CCHOGMHOGM 2007 2007
LOVE AFRICA
AS YOU LOVE YOUR OWN MOTHER
BY LUGONVU MOSES
K
halid Sheikh, chairman of
Clifton Packaging Group
PLC of United Kingdom,
has just concluded his visit to Uganda
as a Commonwealth Business Forum
Speaker. Raised in Jinja, Uganda,
Khalid is one of the most successful
Ugandan Asian stories in the United
Kingdom.
Through his public lectures at Nkumba
University, Makerere University
Business School and the CBC, Khalid
Sheikh’s presentations focused on
Added Value Food Processing and
Packaging for Africa with a slogan as a role model and many in the West see us other Ugandan Asians hailing from Jinja and
“Buy African Build Africa”. His vision is that, as worthy front runners, in the fast evolving Iganga, some of whom had never returned to
for Africa to prosper, there is an urgent need world of food processing and fl exible food Uganda since 1972. This was a memorable
for knowledge transfer programs, especially packaging.” home coming to their motherland, which
for the youth who are the future of Africa. brought back childhood memories. They
Khalid Sheikh traveled in company of his visited their former homes, shops and
Indeed, this was proved by the students’ brother Shahid Sheikh, Managing Director schools.
response to his message at the two universities of Clifton Packaging Group, together with
who exhibited an amazing quest for more
knowledge from Khalid.
There is need to mobilize Africa by giving
and sharing all the knowledge and expertise
that has brought Clifton Packaging to greater
heights. Value addition only comes with
knowledge. Therefore, intensive training
and motivation through centers of excellence
should be carried throughout Africa in order
to have a far reaching impact.
Africa needs processing and packaging
technologies which are fi t for the purpose. It
is pointless installing multi-million pounds
worth of machineries which can only be run
by foreign skilled work force.
Clifton Packaging is a true grit self-made
British success story that every British
entrepreneur should be proud of. “We went
out to the East on a limb, and provided a
solution for the global threat from the East.
Hence the reason why many in the East see us
16 | THEPROMOTA
www.thepromota.co.uk
ppromotamagazine_issue12.indd isabelle corrected.indd 16romotamagazine_issue12.indd isabelle corrected.indd 16 330/11/2007 21:46:250/11/2007 21:46:25
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60