Serious individuals needed to actualise Africa we want dream

President Uhuru Kenyatta follows proceedings at the Africa Union Peace and Security Council meeting of Heads of State and Government during the 30th AU Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. [File, Standard]

Agenda 2063 seeks to achieve 'The Africa We Want' that is integrated, prosperous and peaceful, and also democratic and efficacious in international relations. But we won’t get this Africa we want until we have 'The Africans We Want' who can create and achieve it. Targeted social-political processes need to be deployed to generate a critical mass of the Africans we want in order to quickly reach a tipping point for transformation into the Africa we want.

Role models will help to inspire young people grow up to be like them. Such role models should be forthcoming and widely known. There already is a good catchment area, but which needs refinement of criteria to avoid ridiculous cases, namely, Nobel laureates and lists of innovators, game-changers and most influential Africans.