Former Senate President of Nigeria, Bukola Saraki, has urged African leaders to dismantle economic and institutional dependency and chart a new course of self-reliance, innovation, and prosperity.
Delivering a keynote address at the Democracy Union for Africa Forum in Nairobi, Kenya, themed “Navigating Africa’s Strategic Position in a Multipolar World: Towards Equitable and Mutually Beneficial Partnerships,” Mr Saraki said Africa must “end the mindset that progress must come from elsewhere” and “build institutions that outlive individuals.”
The session, titled “Ending Dependency: Rethinking Africa’s Path to Prosperity,” gathered policymakers, scholars, and development leaders across the continent, on Monday.
Africa’s unfinished independence
Mr Saraki observed that more than six decades after independence, Africa’s project of full sovereignty—economic, political, and intellectual—remains incomplete.
“Our economies still echo colonial designs: systems of extraction and export, wh
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