YPCfA - Hotseats

Students gathered evidence for the YPCfA from a wide variety of experts and prominent people. They drafted questions, the answers to which were videoed and uploaded onto the site to form an important part of the students African research. Click on “Launch Students’ Work” to see the results.

Some of the video files on this page are quite large in size and so will take a little while to start, please be patient.

Cherie Blair
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Jay Jay Okocha
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Lindiwe Mabuza
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Dr Gaim Kibreab
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Charles Clarke
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Through the YPCfA, young people from Africa and the UK interacted with:

Voices on Africa:

Richard E Grant

Studied English and Drama at University in Cape town South Africa. Richard is an award winning actor who is perhaps best known for his role in the film Withnail and I

Sorious Samura

Sorious Samura (born 1964) is an award-winning Sierra Leonean best known for two CNN documentary hits: "Cry Freetown" (2000) and "Exodus from Africa" (2001)

Ifeoma Onyefulu

Using simple, clear writing, and the eye of her camera lens, Ifeoma Onyefulu reveals the rich diversity of African life and culture.

Cherie Blair

Cherie Blair QC is the wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair. She is a successful lawyer, in which capacity she uses her maiden name Cherie Booth.

Nwanko Kanu

Nwankwo Kanu is a professional footballer, currently playing for West Bromwich Albion in the English Premier League. He is known for his height, which is 198 cm (6'6").

Lauren

Lauren Bisan Etame Mayer is a Cameroonian international footballer currently employed by English F.A. Premier League team Arsenal, commonly known by his first name Lauren.

Mark Fish

A tall and highly rated defender, Fish's career rally took off when he played for South Africa's Orlando Pirates. There, his raw talent caught the eye of Serie A giants Lazio and Fish signed for the Rome-based club in 1996.

Jay Jay Okocha

Augustine "Jay-Jay" Okocha is a Nigerian football midfielder. He is nicknamed Jay Jay for his entertaining and flamboyant style of play.

Politicians:

Win Griffiths MP

Winston James Griffiths is a politician in the United Kingdom, and ex-member of Parliament for Bridgend.

Stephen Twigg MP

Stephen Twigg (born December 25, 1966) is a British politician and former Member of Parliament for Enfield Southgate.

Valerie Davey MP

Valerie Davey is a former Member of Parliament for Bristol West in England.

Charles Clarke MP

The Right Honourable Charles Rodway Clarke is a British politician. He is Member of Parliament for Norwich South and Home Secretary.

Hugh Bayley MP

Hugh Bayley is a British politician. He is member of Parliament for York, originally elected in the 1997 general election and successively re-elected in 2001 and 2005

Peter Hain MP

The Right Honourable Peter Gerald Hain is a British politician. He came to the UK from South Africa as a teenager, and was a noted anti-Apartheid campaigner in the 1970s.

Paul Boateng MP

The Right Honourable Paul Yaw Boateng became the UK's first black Cabinet minister in May 2002 when we was appointed as Chief Secretary to the Treasury.

Helen Jackson MP

Helen Margaret Jackson is a British politician. She was member of Parliament for Sheffield Hillsborough from 1992 until she stepped down at the 2005 general election.