The Call For A Guiding Vision of Africa

It is unquestionable how many highly talented and accomplished African professionals there are today, in all sectors of human activity. However, African collective advancement hinges not on our individual talents, but the ability to organize these individual talents into functioning parts of a collective vision. Hence, I hold that more talented artists (people) are not necessarily Africa’s main need today, but the conductor (core vision) able to organize the artistic play of all individual instruments into a united symphony of long-term structural transformation. 

There are many initiatives, programs, and activities happening today which I applaud. However, coherence is often missing. The need is a fundamental vision that embraces, arranges, and consolidates all efforts.  

Using a scientific illustration: every life form is a compound; every compound is a collection of elements; every element is a collection of subatomic particles; and within all subatomic particles is invisible magnetic energy holding and forming matter. The warmth, magnetism, and driving power of this fundamental energy is thus what holds and forms material substance together at this subatomic level. Through increased combinations of elements, the energy causes material substance to be further organized into the more complex compounds we can then subsequently see with our physical eyes.

The core magnetic energy within material substance is the equivalent of a “vision” in relation to African progress and development. A fundamental vision should be the driving and guiding force within the subatomic particles of every idea, that combines into the element of every initiative, and finally forms into the complex compounds of collective action!

Therefore, what is the fundamental vision driving and organizing all efforts for African progress and development today?

May those who carry the purpose of visionaries, and all others equally committed to African progress, gather in humility and fixed purpose. For there is much work to be done.  

One Africa. One Vision. One Progress.