A Roofless Compound School In Mineral Rich Africa

"Achieving inclusive and quality education will require more than simply hiring more teaching staff."

That is the statement from global education experts convened during the World Bank annual meetings to discuss how leadership development could improve global education.

That's is true but who is to develop or improve education in Africa? There is something terribly wrong in Africa which needs immediate attention but it seems the leaders have other plans because they don't suffer like the ordinary man on the street.

Among the seven continents, Africa could probably be the richest. Africa is blessed with varieties of rich mineral resources. The continent exports a different range of products, such as gold, bauxite, tin, copper, diamond, agricultural products etc., but it's very hard to understand where the state funds go.

The African government is heavily dented with administration frauds, over invoice, and massive corruption. Can they deny that? Such images of a roofless classroom is an evidence that there is a massive corruption in Africa which has affected all its infrastructure, including the education and health system.

Africa has blamed the colonial masters for under developing the continent. That's true but years after independence swept true the continent, what has African leaders achieved in the midst of all the resources the continent has, especially in the West and Southern Africa?

It's shocking to see images like that in this modern times in Africa. Many villages in Africa lack good medical care and clean water. Some children need to go long hours looking for water, common water that everyone needs to survive.

Yet, the leaders struggle for power, continuously deceiving the people to solicit for votes. As soon as they come to power all the promises become an empty boast. Thus, it's really difficult to understand African politics, especially in West, Southern, and Central part of Africa.

Lack of clean water in rural villages in Africa has caused certain diseases such as kwashiorkor, diarrhea, and skin diseases and the lack of education has generated scores of child labour, street children, and child delinquency.

The situation in Africa is taken as an opportunity by certain foreign organizations that come to Africa pretending to help, instead, they use the children to test their drugs and inflict more diseases on them many resulting in deaths of these children.

Just imagine, during rainfall where are those children going to sit and study in a school without a roof? Above all, how can the world take Africans education serious when they see such images? It's really sad.