Who Will Train the Next Generation?
A Report on Africa Arise Conference & AU's Prayer Breakfast for African Heads of State (January 24-30, 2017).
By Samuel Koranteng-Pipim, PhD
Just in case you miss the thrust of my report, this is what I want to say: “Success without a successor is failure. True leaders train others to succeed them; but great leaders develop others to supercede them.”
The above is a summary of the burden I shared in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where I was invited to the Africa Arise Conference and the African Union’s Prayer Breakfast for the African Heads of State (January 25-30, 2017). Now in its 9th year, the Africa Arise Network is a movement of African leaders who are committed to combatting Africa’s unique challenges from a Biblical perspective. The conference is a yearly event that is conducted by the “Africa Arise Network” alongside the annual African Heads of States Summit in Ethiopia.
I was one of the moderators to this year’s Africa Arise Conference conference, which focused on “Bridging the...