i still cant understand why at this level, we Africans cannot build our own curriculum, have our own textbooks, do researches and establish our own technology?

In primary, secondary and the university most of what we have is what the white man has produced for us, curriculum and textbooks, why does this have to be so?

Am not saying what the white man gives us is crap, but i feel they have their own selfish interest, and truthfully no one can solve our problems for us if we ourselves cant

When are we going to start building and bringing courses that Africans need ?

We need our own people to look within and try to solve the varying problems we're facing today, or what do you think?

common guys lets talk, i really wanna know our opinion on this.

Underdevelopment and Education in Africa

There is nowhere in Africa an indigenous education system designed to meet African needs

There can be no true economic development without education of and by African’s for African purposes. Neither can there be democracy and peace

without a populous prepared to be both self-governing and mutually respectful with a commitment to Africanization, leaving behind the divide and

conquer hatreds of colonialism which are the source of so much of current internal strife. Beyond the influence of family and religion, education is a

key to the prevention of such events as the Hutus and Tutsis and human emancipation. The basic issues for an educational policy designed to

liberate Africans from their state of decency deal with concept of man, his role in a special historical context, and the right perspective on which to

base education work. This education must be centripetally oriented-base on local realities and directs its intellectual efforts towards the

achievement of cultural freedom.


Macleans A. Geo-JaJa
David Eccles School of Business
University of Utah
Salt lake City, Utah

For most of us our problem is not even to develop our nation, our problem is how to leave the country, to where i ask you?
i still wonder why foreign countries like to employ the best brain in Africa, does that not show self centered nature?

why won't people who have the expertise stay here in Nigeria to create a change.

Its high time leadership is a course for all in Nigeria and Africa