THE PROBLEM WITH AFRICA 21

Why should we employ you? He looked at them for a while, before replying, I hacked into your system and invited myself.
That was how he got the IT job. While others were parading their clean certificates, he paraded his skills.
If you know that you can create value for a big corporation, use that value you want to sell to them to first earn for yourself. That’s the only way you can be confident of yourself and be sure of the value you want to add to the bigger corporation you seek to work for.
While many are crying no jobs, entrepreneurs are worried there are no people to employ.
If you studied education, start by conducting home lessons for your street kids, if you studied mass communication, do videos of yourself plying your trade and yes, whatsoever you studied, put your knowledge to use. If you are valuable you’ll attract success your way.
The owner of whatsapp inc was once rejected by Facbook Corporation, but because he believes in the value he wanted to add, he went on and created whatsapp and facebook came back for him because they’ve seen what he could do.
The governments are the reason you don’t have a job or you aren’t making money, you are.
One of our problems in Africa is that we are so confident of papers (certificates) than what we can actually accomplish with our skills and knowledge.
Certificates has not helped us in Africa because almost everyone has it yet our societal problems  are still there and the government who gave us these certificate after collecting tuition fees from us aren’t employing us or contracting our service because they know we don’t have skills to add values to them just certificates.
If you really want to succeed in Africa, go and bank your certificate and learn how to put your knowledge to use. No one has succeeded in Africa only basing on what he/she learnt in school, the school the African child is exposed to doesn’t prepares the child to be able to add value to the society, unless you dig deeper, submit yourself to further learning, you won’t make any headway.
Do not allow that paper to deceive you, it’s not your ticket to a better life, its neither the ticket to a better society. The government who gave you that certificate doesn’t trust your skills therefore develop yourself to  get further certificate but to get further skills and to create value for yourself and when you do, success will come to you and to Africa. The success of Africa is tied to yours and her failure to yours.
God bless you
Pastor Promise Ikpe