PAN AFRICAN VISIONS MARKETING AFRICAN SUCCESS STORIES & MORE MAG 1119 Vol 2, November 2019 www.panafricanvisions.com New Dawn In The Horizon For Africa -AU Trade Commissioner Albert Muchanga On Progress with the AfCFTA Mohamed Kag- Ethiopia: Abiy Reaps Cameroon: A Na- Why Buhari Was The Legend of nassy:The Presidential Big From Bold & Vi- tional Dialogue With Right To Visit Samuel Eto’o Guru Transforming sionary Leadership More Questions South Africa Agriculture in Africa Than Answers PAGE 8 PAGE 5 PAGE 12 PAGE 20 PAGE 42 PAN-AFRICAN PRO-AFRICAN www.centurionlg.com Contents PAN AFRICAN VISIONs CONTENTS A Noble Prize For Abiy Big Lessons For Africa ________2 Rwanda receives migrants from Libya _____________22 AU Trade Commissioner Muchanga on the Game Changing Schools: Useful in Theory, Useless in Practice? ________23 Prospects of the AfCFTA ______________________3 Investments in rail transport essential for the success of Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed's Nobel Peace Prize recognizes Africa's free-trade area ________________________24 efforts in breaking two decades of frozen conflict ____5 Rwanda's satellite RWASAT-1 to hit the orbit next month _25 Mohamed Kagnassy; The Agro-Preneur Restructuring Agri- Is Oil Discovery In Kenya A Blessings Or A Curse? _____28 culture & Rural Development Across Africa __________8 Academics Urge US Government To Channel More Resources South Sudan Peace Deal On Wobbly Stage ___________9 Towards Education And Scientific Research In Africa ___29 Promises of Cameroon's Major National Dialogue to restore A Lifeline for African and International Students In MPower peace in troubled English-speaking regions __________11 Financing _________________________________30 Will Cameroon's National Dialogue actually solve anything in With MPower, African Students Can Dare to Dream Big- NW, SWRs? _______________________________12 Georgetown Alum Grace Chimezie ________________33 How the 1996 constitution can take care of the nw/sw excep- Revisiting The Controversial Legacy of Robert Mugabe __34 tion: a legal perspective of a 'third option'. ___________15 Rwanda eyes African market after inaugurating first smart- Why President Buhari Was Right To Visit South Africa in the phones plant on the continent ___________________37 Wake of the Recent Xenophobia Attacks ____________18 Kenya:How Eliud Kipchoge climbed the ladder _______38 African Diaspora Endorses the Continental Free Trade Agreement ________________________________19 Samuel Eto'o: African Legend Retires from Football ____40 Analysts call African leaders to cater for their citizens as Eto'o go, Eto'o Came: Etienne Eto’o, son of legendary football striker, Samuel Eto’o set to further father’s legacy ______41 Managing Editor Adama Makasuba, Graphic Designer Pan African Visions Ajong Mbapndah L Bah Uzman Unis, Atemnkeng Jerry M, Mohammed M Mupenda, (Young Jerry) 7614 Green Willow Court, Hyattsville, MD Contributors Pierre Afadhali EC designs, Abudhabi - UAE 20785 Wallace Mawire Teslim Olawore +971 52 863 7744 Deng Machol Nevson Mpofu [email protected] Tel: 2404292177, Papisdaff Abdullah Boris Esono Nwenfor email: [email protected], Ajayi Olyinka Amos Fofung Prince Kuripati [email protected] Jean d’Amour Mugabo Hategeka Moses Jessica Ahedor _______ Asong Zelifac Samuel Ouma Advertising Primus Tazanu Email: Alexandre Nhampossa, marketing@ Ishmael Sallieu panafricanvisions.com Koroma, PAV - APR. 2019 - MAG 0419 Vol 3 1 PAN AFRICAN VISIONs Inside Africa A Noble Prize For Abiy With Big Lessons For Africa By Ajong Mbapndah L rom Chief Albert issues in Africa. In previous Cameroonians that the Luthuli of the ANC issues, PAV has harped on recommendations will be Ffame, to Bishop the need of a generational implemented. Desmond Tutu, Nelson change across the continent. Without any form of Mandela, Frederick De Klerk, In a continent where the endorsement before and and Wangari Mathai, Africa median age is around 20 after the forum, it remains to has had its share of Noble years, it is paradoxical that be seen how the resolutions Peace Prize Laureates. Joining the median age of African will be binding on President this club of distinguished leaders is in the 60s. There Biya. If provisions of the Africans is Prime Minister is a serious disconnect here 1996 constitution have Abiy of Ethiopia. While his with difference in priorities, not been implemented till predecessors may have been difference in approaches, date, what guarantee is more established names, difference in ambitions, and there to see a seriousness Abiy has barely been on the more. At his age, how does in the implementation of scene for two years and the Buhari mirror the ambitions recommendations from the feat could not have come at of dynamic young Nigerians? just ended forum? How a more prospice moment for At his age, what does Paul could the country move Africa. Biya have in common with forward when key leaders