Of all the negative notions and misapprehensions entertained by the outside world about Africa and Africans, none actually is more damaging than that which portrays African societies as essentially bereft of ideas of any significance and sees them as basically consumers rather than producers of the commodity, so to speak, with little, if anything, to contribute to the global stock. In other words, and put rather bluntly, when it comes to ideas, Africa barely counts.
– The enthronement of a culture of ideas within African societies that will, in turn, end the continent’s ideas-dependency and marginalization, while restoring its intellectual dignity –
