“I See Lagos”

In Lagos:

The first of it’s kind in Lagos, “I See Lagos”, is a call to all Lagosians, wherever you are in the world, to join in a collective visioning of Lagos. Lagos is more than a geographical space but a place for our hopes, dreams, and our plans to make our reality what it can be. “I see Lagos” is a challenge to all those who truly believe in the future of this great city to envision the continuing work that the Fashola administration has been acknowledged for worldwide. But this is more than political posturing, it’s a chance for all outspoken Nigerians, Lagosians especially, to take up the call for change and make your dreams a reality through expression and networking.

Speaking about Leadership and Responsibility-Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

Central Bank Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, on a general lack of morality and leadership within Nigeria. He takes no prisoners:

“The Colonialists came, put that together and said it is now called the Northern Nigeria. Do you know what happened? Our grand fathers were able to transform to being Northerners. We have not been able to transform to being Nigerians. The fault is ours.
Tell me, how many governors has South West produced after Awolowo that are role models of leadership? How many governors has the East produced like Nnamdi Azikiwe that can be role models of leadership? How Many governors in the Niger Delta are role models of leadership? Tell me. There is no evidence statistically that any part of this country has produced good leaders.You talk about Babangida and the economy. Who were the people in charge of the economy during Babangida era? Olu Falae, Kalu Idika Kalu. What state are they from in the North?

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Does the Mo Ibrahim Foundation Foster Leaders or Bureaucrats?

The Mo Ibrahim Foundation recently announced a Leadership Fellowship program:

The Mo Ibrahim Foundation, in partnership with three of the world’s most influential multilateral organisations, announces the launch of the Ibrahim Leadership Fellowships programme. Working with the African Development Bank (AfDB), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), and the World Trade Organization (WTO) the Fellowships Programme will help to prepare the next generation of outstanding African leaders by providing them with unique mentoring opportunities.

Some of us are our scratching our heads AFDB,UNECA & WTO? These aren't leadership fostering organizations unless you mean the bureaucratic, red-tape entangling kind. The widely admired Mo Ibrahim is largely applauded for building a company and giving back.Something he is able to do because he was very successful at creating wealth. Perhaps the nurturing of younger builders,entrepreneurs and makers is something the Mo Ibrahim foundation should be focusing on.

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The Coming Arab Renaissance

Parag Khanna in FP:

Arabs are learning to solve their own problems. For the first time in more than 500 years, the convulsions rippling across the Arab world cannot be blamed on Ottoman conquest, European imperialism, American hegemony, or Israeli bullying. As unpredictable as the current situations in Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, and other Arab states remain, we must remember that having had perhaps the worst possible leaders, their societies will very likely be better off in the medium and long term because their governance is for the first time becoming an inclusive arena -- both nationally and regionally. The smartest thing the West can do is to help them help themselves...[continue reading]

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A Creative Revolution Builds in Nigeria

Adaora Mbelu writing in 234Next:

While advocating for political change in our country, we have stumbled on a ‘Creative Revolution’ that is occurring simultaneously as we battle for control of power. ‘Stumbled’ might be an inappropriate description, as one could argue that the creative revolution has been in the works far much longer than our political ambition. Perhaps we just didn’t pay much attention to our creativity in the past, and danced to the tune of our elders describing our ideas as ‘youthful exuberance’.

On the need for collaboration:

We are too busy trying to become “the key player”, and we fail to realize that we need to spark the minds of people who are passionate, who share our vision, and who will eventually effect the change we seek. We need to let loose of the ‘it’s my thing and I’m going to do it alone’ mentality. In simple terms, we need to be radical champions of collaboration and create a conveyor belt system where one person designs, another cuts, another sews and another sells.

