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Why Education In Africa Is Heading To Its Edge [Writer's contest]

This is an entry for the Pulse writer's contest by Daniel Olushola. "...How do we develop a unique system that gives us an irresistible niche in this global contest?..."

School children in Sub-Saharan Africa

The flush of amazement that is reflective of the slumping process of knowledge, ideas and skills acquisition has without a mint of doubt reached its walls. Our continent whose economic demography slides between dire underdevelopment to fiddling development appears to be comforted by the delusion of having a happy ending through her thoughtlessly replication of systems peculiar  to Western-European societies; built under the sweat, pain, blood and thinking of heavily bearded sages.

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Our continents education, mindlessly imitated, completely structured and heavily built on Western-European ideology is finally revealing the drossy part of the murky water consistent of such thoughtless act. This gravelling academic situation thrown on our faces and alien to our social identity, business engagements, and relational orientation has only been fruitful in molding weary, dependent, unemployable, unthinking, timid, unadventurous and robotic individuals. You don’t need to stretch your neck to obtain a well-structured poll of the situation. Just take a peek at your next door graduate neighbor and match their identity with the sad realities painted above.

Many would counter my assertions by reflecting on the sluggish progress made by our continent on a general scale but are we really content with the disjointed progress we see around us? For how long do we hope for the emergence of a not too distant generation to help build powerful economic and social edifices on our foundation heavy bound by external influences alien to our home soil?. I am not ignorant of how effective globalisation is in shrinking distances linking continents but when the intellectual, social and economic relationship between nations become one directional, nonreciprocal, and leech-like, which is the scene third world countries are currently grappling with, then we must do away with our heavy reliance on anyone.

How then do we give pure light to our blind spots? How do we develop a unique system that gives us an irresistible niche in this global contest?

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I know many of these suggestions would be objected by those who claim to be experts of learning but I will leave them with a line from Propaganda’s poetic rhetoric: “…all I’ve learned from your system is that its just the system that you set up. And if I just repeat what you just said, in James Schafer method then I passed right? You are just testing my ability to regurgitate…” is that what we want?.

NAME: DANIEL OLUSHOLA

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