FULafia Scholar Asserts Poor Institutional Capacity Fuels Africa’s Development Deficit
FULafia Scholar Asserts Poor Institutional Capacity Fuels Africa’s Development Deficit
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A scholar of public administration at the Federal University of Lafia (FULafia), Prof. Ogwola Idoko Robert, has identified weak institutional capacity as the major obstacle to development in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Thus, he warned: "Decades of policy reforms will not guarantee the sub-continent's development."
Delivering FULafia’s 42nd inaugural lecture titled: “Re-Imagining Policy Wealth and Development Scarcity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” Robert described Africa’s challenge as “policy wealth amidst development scarcity.”
He noted that governments in Africa have introduced numerous development plans since their attainment of independence, yet poverty, poor infrastructure and weak human development persist.
Robert blamed administrative inefficiency, poor policies' coordination, politicisation of civil service and weak financial systems for been responsible for our underdevelopment.
He proposed an “institutional translation framework” that would focus on governance quality, institutional capacity and technology to scale up development in the continent.
In his speech at the occasion, the Vice-Chancellor of FULafia, Prof. Mohammed Isa Kida, praised the lecture, Robert, urging African institutions to rethink governance in the era of artificial intelligence to drive sustainable socio-economic development.
