Business lawyer, Omoruyi Edoigiawerie, has charged African nations to look inward for development.
The founder of Edoigiawerie and Company LP gave the advice while speaking at the 32nd session of United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent that held in Geneva, Switzerland.
His words: “Africa, which predominantly houses the black race, must begin to look inward and ensure that our dreams and empowerment of the black race are bespoke and internally done.
“Empowerment must come from within if our bargaining power is to be better, and if we are to converse with the outside world from a place of equality.”
According to the start-up and business law expert, Africa, has for long, been at the lower rung and beggarly, with the inactivity fuelling racial discrimination.
“Africa has what it takes to grow, build and re-create itself in a way that it can now begin to converse with the outside world from a place of equality and superiority in terms of what we know and what we create,” he noted.
Edoigiawerie said stakeholders must continue to speak to issues and put in place measures that encourage economic empowerment of the people.
He decried existing imbalance in issuance of visas.
At the joint technical session on Education and Enterprise: Black Agency and Achievements, Edoigiawerie reiterated that reparative justice goes beyond compensation for Africa.
He said it also to ensure that systems and structures are put in place to help the continent develop meaningfully and have access to right tools to compete globally with the rest of the world.
