Faye must be supported to liberate Africa from colonial bondage, Don says 

A Professor of International Relations from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Alade Fawole, and the Head of Department, Political Science and International Relations, KolaDaisi University, Ibadan (KDU-I), Dr. Adebukola Ayoola, have called on the Senegalese and all Africans to support and encourage Senegal President, Diomaye Faye in his efforts to liberate Africans from the shackles of neo-colonialism and imperialism.

Faye has expressed a sentiment against the dominance of Western countries in Africa.

While speaking at the second edition of the yearly departmental lecture organised by the Political Science and International Relations of the KDU- I,  with the theme: ‘Forecasting a New Global Architecture: The Outlines of a Polycentric Power Configuration’, Fawole and Ayoola said the new President is on the right track.

The scholars maintained that Faye must be protected, supported, and encouraged.

They said that Faye’s vision and ideology, if supported, would set the African country on the trajectory of development and true freedom.

Fawole, who was the guest lecturer, said: “I am not celebrating the fact that he is 44 years old. I’m celebrating his ideology and his ideas, whether he is 30, 40, 50, or 60. He has a pan-Africanist idea. He has a philosophy of liberating his country from the clutches of France. He wants to rescue the country from French new colonialism.

“I think efforts should be made to protect him against assassination by Western intelligence agencies.

“For me, that is something that should be encouraged and the same thing is going on in a number of other African countries to rid the continent of this reckless new colonialism of European power.”

Speaking about the theme of the lecture, the don said its essence was to take a look at how the world is changing.

He stated that the era of just two countries, America and the former Soviet Union, controlling the affairs of the world has gone, adding that unipolar or a bipolar world order is no longer feasible. The professor added that the new global architecture is a polycentric world order.

Fawole, therefore, called on African leaders to find a way to leverage the wind of change so that the continent could also benefit from it.

Speaking on Senegalese President, Dr. Ayoola called on the old generation of African leaders to yield the field for the younger ones.

On the lecture, the HOD said: “We felt as an academic community, it should not just be about going to classes for lectures alone. I believe there should be a forum to expand our horizons. It is part of the academic culture.

“Growing up as an undergraduate and postgraduate student in Obafemi Awolowo University, our department always organised such. The department would bring experts both in the academic and in the diplomatic world for us to interact with them and drink from their wealth of experience.”