Zimbabwe: Africa Must Set Own Agenda

African scholars must assert themselves and provide intellectual leadership that places African ideals at the centre of all African solutions to address numerous challenges facing the continent.

Speaking at a pan-African forum which opened yesterday in the capital ahead of Africa Day commemorations, University of Zimbabwe sociologist Prof Claude Mararike said African scholars needed to recapture the intellectual space to define Africa's future agenda that drew inspiration from the continent's own distinctive and unique experience.

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