The Awards are intended to bring about the positive aspect of the African communities in the UK and at the same time dispel the myths that the majority of our people are underachieving.

The Awards are to demonstrate that there are people within our communities still achieving alot and are good role models. These Awards are intended as incentives for many people in reaching their future GOALS. 
 

Act of Faith

The road of life is strewn with the bodies of promising people. People, who show promise, yet lack the confidence to act. People who make promises they are unable to keep. People who promise to do tomorrow what they could do today. Promising young stars, athletes, entrepreneurs who wait for promises to come true. Promise without a goal and a plan is like a barren cow. You know what she could do if she could do it, but she can’t. Turn your promise into a plan. Make no promise for tomorrow if you are able to keep it for today. And if someone calls you promising, know that you are not doing enough today.
My life needs a plan not a promise.
Taken from:Acts of Faith (Daily meditation for People of Colour) Iyanla Vanzart(Ed)




Prof. Wangari Maathai

Prof. Wanagari Maathai (born 1940 in Nyeri, Kenya) is a Kenyan environmental and women’s rights activist. In 2004 she was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize "for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace".

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela. World-famous President of South Africa who was imprisoned on Robben Island for two decades. Mandela now fondly known for Mandela Children's Fund"During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal, which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."

Kofi Atta Annan

Kofi Atta Annan, the first black African to occupy the post of Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), was born as one of a set of twins in Kumasi, Ghana, on 8 April 1938. His twin sister died in 1991. His parents, Henry Reginald and Victoria Annan, lived at the Atlantic coast, but the young Annan spent most of his childhood in the inland town of Bekwai, where his father worked for Unilever. His father was a tribal chief of the Fante people, and was later elected as governor of the Ashanti province.