Are We Ready For This Vision?

Lumkile Wiseman Nkuhlu has written a most timely and inspirational book that systematically tackles the most significant constraints to Africas ability to claim the 21st as an African century purposeful leadership.

Africa has the natural, mineral and cultural assets to become the most sustainably prosperous, dynamic and innovative continent on Earth. Purposeful, ethically sound, skilled and accountable leadership is the missing key to the desired future.

Nkuhlu has done an excellent job in this book by providing a succinct source of information about the history of the African continent, including the much-neglected ancient history that documents it as the cradle of humanity and of the first human civilisation.

This book is essential reading for all African citizens seeking to understand where we come from, how we got where we are and how we might learn from other continents, especially Asia, to reimagine and shape the future we desire.

The central feature of the analysis is that Africa missed the benefits of the waves of scientific and industrial revolution that swept Europe and North America in the 18th and 19th centuries. These missed opportunities made Africa vulnerable to extractive imperial agents who used access to more sophisticated lethal weapons to conquer it.