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The New Anti-Corruption Era in Egypt

The Corruption Blog reports on a workshop that was recently held in Cairo, Egypt:

Entitled “Towards a new integrity system in Egypt”, the workshop brought together more than 75 members of government, media, academics, judiciary and civil society to agree on the first steps to making Egyptian institutions strong and independent so that they can enforce anti-corruption laws and uphold freedom of expression.These discussions can act as a starting point for a new anti-corruption framework, with measures that ensure all actors in the Egyptian state – including leaders, public officials and security forces - act with integrity.
“In this meeting people inside and outside worked together driven by a common determination to create a truly effective and comprehensive anti-corruption system. There is a very clear mood that we cannot allow rules and institutions to be side-stepped by those in power,” said Omnia Hussein, In-Country Programme Coordinator for Transparency International in Egypt. “Egypt must have a state-of-the-art system of checks and balances so that there are no longer exceptions to anti-corruption rules.”

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Nigeria's Fragile Future

Dele Olojede in the NYTimes:

While our democracy remains rickety and our ruling elites remain unable to distinguish between public funds and private purposes, we take these baby steps as a sign that we will eventually get it right.Mr. Jonathan, with nearly 60 percent of the votes declared in his favor, appears to have persuaded at least a plurality of Nigerians, as well as most external election monitors, that his victory is legitimate.But Mr. Jonathan does have a big problem: a lack of support in the country’s north. Whether he is able to manage it will determine if Nigeria succeeds in becoming Africa’s economic and political heart, as its size and resources would suggest. Indeed, the rest of Africa will probably never fulfill its potential with a dysfunctional Nigeria. Nor can the United States, which gets more than 10 percent of its oil imports from Nigeria, afford disarray here at a time of upheaval in the Middle East.

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Rapping in Kibera

In Daily Dispatches Nairobi:

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Octopizzo, a hip-hop artist rising from Kibera, talks to Mike Pflanz 

I see things happen in my slum, Kibera, dead people, violence, this is real, man. Killing people is not fun, it’s not a movie, these are problems, problems we should be addressing. But that’s what many people here grow up listening to, wanting to copy this, ‘gangstas’ singing about their cars, their girls. Guys here don’t know these singers hired those cars for the videos. They hired this bling.I don’t blame the kids because this is what they see on TV. They think this is real life. Now you get a kid from Kibera rapping how he has a Lamborghini. I’m like, you don’t even have a house, man, you live with your mom, do you even know what a Lamborghini looks like?

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Mugabe's survival and “liberation solidarity”

Peter Godwin in the NYTimes:

The parallels between Ivory Coast and Zimbabwe are striking: both were once viewed as the singular successes in their respective regions, the envy of their neighbors. Both Mr. Gbagbo, a former history professor, and Mr. Mugabe, a serial graduate student, are highly educated men who helped liberate their countries from authoritarian regimes.Both later clothed themselves in the racist vestments of extreme nativism. Mr. Gbagbo claimed that his rival Alassane Ouattara couldn’t stand for president because his mother wasn’t Ivorian; Mr. Mugabe disenfranchised black Zimbabweans who had blood ties to neighboring states (even though his own father is widely believed to have been Malawian)

 The invocation of "liberation solidarity"

Most of the political parties still in power in southern Africa were originally anti-colonial liberation movements — like those in South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia and Angola — and they tend to abhor the aura-diminishing prospect of seeing any of their fellows

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Contextualizing protests in Northern Nigeria

Salisu Suleiman on the crisis in northern Nigeria:

...the targets of the uprising are the so-called leaders in the North – the political, military and business elite as well the traditional institutions that have held the region back and truncated any attempt to educate the people and free them from the yolk of illiteracy and poverty. In the same manner that sit tight rulers in North Africa and the Middle East are being toppled by popular movements in the Arab Spring uprisings, the protests in northern Nigeria can be viewed as rebellion against a backward and anachronistic feudal system. Karshen Zalunci (End of Oppression) might be an apt description...For those seeking to understand the outbreaks of violence, there is another north. There is a north that has nothing to do with the usurpation of political and economic opportunities to the exclusion of other Nigerians. There is a north that is poor, hungry, illiterate and devoid of hope. There is a north that is as much a victim as the south of the corruption and arrogance of these narrow clique of northerners that is often presented as representing the entire region.

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Françafrique Redux

In the NYTimes:

Achille Mbembé, a Cameroonian-born historian and critic of French involvement in Ivory Coast, said that France continued to support African dictators, mentioning the leaders of Gabon, Cameroon, Congo, Chad and Togo. He saw “a continuity in the management of Françafrique — this system of reciprocal corruption, which, since the end of colonial occupation, ties France to its African henchmen.”

