Proceedings of the 2nd (Hybrid) International Conference, Faculty of Social Sciences, Niger Delta University, Held on March 13, 2024
March, 2024
Pages 1-10
DOI: 10.36108/wjss/ConfP.2024.001
THE EXIGENCIES OF AFRO-CENTRIC SOLUTIONS TO SYSTEMIC CHALLENGES IN AFRICA: IDEOLOGIES AND PARADOXES
Godwin B. Okon
Preamble
Our gathering today because of this conference is in part and totality a fulfilment of the tertiary education mandate. The intelligentsia by all means should proffer solutions to the ills of every organic society. Knowledge-driven solutions engender sustainability with egalitarianism as the second index. Conferences the world over create platforms for the cross-fertilization of ideas. Ideas are everything and nothing is something without ideas. It is in the light of the foregoing that I give great commendations to the conference conveners. The time is apt and the mood is right. Nigeria and by extrapolation the whole of Africa is in dire straits.
Deliberations and recommendations from this convocation will most certainly illuminate our pathways so as to reposition our region (Africa) as a continent that guarantees the optimization of human potentials while building a framework for self actualization. This conference, therefore, draws its justification from the foregoing.
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