10/01/2016
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Topic: "Education, development, entertainers and our society"- Why we need to change our views.
"Education, a tool Africa needs to alter tangible change, economical and technological"
Africans are normally looked down upon in the international community due to the abject poverty and lack of effective leadership in the country. Though there are countries that are rich in natural resources in africa but most school age children and adults suffer not only from financial distress, but an utter lack of education that damns them to a life of poverty. Even with the level of financial distress, many African still view achieving better education as unimportant, often you'll hear them say "with your level of education how much of D'banj's expensive living can you afford?. Maybe they fail to understand that education transcends fame and living expensive life.
The larger blame of hearing people refer to education as unimportant pursuit goes to our media and society that are used to portraying our entertainers (Artiste, musician, actors etc) as the only well to do individuals in our society, forgetting that there are people who are also beating the odds and earning good income in their chosen field through education. This action of our media has been rubbing on our younger ones faces, as most of them now see entertainment as a career even without them having the required talent. Often you'll see broadcast of entertainers on our national television stations and entertainers' reality show, how many of educational reality show have you seen on our national television stations? Even the ones that are made available are poorly funded. Economic disadvantage individuals are not granted students' loan and our government's scholarships are grossly compromise, that larger percentage is awarded on who-know-who.
Statistically according to a research conducted. It shows that sixty percentage (60%) of African youths don't read books. I now observe that most parents do not encourage their wards to read anymore they will rather encourage them to be the best entertainer so that wallow in its euphoria. Certainly Africa can only attain the mantle of leadership and development when we all stop celebrating unnecessary issues and start embracing education. I'd like to say, education, a tool for national development, should not be neglected for ignorance.
Credit: Adeyemi Emmanuel.