The Rapid Africa Plan and the Case for a Revolutionary Transformation of the Continent
Professor Hannington Mubaiwa’s Rapid Africa Plan Offers a Clear Path to Industrial Sovereignty
The Rapid Africa Plan stands apart from foreign-drafted policy frameworks circulated in Geneva or Brussels. The plan has been developed by Africans for Africans, shaped through decades of independent study into the causes behind the continent’s persistent poverty amid vast natural wealth. The goal is to fast-track industrialisation and transform the continent from a consumer of foreign goods and services into a producer and exporter of high-value goods. The concise plan is a rejection of dependency. The plan advocates breaking with the cycles of externally imposed models that have failed the continent for more than sixty years.
(“Why African and third world independence leaders failed to build a new Africa” by Singapore former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew.)
Africa's economic systems are not designed for liberation, they are designed for controlled independence through peace. There is a big difference between peace and liberation. These systems were built to serve European and American supply chains, and in more recent years, Chinese state and commercial interests. Even after independence, African nations have operated under foreign-designed systems. Their development agendas are outsourced to Western donors and multilateral institutions. The United Nations’ SDG programme and the World Bank’s frameworks continue to dominate African development conversations. These do not prioritise African transformation. They lock Africa into a low-growth, service-based structure that has no place for mass industrialisation. The continent is nothing more than a consumer basket and a labour camp.
The Rapid Africa Plan is based on a simple premise, that Africa will not progress under borrowed agendas. What Africa needs is a deliberate, internal mental shift that drives a new kind of leadership and governance. The leadership of the continent must move from extractive and comprador-style politics to a productive and visionary system of statecraft. This change cannot come from within the current system. The change must be revolutionary. That means discarding the mental software of colonial administration, inherited post-colonial party politics, and imported economic models that reinforce Africa’s subordinate role in the global order.
The continent’s youth face a future without jobs, industry or a reliable public sector. What they inherit is debt, extractive mining contracts, collapsed infrastructure and no tools to change course. For decades, leaders have accepted externally drafted policies with no scientific grounding in Africa’s actual conditions. The Rapid Africa Plan argues that real transformation begins with a complete paradigm shift. The plan presents a structured vision of what an African modernisation process could look like if it were led internally and implemented through consistent, industrial strategy. Africans have been saddles with pointless five-year plan or donor project frameworks that deliver nothing but failure. This intergrated plan is a forty-year roadmap based on engineering principles, economic development theory, and sociopolitical realism.
The vision rests on one idea, that a scientifically planned fast-track transformation can industrialise Africa within one generation. It recognises that the conditions of life on the continent reflect the psychology and worldview of those in charge. The plan points out that African governments are often populated by officials trained in outdated European models with no capacity or interest to innovate for African realities. There is a fundamental gap between the strategic needs of the continent and the mental tools used by its leadership. Most post-independence administrations have simply replicated the logic of colonial administrators and acted as gatekeepers for outside interests.
(Professor Hannington Mubaiwa)
The Rapid Africa Plan outlines specific areas of transformation in particular large-scale industrial zones, infrastructure megaprojects, continental energy grids, agro-industrial food security systems, and a common continental market with its own reserve assets. Thus it recognises the economic war being waged against Africa through debt, aid dependence and foreign-controlled trade routes. Hence, it proposes that the only viable response is a coordinated continental break with this system. That break must be intellectual, political, institutional and industrial.
The African Union (AU) as it has shaped by the colonial masters, is not positioned to lead such a transformation. The AU has become a diplomatic forum managed by western interests and with no sovereign capacity to lead industrial change. Its Agenda 2063 lacks actionable funding models and is functionally controlled by foreign donors. The AU's bureaucratic structures do not serve industrialisation, and its dependence on Western and Chinese capital ensures that it cannot mount a continental transformation without contradiction.
In contrast, the emergence of young and bold leadership in West Africa offers an alternative. Captain Ibrahim Traoré of Burkina Faso and the broader Alliance of Sahel States (AES) have demonstrated that there are African leaders prepared to reject foreign interference and lead on sovereign terms. They have shown the political courage to break with colonial-era institutions and assert the right of African states to determine their futures without external permission.
This kind of leadership is aligned with the kind of revolutionary mindset needed to implement the Rapid Africa Plan. This is not just a simple matter of military posturing or nationalist rhetoric. The plan is very detailed and precise about rebuilding the machinery of the state to serve the production and prosperity of its people. That requires engineering talent, policy independence, scientific planning and youth mobilisation. It also requires a generation of leadership unafraid to discard what has failed, no matter how embedded it has become in the political culture of the continent.
The Rapid Africa Plan is a call to build, Africans need to give on begging. You know, as the old adage says, beggars cannot be choosers. Africans are being called upon to plan instead of reacting. They need to think in terms of generations, not election cycles. From the moment an election is settled, until the next election, African leaders remain in election mode. So this plan is built around the idea that Africa is rich but has been structurally disorganised, and that this is no accident. That disorder was engineered, and hence it must be systematically reversed. The authors of the plan understand that Africa's underdevelopment is not natural or organic, but is imposed. The methods used to enforce that system included military and economic pressure, along with educational, psychological, and cultural influence.
If Africa is to be free, the mind of the African must be retooled. Liberation without transformation is a complete illusion. Political independence is not enough if the continent remains economically controlled by outsiders. Industrialisation is not possible under the rule of foreign-dictated policy. The current leaders have failed, the continent is infested with hand picked western puppets. A new generation must take the helm, not to continue the old path, but to chart a new one entirely. The Rapid Africa Plan gives them the detailed map to do so.
Credit belongs to Professor Hannington Mubaiwa, who led the development of the Rapid Africa Plan with clarity, depth, and purpose. Alongside a dedicated team of pan-Africanists, he has worked tirelessly to bring this programme to the attention of Africans across the continent. Early efforts focused on presenting the plan to various African governments. These engagements were met with resistance, which came as no surprise, given that the plan challenges the interests and ideologies of many foreign donors and funders that shape national policy. The work has since shifted towards the people themselves, where momentum is building outside state institutions.
The Rapid Africa Plan Texbook: https://transfernow.net/dl/20250717ldcFuxZP
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