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President of All Nations University
Our keynote speaker, Professor Kwesi K. Adarkwa, former Vice Chancellor of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Council members present
Members of the call
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Teachers and staff present
The first graduating class from a full-fledged university
Distinguished special guests and guests
Members of the media
Ladies and gentlemen.
We thank the Almighty, the Most High, for granting the Presidential Letter for the University to grant degrees and diplomas.
The theme of this ceremony, Mentoring and Institutional Development for Quality Higher Education in Ghana, is timely and relevant, coming at a time when the University has achieved statute status and the country is redefining its development agenda, and especially within the period The entire African continent is exploring the role of innovative learning systems due to the outbreak of a pandemic that challenges our old ways of guiding and providing quality education to our students.
Founded in 1997, All Nation University (ANU) started as a modest knowledge-bearing institution in Koforidua by admitting and training students from all four corners of Ghana and beyond. After obtaining full University status and becoming the first University in Ghana and the first private University in Africa to build and launch a satellite (GhanaSat-1) deployed from the International Space Station to outer space on July 17, 2017, the University is no more modest. He has a broad vision of the role he can play in the development of Ghana and Africa. As a University of Science and Technology, it is led by a vision that will put science and technology at the service of the people and development of Ghana and the African continent.
We believe that a full-fledged UNA will allow the University to fulfill its mission, diversify and meet the country’s changing needs for excellence in teaching, research and research training, and keep pace with the increasingly competitive international university sector.
Our goal is to reposition the University as a strategic force for the development and diffusion of innovation, leading leadership and critical thinking in Africa.
We need to transform the University into a 21st century knowledge center and global development planning laboratory where ideas for the development of Ghana and Africa are bought.
Above all, we must be inspired by the award-winning Root-based development model, which has been successfully implemented in New Juaben, to have a real and meaningful impact in the communities of New Juaben, Ghana and Africa.
A clear path to achieving these goals is through the collective efforts of all of us, to work tirelessly and assiduously toward their achievement.
Mr. President, distinguished ladies and gentlemen, economic theory and practice teach us that technological progress based on local development models is what drives long-term growth and development.
Growth, in turn, generates the wealth that enables us to address the fundamental challenges facing society at large, the challenge of poverty and malnutrition, the challenge of illiteracy, the challenge of unemployment and underemployment, the challenge of infant mortality and a host of other challenges.
Local development models are likely to lead to innovation to find solutions to the contemporary challenges we face. History teaches us that without that approach, we will make little progress in our development initiative.
Now it has become clearer that there can be no meaningful development without the active participation of the citizenry, particularly since governments alone cannot satisfy all competing social demands in a timely manner.
The current global consensus on development favors a strategy of its own rather than the economic models of the world market. Therefore, there is a need to harness the potential role of the traditional governance system in the socio-economic, environmental and geopolitical development of our beloved nation for sustainable community development.
The root-based model has been creatively designed for traditional states to play a complementary role to government and the private sector in sustainable community development in Africa. With a well-implemented community development model, replicated in all traditional areas of Ghana and the communities within them, poverty, insecurity and inequalities in the country would be substantially reduced. This would form the basis on which Ghana can take a significant step towards achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
As Chancellor, I intend to propose to the University Administration the establishment of a Center for Indigenous Development (CID) that will have a direct impact on the communities and beyond. The Development in Unity trilogy and the book “Implementing the Root-based Development”, due to be published in December 2020, will form the core resource base for the Center, serving as the basis for exporting the flagship development planning model of Ghana to the rest. of the continent.
With these few words, it is my pleasure to add my voice to that of the President and his skillful council members in welcoming you to this historic occasion.
I am hopeful and optimistic about the future of this institution.
Once again, let me extend my sincere thanks to all of you, especially to our guest speaker, Prof. Adarkwa for taking the time to honor this occasion.
Thank you.
