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| Nelson Mandela. Photo: Courtesy |
Calvin Coolidge was right when he said that all growth
depends upon activity and that there is no development physically or intellectually
without effort, and effort means work.
Africa in recent years has shaded off the old skin of developmental
bareness, intellectual stunted growth and lackluster effort in trying to race the
rest of the world economically, socially and politically.
It is not lost on the world that Africa holds a big junk of
the next frontier on growth and offers a fundamental plate to the world to
capitalize on the next great resurgence in terms of development due to its
untapped potential.
Africa should thus look outward and slide out of the veneer
that it has closed itself in and rise to the occasion that world dynamics are
changing and the eyes of the world are now at its back just like the scramble
and partition of Africa centuries ago.
The twist however is that this time round Africa has to
decide its part of the future on itself. Leaders and all citizenry in the large
African continent must stand and grab the opportunity and refuse to be held
back by the chains of corruption, anchors of poverty and weights of civil
strife and war.
The decisions for the greater tomorrow by Africa are the steps
to align policy today, reformulate agendas to suit the tomorrow you want and
the laying of sound structural frameworks to protect those aspirations.
As the great son of Africa Nelson Mandela said that sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great and that you can be
that great generation, it is incumbent upon everyone to dare and push Africa
forward. Africa is on the move.
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