Encouragement needed for African solutions to African problems, says Kenya’s Nyong’o

Abstract

A symposium in honour of the former Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Executive Secretary, Professor Adebayo Adedeji, was held in Lagos, Nigeria, Saturday with Prof. Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o, Governor of Kisumu County in Kenya, urging African intellectuals and academics to encourage African thinking on possible solutions to the continent’s challenges. Prof. Nyong’o, who delivered the keynote address at the ECA-organized symposium, lauded the late Adedeji for the great work he did for Africa, particularly for being the leading proponent of regional integration in Africa. Prof. Adedeji, who was affectionately known as Bayo by his peers, was widely regarded as the intellectual father of African integration.