africa in a Knowledge-Based Economy in 2015. Left to Right: Kingsley Moghalu, Martial De-Paul Ikounga, journalist Nozipho Mbanjwa, Oluwatoyin Sanni, Julius Akinyemi, Francis Gurry, Odora-Hoppers, Mactar Silla and Snowy Khoza
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