PLO Lumumba on Africa, Elections, Leadership, Development, and AU's Agenda 2063

[Emmanuel Udogu]

Please permit me to share with you this video and poignant speech delivered by the Pan-Africanist, Professor PLO Lumumba, at a graduation ceremony.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcbp6rrMB4c  

Fortunately, Africa has the solutions to solve her political, economic, and social quagmires. What we need are leaders, with the political will, to implement the recommendations.

Ike Udogu

[Ibrahim Abdullah]

There is No such thing as political will--it's political interests! They all don't have it--only the unemployed have an interests in getting employed; it does not interest the leaders to get them employed. 

We have to decouple will from interests. Politics is about interests--never about will! 

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[Victor Okafor]

Professor P.L.O.  Lumumba is a  psychic tonic that is needed by all of Africa. Let's hope that his ongoing erudite and eloquent lectures across the continent would help sow the seed for a continental psychological reorientation/revolution away from the neocolonial world view that pervades the continental African world, with, of course, some across-the-board pockets of exceptions. Let's hope that through his tireless, spell-binding, oratorical, historically-layered, poignant, analytical, diagnostic and prescriptive panoramic surveys of Africa's contemporary socioeconomic and political circumstances, this exceptionally brilliant professor can ignite a movement towards an emancipated mass African consciousness.

Professor Lumumba's demonstrated multidimensional knowledge is breathtaking. It's a joy and awe to watch him speak contemporaneously elegantly  on myriad African internal challenges and myriad African external relations challenges. He is simultaneously intellectual and entertaining. He is a rare gem.

As I watch him speak, I can't help saying to myself, "this is living and talking library of knowledge." Professor Lumumba is truly exceptional. He is a professor's professor. 

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