Re-Engineering Development in African Countries Part Nine: Building an Entrepreneurial Culture
This article is a continuation of Re-Engineering Development in African Countries Part Eight. An entrepreneur is a term that was created by the French in 1875 to 1890 to describe a person, usually an employer of labor, who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, with considerable initiative and risk to themselves, financial and […]
Re-Engineering Development in African Countries Part Eight: Engineering the Transition
This article is a continuation of Re-Engineering Development in African Countries Part Seven. It starts with achievable goals. Goal-setting is the most fundamental attraction of progress. “Without vision the people perish.” One of the simplest aspirations for any leader of a country is to set a goal to increase per capita income of their country […]
Re-Engineering Development in African Countries Part Seven: “Ideas” Factory
This article is a continuation of Re-Engineering Development in African Countries Part Six. Truth #11 “Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn’t it first merely a thought and a quest?” ― Jalaluddin Rumi Ideas have led to every material human endeavor and creation. In the entire catalog of human existence, each discovery […]
Re-Engineering Development in African Countries Part Six: African Nations Have All They Need to Prosper
This article is a continuation of Re-Engineering Development in African Countries Part Five. The world is a constant parade of evolutive flow of knowns from unknowns. Some term it as change is a constant inevitable reality. One of the great gifts that European adventurism bestowed on the world is the crucial importance of vanquishing our […]
Re-Engineering Development in African Countries Part 5: The Heavy Lifting
[fusion_text] This article is a continuation of Re-Engineering Development in African Countries Part 4. Truth #6 The sixth is to compartmentalize each challenge by creating mission-specific teams. To successfully manage every aspect of re-engineering for change, leadership should create nuclei of working groups or mission-teams within a master-plan of tasks. In my book, “Unleashed, A […]
UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION (UNIDO)
UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION (UNIDO) Joint High Level Side Event Third Industrial Development Decade for Africa 2016 to 2025: from Political Commitments to Action on the Ground By John Akhile The General Assembly of the United Nations, which convenes in September of every year, is a landmark of global political who-is-who. Many side events […]
Re-Engineering Development in African Countries Part-4
The Way Forward for African Countries The (only) way forward is to identify and resolve the structural impediments to development one at a time. The term, structural impediment, denotes the existence of foundational anomalies in a society that militates against society’s advancement. These anomalies should be unearthed and wrestled to the ground satisfactorily so that […]
Re-Engineering Development in African Countries Part 3
The World is a “Business Ecosystem” Managed by Politicians Part of the reason for the success of countries that have either made up ground or surpassed Western nations is that they get it. They get the fact that commerce is the business of the world’s nations. At the risk of over-simplification, the profit from supplying […]
Re-Engineering Development in African Countries part 2
A Tale of Two Africas—Reality and Plunder One narrative is based on the “Euro-plunder mentality” of pre-colonial, post-slave trade era that led European “treasure-hunting” entrepreneurs to invade African shores in search of “plunder.” This narrative was akin to a bugle-horn blast to all who have “ears” that there is “gold in them thar hills” of […]
Re-Engineering Development in African countries
This wide-ranging analysis about re-engineering development in African countries is not for the faint of heart. It is not for those who would rather gloss over the challenges facing African countries and indulge in delusional fantasies about African “riches.” For those people, now would be the time to opt out of this discussion. In my […]