NEPAD Business Foundation African Leadership Programme

WHY I AM AN AFRICAN

NBF AFRICAN LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME

MAY 2007

I’m a proud African who lives in a rich and diverse country. To be African means having a global view in ensuring the economic emancipation of all Africans. And this can be achieved through developing a sense of pride, self respect in the way we conduct ourselves in developing and producing quality products and services on the continent. This will ensure we change world / first world perceptions that Africa is inferior.

If we value what we consume – quality – it will have an impact on the buying decisions of our various communities and then be able to build / reconstruct our continent. It will also change or have a positive impact on those “despotic” countries to want to be part of this new partnership which is entirely based on our innovative skills / qualities to survive. It will change the world view