The 2012 Presidential Candidate of Ghana’s New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, will Wednesday, 29 February, deliver the 2012 Oppenheimer Lecture, in London. The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a leading research authority on global security and political developments, has been hosting the Oppenheimer Lecture series, delivered by eminent African personalities, since 2006. Nana Akufo-Addo’s lecture, which will be on the theme ‘The future of democracy in Africa and the Arab Spring’, will be chaired by Dr John Chipman, Director-General and Chief Executive of the IISS and it will take place in the Lee Kuan Yew Conference Room at Arundel House, London, UK. The NPP leader follows other prominent leaders. Liberian President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf gave the Oppenheimer Lecture in 2006 while Mr Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda delivered the 2010 edition. Nana Akufo-Addo will leave Accra Monday evening to London. In the UK, he will undertake other assignments, including interactions with the Ghanaian community. He will be accompanied by Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, MP for Kwadaso, and his Press Secretary, Herbert Krapa.