Reality must match the aspirations of Africans, ECA Chief says in Cheick Anta Diop Lecture

Abstract

If Africa fails to create a reality that complements the aspirations of its citizens, the negative perceptions about Africa will catch up with wonderful intentions, once again, warned Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa when he delivered the Cheick Anta Diop Lecture during the 14th General Assembly of the Council for Development of Social Science Research currently taking place in Dakar, Senegal. Speaking on the theme, Africa’s imperative to determine its own future, questioned the thinking in postmodernism right up to post colonialism that seems to trap Africans in the narrative that Africa cannot develop on its own.