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This year's African Creative Economy Conference (ACEC) takes place in ten days- and some of the world's most incisive, creative and thought-provoking strategists, academics, entrepreneurs and artists will shortly debate how to unlock the potential of the creative economies. This year, speakers and panellists at Cape Town's City Hall (6-9 October) will focus on the continent's creative industries as economic drivers, highlighting their potential contribution to the eradication of poverty and underpinning of democracy and human rights. Scroll down for photos of the speakers!

With only a couple of weeks to go to the must-attend African Creative Economy Conference (in Cape Town, South Africa 6-9 October), the line-up of speakers and panellists has grown into an inspirational and diverse collective that ranges from fashion entrepreneurs to political analysts, and musicians to government ministers.