Prof. David Millar, President of the Millar Institute for Transdisciplinary and Cultural Studies has described as disturbing, the silence on the AU Agenda 2063 by various governments, non-governmental organizations, civil rights groups and the media in developmental conversation.
The revered academic, notes that continues reference to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) without mentioning the AU Agenda 2063, which seeks to create the Africa we want does not augur well for the continent’s progression.
The AU Agenda 2063 is a strategic framework for delivering on Africa’s goal for inclusive and sustainable development and is a concrete manifestation of the Pan-African Drive.
It is framework with a clear vision to create the “Africa We Want”, 7 aspirations, 20 goals, 39 priority areas with targets and indicators.
Aspiration one talks about the creation of a prosperous Africa, based on inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development with the goal of ensuring a High Standard of Living, Quality of Life and Well being of all Citizens.
The priority areas are therefore, to improve incomes, create jobs and decent work, end poverty, inequality, and hunger.
It also looks at guaranteeing a well educated population and skills revolution underpinned by Science, Technology and Innovation.
Aspiration two talks about ensuring an Integrated Continent Politically united and based on the ideals of Pan Africanism and the vision of Renaissance.
The other aspirations talk about good governance, democracy, respect for human rights, a peaceful and secure Africa, a continent with a strong cultural identity and the development of the youth and women.
Speaking to Journalists on the side-lines of a recently organized public lecture by the Ghana Journalists Association in the Upper East Region, Prof. Millar, notes that there is the need for the AU Agenda to take centre stage in development advocacy since it defines and addresses development issues taking into consideration the African context.
“The AU agenda 2063 talks about management, it talks about sustaining the knowledge of the people as well and our knowledge is the traditional seed and the traditional crops and soil, and it’s unfortunate that intellectuals and scholars have all been silent about that document,” he stated.
