The event will be held in Italian. 

Within the series on “A Growing Africa – To and Fro”, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli are pleased to announce the first lecture on “Economic Development and Cultural Variables in Africa”

This event is promoted in collaboration with E4Impact Foundation (an initiative by ALTIS, the Postgraduate School Business & Society of the Catholic University of Milan).

The event is focused on the coexistence between advanced models of development and small local businesses. A contradictory situation in which foreign capital, infrastructures, skilled employment and niches in innovation cohexist with broad sections of underdevelopment.

The lecturer Prof. Matteo Aria will address the theme of the informal economy as a potential solution to these economic imbalances allowing the survival of large segments of the population. Prof. Mario Molteni, Catholic University of Milan and CEO of E4Impact Foundation, Sulley Amin, E4Impact Alumnus and Founder of Zaacoal (a social enterprise based in Accra-Ghana of which business is to convert city waste into clean burning fuels) and, as moderator, Martino Ghielmi, editor of the blog vadoinafrica.com will intervene in the event.