ABSTRACT
The romance of pioneering is very much the dominant spirit of Africa today. Africans are pioneers, as they search for truly African solutions to the challenges they face. I. C. Jonah was concerned that the African university had failed to grow as a product of its own social-cultural environment. The sense of self-realization is straining to express itself in the design of a new paradigm of national development--relevant and responding directly to the needs of Africa--and not the contemporary paradigms of African development synthesized elsewhere, merely added as a footnote to a global economic order. The African National Congress (ANC) held its first conference on science and technology in Johannesburg in November 1990. Its intent was to discuss the development of a national science and technology policy for a democratic South Africa. The ANC reached a remarkable degree of consensus.
