Ex-Zambia Vice President, Nevers Mumba, Demola Sogunle, Timi Dakolo, Kaffy, other heavyweights for Thinkation 2022

The 2022 edition of Thinkation, a flagship event of the Ubong King Foundation will hold on Saturday, January 29 with the theme, ‘Create Your World’.

According to the organisers, this year’s edition of the event, which is the 5th in the series is scheduled to hold virtually and physically in Lagos due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Speaking at a press conference on Friday in Lagos, Unyime-Ivy King, Co-founder and wife of the late Ubong King said like previous editions, the 2022 Thinkation will take on the full mandate of the founder whose passion to raise young entrepreneurs weaned from a dependency mindset to a productive one led him to establish the foundation in the first place.

She further explained that Thinkation is a compound word derived from the merger of ‘thinking’ and ‘education’. It is a platform that brings together established and transformational leaders, including youths from different facets of life to share experiences.

It is also a platform for sharing insights and secrets that will assist young Nigerians to make an extraordinary impact and accelerate their personal growth in business and national development.

She added that the leaders and experts would be coming to educate, share experience and create a meaningful impact on the young minds in order to awaken their thinking processes for self-development in business and nation-building.

“Africans are being celebrated for being well educated globally while many of her communities remain underdeveloped and depend on the influence and expertise of the western world for development even after being endowed with natural resources,” she noted.

Unyime-Ivy King reasoned that while there was nothing wrong with the Western influence, it had its positives, explained that it was imperative that Africans developed their minds and knew what to do with what they had in order to live in a better world.

“We believe that the challenges in our continent are not caused by what we do not have but what we have that we have failed to utilize because our thinking process is impaired by a mindset that only thinks for today, lives for the here and now, and lacks futuristic thinking,” she said.

She disclosed that it was the concern of the Foundation, through the Thinkation initiative, to infuse thinking into education for excellent outcomes so as to get desired results to change the continent and enhance individual growth amongst youths.

On the caliber of guests expected at the conference, she said: “The speakers for Thinkation 2022 are great thought out leaders in different fields of endeavours, prolific speakers, writers, coaches, mentors and mentees. In their unique ways, they will share from their wealth of experiences, challenges and motivate participants to think in terms of solutions, instead of giving in to problematic situations and wallowing in despair”.

The rich guest lists for Thinkation 2022 include: Nevers Mumba, former Vice President of Zambia. He will be the keynote speaker at the conference. Others are Just Ibe, economic growth and development consultant; Ugochukwu Omeogu, Chief Visionary Officer, Merignos Consulting and Mentoring Ltd; Dr. Demola Sogunle, Chief Executive, Stanbic IBTC; Glenn Davis, US Army veteran; Emem Isong, frontline producer and film maker; Timi Dakolo, popular Nigerian singer; Kaffy, professional dancer and dance instructor and a host of others.