Development experts and sociologists convened on a virtual space to chart conversation on how Africa can leverage indigenous and home-grown talents for sustainable development across the continent.
Organised by the Think Tank for Sustainable Development, the conversation was centered on ‘Reinventing Tribalism to Work for Africa’s Development’
“Post-independence African leaders did not suppress identities to build state,” Chichi Aniagolu-Okoye, regional director, West Africa, Ford Foundation, said in keynote address, at the Think Tank webinar on sustainable development, adding that they leveraged ethnic diversity to build stronger society.
According to her, self-reliant, culturally confident communities build a far more stable nation than forced unity could ever build. She added that success must mean collective security, and not individual profit.
Accordingly, she posited that Africa and Africans must replace global capitalism with local self-sufficiency and community wealth. “Loving your own culture does not require denigrating another.”
Aniagolu-Okoye said African development has always
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