Foreword by His Excellency Thabo Mbeki, former President of the Republic of South Africa

The in-depth studies and analyses by specialists in the disciplines represented in this remarkable book confirm my own conviction that the 21st century will be the century of Africa, the African Renaissance.

Excellency Tidjane Thiam, President of PDCI-RDA (Parti Démocratique de Côte d’Ivoire-Rassemblement Démocratique Africain), former CEO of Credit Suisse, and former Minister of Planning and Development (CÔTE D’IVOIRE)

 This is a magnificent book representing Professor N’Dri Assié-Lumumba’s labor of love in bringing a set of papers together in conversation to shine a fresh light on a future Africa, through the lens of education as the vehicle to facilitate change and truly transform Africa. The volume is a must-read and a go-to book in our libraries.

Professor Oyeronke Oyewumi, Sttate University of New York at Stony Brook (USA)

This is a brilliant and timely intervention that successfully reintroduces Africanist cosmologies and epistemologies as embedded in enduring wisdoms, philosophies and cultures that stands out as a uniquely indispensable reference work for students, researchers as well as educational and economic policymakers and political leaders. 

Professor Ali A. Abdi, University of British Columbia (CANADA)

I am honored to be able to support this important book given its valuable contribution to reflection and action for the renewal of the African continent. It embodies the spirit of the African Renaissance, highlighting our immense potential and determination to shape a prosperous and self-reliant future.

Yassine Fall, Minister of African Integration and Foreign Affairs (SENEGAL)

 An invitation to a fresh discourse on Africa's renaissance, in this volume N’Dri Assié-Lumumba has skillfully curated a selection of authors whose expertise and insightful contributions provide valuable insights into the African continent's challenges and opportunities.

Professor Ousmane Kane, Harvard University (USA)

 This work invites us to rethink a “global Africa” allowing the continent to reappropriate its history and its cultural specificities, to imagine new paths of development based on its values and its own revisited social systems and to be transformed thanks to the contributions of the African Renaissance, Pan-Africanism and Afropolitanism.

Professor Fatou Sow, Dakar (SENEGAL) and CNRS, Université Paris Diderot (FRANCE)

This monumental work is a book that not only explains the significance, complexity and legitimacy of the concept of Renaissance but goes on to expand on concepts of Re-awakening, Reconciliation and Reclaiming through transformative education.

Professor Malak Zaalouk, American University in Cairo (EGYPT)

This important book explores numerous approaches to combat the challenges and promote development in the African continent. It is my wish that it will reach as many readers as possible.

Honorable Adèle N’Dioré, former Member of Parliament/National Assembly (CÔTE D’IVOIRE)

A rich and skillfully edited collection of essays written by an excellent admixture of authors that provides an inter-generational and multidisciplinary conversation about the imperatives of an African renaissance and the central role which a wholly revamped educational system must play in it.

Professor Adebayo O. Olukoshi, University of Witwatersrand (SOUTH AFRICA)

N’Dri T. Assié-Lumumba, the editor, is Professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University where she served as Director of the Institute for African Development (IAD). She is the current President of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES) and Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science.

Assié-Lumumba is also Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Ali A. Mazrui Center for Studies in Higher Education (AMCHES), at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. 

CATEGORY

African Studies, Sociology, Social Sciences, History, Development Studies/AFRICA 

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