1. Please could you introduce yourself?
I am Mazi Ebube George Ebisike, I am from Imo State in Nigeria. Originally a player in the private sector, I am a Scientist/Researcher, Serial Entrepreneur, Speaker, Writer, Development Consultant and futurist with business footprint in Nigeria, Sierra Leone with international partnerships built across the world.
2. What is your vision of Pan-Africanism?
Pan-Africanism continues to sustain the epicentrical consciousness and critical sense of brotherhood as also collaboration among all people of African descent whether they live inside or outside of the vast lands once known as Alkebulan or Africa. Pan-Africanism is an ethnofraternity which can be described in Igbo as “Ayinninebuike” meaning “in unity there is power or our mass solidarity”.
To thow more light, Pan-Africanism is a pathway to uplift the black race or those of her descent to assert their place all working together in society or the global public space within the homestead and diaspora. It is the magnetic north and mindsetting gatekeeper of imbued African greatness. “Ayinninebuike” (black force of mass solidarity). Pan-Africanism understood from the prism of igboness is a forward looking tradition birthed from a struggle to relentlessly dignify our halo of blackness after surviving 400 years of depravity. It also is the pursuit of self-reliance (even if through the modern day institutionalisation of the AfCFTA), our common walk for united progress across Africa and the world at large. Pan-Africanism is the guardian against weaponised racial exploitation, Western hitman jobs to institute mass poverty, powerlessness, imperialism and neo-colonialism in all its spectrum. Pan-Africanism as a persistent ideology thrives as a social movement and philosophy of futurist redemption from the Stockholm syndrome of the past ages of repression.
Pan-Africanism has remained an immensely positive compass to Africans, delivering multidirectionalunity and progressivism, magnifying our pride of being, whilst sustaining the dignity and power of our own non aligned choices in the past and 21st century geopoliticking.
Pan-Africanism arms our struggles against different strains of scourges ranging from modern day slavery, psyops, cloaked fascism to open Fulatheid working for Western domination of Africa through all manner of ways and means. Pan-Africanism works to bring Africans to the first-worldom in competitive stance with other continents. It works for us all in continuum to fortify and sustain the conveyor belt of togetherness that must place Africa at its height of civilisational glory whilst according her descendants past and future the respect they deserve for their vast contributions to scientific and technological inventions as well as resourceful additions to the entire body of knowledge throughout the span of humanity which took root from Africa.
Pan-Africanism is why Africa must be liberated according to its tribes and new national borders redrawn so as to reordain the beacon of greateness which Africa seeks through freedom of the 1960s struggle to decolonise the black mindset in total perpetuity. Those called the “Wondering Jews of West Africa” by Henry Kissinger must be free to thrive on the global stage through a process that starts with their nationhood and goes on to lead the charge for the entire black race working together with other Africans at home and diaspora to bestride the earth and universe with their benign genius for the greater good of their African preservation in the first instance and and all humanity holistically.
3. Who is your favorite character Pan-African history and why?
“Because I am Involved” is a book written by one of the most notable Nigeria military leaders, Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu and you should read it, alongside the book “There Was A Country” by Chinua Achebe the visionary author. There are other books on this subject matter you should read.
Ojukwu’s unique place in history based on his quest to liberate African genius and technological frontiership from colonial strangehold in a struggle that took place in Nigeria, makes him my favourite Pan-African leader. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu returned from England in 1957 after a 13-year period pursuing his educational abroad. His billionaire and influential father wanted him bring his educational acquisition to the family business. Emeka Odimegwu-Ojukwu had other plans as he engaged in a brief stint in the colonial service before heading to the Queen’s Regiment, which was what the Nigeria army as known as at the time.
His father Sir Louis Odumegwu-Ojukwu was truly livid and tried to give the young man a piece of his fatherly mind. His Dad even called on the then Governor-General of Nigeria, James Robertson to intervene. The British colonial administrator went on to tell Emeka Ojukwu point-blank that if he thought what happened in Egypt in 1952 when Colonel Abdel Nasser came to power through a coup could ever happen in Nigeria, he was definitely mistaken. Col. Nasser’s grandson is a friend of mine today. And that statement turned out to be prophetic as it marked the demise of positive African leadership and birthed a pattern of governance on the continent for the next four decades breeding corruptocracy and deprogressivism which haunts the African society till date.
Military rule became the replicable mode of administration for many African countries. Pan Africanism projected by Ghana’s Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah dematerialised and gave way to strongman dictatorships. Nigeria recently suffered a legendary Fulatheid dictatorship between 2015 and 2023 under General Mohammadu Buhari of backward proportions never before seen even under the most repressive full blown khakistocracy.
