NBA Africa announced today that Oscar-winning actor and social activist Forest Whitaker, global economist and New York Times best-selling author Dr. Dambisa Moyo have joined NBA Africa as a strategic investor.
Whitaker is an American actor, producer, director, humanitarian, and activist. He won the Golden Globe Award, the British Film Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and the 2006 Oscar for his portrayal of former Ugandan President Idi Best Actor Award. Amin in the British historical drama “The Last King of Scotland”. In 2011, he was appointed as the Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and was promoted to the Special Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation, and an advocate of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Whitaker is Whitaker’s Peace and Peace Chief Executive Officer of the Development Initiative (WPDI), a non-profit organization that aims to promote the values of peace, reconciliation and social development in communities affected by conflict and violence. Through WPDI, Whitaker developed the Youth Peacemaker Network, a global peacebuilding network with centers in South Africa, South Sudan, Uganda, Mexico and the United States, and will soon expand to the Democratic Republic of Congo and France. WPDI actively participates in the field of sports through its “Peace through Sport” program, which combines sports practices and championships with seminars and events aimed at spreading the values of tolerance, non-violence, and respect for human rights.
Moyo was born in Zambia and is a global economist, writer and international speaker. She has served as a consultant to the World Bank, a research economist and strategist at Goldman Sachs, and has authored four New York Times bestsellers on macroeconomics, global affairs, and corporate governance. Moyo holds a Bachelor of Chemistry and an MBA from American University, an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, and a PhD in Economics from Oxford University.
“I am very happy to be a strategic investor in NBA Africa because it plans to expand the influence of basketball on the African continent,” Whitaker said. “Basketball is incredibly inspiring. My ten years of work in Africa have shown me how sports can be a transformative way to help promote peace and an economic engine for socio-economic development in conflict areas. I firmly believe that the league empowers youth. And I am very happy to work with the NBA African family.”
“I have loved sports all my life, and I am very grateful for the opportunity to support basketball in Africa at an elite level,” Moyo said. “Basketball has a great ability to become a positive force in this magical continent community.”
“We are very happy to welcome Forest and Dan Bisa to the NBA Africa family,” said Victor Williams, NBA Africa CEO. “They are all accomplished humanitarians. Their expertise, resources and guidance will add immense value to our existing investor base. We thank them for their efforts to use basketball as an engine of economic growth and positively influence Africa. The commitment and belief in the tools of the life of mainland youth.”Return to Sohu to see more
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