To reach the standards of wealthy nations, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has encouraged Africa to abandon the attitude of impossibility and adopt a mindset of potential.
Dr. Bawumia said that the continued reliance on inefficient systems in Africa is the bane of the continent's economic growth and development. He added that the status quo persists because the continent has, for many years, not broken the "shackles of impossibility mindsets." Dr. Bawumia was speaking to attendees of Harvard University's Africa Development Conference in the United States over the weekend.
Although political freedom has been achieved in many African nations, Dr. Bawumia stated that our worldview is still constrained by the 500-year history of slavery and colonialism.
"For a very long period, we didn't have confidence in ourselves. The prevalent mentality is one of impossibility.
The lack of efficient systems, such as an identity system and a property addressing system, as well as significant financial exclusion and manual delivery of public services are some of the major contributory factors to Africa's stunted progress, according to Dr. Bawumia, speaking about issues limiting the continent's economic growth.
Dr. Bawumia pointed out that to address these issues, Africa must embrace the Fourth Industrial Revolution and, more crucially, shed its impossible attitude, which he claimed is a significant obstacle to the continent's progress.
"Our generation must free itself from the constraints of the attitude of the impossible and adopt the mindset of potential! It's time to determine how we may control our future, choose our own course, and grow by setting our own goals. Indeed, that is doable!"
Dr. Bawumia has successfully led Ghana's digitization initiative at home in Ghana to solve some of the foundational system concerns he discussed at the conference.
He has frequently discussed how pessimists tried to thwart and dissuade many of the successful digital innovations he led, as not viable to achieve. He has, however, had his own issues with "impossibility mindsets."
High-level participants are brought together at the Harvard Africa Development Conference to debate topics about the development of the African continent.
As the Guest of Honor, Vice President Bawumia gave the keynote speech.
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