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If we are talking about engineers,
can there be enough worksites or
factories that train young engineers?
If we are talking about doctors, can
there be enough hospitals and herb-
al clinics that train young doctors?
If we are talking about teachers, can
there be more than enough schools
that allow our young teachers to op-
erate comfortably? Our young folks
have an innate desire to learn and
sharpen their skills within different
industries in Afrika, if only they are
allowed to.

Finally, the skills acquired by our
people be they technical or cognitive
are a summation of the vision of
where Afrika needs to be. Afrikans
who are consuming the right educa-
tion system, which in turn does not
make them enslaved to norms, can
fix mitigating factors such as pover-
ty, diseases and poor infrastructure.
has the youngest population in the Probably if you were to make com-
world and their interest in adopting parisons between foreign education
new trends, workmanship and tech-
nology is sky rocketing. So, learning systems by the West, you would
institutions are required to take into find that they deploy very direct but
comprehensive areas of learning
account all the emerging trends in that are industry specific or advised
skills development and guide learn- by the job market. Some of those
ers thoroughly on their expectations.
Any underwhelming results by the learning institutions play crucial
learning institutions should be ad- roles such as advising their govern-
ments in areas of national security
dressed and corrected immediately and research policies. When the
because it will determine the future market experiences slight changes,
of subsequent generations.
the learning institutions correspond
by adjusting their learning curricula
Third, for any learner to enjoy the and outcomes as well. The net effect
liberty of exercising and honing of this is that a country will have
his skills, there should be a viable the right skills for the right purposes
operating political and socio-eco-
nomic environment combined with and the next generations will stand
relevant fiscal policies. In simpler to benefit from the approach that
was taken, and the least they can
terms, the government of the day do is pay it forward. Therefore, it is
should be more than committed to time for us to denounce inferior ed-
providing an enabling environment
where an ordinary person can offer ucational systems that have for years
her skills in developing her country made their victims feel entitled to
only earn titles in white-collar jobs.
and Afrika as a whole. Well to some The aim should be to empower the
leaders this is a big ask since little people to become creative, visionary
can be said about how enabling
Afrika’s environment is in growing and skilled but not grilled.
of skills.

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