I envisage the burgeoning School as a centre of topical discourse of innovative ideas and research that will transform higher education and policy-focused governance interventions beyond their current mediocrity. In the same breath, I will hope that as it grows, it will bring around far-flung network of scholars from the rest of Africa and the world who will contribute their quota to governance practice, policy and theory.

Consequently, I expect it to stimulate the current and next generation of scholars, technocrats and intellectuals to develop homegrown solutions to the seemingly intractable problems of our world. I hope the School will be at the forefront of intellectual agenda setting and provide theoretical and empirical grist for the kind of innovations that will move our world out of the wilderness in which it has been stranded for too long.