When the Eman­ci­pa­tion Sup­port Com­mit­tee of Trinidad and To­ba­go launch­es its Kwame Ture Memo­r­i­al Lec­ture Se­ries at the Cen­tral Bank to­mor­row, at 5 pm, the spot­light will fall on Wale Idris Ajibade, in­ter­na­tion­al fi­nance ex­pert and ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor of African Views, who will de­liv­er a pro­found and thought-pro­vok­ing mul­ti­me­dia pre­sen­ta­tion on the theme Glob­al Africa: Un­lock­ing the Fu­ture through Cul­ture and Tech­nol­o­gy, a re­lease said.

Ajibade, one of Africa's bril­liant sons, dis­tin­guished him­self in a ca­reer that in­clud­ed some of the world's ma­jor fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions–Stan­dard and Poor's, Reuters Amer­i­ca LLC, Citibank Pri­vate Bank and In­ter­na­tion­al In­vest­ment Ad­vi­sors where he was di­rec­tor of re­search and mar­ket­ing. He man­aged the Ko­rea In­ter­na­tion­al In­vest­ment Funds–one of the ear­li­est pro­mot­ers of the Ko­re­an econ­o­my.

Ajibade brought the fi­nan­cial wiz­ardry, man­age­r­i­al skills and tech­no­log­i­cal savvy he ac­quired from his Uni­ver­si­ty train­ing, and work ex­pe­ri­ence in the ma­jor league of in­ter­na­tion­al fi­nance, to di­rect­ly serve the peo­ple of Africa and its Di­as­po­ra by set­ting up African Views. This new-era or­gan­i­sa­tion em­ploys mod­ern com­mu­ni­ca­tion tech­nolo­gies and so­cial me­dia to con­nect Africans glob­al­ly in a prac­ti­cal net­work­ing frame­work for our col­lec­tive de­vel­op­ment.

African Views strength lies in many ar­eas, among them, re­search for busi­ness, cul­tur­al and so­cial projects; mul­ti­me­dia pro­duc­tion; link­ages for glob­al African di­a­logue and in­ter­na­tion­al team­work. Ajibade tar­gets all age groups and sec­tors–from con­nect­ing class­rooms in Africa with class­rooms in the Unit­ed States, to fos­ter­ing women's em­pow­er­ment, to fa­cil­i­tat­ing the Glob­al African Lead­ers Tele­fo­rum, a pe­ri­od­ic di­a­logue be­tween African lead­ers scat­tered around the world on is­sues rel­e­vant to glob­al African de­vel­op­ment.

He is al­so bring­ing his ex­pe­ri­ence of in­ter­na­tion­al fi­nan­cial in­vest­ment to his re­cent post as chair­man of the African Di­as­po­ra Fed­er­al Cred­it Union and African Di­as­po­ra De­vel­op­ment Fund, both of which are about to be launched.

In keep­ing with his clear in­sight that "unique cul­tur­al iden­ti­ty....(is) an as­set for growth," Ajibade ex­press­es the con­vic­tion that even as we em­ploy the most ef­fec­tive tech­nol­o­gy and tools of the mod­ern world for our col­lec­tive de­vel­op­ment in Africa and the Di­as­po­ra, we must build our fu­ture on our own cul­tur­al foun­da­tions.

The event at the Cen­tral Bank is free and open to the pub­lic.