Nation-building visionaries (NBVs) is what African countries need in office to move forward. NBVs who are first of all committed to the welfare and progress of their people, who possess the strength of will to take bold action, who understand the global environment and the nuances, who are highly educated with tremendous capacity and volcanic energy, and who have an original vision with tactical strategies to leverage the diaspora for aggressive nation-building.
Let us be honest, we already know these World Bank and IMF recommendations are not meant to develop Africa and cure its ails. But at best is meant, much like in the medical industry, to keep patients reliant on drugs to manage their symptoms instead of permanent cure, so they keep coming back to the doctor’s office and big pharma to spend money.
The drugs is analogous to dependency on all things foreign: loans, technologies, industries, imports, manufacture goods, companies etc. Basically, to ensure complete self-sufficiency is never really attained and with it the establishment of strong local industries through mass industrialization and manufacturing, and thus the sound utilization of local natural resources. There is no use being sheepish about it, just face the truth boldly and openly.
One should not get frazzled, but just calmly recognize that everyone is simply pursuing their own national interests! The issue in Africa today though, is that in most countries it lacks nation-building leadership in office who clearly defines and boldly pursues its own national interests that also serves the African agenda. Is there even a clear African agenda set by African leaders for global geopolitics today? In most cases African leaders just fly around to these global summits issuing grand declarations that rarely translates into anything real on ground, then they just copy the priorities other countries establish for themselves. A nation-building visionary would never do this!
Listen… Builders of the African Future, if you are serious about change in Africa you must step forward and firmly take the lead. Drop your tentative volition and wake up from this comfortable private life that keeps you numb to your duty. You must take personal ownership of Africa’s development and work to ensure you build a society for the welfare and further development of your people, the African people. No one will give you the opportunity, so you must work to create it for yourselves! Remember this and take the lead.
Onward & Upward!
~Dr. Ikenna Ezealah
“Builder of the African Future”
aka Dr. Juris-Diplomat
Nation Upbuilding 