(independantexpress.net)
Because Africa's growth is impoverishing because most of the capital is foreign, the urgency would be to change the growth model. It is this imperative that the famous economist Kako Nubukpo evokes in his book "African urgency" whose dedication ceremony took place this Thursday, January 9 in the premises of the media library. This ceremony brought together several personalities from the intellectual world: economists, professors of letters, students and entrepreneurs, all of whom were present to discover the book and exchange with the author.
The African Emergency. Let's change the growth model! is a 285-page book structured in 8 chapters with titles as evocative as each other. The author discusses topics such as: the problem of population growth in Africa, the emergence of Africa, the structural transformation of economies.
Indeed, in his intervention, the author explains that the conception of his book starts from the observation that "Africa is not changing well enough or fast enough to meet the challenges of its youth."
To this end, the aim of this book is to recount Africa's main challenges, to examine the answers that are currently given to these challenges and to adopt those that seem optimal.
"It is in this perceptiveness that we have asked a number of questions around agriculture, around the IMF and World Bank programmes, around the currency (FCFA) around digital and around relations between Africa and the rest of the World. the author said.
For Kako Nubukpo, the structural transformation of African economies requires the struggle by the three (3) extraversions:
First, the real extraversion: Africans will have to process their raw materials themselves;
Secondly, monetary extraversion: Africans must leave the FCFA system to have a real endogenous currency that can transform things;
And tertio, let Africans come out of the intellectual extraversion of thinking that what comes from elsewhere is always preferable to what they do themselves.
The author has not failed to address the issue of the Eco which is subject to many controversies lately. Asked whether Nigeria would eventually adopt the common currency. The author replies that to this end, he organizes an international symposium from 28 to 30 April 2020 to discuss the general states of the Eco. So that together with economists and sociologists, they can reflect on the contours of this currency and how French-speaking countries will make the transition from FCFA to Eco.
In addition, Seeds of Thought, a pan-Africanist publishing house, accompanies the author to ensure a better visibility of the work. "We accompany the author because we are interested in his writings and his latest publication seemed essential, even vital to make it known to African countries," said Yasmin Issaka Coubageat, co-editor of the house Seeds of Thought.
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Diane OLOBI