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THE PROBLEM WITH AFRICA 4

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A poorly visited bookstore sits a sales-boy who relaxes on his sales seat playing games on his phone most of the days because people rarely visits his store to patronize books. He is only busy during school resumption days because of the compulsory text-books school demands students buy before returning to school. One day he saw an aged woman collapsed, she had had a cardiac arrest, and he was so fearful because few weeks back, his mother had suffered similar thing and before they could take her to the nearest hospital, she died. He thought this aged woman would die also, but one person he had recognized because he often visits the bookstore to read would show up immediately and conducted CPR on her. Later he asked him, ‘how did you know how to do that, when you aren’t a doctor?’, he said, ‘I had come to your store to pick a book that thought me how to perform CPR and know how to deal with some minor health challenges’ The boy started regretting living with books daily and not o...

THE PROBLEM WITH AFRICA 3

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They asked us to find ‘X’ when our fathers who found ‘X’ weren’t able to pay our bills with the ‘X’ they found several years back and our elder brothers who looked for ‘X’ from their primary to their tertiary education are suicidal because of the irrelevance of ‘X’ in the Africa they are living in. Africa should train Africans in the capacity she has the provisions to employ Africans. We should educate our children in the field where she intend to employ them or where they can thrive on their own in the African economy What’s the use of studying mechanical engineering, civil engineering and the many courses Africans don’t have the provisions to engage those who graduate in them? The roads in Africa are constructed by either Julius Berger or some foreign, African presidents’ visits foreign doctors, our planes and automobiles are made abroad. Everything we use in Africa is imported beginning from our tooth-pick to virtually everything. Why do we train our children in professions we...