Later this month, President Tinubu should call a victory summit to celebrate wining the African Nations Cup and use it as an opportunity to put this continental development plan to his colleagues

Ayo Akinfe

[1] As a continent, we will stop exporting our wildlife. If anyone wants to see lions, elephants, giraffes, leopards, cheetahs, gorillas, baboons, zebras, rhinos, hippos, etc, they should come to Africa. There is absolutely no justification for the zoo. For starters it is a crime against nature to cage wild animals

[2] How many tourist operators have invested in the African wildlife industry? Where are the hotels, cafes, bars, restaurants, railway lines, veterinary clinics, etc to attract tourists to Africa? Consequently, every tour operator who operates in Africa should be compelled to make such investment

[3] We want to see the World Trade Organisation reach an agreement compelling the rest of the world to spend at least 10% of its capital investments in Africa over the next 20 years

[4] We also want to see an international agreement banning the export of raw primary products. If anyone wants African cocoa, petroleum, diamonds, gold, rubber, kolanuts, cassava, plantain, bauxite, platinum, uranium, cashews, guar gum, groundnuts, etc, they should invest in local production and value-addition

[5] It should be made a criminal offence to export an African primary product without adding at least 50% value to it locally. This kind of unfair trading should attract the same kind of punishment as say poaching, money laundering or human trafficking

[6] Industrialised nations should be compelled to evaluate all export orders from Africa. Before accepting any supply contract, they must first of all examine the options to see if this product can be produced locally within Africa. It is criminal to take money from African counties to sell them what they can produce locally

[7] It should be illegal for industrialised nation to allow sitting leaders of African nations to purchase private properties within their domains. This is just another form of money laundering

[8] Whenever sitting leaders of African nations request medical treatment abroad, industrialised nations must be compelled to first of all offer such service within Africa. They should be asked to send out a team of doctors and only accept such patients if it is a life or death emergency with no other option available

[9] Every multinational operating within Africa, must be compelled to invest at least 10% of its profits back in the continent

[10] Given that African nations are going to struggle to afford religious pilgrimages over the next 10 years, the authorities in Mecca, Medina, Rome and Jerusalem should offer free trips to all African pilgrims over the next decade. If they do not, the African Union should place a moratorium on all pilgrimages for the next decade