Ibadan – ‎Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday in Ibadan identified colonialism as an impediment to Africa’s progress and development.‎Obasanjo spoke at the first edition of the International Conference of the African Studies Association of African‎ (ASAA) held at the University of Ibadan.The theme of the conference was “African Studies in the 21st Century: Past, Present and Future.”Olusegun Obasanjo“As we are all aware, colonialism devastated and depopulated the continent through transatlantic slave trade,’’ the former president said.‎He said that even after independence, colonial hegemony was not totally blurted out in the area of trade and economy.‎” The ice is broken with this first step of bringing together the island of associations of African Studies dotted all over the world under one roof as ASAA,’’ Obasanjo said.The former president said African studies should be increasingly strong in the production of knowledge on ‎Africa.” I would like to see African studies that is truly interdisciplinary and which integrates the three branches of humanities, social sciences and the natural sciences.” Also, African studies should not be satisfied with merely contributing to the‎ accumulation of knowledge about Africa.“Scholars should have novel priority which should slant toward indigenous-based tradition of knowledge, ” he said.The Chairman on the occasion, Prof. ‎Akin Mabogunje, called for effective cooperation among African intellectuals.” I wish to emphasise that the field of African studies in the 21st century can no longer ignore tropical issues of trade, migration, insurgency,’’ he said.The President of the association, Prof. Lungisile Ntsebeza, said that the aim of the conference was to ensure that the continent became Africa- based.Ntsebeza, who is of Cape Town University, South Africa, said that the objective of the association was to profound solutions to the problems and challenges facing the continent and to chart a new course for the future.Also speaking, participants and experts at the conference said that the forum would enable them to identify more productive ways for Africa to attain real independence. (NAN)F

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I blame poor and myopic leadership at the national and regional level. What has the African Union really achieved since it's founding? African countries still trade more with Europe and the rest of the world than they do among themselves.

SkyBlue1:
I blame poor and myopic leadership at the national and regional level. What has the African Union really achieved since it's founding? African countries still trade more with Europe and the rest of the world than they do among themselves.

Baba OBJ contriputed eleven years to the under development.

Baba ti dagba

Foolish baba

K

Doesnt he know America was colonised too.

prettysolid:
Doesnt he know America was colonised too.

Baba na comedian,baba suwe the second

Ishilove,lalasticlala please come and hear bami oh

obj d baboon and joke

D cause of africa underdevelopment especially nigerria are azikiwe, gowon, obasanjo, shagari, buhari , babaginda, abacha and not colonialism , this dogs all ruled us just like ghadaffi ruled libya but they have nothing to show for it....

Ghadaffi one of my mentor

lincolnj88:
obj d baboon and joke

D cause of africa underdevelopment especially nigerria are azikiwe, gowon, obasanjo, shagari, buhari , babaginda, abacha and not colonialism , this dogs all ruled us just like ghadaffi ruled libya but they have nothing to show for it....

Ghadaffi one of my mentor

God is watching us all in 3D

The old foool didn't blame Jonathan for it?

lincolnj88:
obj d baboon and joke

D cause of africa underdevelopment especially nigerria are azikiwe, gowon, obasanjo, shagari, buhari , babaginda, abacha and not colonialism , this dogs all ruled us just like ghadaffi ruled libya but they have nothing to show for it....

Ghadaffi one of my mentor

exactly....that book written by walter Rodney should be cganged to ...HOW AFRICAN LEADERS UNDER DEVELOPED AFRICA..africa have experienced oil booms .... Over the decades but instead of using the funds to develop the continent they keep on looting and looting........ I still say it the best ...LEADERSHIP POLICY THAT I have seen in Africa is that of THOMAS SANKARA AND MURTALA MUHAMMAD.... Africa needs good communist to rule it before it can arise just like other continent......look at Singapore .....being transformed in a life time by Lee Kyan yew .......but AFRICA REMAINS THE SICK BABY OF THE WORLD .....despite all the bail out by World Economic Giant

This is no new; if you haven't read "how the whites underdeveloped africa", then u might not understand.

They made African countries dependent on them. South Africa was the lucky one since they already planned to live there forever!

SLIDEwaxie:
This is no new; if you haven't read "how the whites underdeveloped africa", then u might not understand.

They made African countries dependent on them. South Africa was the lucky one since they already planned to live there forever!

Walter Rodney or so How Europe under develop Africa

Obj should shut his mouth abeg.
Ignorant black men always blaming whites for their problems

Only thing holding blacks down are other blacks.

Take the nigerian scene for example; a government designed to keep a people down in the east. They cant collect loans, they have no inheritance from thei forefathers, less money entering, no federal projects going on, the ones that were on are abandoned...is it the white man's fault that we're sadistic in nature?

d same hopeless excuse

iwaeda:


Walter Rodney or so How Europe under develop Africa

something like dt, I read in 2001

Typical of a Black man. Blame everyone but yourself

SLIDEwaxie:
something like dt, I read in 2001

That should be the book,have a blessed day