of At 43, Abiy represents the super brilliant youth keen the Anglophone movement prototype of 21st century on building silicon mountain are still in jail? Indeed, the leadership that Africa needs. in Buea? In Abiy, we see half-baked solutions from On assuming Office, Abiy dynamism, we see energy, Ajong Mbapndah L, Managing Editor the dialogue may not be took the audacious move we see optimism, someone the panacea that Cameroon of addressing the bloody daring and someone who problems requires the vision, actually be trusted with the needs. Certainly not when the family feud that had plagued incarnates hope for the the tact, and a strong political responsibility of proffering President refuses to take the his country Ethiopia and creative genius of Africa. will. While the dialogue that solutions. Instead of a federal bull by the horns. neighboring Eritrea. The The Nobel Prize to Abiy took place in Cameroon was form of government that even The cosmetic dialogue result was a peace deal that is also a testament to a good first step, one cannot some francophones now see might have bought him a bit opened the borders between African solutions to African say with all certainty that as a solution, the dialogue of time, but when we see the the two countries for the first problems. Everyone has been it was done with the desire came up with a special status violence in the North West time in about 20 years. In talking about Abiy, but we to seek lasting solutions or for Anglophone regions. and South West regions, the images of Abiy and President forget that on the other end, to address the Anglophone What does it mean? what will zest with which 1st October exchanging hugs, exchanging President Aferweki of Eritrea problem which has brought it contain? When will it start? ,considered by Anglophone as visits, the first flights from was willing to play ball as an incredible toll on human the questions are begging for their independence day was Addis to Asmara and vice well and definitely deserves life and property in the North answers celebrated, and calls from versa, the joy on the faces of a recognition of his own. West and South West Regions Equally intriguing in the the international community families happily re-united , Instead of bringing outside of the country. Cameroon crisis is how aloof for inclusive dialogue, it is Abiy and President Aferweki actors to seek solutions, both From those invited, one President Biya has been. That certain that sooner or later, provided some of the most men decided to open up and could see that it was largely it took three years for him to there may be more dialogue. iconic images that Africa saw do it themselves. Increasingly, made of people who do not make a formal statement and In leaders like Abiy, there in 2019. we see Africans taking the think there is a problem in to call for dialogue is baffling is every reason to hope for Beyond the peace accord lead to solve problems in Cameroon, or those who to say to least. Even when Africa, a hope that sooner with Eritrea, Abiy freed South Sudan. We see Africans have only been hanging he called for the dialogue, than later more youth who thousands of political taking the lead to solve the on the fringes. Apart from he was neither present at get a chance to lead, hope prisoners and embarked problems in Sudan. Ahead of a few fighters who spoke the opening ceremony , nor that Africans will learn to on political reforms that the elections in Mozambique, their mind, and were well did he attend the closing turn out en masse as they did have continued to open new we saw opposition Chief known actors in the crisis, ceremony which would have recently in Guinea to send a perspectives for Ethiopia. Ossufo Momade signing it was hard to see how been a great opportunity for strong message to President The feat achieved by Abiy peace accords with President those who have strenuously him to forcefully embrace Alpha Conde that changing in so short a time deserves a Felipe Nyusi. argued that there is no the recommendations of the constitution to give him closer look on the leadership Africans solving their Anglophone problem could the forum and remind a third term in office is not Pan African Visions MAGAZINE, 7614 Green Willow Court, Hyattsville,MD 20785 Tel:2404292177, email: [email protected], [email protected] 2 PAV - NOV 2019 - MAG 1119 Vol 2 Inside Africa Inside Africa PAN AFRICAN VISIONs palatable, hope that someday were dazzled at presentations African Continental Free you a profile of Mohammed .The issue explores the impact the artificial boundaries that from Hon Albert Muchanga, Trade Agreement. Despite Kagnassy and his vision of of the recent dialogue on the separate Africa will give way Commissioner for Trade and his super charged schedule, transforming Africa through tense political landscape in to free circulation of goods, Industry at the African Union. Commissioner Muchanga Agro -Business.