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❗Expanding the Narrative on the theme: ❗️Our Africa, our collective responsibility: Voluntarily taking ownership of our Development Priorities

❗An: Ibrahim Jalloh - (Jallomy's) Commentary...

Africa is great but within the bracket of the global family. Africa is characterized by confounding contractions.

It is rated and described as the poorest continent but with the greatest potential for the realization of the best in humanity. Africa is home to a wonderful lot of people with global compassion for the human race.

The richness of Africa's social capital, mineral endowments, environmental friendliness and extreme natural beauty is unsurpassed.

Regrettably, Africans have put themselves in an endless mode of unending complaints of the harrowing colonial past. Slavery, the Slave trade and colonialism were catastrophic barriers to the growth of the continent but perhaps the greatest barrier is Africa's seeming inability to break the chains of the past. Making history a permanent home destroys the motivation for real independence and the freedom for self-determination.

Africa's development cannot be imported; it has to be internally generated. For this to happen, Africans must be deliberate and intentional to take primary responsibility for their own development priorities. Crying foul for the injustices of the past can only hold us back and aggravate our worsening situation.

Africa needs inward looking at what she has and how to leverage on that. This is sustainability in its true sense. The global economy should be an inducement, a catalyst for our growth but not an absolute lasting solution. Africa is an apprentice to the global economy.

Expanding on the above theme and transforming the narrative to concrete development initiatives can put Africa on the runway for take off to a sustainable development trajectory.

©: Northern Times Newspaper✍🏾

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