The Abuja School of Political and Social Thought (The Abuja School) is a collection of scholars, public intellectuals, policy experts and enthusiast and generally, ideas men and women committed to the rediscovery of the reflective life in the classical Socratic sense. The common thread that run through our diverse personas is the common belief in the power of good ideas to help create a better future. Members of Abuja School believe that a sound idea is the most practical solution. We believe that Africa’s predicament is largely because of the lack of systematic and sustained production of social knowledge. Even if we are gifted with ethical and focused leadership, we may not solve some of the most critical problems because we don’t have the cutting-edge ideas and policies to reverse the massive decline in Africa
The Abuja School is a non-partisan or sectarian intellectual hub. We are thinkers and ideologues who seek for answers to today by rethinking yesterday’s thoughts with today’s experience. Looking at the intellectual landscape of global society we feel strongly that the leading ideas, conceptions and ideologies dominant in the western world have run their course. They are exhausted. The world is look for something new. And we believe that the new intellectual lens for the new world could (and should) come from Africa. So, the ambition of the Abuja School is to be the producer of the next transformative idea of the new century.
Abuja School is not a conventional school. It is a thinking and study group. Our activities will consist mostly of ideas and policy sessions and occasion papers and policy roadmaps. We will not become a policy group. Whereas we will keep our intellectual feet on the ground, we are not engaged in conventional policy formulation. We are a school of intellectuals focused on the promotion of radical ideas that policy centers can pick up and convert to implementation polices. While being pragmatic, we will be basically ideological and philosophic. Our ambit is political and social ideas for prosperity, political stability and human development. We want to create a new world with much more creative and inspired ideas.
The Abuja School will hold its sessions monthly and issues idea scripts from time to time