Globalisation, the African Renaissance and Sustainable Development: The challenge to African Intellectuals

Abstract

As Africans, we are faced with the urgent challenge of ending poverty and underdevelopment on our Continent. This is a massive task that will take us some time to accomplish. The first objective we confront in this regard is that we must ourselves take on the responsibility to answer the question - what are the ways and means that we must adopt to ensure that we achieve these objectives!

It is the poor themselves who must answer the question - what should be done so that their poverty comes to an end permanently. They must themselves be responsible for the answers to this question so that they recognise the obligation to themselves to take such actions as may result from the answers they will have provided themselves.


(Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems: 2002 1: 49-60)