Africa Needs Home-Grown Solution for Accelerated Development

Foreign theories and strategies have failed to solve the current socio-economic and political challenges because they don’t address the issues from the grassroots, hence the need for African nations to fashion out home-grown solutions to their problems.

The only way African nations could wriggle out of their challenges, which they have been facing since independence, is to design domestic strategies and solutions to the problems.

The point here is that Africa has the capacity to overcome its social, political and economic problem, and beyond the capacity to improve upon their lackluster condition, African countries can also achieve the seemingly elusive development with right strategies that take into consideration the peculiar nature of the continent and its diverse populace.

To occupy her rightful position in the comity of nations and earn the respect of others, Africa requires a home-grown solution to her many crises that have plagued many parts of the continent since independence.

One of the primary aims of bringing the recently held 2022 International Voice Achievers Award in Banjul, The Gambia, with the theme: “Building a Developed, Valued, and Respected Africa Now: A Clarion Call for a Collective Participation by Africans for African-Led Solution,” was (...To continue reading)