SOAS Honorary Doctorate His Highness Muhammad Sanusi II discusses Africa’s future at SOAS graduation

Scholar, former banker and anti-corruption campaigner, His Highness Muhammad Sanusi II, CON (Sarkin Kano) received an Honorary Doctorate from SOAS University of London President, Dame Graça Machel, at the 2019 SOAS graduation ceremonies. In his address, His Highness discussed the future of Africa and the role graduates had to play.

His Highness said to SOAS graduates: “You’re going into a world that is full of promise but also full of challenges. Many of the values that have made the world a peaceful and happy place are under threat. And for those of you working on Africa, it is important to recognise the grave existential threat facing the continent.”

He noted the challenges the continent faced and reflected on the role of the African elite: “Jean-Paul Sartre noted that ‘in the colonies the truth stood naked but in the fatherland they preferred it clothed in robes’. Let us assume that as Africans and Muslims that we locked ourselves in a room with no American or Europeans looking in and spoke to ourselves the naked truth…Is Africa not projected to have 85% of all those living in extreme poverty in the world by 2050?…Have the African elite, who took over from the colonisers and settlers, not done more damage to the poor in their countries through corruption and bad policies than the imperialists?”

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Three-Storey Building Collapses In Lagos

A three-storey has reportedly collapsed in the Osasa area of Bariga, Lagos State.
PUNCH Metro gathered that the building collapsed around 9.30pm on Sunday.
A resident of the area, Dele Timothy, told our correspondent around 10.30pm that six people had been rescued, added that many more might be trapped in the rubble.

He said, “I stay around the area; the building that collapsed is a residential building and the incident happened around 9.30pm. People are still there, but rescuers have been able to pull out about six people.
“Men of the Lagos State Fire Service are already on the ground, but they are unable to gain entry yet because the road to the scene is really bad.”

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