President Tinubu Urges African Leaders to Abandon Foreign Blueprints, Calls for Bold Policy Reforms

President Bola Tinubu has urged African leaders to abandon reliance on foreign development models, warning that the continent requires visionary leadership that wields policy as a precise instrument of change rather than a mere slogan.  

Delivering his remarks through Vice President Kashim Shettima at the Kayode Fayemi Commemorative Symposium and the launch of the Amandla Institute for Policy and Leadership Advancement, President Tinubu decried what he described as “the tragedy of our time”—a persistent dependence on external frameworks and a failure to break free from client-state mentalities. 

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He warned that Africa cannot afford to approach its development challenges with outdated strategies, likening the current predicament to ‘fighting with spears and arrows while the rest of the world engages with missiles and tanks.’ He further stressed that the global community is not waiting for Africa to catch up, underscoring the urgency for self-reliant and transformative governance across the continent.