Opinion: Africa: Designing a New Trajectory For a Post-COVID-19 World, By Adewale Ajadi
In Africa, we have a choice and it is one we seem to have never previously been courageous enough to consider since we were reduced by slavery and subjugated by colonialism. We are at a time when the effect of the pandemic should call our better angels towards a more original design.
In Africa, we have a choice and it is one we seem to have never previously been courageous enough to consider since we were reduced by slavery and subjugated by colonialism. We are at a time when the effect of the pandemic should call our better angels towards a more original design.
There are a few priorities for designing a post-COVID-19 Nigerian nation that is both original and a great platform for the future of the world. First, we cannot afford the Westernised or ‘Anglo-American’ winner-takes-all political process. We in Nigeria cannot afford the oppositional polarisation, in which the losers spend all their time seeking the failure of the administration in power…
The next design focus is the need to make agriculture and food the centre of our commonwealth, while establishing Nigeria’s primary entitlement to nutritional wealth. Diverting all our economic, health and social focus towards agricultural production, processing and provision, will drive significant nutrition, pharmacological and medical results. There are many reasons why our food must become our medicine and our medicine our food.
We need an aggressive mission to uplift the capacity of our girls and women. The face of poverty in Nigeria is largely female and she carries the burden of six children. We have no future with about 50 per cent of the population, which has the most critical effect in the growth of the future, largely marginal and often undervalued. All data show that when women do well, families do well. Their education, progress and prosperity must become a national clarion call, irrespective and age.
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