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Kenyan Heavy Metal

via Bombastic Element,the Nairobi heavy metal group 'Last Years Tragedy':

U.N. Millennium Villages-Potemkin villages?

Michael Fairbanks writes:

...the architects of the Millennium Villages need to stop overstating their development impact, and heed the calls by economists like Michael Clemens at the Center for Global Development to learn more through careful evaluations. Until then, these places still appear less like the model villages of the new millennium, and more like the Potemkin villages of the last millennium: Russian towns built like theatrical sets, with large fires that glowed in the distance to portray improved economic activity.

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Nairobi's Construction Boom

From Daily Dispatches: Nairobi

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The face of this young city is undergoing radical plastic surgery. In what the media here never fail to call “the leafy suburbs”, 1930s stone-built bungalows behind manicured hedges are being torn down and multistory apartment blocks rising high in their place.
Out on the upgraded highways snaking into the city, red tiled roofs stretch across acres of what was once empty grassland tended only by Masai cattle.Malls are morphing from charming clusters of family-owned grocers and butchers, where everyone knows your name, into many-outlet monoliths to Mammon.At well-to-do dinner parties, this is a constant topic of slightly disapproving conversation. Think of all the traffic. Have they upgraded the sewer pipes and the water supply? How will the electricity grid cope with all this extra demand?

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A Deepening in Democracy?

Tolu Ogunlesi in Think Africa:

I think that what we are seeing in Nigeria at the moment is not so much a “deepening of democracy” (i.e. in terms of a transformation of democratic institutions: police, judiciary, executive, legislature, political parties etc), as it is an ‘awareness-transformation’ on the part of citizens. It is important to realise that democracy, as a system of government, is useless when citizens do not realise the extent of the power it offers them.

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Ripe for Reform - The Africa Union

Mwangi S. Kimenyi writing in Brookings:

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As major events have unfolded in North Africa over the last few months, the role of the African Union has been disappointing to say the least. Its failure to take a firm position on the atrocities being committed in Libya has revealed the organization’s lack of a coherent strategy to implement its core objectives of ensuring peace and upholding human rights in the continent. The organization appears to be slowly gravitating toward fecklessness in the same manner of its predecessor, the Organization of African Unity (OAU).

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2face's Song against Fake Drugs

2face Idibia on the threat of fake Drugs:

“The menace of fake drugs and substandard edible products is one evil every Nigerian has a responsibility to fight for obvious reasons. People involved in the trade are merchants of death and their targets are people like you, me, our family, friends, colleagues, neighbors and compatriots.”

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Entrepreneurial Solutions for Prosperity

In Tekedia an excerpt from Eric Kacou's new book Entrepreneurial Solutions for Prosperity in BoP Markets:

Leaders, whether business, national, or development, are increasingly recognizing the success of individual firms as key to economic growth. However, when faced with a challenge, leaders often apply outdated thinking, or “winning formulas” that worked in the past. As a result, each time people fail to obtain a desired outcome, they implement the same strategy: “doing the same thing, only harder.”
Firms fail to thrive, governments continue to rely on aid, and poverty is perpetuated. Results don’t change given that the actions are fundamentally the same, and informed by previous mindsets, mental models, or beliefs. These mindsets are further shaped by the operating reality, or business environment, in which these stakeholders operate.

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Swaziland's Monarchy faces Rising Unrest

In Think Africa William Clarke writes:

Mswati’s authority is challenged by a number of popular democratic movements. The most powerful of these is the People’s Democratic Movement, which is banned as a partisan political group. In 2008 Sipho Jele, a PDM member was arrested for wearing a t-shirt with the party’s slogan on it, and later died in custody. His funeral was disrupted by armed police. Meanwhile protests are stepping up, partially inspired by the Arab Spring uprisings to the north. A fall in cross border trade with South Arica, upon which the economy is heavily dependant, has caused the implementation of unpopular austerity measures, including the suspension of state pensions, unfortunately coinciding with the announcement of lavish plans to celebrate the royal jubilee. The biggest march in several years was held in March of this year, with public servants protesting against a pay freeze. Protestors demand the resignation of Prime Minister Subusiso Dlamini, and an end to the extravagance of Mswati and his family.

