{{President Kibaki is among four African Statesmen who will receive the Lifetime Africa Achievement award.}}
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, the late Ghanaian President John Atta Mills and Dr Mohammed Mo Ibrahim are among the other winners to be recognised.
The award is organised by Ghana’s Millennium Excellence Foundation (MEF).
The ceremony will be held at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC), Nairobi Saturday where the recipients will be officially presented with the honours at an event to be televised live in Kenya and around Africa.
A statement by MEF also named seven other recipients of the awards including businessman Kamlesh Pattni.
Others expected in Nairobi to receive the awards are Egyptian opposition leader Mohammed El Baradei, Godswil Apkabio , Kaumbi Chapwe, Aliko Dangote Laureate Isabel Dos Santos and Noo Letele.
President Kibaki will be awarded the prize for leadership, national cohesion and stability while President Museveni has won the prize in the Nation Building and African Leadership category.
The late Prof Mills has been posthumously honoured under Democratic Governance and Development category.
Dr Ibrahim of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation is the winner of Action for Africa prize to recognise his dedication to democratic governance in Africa.
“This exaltation of character, which is worthy of emulation, has made positive impact on the lives of his people today and will continue to sustain them for a better future.
“By dint of his hard work, foresight and resourcefulness, the world is walking up to a new Africa wherein the predominant theme in the emerging narrative about Africa is no longer war, famine and disease but rather strong economic performance,” MEF said of Dr Mo.
Previous winners of the award include South African businessman Cyril Ramaphosa, former UN Secretary General Dr Kofi Annan, Nigerian author Wole Soyinka among others.
NMG
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