Inconvenient Truth: When the Elephants Forget the Grass

As Africa’s first appointed Professor Extraordinaire in Supply Chain Management, he has consistently championed the integration of procurement, value chain, industrialisation strategy, and governance into national and continental development agendas, aligning practice with purpose and long-term impact.

They decline because countless ordinary decisions gradually place short-term political advantage above long-term national interest.

It begins the moment political survival becomes more important than national survival, when defeating an opponent feels more urgent than solving a problem, when every policy is judged not by whether it improves lives but by who proposed it.