About our Africa
A continent pleading
for transformation
An integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa, driven by its own citizens and representing a dynamic force in the global arena
The Third World is a state of the mind, and until we change our attitude as Africans, if there is a fourth, fifth, and even sixth world, we will be in it.
---- Patrice L.O. Lumumba
In 2013, African heads of states and Governments agreed to a shared strategic framework for inclusive growth and sustainable development. This framework was anchored in Agenda 2063, a blueprint upon which Our Africa’s strategy to optimise the use of Africa’s resources for the benefit of all Africans is anchored.
20 years later (2023), African governments have enacted an impressive set of normative frameworks and contextualised African treaties. The African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Dr Adesina Akinwumi and the African Union (AU) Chairperson have done a sterling job in bringing the continent thus far; and after two terms in office would be stepping down in 2024.
As such, the belief that at the dawn of the emergence of new leadership for Africa’s leading continental bodies there is urgency like never before for the successors of the AfDB and AU to be endowed with an inclusive and sustainable vision to transform the socio-economic and developmental landscape of Africa through industrialisation, job creation, innovation and skills enhancement to address complex health emergencies, end violent and organized crime.
Our Africa is currently vetting hundreds of potential prominent Africans to recommend for member states’ endorsement and for consideration in key positions in the African Union Commission (AUC), the African Development Bank (AfDB), and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) amongst others.
Transforming Africa
The five pillars for a resilient future
Explore the strategic framework for operationalizing a prosperous Africa, focusing on migration, trade, infrastructure, agriculture, education, and peace consolidation. Join us in awakening the giant that is Africa!
migration, trade & transport (air, land & sea)
Agriculture drives Africa's economy; boosting productivity and value addition is vital for transformation.
education training community development
Agriculture drives Africa's economy; boosting productivity and value addition is vital for transformation.
peace consolidation and institutional resilience
Agriculture drives Africa's economy; boosting productivity and value addition is vital for transformation.
Infrastructural Redesign and Industrialisation
Agriculture drives Africa's economy; boosting productivity and value addition is vital for transformation.
Agricultural Valorisation and Food Self-Sufficiency
Agriculture drives Africa's economy; boosting productivity and value addition is vital for transformation.
The vision of “Our Africa” is for a self-reliant and self-sufficient continent, where Africans across the continent and diaspora come together under a shared identity to chart their own course, meet their own needs, and address the unique challenges facing the region. This vision reflects a desire for African empowerment, independence, and unity of purpose, with Africans themselves taking the lead in defining and shaping the future of their lands.
Our Africa’s mission is to “foster deeper development and people-centered geo-political and strategic cooperation between the African Union (AU), Regional Economic Communities (RECs); member states and financing mechanisms such as the African Development Bank (AfDB) for Africa’s industrialization; trade and human mobility facilitation; and community-learning curricula designs and trainings for solving African Challenges.”
Our Africa believes in mutual respect, transparency, accountability, gender equality, teamwork, diversity, tolerance, justice, quality delivery, dedication, collaboration, and consultation as core values that would continue to inform its present and future service to Africa, the people of Africa, the African Diaspora and the world.
Our cardinal goal is to offer to Africa, leaders with the vision for a development-focused Africa, capable of working with African Governments, persons of African origin in the diaspora, African citizens on the continent, private sector and development partners to find solutions to cross-cutting African challenges and deliver the promises of Agenda 2063 with immediacy and urgency.
Our Objectives
OUR AFRICA seeks to:
Migrating from normative frameworks to practical infrastructural projects coordinated at the AU level in partnership with member states, RECs, continental multilateral financial agencies and the private sector for the benefit of Africa(ns).
De-focusing from heavy investment in insecurity to investments in development which disincentivise the emigration of Africa’s intellectual and productive capital; and the resort of despondent youth to crime and extremist behaviour.
Investing in structures which enhance Africa’s propensity to industrialise, create jobs, end extreme poverty and promote intra-African trade and migration while addressing climate and conflict induced migrations.
Setting-up a negotiation bureau of seasoned pan-Africanists committed to re-negotiating Africa’s current development partnerships with the rest of the world.