Network's current chair of the Board of Directors—Linda Whetstone—is joined by ASFL's Linda Kavuka during opening remarks.
More than 150 freedom champions from 29 countries met in Nairobi, Kenya for Atlas Network’s 2019 Africa Liberty Forum. The two-day conference, which was co-hosted by local partners African Students for Liberty (ASFL), is an annual event to bring together leaders from think tanks and civil society organizations from all over Africa, creating opportunities for dialogue that focuses on challenges facing the continent as well as launching collaborations that will most effectively advance the cause of liberty.
ASFL’s Linda Kavuka, a Nairobi resident and former Atlas Network Smith Fellow whose help in planning the conference was instrumental to its success, greeted attendees with a warm welcome in the region’s lingua franca. “Mabibi na mabwana,” said Kavuka in Swahili, “Tunawakaribisheni Katika jiji letu la Nairobi!” She was followed on stage by Linda Whetstone, daughter of Atlas Network founder Sir Antony Fisher and current chair of the Atlas Network Board of Directors, who congratulated the assembly on their hard work to spread the message of freedom among new audiences.