Former Chief of Staff to late President Muhammadu Buhari, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, diplomat Moudjib Djinadou, and Dimas Garba have called on African leaders and citizens to embrace self-rediscovery as a pathway to the continent’s progress, arguing that decades of reliance on imported political, economic and governance models have failed to deliver desired development outcomes.
Speaking at the launch of Renegade Africa: All it Takes to Be African, written by Djinadou, a former United Nations official and founder of the Itumo Institute, a think tank based in Porto-Novo, Republic of Benin, on Tuesday at the Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development, Utako, Abuja, the speakers urged a return to indigenous governance systems, values and knowledge structures.
They noted that Africa currently faces numerous economic, security and social challenges, despite possessing vast resources and potential needed for sustainable development.
Chairman of the book launch, Gambari, said sustainable development in Africa can
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