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Innovate Afrika
Innovate Afrika

INTERVIEW WITH
JIGNESH VIRADIA

VALUE ADDITION TO GHANA’S COCOA

What is an Indian I feel we have abundance of land everybody should have the liberty to
pan-Afrikanist? available for, where opportunities enjoy education. Displaying science,
Indian by birth and pan-Afrikan by are immense. What we need is the displaying artifacts, studying our
choice or by will. For me, Afrika is right perspective and the support of galaxy, I think would be a fascinating
my home now and I wish to do ev- government and government poli- thing to have as a journey in your
erything and anything that can bring cies to make things possible. We, in education. It will attract tourism,
my home a good perspective and a Ghana, are trying to bring out-grow- which is a growing factor in every
good future for my Afrikan brothers er schemes for farmers, where we growing economy.
and sisters and for mother nature. bring those who don’t have farm-
Afrika is a golden continent... Afrika land to our own farms where they If you support tourism, the eco-
is life, Afrika is something which is can farm and we could be the off nomic growth by default will rise
unexplored. To continue my contri- taker. These are some grassroot level tenfold. If I give you the example of
bution towards Afrika, I have been things that we are starting from. Dubai; Dubai is nothing more than
doing quite a few things in terms Together with a team, we’re coming a Legoland which is constructed
of businesses, capacity building, en- up with a science and technology by putting pieces together from a
trepreneurship, knowledge partner- museum and we are trying to bring tourism perspective and people are
ships and so on. planetariums to every part of Afrika. coming there and spending money
I believe that things that we learnt on tickets, hotels, leisure, luxury
Agriculture is something I am fo- in India or some other countries, items, sightseeing and so on. So,
cusing on and is something in which don’t exist [in Afrika] and I feel that if the same perspective could be

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