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Jos Nigeria, A city still divided

In the BBC:

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Two years ago, Assignment visited the Nigerian city of Jos and found a city riven with sectarian divisions. Since then more than 1,000 people have been killed in fresh violence between Muslims and Christians.In the run up to Nigeria's presidential election, Rob Walker returns to the city to meet residents he met on his last visit...[continue reading]

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Home might be a better option... 'African migrants abandon the American dream'

In the BBC's Focus on Africa Magazine:

There are an estimated one million Africans in the US.
According to the homeland security department, 130,000 Africans migrate legally to the US each year.It is impossible to say how many returnees there are, as the evidence is anecdotal but representatives of African community associations in New York, Atlanta and Boston all say they know of large numbers of expatriates making plans to leave the US.
The reason: they cannot find jobs and have become desperate about their future here...[continue reading]

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Côte d'Ivoire: Descent into hell

In Pambazuka, blog accounts of the crisis in Ivory Coast:

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‘The fog of war clouds everything for the moment; it's impossible to tell who is responsible for what -- and against whom. But it's important to look at all sides of the fighting, because when the dust settles, Cote d'Ivoire is going to be torn apart.’

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Inside Tahrir Square

In MIT World, an illuminating on-the-ground account of Egypt's ground zero-Tahrir Square during the revolution:

Google's Nigerian Election Information Portal

From the Google Africa Blog:

At Google, we realize that the Internet is a powerful source of information, and information is especially important when a country comes together to participate in the electoral process. As the Nigerian elections get underway, we’ve put together an election information portal with several resources to help track the election and surrounding events.

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Looking forward to "A Day Without Handouts"

"...Every year millions of shoes and clothing are donated to various developing countries. This practice is expensive and competes with local business. TOMS declared 5 April a Day Without Shoes, to raise awareness to the plight of those without shoes. We propose the counter campaign, a Day Without Dignity.Aid should start by asking communities what their needs are, rather than what will help American corporations sell an image of being socially conscious..."-A Day Without Dignity

Do Nigerians know that the "The Future is Here" ?

via 360nobs a 'Call to Action'

TY Bello - The Future from Kemi Adetiba on Vimeo.

What next for Ivory Coast?

Adekeye Adebajo in the Guardian:

The Republican forces loyal to Alassane Ouattara, the internationally recognised winner of Ivory Coast's election last November, are, as I write, in the final stages of a violent showdown in the capital, Abidjan, to oust the recalcitrant losing president, Laurent Gbagbo. This is proving to be a bloody last stand as the former history professor, Gbagbo, seems to have ignored the lessons of the past. In 1990 the Liberian autocrat Samuel Doe was captured by rebels in Monrovia and tortured to death; a year later the Somali strongman Siad Barre fled into exile as a rebellion approached Mogadishu; the Zairean despot Mobutu Sese Seko also fled his capital in 1996 as rebels approached.

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"Ivory Coast desperately needs a healing figure..."

Craig Murray writes:

In the short term, military force might be able to install Ouattara as President of Ivory Coast. But the ethnic and religious divisions of the civil war have been reopened, and deepened. Ivory Coast desperately needs a healing figure, somebody who is not Ouattara or Gbagbo. Having been imposed on Abidjan by force, Ouattara will only stay there by force. The future looks bleak...[continue reading]

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Robert Mugabe's Reign of Terror 'The Fear' by By Peter Godwin

In the NYTimes Joshua Hammer reviews 'THE FEAR Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe':

