The Dilemma Of The African Child

The pillars that we need to take a critical look at are our education, religion, and politics as Africans:

Even though the mountain of influence highlighted by Bill Bright and Loren Cunningham explored; Family, Arts and Entertainment, Education, Religion, Media, Government, and Business.

I will want to focus on a few that deeply need re-engineering.

For education, we don’t learn maths, economics, accounting, and science in our language because our economy doesn’t belong to us, and it doesn’t speak our language. Today, the majority of Africans struggle with numeracy and alphabets in their local dialect.

Yet developed countries are teaching their children key subjects in their local dialect which is not necessarily in English.

Shockingly, some countries employ their own even if they can’t speak good English. As an eyewitness, most Chinese people don’t even understand English. Yet Africans will be laughing at their own who can’t speak English and be competing amongst themselves to see who speaks better.

Today, instead of being busy translating books to our local dialect so that our future kids can have a learning advantage, we make our African kids read a question in English, think about it in their local language, and write it in English. We spend more time translating ourselves than actually learning.

And the religious part of it, instead of teaching the African child financial literacy, they push them to read about a God who they can’t comprehend in their local language and the God doesn’t speak their local dialect.

Just like Jacob, their body feels like Esua, and their voice is like Jacob who was deceiving his father. Their God is foreign to them and can not speak their language.

And for Politics, they wear suits and ties that their tailors make for them, hold the same Bible they don’t understand fully swear on it, and start their tenure with prayer and end it with lies.

They use their position to loot their own and take it to foreign lands and later they are loaned the same money. But their fathers who understood the commission fought with sweat and blood to pave the way for them. Today, many politicians are making statements with fashionable clothing rather than commitment and zeal to change the country.

We need a serious transformation, the voices are still echoing, and the true leaders are coming, we are not the future, we are the present, observing from the past and moving to the future to make a change.

Our Leaders should do better!
It is well