Ahmed Bening Wiisichong is a

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youth leader, Pan Africanist and a Social Entrepreneur.He was elected as the Secretary General of the Pan African Youth Union in November 2021 at the 4th Ordinary Congress of the

Pan African Youth Union The Panafrican Youth Union (PYU) is the apex body for National Youth Coordinating Bodies and Mechanism in Africa. Known formerly as the Panafrican Youth Movement (PYM), it was transformed into the PYU at the organisation's 2003 congress in Windho ...

in Niamey, Niger. He is also the Africa Head Commonwealth Youth Innovation Hub.

Education

He attended

Nandom Senior High School The Nandom Senior High is a Catholic secondary school for boys, located in Nandom, in the Nandom district of the Upper West Region in Ghana. The school was formerly called St. Michael's Secondary School. History The school was founded in 1968 by ...

and

University for Development Studies The University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana, Tamale was established in 1992 by the government of Ghana with a view to accelerating the development of the then 3 Northern Regions of Ghana (the Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions ...

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Career

Ahmed has served as the Chairman of Operations of Africa Youth Connekt. He was elected the deputy secretary-general of the Pan African Youth Union in 2018 at the 5th Ordianry Congress on the Pan African Youth Union in Khartoum, Sudan. He has been a member of the International Organizing Committee(IOC) of three successive

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;

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2010,

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2013 and

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2017. He is also a commonwealth young leader and has led several youth development advocacy initiatives on the African continent. He led a team to discuss the xenophobic attacks in South Africa to map out comprehensive strategy to build cohesion and eliminate xenophobia. He is Board member of

BRICKS Youth Forum and Board Chair of Future Team Ghana. He served as the secretary-general of West Africa Youth Organization between 2013 and 2015. He has served as deputy commissioner for Great Run Africa and programs director for the All Africa Students Union. He also served as the secretary for the

National Union of Ghana Students NUGS, officially The National Union of Ghana Students is the largest student organization in Ghana. However the date of it foundation has been the subject of controversy. The official Facebook page suggests 1964. However Professor Anselmus Kludze, ...

Achievements

* Africa's most influential Youth Award by Afrabie Awards as the first Ghanaian to be awarded by the Afro-Arab Council *Most inspirational Youth 2018 by Youth Mentors Achievers Awards, Upper West Regional Edition.

References

Living people University for Development Studies alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Ghanaian pan-Africanists {{Ghana-bio-stub