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As Africans, we should not willfully give the speculation about our future to non-Africans: Professor Suyi Davies Okungbowa prepares for Origins & Horizons: Weaving from African Futures conference

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On The Discourse this morning, we turn our attention to the future of Africa, a new generation of thinkers, artists, researchers, and storytellers is asking an urgent question: What does it mean to imagine African futures through African lenses? The  Africa Foresight Network is hosting the ongoing Origins & Horizons: Weaving from African Futures conference, currently underway in Johannesburg, South Africa. At the centre of the gathering is a powerful question: If we anchor futures thinking in African worldviews, can we transform foresight from a borrowed theoretical exercise into a deeply rooted culture of anticipation? To help us answer that question, Peter Ndoro spoke to Professor Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Ottawa, in Canada

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