MINDS DIALOGUES

The Institute will be launching its dialogue series on the theme:

"In a World and an Africa that is changing fast and fundamentally, how can Africa best prepare its leaders of tomorrow?’’ in Addis Ababa Ethiopia on 17-18 April 2012. 

The Mandela Institute for Development Studies(MINDS) is an Africa wide think tank that seeks to address the short, medium, and long-term development challenges of Africa in a holistic and comprehensive manner and always with African Heritage as a point of reference.

MINDS emerged out of the observation that development efforts in Africa have failed to meet expectations with respect to social, institutional and economic outcomes in comparison to other regions of the world.

There are several initiatives that bring together decision makers on issues of development in Africa. MINDS dialogues will be complementary to those existing platforms.

Our innovation is to introduce a platform for dialogue that interrogates current paradigms to address Africa’s development challenges by revisiting its rich cultural heritage to shape the debate and to influence policy formulation and practices. 

MINDS dialogues will be constructed around its three specific programme pillars and through the following leading questions:

Culture Issues – What is, should be, the role of Africa’s cultures in shaping the development and governance debate?

Governance Issues – Are the models of government and governance that most African countries are trying to operate appropriate for Africa?

Economic Issues – How does Africa effectively use its rich indigenous practices to stimulate a broad based economic resurgence so as to catch up with the rest of the world? 

The dialogues will bring together key African stakeholder groups to interrogate current challenges in Africa’s development efforts, to discuss innovative approaches and to offer up options for policy formulation and implementation on governance, economic development and the evolution of African institutions.

The general approach in formulating policy options will be to look closely at what can be borrowed from African Heritage practices in order to create the broadest possible ownership by the general African public.

For more info, please contact us at info@minds-africa.org

More information on MINDS, please visit  

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MINDS DIALOGUES

‘’Interrogating current paradigms and promoting change through dialogues’’