How to unleash the talents and energies of African people to contribute effectively to the process of development and transformation

Abstract

This paper examines the failure of development policy to date in Africa, analyzing not only its effects but also its causes. In response to the question, "How to unleash the talents and energies of African people to participate in their own development and transformation, the paper suggests that the African people be allowed and encouraged to develop a level of consciousness to the prevalent crisis. It outlines a simple model that assists groups in structural analysis and explains that enlarging the role of Africans in the transformation process v/ill require challenging and overthrowing "the ideology of the experts".