In
a comprehensive review, Nyaaba-Aweeba Azongo, a Development Planner, one-time
consultant to the National House of Chiefs, and the architect of the SMIDO
project in Ghana, described the book as setting new parameters in global
biographic presentation.
The
book encapsulates the historic exploits of Daasebre as a high-standing
international scholar recognized by the American Biographical Institute as one
of the greatest minds of the 21st century.
In
his perspective, the book is iconic in many respects: a break-away brand, a
bridge of culture and scholarship and a masterpiece of art that conveys
passion, intellectual astuteness and charisma driven by a vision for
development.
According
to Azongo, the legendary-anchor of Daasebre’s scholarly piece which is set to
change the global biographic landscape is how the author expertly weaves his
personal experience, beliefs, philosophy and the culture of his people into a
well-sequenced prolific presentation of popular development themes to feed into
a particular thought evolution as an instrument of change, which is a complete departure from the usual biographic
presentation of shared personal episode.
He
has therefore described the book as LEGENDARY and a HISTORIC INTELLECTUAL
MONUMENT.
In
his review of this historic scholarly piece which he describes as a ‘Giant Task’,
Nyaaba–Aweeba Azongo said, the book is a moment of intellectual genius which potentially
could define Africa’s pride of place in global leadership and intellectual assertiveness.
The
book is said to convey the Author’s deep sense of history by reproducing with
amazing clarity records of events that
involved him from as far back as the second world-war through Ghana’s
independence era to the most recent times.
According
to Azongo, the most iconic attribute of the publication is how the book has
been expertly dovetailed into the Akwantukese Festival, a post-independence
traditional Festival in Ghana pioneered by the author as the Omanhene to bring
an important part of Asante history, the Great Migration, into contemporary
significance. He presents the book blended with his exploits as part of an
institution skillfully designed for national and global consumption – a
historic threshold of New Juaben footprint in Ghana, Africa and global
development.
In
this context, the review concludes, the book attains an institutional
legitimacy as a product of the institution of New Juaben and Asante history and
not just as an individual scholarly piece of personal episode.
The
review further points out that, per its philosophy and design; the book
co-evolves with the festival of his people thus giving it a permanent presence
in history and inter-generational essence.
The
review describes the compendium as exuding a distinctive compass of lessons for
posterity and a pillar of enduring legacy.
It
is further described as a treasure house of personal experience laced-through
relevant themes of development in a single volume. In both history and literary
substance, the compendium is said to be a memory bank of the writer’s exploits
as a scholar and a cultural activist blending culture, modernism and
scholarship in rare harmony: a fountain of inspiration which could constitute
an African chapter in the quest to author a new development order.
The
Root-Based model, a theory the author propounded and presented to the UN
Secretary-General and at the World Forum of Academicians in Cambridge
University, England, to influence a new global development order has been comprehensively
treated as a resource-pool for national development planning in the book.
Azongo
said, the depth of development planning discourse around the Root-Based model
leaves one wondering where to position Daasebre in the professional scheme of
things. He describes the compendium as symbolizing one of nature’s prolific and
benign gifts to the world as the author acknowledges in the preface to the
publication as being a “gift for posterity”.
On
the Author’s concept of change, the book sets an interesting inspirational
premise on the aegis of change and culture and builds on his own perspective of
change from authoritative references to underline his beliefs, philosophy and
projections.
The
review concludes that the striking feature of Daasebre’s concept of change lies
in bringing two worlds: modernism and culture into a common realm, a singular
course in the pursuit of humanity which could be blended in harmony to
underline total Development.
This
is a development book built around a personality who symbolizes it all. It is a
melting pot of lessons and a must-read book for present and future leaders and
in particular for the younger generation.
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