{"id":1255559,"date":"2022-11-22T10:08:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T10:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/22\/some-of-the-black-star-of-ghanas-sponsors-watch\/"},"modified":"2022-11-22T10:08:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T10:08:21","slug":"some-of-the-black-star-of-ghanas-sponsors-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/22\/some-of-the-black-star-of-ghanas-sponsors-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Some of the Black Star of Ghana&#8217;s sponsors.(watch)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>In order to promote football sustainability before the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, the Ghana Football Association has named Mara, a Pan-African digital finance ecosystem, as an official sponsor of the Black Stars of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Mara, Africa&#8217;s premier digital finance ecosystem, uses block chain technology to empower Africans&#8217; aspirations and change the social and economic destiny of African communities, nations, and the continent as a whole. In five years, Mara plans to train one million individuals and have a significant impact on one billion lives by focusing on digital banking, Web3, and block chain education.<\/p>\n<p>Former executives from companies  Amazon, PayPal, Uber, Apple, Multichoice, NBC Universal, Viacom, NVIDIA, Founders Bank, Rappi, and more are members of Mara&#8217;s executive team. From Coinbase Ventures, Alameda Research (FTX), Distributed Global, TQ Ventures, Day One Ventures, DIGITAL, Nexo, KuCoin Ventures, Huobi Ventures, and almost 100 other investors and angels, the  raised a total of $23M.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(64, 64, 64);\">The Mara executive team is led by Chi Nnadi, Lucas Llin\u00e1s M\u00fanera, Dearg OBartuin, Kate Kallot, and Susan Younis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>During a brief ceremony, Selorm Adadevoh, the CEO of MTN Ghana, declared that Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo had a significant role in securing the $2 million sponsorship agreement.<\/p>\n<p>In order to discuss the sponsorship that we are celebrating today, he added, &#8220;Today was made possible, first by a meeting with the Group President and CEO Ralph Mupita, our Senior Vice President for Market, Mr. Ebenezer Asante, and H. E. the President.<\/p>\n<p>H. E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo had a courtesy visit from the MTN Group delegation at his hotel while in New York for the 77th UNGA in September. During their encounter with him, Akufo-Addo asked the delegation of the  to support the SBlack Stars&#8217; World Cup preparations.<\/p>\n<p>Hon. Mustapha Ussif, Minister of Youth and Sports, thanked MTN for investing in sports and recognized their contribution to the growth of sports in his speech.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/58cda311fd6a42db91286981d7f065c2\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/b1136a649cbe4675a994408ce797877a\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/5653d1dad9984d1897d0d5059de86aae\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/f48c109f290048d78cef7a133307f9e7\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: LILVITAL (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       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