AGABA
A vision for the continent the world underestimated.
Africa must produce what it consumes and process what it extracts. AGABA makes that case in five parts and fifteen chapters — a builder's argument, not a lament, written from inside the African experience rather than about it from the outside.
Productive sovereignty, not another lament.
AGABA is positioned in the tradition of Dambisa Moyo, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and Daron Acemoglu — but told from inside the African experience, as a builder's call to action rather than an outsider's diagnosis.
The title carries a deliberate double meaning. Agaba is the author's middle name — the Idoma word for "lion," and a title once borne by kings and rulers in Idoma land. That reclaiming of the "animal kingdom" image imposed on Africa runs through the whole book.
It's written for three audiences at once: Africans at home, the global diaspora, and anyone connected to the continent who wants to understand what building here actually requires.
- Five parts Evidence, economy, governance, people, foundations
- Fifteen chapters Numbered, plus unnumbered front matter
- 357 pages 6×9 trade format
- Spotlights African Excellence Spotlights throughout
- Apparatus Methodology note, 86-entry index, citations
I have watched a refinery rise on the Lagos coastline over thirteen years of obstruction that would have broken a smaller ambition. It stands now as the argument this book makes in full: that the highest form of African enterprise is building the industries that keep our value inside our own borders. This book asks nothing of the reader that its own evidence has not already asked of me.
— Igoche Agaba George
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