WOMEN: THE LAST CHANCE FOR AFRICA aims at to build solidarity among African women. To enable African Women to rise to the challenge of liberating Africa from its economic predicament. The work brings to the fore the negative effects on the economy of Africa, resulting from denying women's participation in building the economy of the Continent. "Women: The Last Chance for Africa" is a result of pensive research and exposition of economic and development efforts in different countries in Africa, compared with the entrepreneurship of women. The creation of the African Women Development Bank would be radical development model aimed at reviving Africa's economy and putting money in the hands of those who need it the most. The African Women Development Bank would be a great economic and development model for the Continent through its women, who are the custodians of power, king makers, nation builders and pillars of Africa. Women are the last chance for Africa, because women are the ones who will bring back Africa's rightful and good given prosperity. The work is an honest portrayal of the irrationality of trying to deny the complicity of we Africans in the present abject poverty and misery vitiating our continent by trading blames with the western world. In the contest of Africa, the pitiable and lamentable destruction and tacit demolition of social structures and infrastructures worsen the impoverishment of the Africa humanity, particularly women and children. It is women, though, not involved in this reign of institutional destruction that suffers most. They usually bear the consequences of all states mismanagement of human and material resources it is therefore imperative to note that meaningful socio-economic reform could be attained in Africa if the very import position of women in the Africa socio-cultural setting is deeply appreciated. Such a reform must end at the economic empowerment of women who will then be energized to a zealous and sustainable role towards African economic and social rebirth in the new global order. Hence the urgent and crucial need for the establishment of African Women Development Bank. It committedly advocate for the establishment of an African Women Development Bank of an African women development bank for effective and urgent economic redistribution and empowerment of African women through a GLOBAL ALLIANCE. The GLOBAL ALLIANCE will be a responsible international investors that appreciate and accept the importance and critical need of promoting and sustaining as a matter of urgency, the economic empowerment of women as the only option left and sane road to African rebirth and reinvention. In arriving at its strong conclusion, the another present detailed investigation of the economic predicament of most countries of Africa owing to their neglect of the crucial role of women in industrialization and economic growth.
About the Author: Mr.Christian Igodo is the founder of Center of General African Development and Studies based in Abuja, Nigeria. He studied philosophy at the University of Calabar. He has numerous publications and research papers to his credit. He is the project director and initiator of African Women Development Bank Project