4. With the onset of technology and investment in Africa, how do you see Africa in the 21st century?
WWith the onset of technology and Investment in Africa, the 21st century looks extensively positive for African growth and competitiveness but the African political elite and followership must continue to push the boundaries for environmental enablement of all so as frontier (R&D) research and development, impact invest in black genius and retreat completely from the belief in Western answers to African problems. With the birth of Afrofuturism and it’s manifest thrive globally alongside innovations spearheaded by Africans across all fields of endeavour in the sciences, technology and even possibly black foray into thalience nothing will be beyond our reach. Technology and science must be given political support structures in on the continent whilst ensuring the value chain from academia to industry become shortened and heavily financed. Product development must be a mantra of Africans consciousness because the world today trades the currency of information and know-how. Africa cannot afford excuses of any kind but Investment in all spectrum of developmental infrastructure on land and space and even in its own genre of knowledge indigenous to her and grow these into a competitive, scalable, attractive and exportable industry across the markets on terra firma and vacuum of space. The future looks bright for Africa but we all must enthrone leaderships across that 54 countries of the continent that is independent of Western apron strings and innovative minded to take us towards the forward leap to first-worldom Africa needs in the next 40years being 2063!
5. What are you planning to do in the future for the State of the African Diaspora?
My plan for SOAD Ministry of Trade in the future is to work collaboratively to make Africa holistically food secure through bringing in investment to grow our own food and ensure it finds the market on the continent to serve the people’s needs. A well fed people are those whose sustainable mindset can foster thinking as a super race living a satisfied life in peace with other races. In my capacity as Minister of Trade the work-plan is to finds ways to engage the World Trade Organisation to achieve partnerships to aid commodities and other trading channels on terms more favourable to Africa.
Trade is a means in itself for Africa to become globally competitive in its quest to adequately protect its people from weaponised hunger and need of essential goods and services. At the SOAD Ministry of Trade the future plan is to set in motion and ensure our state purse is wealthy enough to boast a large GDP of its own (minimum US$5Trillion). SOAD must become bankably wealthy to fund her own future directions of wealth creation, evolution and innovation for the good of Africa working with the diaspora. The SOAD Ministry of Trade needs to drive Investment to advance African medicine to universal standards from genomic levels of R&D to prosthetics, these therapeutic and pharmacological drugs and medicines when sold based on the already established mechanism of the AfCFTA can bring profits and recognition to all stakeholders including SOAD, companies, researchers, marketers and individuals. Healthcare is key to a rise in Africa’s quality of life and life expectancy. Furthermore, since Africa is the youngest continent the healthcare of its workforce is key to its productivity and competitiveness. Africa must be able to achieve remote viewing of its future endlessly such that it can hand a rich and healthy legacy to its successor generation.
At the SOAD Ministry of Trade seeking investment and collaboration for technology initiatives, projects and research will be key to opening new doors for breakthrough products, services and paradigms. Selling of these above mentioned categories in the open market will boost our financial capacity. Working closely with other ministries in SOAD, organisations and individuals our output can open new means of empowerment and entrepreneurship for Africans and the markets on the continent. Africa needs to launch satellites and dominate space to aid it’s steady agriculture growth, security and urban city developments, this is also an area where the SOAD Ministry of Trade will play a key role to funds and partner such initiatives and projects.
Africa must own it’s space launch systems and habitation laboratories in space to carry out continuous research in zero gravity which will pay dividends for our holistic development and fill our knowledge gap. Trade in space minerals and manufacturing is a new paradigm we must be set to play in. SOAD Ministry of Trade will work to build trade links with Africa countries and international partners. Africa must become a technology powerhouse majorly funded by activities and strategies from the SOAD Ministry of Trade and other partners to yield developmental dividends. Trade also is enabled and interwoven with learning and it is key to fund the teaching of the entire sciences in native languages to entrench systematic scientific thinking from an indigenous perspective original to us. Africa must build a sustainable culture of experimenting new possibilities as these new products and services developed will be sources of revenue. SOAD must build new technology driven trade exchange platforms to grow trade volumes in all kinds of commodities and manufactured products.
The SOAD Ministry of Trade will also seeks to work closely with the manufacturing industry to boost building of manufacturing plants, housing, output of organic food products, industrial hi-tech products and machinery amongst others. The SOAD Ministry of Trade will pursue bringing new thinking to negotiating trade pacts, conventions and treaties to benefit the African continent. Trade is key to success of a country and its people and the SOAD Ministry of Trade looks to bring new thinking, expertise and experiences working with other ministries to achieve ambitious outcomes and robust output for the African continent.
