Building Leaders - Role of Integrity, Courage and Determination

Dear Colleagues, At this time in our civilization, the world is cautiously emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic that left economic and social impacts in its wake. The fourth industrial revolution is altering the way we live, changing the face of the workplace, education, and how we relate to one another. All this at a time when insecurity, inequalities, and climate change continue to bring unnerving changes in the global political, economic, and social order. Many universities face tremendous challenges in Africa because of prolonged neglect. The public university school year in Nigeria for example is commonly only the time between two strikes. Youth unemployment and underemployment are as high as 60% in Nigeria and in South Africa. These facts make African youths question the value of university education - asking whether it is worth the fees and the troubles, and are characteristics of a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) period. Some have asked me, "Why the presi