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Expert Group on Institutional Reforms in Africa

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Pierre-Michel NGUIMBI

Executive Chairman

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Message from the executive Chairman of GERIA

Africans would benefit from revisiting the project that once mobilized the thought of the fathers of independence, the founders of African unity, the ancestor of our African union.

Like them, they should feel the need of bringing Africa together, more sensitive and proactive to the movement of world trade and reform of the great economic spaces.

To get Better take advantage of this phenomenon called globalization, the expert group of institutional reforms in Africa (GERIA) invites the intellectual elite, the leaders of public and private organizations as well as African civil society to meet again, to put their talents and goodwill at the service of construction of African.

Africa cannot give anything worth in dispersion. This is for our continent, a problem of survival. Get on top, or disappear, swallowed by the strongest .And to get there, unity and union are indispensables. The romans said in their high wisdom: veil soli, woe to him who is alone.

We are in fact entering at time when only large contingents prevail. The small contingents, weak of fact, are thought to have nibbled. Africa will not be able to meet the challenges of tomorrow if it does not present itself in order to finally build, in resolute way a prosperous, peaceful and radiant future.

If we return back to our past-time and we see what we are now, we understand that the heavy tribute we have paid and we continue to pay because of our suicidal division and our behavioral paradoxes.

These are on the economic level, the underdevelopment; on the level of human relations, inter-community and extra-community, tensions and armed conflicts; thus there is an urgency to reflect on the cultural differences that are always a source of conflict; on the cultural and educational level, the absence of competitive spaces and institutions or the instruments of the conquest of nature, nature and man as well, determine development and progress..

It goes without saying that to take up so many challenges, to knock more optimistically at the doors of the future, we must arm ourselves with those virtues that underpin great nations and brilliant civilizations: the power and the greatness of the dream, and the audacity of the Ancient poet who said: I am a man, and nothing of what is human is foreign to me and scares me. Like the poet, Africa must arm itself with bravery and boldness to go to the limits of the possible.

With that, a minimum of moral and intellectual probity without which, our greedy appetites, will have quickly taken over. The GERIA seems to have taken the measure of the challenges to be met, by participating in the mobilization of several intellectuals around the problems of the moment and the future for Africa.

It is also here that the African woman whose merits are still too often underestimated should find a place, a listening and an expression worthy of intelligence, relevance, accuracy, sensitivity and why not, of the nobility of her thought and her choices not taken into account.

And since it is a question of setting in motion a process of integration of so many different cultural Africas, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, digital specialists, specialists in social and human psychology are invited to contribute their knowledge and experience.

The development of Africa is unthinkable without the guarantee of a solid cultural foundation, and the perspective of the heritage of its spiritual heritage.

Africa will not build without wonder and sensitivity, without passion for founding work, without true love for its children, one another without justice and virtues without openness to thought, research and innovation, science and technology, and history.

Extract from the contribution of Mr. Pierre NGIMBI Book writing Afriques, Panafrique des racines à l’arbre
- 55 discours marquants sur l’Afrique commentés par 127 personnalités. ISBN : 9782849224984.