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THE INFOSHOP, AFREX, AND EXT INVITE YOU TO
The World Premiere Film Screening
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| Brought to us by the Travel | |
| Channel and The Africa | Tuesday, August 19, 2008 |
| Society of the National | |
| Summit on Africa, Botswana: | Live Performance by |
| The President's Tour, is a | |
| documentary featuring former | Drummers at 6:15 pm |
| Botswana President Festus | |
| Mogae. | The program will start |
| | promptly at |
| This program will be aired | 6:30 pm |
| on the Travel Channel this | World Bank Main Complex |
| fall and is the third in a | Preston Auditorium |
| series of productions that | |
| showcases the beauty of the | |
| African continent. The two | The film screening will be |
| previous films featured | followed by a reception |
| President Yoweri Museveni of | |
| Uganda in 2003 and President | |
| John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor of | |
| Ghana in 2005. | |
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| Botswana: The President's | |
| Tour,provides a | |
| comprehensive and rich | |
| presentation of this | |
| extraordinary African | |
| nation, which will be viewed | |
| by over 90 million | |
| households in the U.S alone. | |
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FEATURING
His Excellency Festus Mogae
President of the Republic of Botswana from 1998 to April 1, 2008
WITH REMARKS BY
Obiageli Ezekwesili
Vice President, Africa Region, World Bank
Bernadette Paolo
President and CEO, The Africa Society of the National Summit on
Africa
Edith Grace Ssempala
Acting Senior Vice President, External Affairs, World Bank
Pat Younge
President and General Manager, The Travel Channel
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