Language Agenda: Academic Slavery

The Writer

Lecturer: All of you must buy the HANDOUT, else you won't pass my COURSE!

Class: Yes Sir.., yes Sir Master, Sir we hear Sir!
Non-Conformist Student: Sir, I have not bought the HANDOUT, but I have it.

Lecturer: You, hayyyyi! Where did you get it?
Non-conformist Student: Sir, I read a copy bought by a colleague..

Lecturer: And so what!
Non-conformist Student: When I went to Google, I saw it filli filli. Sir, nothing change kraaa!

Lecturer! Hayyyi! Shut up!
Non-conformist Student: Sir, punctuation gba, you no change am! So I go Google get my own way I no bia cobo.

Class: Hahahahaba! Kikikikikiiki! Hehehehwhwhee!!!!

Lecturer: You, get out of my class!
The above scenario is a reality in many tertiary institutions, where some lecturers harass students to buy HANDOUTS plagiarized from Google. If a student fails to buy that piece of glorified plagiarism for whatever reasons, he or she is doomed.

This is not to say that all HANDOUTS are bad. Not at all! Some are products of the original thinking of lecturers and simplified versions of consulted works of experts. But to copy contents from Google, bind them as HANDOUTS, and impose them on students for a fee amounts to Academic Slavery! At best it must be discouraged, and at worst penalized.

Bitter truth, abi?
Abubakar Mohammed Marzuq Azindoo
Lecturer, University of Applied Management, Germany - Ghana Campus, McCarthy Hill, Accra.

Email: azindoo200@gmail