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Arnaud Sighano

Founding Member & General Coordinator - YALI SPORT AFRICA

“Sport has become a real industry requiring new skills for emerging professions” it is with this sentence that my real love for sport begins. I am Arnaud SIGHANO founder of YALI SPORT AFRICA and Promoter of ESP Sport Business School. Starting from Douala to Dakar, via Abidjan then making a trip to Pretoria via Nairobi, I noticed that sport brings together African youth. On the continent, programs are multiplying in large numbers to bring together and train young Africans, like one of the best programs that I have been part of, which is YALI (Young African Leader Initiative), a program initiated by former American President Barack OBAMA. It is from this observation that I came up with the idea of using what young people are passionate about to bring them together and have a positive impact on their lives. This is how the YALI Sport Africa thematic network was born, inspired by the transformative power of sport as a tool for development and unification to achieve a just, peaceful and dynamic society. On a daily basis in young people, I talk about sport for development, sport for peace, the economics of sport, sports diplomacy, sport business and the sports industry, as a tool for promoting positive social change and transmitting life skills.