A Word from the President

In this spirit, we wish to invite all African decision-makers, whether in the political, economic, scientific or social domain — the sons and daughters of Africa who wish to be actors of their own future — to join us in this venture, undoubtedly courageous, perhaps perilous, but how exhilarating and generative of progress.

We are at the rendezvous. This is a reality — a demanding reality, a reality that commits us.

Our continent is the demographic reservoir of the 21st century, the last frontier of global markets, the key to energy, digital and climate transitions, the nexus of global value chain reorganisation.

But it has become — including in its vast maritime space and its immense blue economy potential — a global playground where geopolitical, geostrategic and geoeconomic actors, visible and invisible, jostle and confront one another.

Faced with this, what do we do? Will we continue to endure history, or will we finally write it and create the future?

With KANU, we refuse to endure history.

In direct alignment with the African Union's Vision 2063 — the Africa we want — we commit to building our future as the principal actors of a game of which we are the central pivot.

Africa is not destined to remain a playground for foreign powers. It must become a strategic actor — respected, feared and sovereign.

That is why we must change paradigm, tear down every wall of complex — the colonised complex, the inferiority complex, the Western complex, the religious complex — in short all the complexes that chain us and bar the road to progress. It thus becomes urgent to free ourselves from these complexes, rebuild our mental models, produce our own strategic intelligence, co-construct our development trajectories and refuse all intellectual, financial or technological dependency.