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From: Photo Flash: Meet ACEC's 2013 Creative Industries Policy Experts

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!