Chris Eyo

I am a graduate of humanistic studies, involved in tutoring youngsters in leadership for development. This is informed by the dawning realities that, of all the maladies bessetting Africa, the greatest albatross is bad leadership. Though this is presently being done provisionally, my intention is to run the tutorials on a permanent basis.

Therefore, among others, the expected results in embarking on this venture, include but not limited to; having managers of our rural organisations in Africa, think globally, but act locally as well as putting in place modules for checks and balances to restrict leadership excesses and recklessness in the management of rural development.

To further equip myself with scholarly theories and intellection to advance valuable tutorials to those who pass through me, I have applied to the University of UYO, Nigeria, to study for MSc in Social and Rural Community Development and and also to the University of Roehampton, UK, for MPA. Also, this higher studies, will familiarise me with empirical formulas to become more skilled and professional in community service, management, advocacy and scholarship. Equally, it is aimed at expanding the horizon for the study of rural development growth models in order to develop a vision of the future of the rural communities in Africa. And in the long run, my taughts in leadership, will inturn be scientificallg exposed to the know-hows in harnessing both human and natural endowments of a given community or neighbourhood, in an African setting; for optimum service and productivity aimed at establishing the commonwealth as a roadmap to redefining and modernising the age-long 'communalism' of African people.

Consequent upon the spiralling compulsion to lessen barriers and open the frontiers of development for all humanity, as our world continues a path to ever increasing globalization, the need to identify opportunities and modules for sustainable rural development, becomes imperative. While the challenge of scarce resources for the optimum development of the human environment, remains endemic, there exists no limits to the capability of man to use knowledge and ideas to change the world for the better. To this end and amidst other hobbies such as inspirational speaking, conflict resolution/crisis management, etc, my mainstay has become the search for modules for rural development structures, to change from working to optimise communities to working to optimise people for sustainability - a shift from viewing the human community as that which is to be exploited to that which we live and have our beings. This is aimed at expanding the horizon for the development of a vision of the future towards recreating a sustainable wealth for the rural communities in Africa. The search for such modules, has dwarfed other hobbies.