Governance

In 2064, fifty years away, the Igbo people and the rest of the world will be making final preparations to commemorate a century of the Igbo genocide. This will take place on 29 May 2066.

“We are all Africans, period.” The iconic phrase of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party; a Pan-Africanist organization, founded and premised on the core assumption of African unity. African peoples throughout the world must as a matter of course come together and be together.

Predictions are risky but necessary, and could promise a certain percentage of fulfilment, especially when drawn from rational analysis; available evidence and emerging trends indicate that the generation that will be in charge of Africa’s social, political and economic action spaces circa 2065 w

A river flows
with purpose.
When it hits a
mound
of dirt
that
diverts its path,
it does not seek
to relive history
by recreating its
old course. With
great purpose a
river flows; see,

The Africa I want to see …
Is an Africa feeding itself from its abundant resources,
Producing solar energy from a sun that never fails to shine
Ensuring the diversity of our plant life and seeds are in the control of our farmers and
Not GMOs that will kill life.

My dear friend Kwame,

Greetings to the family and friends, and good health and best wishes for 2063.

It is what African leaders do now and daily which will determine the place of Africa in the next fifty years.

The Kenyan government’s brutal human rights violations against the Somali community in Kenya as well as its its unlawful military and diplomatic actions in the Jubba regions of Somalia have gone largely uncommented upon.

In June 1994, as the Secretary General of the Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF) I led a delegation to meet France’s then Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alain Juppe.

No sooner had the final results of the recently concluded 2014 national elections been announced than President Zuma gave a predictably self-congratulatory speech lauding the result as “the will of all the people”.