Honorary Award of the German Africa Foundation
Recipient
The German Africa Foundation (Deutsche Afrika Stiftung) presented Martin Kimani its 2022 Honorary Award, recognizing his February 21, 2022 UN Security Council statement on the Russia-Ukraine war for its contribution to understanding between African and European positions during "this difficult geopolitical situation."
Dr. Uschi Eid, the Foundation's President, presented the award, with laudatory remarks from Katja Keul, Minister of State at Germany's Federal Foreign Office. The Foundation's citation credited Kimani's "appeal for diplomacy and peaceful conflict resolution," pointing to his statement's argument that African nations had accepted colonial-era borders "for the sake of peace" and their own commitment to "principles of state sovereignty, territorial integrity and peaceful conflict resolution," as extending "his hand to deepen the African-European and African-German exchange."