Today, on World Cancer Day, we look back on Mawlana Hazar Imam's visit to East Africa in 2011, where the Heart and Cancer Centre in Nairobi was inaugurated.
AFRICA 24 MEDIA and CCTV NEWS, as part of CCTV NEWS’ “Faces of Africa” series, present "THE AGA KHAN: CREATING A BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR AFRICA”. Republished with permission from Africa24 Media. First aired on 8 March 2015.
In October 2017 Mawlana Hazar Imam was conferred with the Most Excellent Order of the Pearl of Africa by His Excellency President Yoweri Museveni during Uganda’s 55th Independence Day celebrations. This is the highest civilian award of the Ugandan Honour System and has only been presented to five other individuals in the history of Uganda. Today, we look back on his Diamond Jubilee visit to Uganda and Tanzania.

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