Africa Week: Prof. Agbo, Ndubuaku Urge African Leaders to Lead Her Citizens to Rediscover Her Lost Identity
…Vow to Sensitise African Head of Government
By Raphael Ekpang
Abuja (Core Reporters) Nigerian Professors, Edmund Agbo and Theorphilus Ndubuaku have both called on African leaders, Nigeria inclusive, to return the continent back to roots and rediscover our lost identity, saying that the continent is facing a serious identity crisis in every aspect of its existence.
They gave the call on Saturday, May 31, 2025 during the day one of the commemoration of the Africa Week in Abuja.
Africa Week is a program proclaimed by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organizations (UNESCO). It is an extension of the celebration of African Day which is marked on the 25th of May every year in commemoration of the foundation of Africa Unity in Addis Ababa-founded in 1963.
Prof. Agbo explained that Africans representatives in UNESCO discovered that one day was not enough to celebrate a great continent like Africa, the oldest continent in the world with the youngest population, therefore, the genesis of the week long activities for the forum.
The theme of this year’s celebration according to UNESCO is, “The Restitution of Africa Cultural Heritage Educational, Social and Political etc. While AU’s theme is Justice for Africa and the people of Africa through reparation. And Nigeria’s theme is Africa-Europe Africa-Asia Corporation.
According to him, “Africa Week is a forum of dialogue, collaboration, cooperation and evaluation of the Africa past and present with the view to projecting more success into the Africa future. People come from various walks of life to attend the celebration because it’s a good forum to dialogue for possible business, studies opportunities as well as possible intra-personal relationships.
The Founder. a pioneering bioethicist, visionary educator, and founder of the International Bio-Research Institute, Enugu Nigeria opined that the western world should start reparation by treating Africans as human beings, noting that the dehumanization is meted on Africans in various form; injustices, exploitation, oppression and suppression.
However, Prof. Agbo revealed that the continous enslavement of Africa continent is as a result of sit-tied syndrome by her leaders, adding that the leaders do everything possible to remain in power including mortgaging the future of the continent.
He pointed out that most African leaders are not qualified to be where they are today but because the Western man knows that the greatest tool of war is to choose the weaker enemies because if you chose the strongest enemies you have lost the war and if you chose the weaker you have won the war even before its starts.
“The West makes sure people who are not qualified to lead their countries in Africa are the ones leading so that they will have the power to dictate to them what they should do. The only way out is for Africans to start fighting and defend their franchise.
“We are calling on all Africans to let us go back to our roots, rediscovery of our identity. We are a people with a serious identity crisis, linguistic crisis, cultural crisis and even crisis in the way we understand things thereby becoming an international waste bin where all ideologies and counter-ideologies are deposited.
In the same vein, the Executive Secretary of Association of Staff Union of Research Institutes of Nigeria (ASURI) prof. Theophilus Ndubuaku said it is hard time the continent of Africa starts demanding for reparation from the West, saying that the West have already owned up to their crime against Africans during the era of slavery.
Prof. Ndubuaku said Africa Week forum is championing the renewed hope for the black man as such they are ready to continue Sensitizing of African heads of governments to rise up for the occasion.
He noted that when Moshood Abiola was alive he championed the negotiation of compensation to the African continent and they both agreed to compensate with 77 trillion dollars before his death, since then the African government is less concerned about taking it up from where Abiola stops.
He said, “The European Nations then agreed that they did wrong things to Africans and were ready to compensate us, but because the man Abiola who was championing the cause died no other African leaders are ready to take over the challenge. As a result the oppressor is getting worse by the day. So our duty now is to start from where Abiola stops by Sensitising our government on the need to start demanding our rights.
On the debt release under President Olusegun Obasanjo, Prof Ndubuaku said, “Remember when Obasanjo was in power he used those atrocities of the west on Africa, Nigeria in particular to negotiate for the debt release.
He warned that if Africans did not stand up now, the new twist of slavery which is economic slavery will caught up with us. A situation a country will borrow what the next generations can’t pay, its worse than slavery.
Core Reporters report that the duo warned that neo-colonialism will continue in Africa unless the youths and heads of government rise to the new challenge the continent is facing.
Core Reporters understands that the Africa Week will continue in the US by ending of August, whike Italy, Bulgaria in September and Hungary in October.
