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Seife Tadelle Kidane is born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia August 8, 1972. Professional background Information Communication Technology (ICT) expert, development specialist, and political scientist. Currently, he is serving as a Political Analyst for different media houses, consulting on governance and institution business reengineering. He has extensive experience in the governmental domain; he served as a senior government advisor for the Ministry of Youth Sport and Culture. The experience has related to youth policy development and consultation. In the private sector, he has served at Africa Connect technology holdings in Ethiopia and South Africa as COO and CEO. The managerial position I had it involves project management, client support, financial management, and partners’ engagement. In the civil society sphere, he severed president of Ethiopian Youth League (EYL), the Pan African Youth movement (PYM), and vice president of World Federation Democratic Youth (WFDY) among few.

Educational preparation is a combination of four disciplines. First Degree, BSc in Business administration, and BSc in computer science, besides a certified system engineer and network expert. Further, he studied a postgraduate program in honors in development studies and a Masters in International Relations and an ongoing Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Pretoria. He has dedicated himself from 2012 up until now, developing an alternative unification model for Africa. In previous years he has developed a reintegration model for the SACU region, ECOWAS, EAC, and SADC. Currently researching, A Critique of the Current Approach to African Unification in order to Explore an Alternative Unification Model: The case of the Horn of Africa.

Regarding Academic research, he has contributed the following book chapters and academic journals: Rethinking, Ethiopian Education System and Restoration Rectification Educational System Obstruction Consequence in the Political Volatility: Comparative Assessments Somalia and Djibouti The Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture and Food Security in the Greater Horn of Africa Archives and Collective Memories: Searching for African Renaissance in the pan-African imaginary

Contribution as TMALI Alumni; I am working on two regional projects that are Africa Speaks and Great Run Africa both projects and engaged in promoting Pan Africanism and African Renaissance. Africa Speaks a regional-based non-governmental and non-partisan organization that currently operates in five African countries. The organisation works on voluntary bases to promote Pan Africanism and African Renaissance, recognizing the need to support and encourage sustainable development through research education and entrepreneurship among youth and disadvantaged women are paramount. Africa Speaks established in April 2009. Africa Speaks based in South Africa, Pretoria. Africa Speaks a member of Africa Union ECOSSOC and United Nations ECOSOC. Great Run Africa (GRA) as a sport wing for Africa speaks to promote African values through sport. Africa Speaks an organisation endorsed by the African Union Commission to organised the Africa Youth and Students Festival towards the celebrations of the 50th Anniversary of the OAU/AU. The project seeks to enable Africa to utilised its vibrant Youth for Socio-Economic and Cultural transformation of the continent, thereby laying a foundation for a peaceful, prosperous, and united Africa.