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...In 2008 Godwin — one of the few Western journalists then remaining in the country — travels from Harare to rural Zimbabwe (including his birthplace, Chimanimani), documenting the bloodshed. He visits hospitals overflowing with maimed, bludgeoned, burned victims. “Think of deep, bone-deep lacerations, of buttocks with no skin left on them, think of being flayed alive,” he writes of a torture method called falanga. “Think of swollen, broken feet, of people unable to stand, unable to sit, unable to lie on their backs because of the blinding pain.” In one of the most riveting sequences in “The Fear,” Godwin joins James McGee, the burly, no-nonsense American ambassador, on a fact-finding trip outside Harare. Confronted repeatedly by gun-toting policemen, militia members and intelligence agents, McGee bravely brushes them aside as he and his team gather evidence of torture and murder. (On this trip, Godwin wanders into a farmhouse used as a torture center by Mugabe’s hit teams and riffles through a notebook that documents interrogations and names people “who are to be beaten.”) Finally advised to leave the country for his own safety, he watches from New York as Tsvangirai withdraws from the June 27 runoff, saying he cannot participate in a “violent, illegitimate sham.”

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What's Worth Measuring In Development?

Misha Lepetic writing in 3QuarksDaily:

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...jugaad innovation is one that is entirely outside the metrics of growth, scale and development as we have come to understand it. In fact, the original jugaad motor vehicles remain unregistered, and therefore not subject to India’s road tax, so it is impossible to estimate how many are on the road. It is this ambiguity that allows true, local innovation to remain almost entirely outside the frames I have described above. Does that mean that it is any less effective, or that the problems being solved by that local population are any less deserving of being solved, if only for that population itself?... it is an acknowledgment that local ecosystems with seemingly intractable problems beyond the scope of free markets and development initiatives can in fact be served by their very own populations. Once that is recognized and encouraged, it might even emerge that what we are most interested in measuring is not profitability or growth, but human dignity itself.

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Democracy’s Fourth Wave?

Carl Gershman on democracy's Fourth Wave in The New Republic:

• We are seeing that democracy is indeed a universal value, and “Arab exceptionalism” theory does not hold ground.
• The majority of people in the Middle East, just as in other parts of the world, prefer democracy as the best form of government, according to public opinion surveys.
• Autocratic governments are less stable than people think they are, especially given the expansion of new communication technologies and social networking that provide people with new means to expose corruption and push for freedom of expression.

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Time To Recognise Somaliland

Image via WikipediaMark Seddon in Big Think:

While the attention of the World continues to focus on North Africa and the Middle East, other conflict stricken countries fall ever further down the news agenda. In the case of Somalia - essentially a failed state - conflict and war has assailed people there since the early 1990s. Attempts to intervene by the United States famously failed, and a more recent intervention by Uganda has had limited success. Somalia is a breeding ground for terrorism and priracy - and yet...The Northern part of Somaliland, encompassing the colonial boundaries of the former British Somaliland is a functioning, free and fair democracy. Bizarrely it remains unrecognised by any other country. Is that because it offends African Union opinion, in that effectively it is a breakaway state?

The African Union – Compromised from All Sides

In African Arguments Muthoni Wanyeki asks:

What is going on with the African Union? Is its drifting away from the bold values declared in its Constitutive Act, meant to signal a definitive departure from its predecessor, the moribund Organisation of African Unity?

Regarding Libya and North Africa:

It also must not be forgotten that Egypt has always been a significant player within the AU. And Libya has recently tried to be as well. In pursuit of the ‘United States of Africa’ dream, the Libyan President has bankrolled (with Libyan public funds) the payment of dues to the AU of any number of small Central and West African states. He has also bankrolled – through means both dubious and legitimate – the electoral (and re-electoral) efforts of both dubious and legitimate African Heads of State from Cairo to Cape Town, from Dakar to Mombasa. While that may not have gotten him the political results desired during the so-called ‘Grand Debate on the Union Government,’ it has certainly won him bemused, if often irritated accommodation. For even the most ill-conceived of regional integration efforts, such as the convening of all genuine and manufactured feudal structures in Africa—the Kingdoms and Councils of Elders. That Kenyan Kamlesh Pattni of Goldenberg grand corruption scandal fame is a fixture of these convenings is enough to tell the entire tale.

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Bold values are fine but its more or less an impossible task to reconcile 'values' with valueless leaders.

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The Intersect between Art and Science in Indigenous Knowledge

In Sci-Cultura:
African Alchemy - the intersect between art and science in indigenous knowledge