Is the Education in Africa of any value today?

By Rev. Stephen Okhutu
S_okhu@yahoo.com
Tel:256 712 734 661


By the coming of the missionaries to Africa, education for white collar jobs was put at the fore front and this could have been the reason why a number of Africans got converted into modern religions.

Apparently, what seemed valuable a century back may be taken as the problem to most of African countries today.

Families in Africa have sold off the valuables to educate their children with an intention of helping their siblings in the future. In fact, most parents tell their children that education is the only thing bequeathed to them in life. ‘It is a bank account given to them in form of investment’.

Apparently, most of the children who went to school are the most unemployed just because the governments could not give them jobs. Any head of state in Africa now remains with a challenge of proving the youth with jobs.

But how can this be possible when at school the young one are trained politics and other irrelevant sorts of education?

For instance, in Uganda, The Law Development centre, a government institution awards diploma in Law, but after graduation, the students are not sure of where to get jobs. And the institution know this but continue to admit more students every year!

The laws of Uganda do not allow a diploma in law holder to practice law at private level. This means the student is bared from either starting his own jobs and joining the public serves is another challenge.

Would it be no better to train the young ones in skills that can help people in starting their own jobs than training then in useless careers?

What about training them for instance in vocational and ay other jobs which do not need more fuss in founding?

After all, the bible promises to give bless our hands. But how could this be possible when work is too difficult to come by these days?

Governments should encourage its citizens to work and not to waste most of their times looking for jobs. Let incentives be pt in place to encourage job creation.

Research reveals that a person who employs himself gets much more money on average compared to that who is employed. In fact, the employed only suffers over exploitation and other forms of human rights abuse.

Today, the government of Uganda has provided free education from primary through secondary school, but what is the benefit after most of the child’s time is destroyed in learning politics and such forms of training aiming at keeping the incumbent government into power? Hitler style!

Who advised that over taxing investors encourages job creation?

Until Africa has dropped selfish political interests, development will only remain in dreams.