Globalism’s Promises of Progress or Disorientation & a Shoddily -Prepared African Leadership - RL Vol XI No XXVI, CXXIV, MMXVII

Globalism’s Promises of Progress or Disorientation & a Shoddily -Prepared African Leadership

Public lecture RL Vol XI No XXVI, CXXIV, MMXVII

Costantinos Berhutesfa Costantinos, PhD

Published by Fortune Addis

Abstract

Initial efforts by the African Union and the OAU to develop and integrate Africa included the most comprehensive programme adopted – The Lagos Plan of Action, Final Act of Lagos, Monrovia Symposium, Arusha, Khartoum, and Addis Ababa Declarations, African Common Market, Cairo Agenda for Action, Abuja Treaty. Africa also actively participated in a myriad of vastly costly exercises in numerous multilateral initiatives. In the Libreville Declaration, African countries declared that they ‘are committed to enhancing our cooperation at the international level and to adapting the structure to meet the new challenges and to taking advantage of the opportunities arising from the new environment’. Integration into the international economic system underpins the need to search for and provide a fresh and renewed focus in programming for the demands of globalisation, develop approaches for integration, train policy makers in the art and techniques of analysing global trends, learn from best practices in the areas of resource mobilisation, borders trade and formulate and execute a system-wide regional decade programme for human capacities in Africa.

Nevertheless, powerful forces and trends of unity and disunity, chaos and order mark this moment of global transformation. The forces of globalisation are dissolving old boundaries in a network of dialogue, flows of information and trade. In advancing the case for world-class leadership in Africa, it requires the defiance of the boundaries of inward-bound insight (common sense), as an essential paradigm shift, of patterns of thinking and behaving which, over the years, have built themselves into routines that pacify African leaders to everlasting dormancy. Whatever we, as animators of development and facilitators of entrepreneurial leadership, choose to be, we must have the zeal, commitment, diligence, greatness of spirit, consistency and strength to transform change management chaos into economic opportunities that can project our communities on an irreversible global growth trajectory. Nonetheless, the issues are whether the BRICS or the G20 will ignore or substitute for the views of the G77 and whether the BRICS transactions with LCDs can alter North-South interaction.

Key words: globalism, Africa, leadership, policy, strategy, structure, process

See lecture here or https://www.academia.edu/34482601/Globalisms_Promises_of_Progress_or_Disorientation_and_African_Leadership_RL_Vol_XI_No_XXVI_CXXIV_MMXVII.pdf