N‘Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba, Ph.D., will discuss the centrality of education with the imperative of harnessing an African cultural foundation in working towards African renewal and renaissance. Considering the African historical moments, exposures to other cultures and practices including forced adoption and cross fertilization, especially through continent-wide imposed Western systems and guided by a purposeful choice of different educational traditions and practices blending indigenous systems and received elements to create new systems factoring in the ongoing dynamics including technological innovations and advances.