21st Century African Development Strategies

Karamo NM Sonko is Founding Chairman of Heeno International and Sahara Gold Corporation. He is also President of Jula    Consultancy FZE and innovator of the Strategic Management Sustainability Tool (also known as the African PESTLE Analysis). He has worked at the Organization of African Unity (OAU), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and taught at the University of Paris VIII, University of Denver, University of Colorado at Denver, Regis University, and the University of British Columbia. Haider A. Khan is John Evans Distinguished University Professor. Has published more than 25 books and 200 articles in refereed international journals. Visiting professor in leading European, Asian and Latin American universities. Advisor to the UN, UNCTAD and Asian Development Bank among other international organizations. Mariama Sonko is Vice President for Sustainability and Impact at Sahara Gold Corporation and a volunteer assistant for Heeno International on special needs and community projects. She is also a GRI-certified Sustainability Adviser at Jula Consulting. She has co-authoured 2 books on Islamic Finance and sustainability, including the first book ever on formal holistic ESG, launched during COP28 in Dubai in December 2023. She has made high-level presentations on ESG to audiences from different parts of the world.

• 1. Introduction: Whither Africa?.- 2. Purposeful education: a new concept and approach to education for Development in Africa.- 3. Strategies for African Development in the 21st Century beyond the East Asian Model: Integrating Markets and the Enabling Developmental State.- 4. Combatting the “Tribal” Cankerworm: Causes, Consequences, and How, with a Gambian Case Study.- 5. Islamic finance: An Exploratory Survey of an Emergent New Opportunity in Resource Mobilization and Inclusion for Africa.- 6. Building resilience in the Post-Covid African Economy: A South African Case Study.- 7. Innovation and Technological Learning in Africa.- 8. Unlocking the Agricultural Potential: Feeding Africa for Self-reliance and the World for Business and Investigating Empirical Relationships.- 9.  Conclusion.