Nigeria, Feb. 12 -- The world has never suffered from a scarcity of ideas. Nations and civilisations have risen on the strength of visionaries, and they have also crumbled under the weight of ideas left in the dusty cupboard of time. But today, the world as we know it is bowing to a reality in which we cannot afford to be freeloading bystanders. This gathering is an acknowledgment of this dilemma, and I am honoured to join my brother and friend, a scholar-statesman of the finest breed, Dr J Kayode Fayemi, in his mission to be an intellectual prototype for the continent.

The post-idea world is not a world without ideas - it is a world where the excuse of not knowing has expired. Emerging technologies like the Large Language Models of arti...