Thank you. Salam allayikum and a very good afternoon. Uh I'm delighted to come to Georgetown.Thank you D Masri for the nice introduction and uh you made our life easy by defining transformation and the importance of transformation. And it's interesting for our young nation in few decades how transformed and it has always been the direction that we wants to transform. We want to be state-ofthe- art yet we want to maintain our identity and I'll take you through a journey of this quick transformation.Uh it's i ...

Across Africa, our cities are rising fast. Towers of glass, highways of concrete, imported blueprints are all over the land. At first glance, this looks like progress.But I'd love to ask you, progress for who. And progress that looks like what. Because while our cities look modern, they often don't feel African.We're building for appearances and not for belonging. I'd like to challenge you today to see that design is not neutral. Because the way we built today will impact the way generations of Africans liv ...