Mr Jawo, Thanks for sharing Mo Ibrahim. Interesting lectures. Collective responsibility by all is the answer to the failures of governance and bad inept leadership in Africa. Ibrahim is a great son of Africa doing a great job. Wish a lot more successful Africans like him were doing what he is doing. Indeed it is the irresponsible, corrupt, maniacal dictatorships with their lack of direction and vision that keep blaming colonialism and the West for their failures. A good example is in SHEPAD of the Gambia with his persistent nonsensical rhetoric in blaming the West on just about everything that has gone wrong in Africa. Like Ibrahim posited the likes of SHEPAD have no problem luxuriating with products produced in the West, yet when it comes to values based on human rights, democracy and some other attendant issues of freedom, African dictators will invoke cultural relatavism. Indeed,* *responsible leadership will usher in good democratic governance in Africa and get us out of the mess we are in. Best, Mboge On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:14 PM, jawo abdoulie <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Media <[log in to unmask]<http:[log in to unmask]> > > > Date: 14 April 2010 18:45 > Subject: Mo Ibrahim Foundation | Lecture in Accra > To: > > > Mo Ibrahim recently delivered a fiery lecture to over 1000 university > students at the University of Ghana, Legon. The University’s Great Hall was > packed to capacity as Dr Ibrahim called on Africa’s leaders to begin to take > responsibility for their actions, and outlined some of the key issues which > the continent needs to tackle, including economic integration, agriculture > and food security, and climate change. > > The lecture was entitled *Taking responsibility: how can we mix the mess > that the African continent is in?* The format of the lecture was > interactive with students clamouring to participate and address Dr Ibrahim. > > Dr Ibrahim’s lecture was part of an extended trip through Africa, which > included lectures in Maputo and Nairobi and a civil society gathering in > Nairobi. > > Audio clips from the lecture are exclusively available on our website at > http://www.moibrahimfoundation.org/en/projectsinitiative/working-with-civil-society/lecture-by-mo-ibrahim-in-accra.html > > We hope you enjoy the clips; they are also free to download and share. > > > Disclaimer > ------------------------------ > This email (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal > views which are not the views of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation unless > specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from > your system and do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor > act in reliance on it, and notify the sender immediately. While we make > every effort to keep our network free from viruses, you need to verify that > this email and any attachments are virus-free, as we can take no > responsibility for any computer virus which may be transferred by way of > them. > > Mo Ibrahim Foundation is registered as a company in Jersey, number 92951. > Its registered office is at 23/25 Broad Street, St Helier, Jersey JE4 8ND > but please send any correspondence to 3rd Floor North, 35 Portman Square, > London W1H 6LR. > > MIF Services (UK) Limited is registered as a company in England No. > 5770952. Its registered office is at Summit House, 170 Finchley Road, London > NW3 6BP but please send any correspondence to 3rd Floor North, 35 Portman > Square, London W1H 6LR. > > This email message has been scanned for viruses by Mimecast. > ------------------------------ > > > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To > unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web > interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html > > To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: > http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the > List Management, please send an e-mail to: > [log in to unmask]¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