By John Ogunsemore
The President of the African School of Governance (ASG), Prof. Kingsley Moghalu has described his new role as his most important ever in his decades-long career spanning stints as a lawyer, journalist, UN diplomat, strategy, risk management and investment consultant, political economist, central bank governor, politician, among others.
Moghalu said this in a Facebook post on Saturday.
On October 20, the former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) was announced as President of the Kigali, Rwanda-based ASG.
Chair of ASG’s Board, Makhtar Diop said Moghalu’s sterling track record of leadership in international and national policymaking institutions, and academia, as his thought leadership influence, will help make ASG a transformative graduate school and develop a new generation of purpose-driven leaders with the skills and mindsets to help Africa address the challenges of the 21st Century.
Moghalu said he considered his new role as the most important “because the vision and mission of ASG is truly profound: a prosperous, stable Africa governed by men and women with the MINDSET (of purpose-driven leadership), knowledge and skills to tackle Africa’s challenges, seize its opportunities, and change our continent’s narrative.
“As H.E. Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda and Co-Founder of ASG put it when he received me at Urugwiro Village (his office in Kigali) earlier this week, the African School of Governance was founded to answer the question: ‘How do we change Africa’s reality?’. This is a profound vision and task.”
The ASG President said leadership and governance remain Africa’s biggest challenges which must be fixed to usher in a prosperous future.
He said, “As I embark on my new role, along with the brilliant colleagues working with me and who we are assembling from all corners of the world to build a world-class university that will train leaders who can actually govern our continent’s public, private sector and social spaces, I have a sense of mission and faith in God.
“This assignment matters because leadership and GOVERNANCE are and have been Africa’s biggest challenge. We fix it now and in the coming generation , we fix all the other problems we treat as silos and have thus far not succeeded to the extent we should have – security, wealth creation that lifts the hundreds of millions of our poor from poverty into the middle class, jobs, physical and social infrastructure (healthcare, education, potable water supply, and life expectancy), macroeconomic management, and a successful blending of business, the state, and society.”