Look inward for solutions to Africa’s problem, Sultan advises leaders

The Sultan of Sokoto and President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has advised African leaders to look inward and learn from the rich heritage of treasures to get solutions to various problems facing the African continent.

The first-class monarch gave the advice in Abuja at a three-day international symposium, organised by Moroccan-based Islamic organisation, Mohammad VI Foundation For African Oulema, with the theme, “The Islamic African Heritage: Memory and History”.

According to Sultan Abubakar III, there was an Islamic heritage in Africa, which was rich, deep, and huge collections of manuscripts in private, public universities, and libraries, and research centres across the world which leaders could learn from to find solutions to the continent’s challenges.

While submitting that what Africa needs now are fresh ideas, the Sultan asserted that learning from hiding treasures of the past would enable leaders to get the impetus to chart a new course in addressing problems facing the continent.

“At a time where Africa needs fresh ideas for its rejuvenation, we need to look inward in the hiding treasures of the wisdom of our past. This will enable us to get the impetus to chart a new course that will address and solve the many problems facing us today.

“I am confident that in the rich legacies of ours, we shall find that which our grandfathers found which make them build the great empires of the great of the past and contributed to humanity like all other civilisations,” Sultan Abubakar declared.

He then commended the Mohammad VI Foundation For African Oulema for organising the symposium and urged participants to ensure maximum interactions with a view to delivering expectations of Muslims, not only in Africa but also across the world.

Earlier in his welcome speech, the Secretary-General of the Foundation, Dr Si Mohammed Rifki, said the symposium was organised as a concrete step towards fulfilling one of the Foundation’s objectives.

According to him, the symposium was “in keeping with the pledge to implement the proposals and recommendations adopted by the members of the committee for the revival of the African Islamic heritage, with all its chapters”.

He added that it would address a topic of paramount importance, informing that, “this is one of the heritage themes adopted by the committee as a target programme.”

Also speaking at the event, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, said he was optimistic that the three-day symposium would find lasting solutions to the persisting African political and socioeconomic issues as well as proffer solutions for peaceful coexistence on the continent.

No less than 500 participants drawn from over 30 countries are participating in the event aimed at discovering the African Islamic heritage, its components and stages of development as well as contributions of various environments.

It is also meant to preserve African Islamic manuscripts in particular, through the identification of their nature, centres, the problems and dangers that threaten them, and the ways of promoting and preserving them from deterioration and loss.

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