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Speaking at the World Peace Forum as an African Ambassador

By the Grace of God I was recently invited to speak on a panel as an African Ambassador for the World Peace Forum Leadership Series, hosted by the World Mission Society Church of God. The panel was moderated by the talented Chief White House Correspondent for Africa, Hariana Veras, with whom I am now glad to be professionally connected as well as to the other panelists.

I would also like to acknowledge the other talented panelists I had the pleasure to work with: Dr. Joseph Sany, Former Vice President of the Africa Center at the US Institute of Peace; and Johanna LeBlanc, JD, LLM, Partner at The Adomi Group and Adjuct Professor at Howard University.

I am privileged for this opportunity and see the working of higher guidance from the Lord already on my professional path. I will reiterate that I see everything given to me—spiritual abilities, earthy talents and credentials, and all doors that may open—as first and foremost a Divine loan for service to God, and then subsequently as a tool to be a helper and guardian of the welfare and further development of the African people. Everything else is consequential. May God grant me power and guidance for this work, so that in the discharge of my duty, my life may bring honor to Him and help to my People.

Through blessing and guidance from above, and committed people on Earth prepared to diligently work toward the high goal of African nation-building, Africa will resurrect and rise to unprecedented heights. May God grant it!

Here is a summary video of the event. The background song in the video is fittingly “Eyes of Heaven” by Medwyn Goodall. Onward & Upward!💫

~Dr. Ikenna A. Ezealah
JD, PhD, MBA
Builder of the African Future

The Story of Moses: A Mirror of Africa’s Urgently Needed Shift In Leadership

Africa’s Pharaoh’s must Fall!

Across the African continent today, the growing cries for change amid rising hardship, misgovernance, and economic despair mirror the ancient pleas of the Israelites under Pharaoh’s oppressive hand. As the people groaned under burdens they could no longer bear, their anguish rose like incense, drawing Divine response. In that season of bondage, it was not diplomacy nor reform that shook Egypt—it was disruption. Under the leadership of Moses, Egypt was confronted with a cascade of plagues, each a Divine Judgment, each a strike against Pharaoh’s stubbornness, each a corrective blow to enforce the needed change until Pharaoah was completely subdued!

Today, Africa faces its own Pharaohs: corrupted, poor performing, and repressive leaders who refuse to release the potential of the African people into the wilderness of nation-building so they might reach the Promised Land of their developmental destiny ordained by the Creator. Pharaohs who refuse lead for the welfare of their people and who greedily cling to power while their countries languish.

This reflection posits that, like Egypt, Africa may require the corrective force of its own form of “modern plagues” by its citizens—strategic social upheaval, activated pressure of civic reawakening and bold action, even economic or generational rebellion…. to compel a transformative shift and the emergence of a new generation of visionary African leaders and nation-builders who, guided from above, are ready to serve with pure volition for the welfare and progress of the African people! For true liberation never comes without cost.

The time for passive hope is over. A new Africa demands a new type of leadership and citizen engagement.

Onward & Upward!

~Dr. Ikenna A. Ezealah, Ph.D., MBA
Builder of the African Future

YT: The Story of Moses: A Mirror of Africa’s Urgently Needed Shift In Leadership

Who Is Interested in Africa’s Genuine Development?

Are Western countries (now also Eastern ones) interested in Africa’s genuine development? Let the truth, which was always perceived yet relegated to the realm of conspiracy theory, speak for itself.

Africa, in the global development classroom, while your classmates in other continents are awake doing the assignments you are in class fast asleep. And many of your citizens who are awake are even completing assignments for their classmates while neglecting theirs (brain drain). Wake up!

Where are the Lions of Africa?

Dr. Ikenna Ezealah

For Africa To Develop, Is Democracy The Right Form Of Government?

Summary: I ask the fundamental question: “For Africa to Develop, Is Democracy the Right Form of Government?” I address it by reexamining the basic principle of the US system, the colonial systems, and some developed countries today. A pattern emerges that shows a different truth than what is sold to Africa. The basic principle which Africa can use to achieve development once it is indigenously adjusted to its context.

Onward & Upward!

~Dr. Ikenna Ezealah

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSfMQyHZJdU