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Edward Popoola
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The African Youth:: Adressing computer literacy first.
December 29, 2003 - 04:24 AM
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The African Youth
It is apparent today that Information Technology, like some monstrous creeping plant has spread over large areas of the World. In some places it is deeply rooted, while in some it is being choked up by some local environmental agents. Such agents include poverty, hunger, ignorance and poor economic infrastructure.
Also, it is no news that Africa, as a third world nation, is suffering from the woes mentioned above. Over the years, the average African child has lived with all these misfortune and little has been done to really attend to his plight.
The African child, in contrast to his western counterpart, grows up with wars and rumours of them. He lives his life in fear. The fear of the future, fear of survival and the fear of the unseen forces of nature.
This leaves much to be desired as regards the future of the African child. He is faced with a whole lot of challenges. He has a lot to learn in addition to keeping his soul psychologically sound despite the fact that the prevailing circumstances surrounding him are not to his advantage. If he is able to survive, like the writer, he will live with this memories for the rest of his life.
More challenges comes his way when he acquires a level of education, just enough to make him a gentleman. He gradually learns the bitter truth that he is being brought up in a society degraded by low standards of everything. And if peradventure , he happens to be aware of the existing digital divide in today’s present world , then he begins to search for answers to numerous questions that are bound to arise.
Its high time African Youths rose up to the responsibility ahead of them. Today, it is disheartening to discover that despite the fact that the African youth has a lot to learn to be able to meet up with the expectations of IT, he is still like the proverbial house which is built year after year but has never come to completion. Even the few willing ones have not had the necessary tools to equip themselves.
I have a dream of helping my fellow African youth rise up the ladder of reality. Because it is at this point that he begins to realize there is a race set before him. At this point he will be able to make decisions on himself about IT and IT related matters.
This then is a challenge to you reading this piece, make up your mind to tell someone about the computer. Yes! its that alarming, if you don't believe, go into the streets of any African Country [except some very few ones] and make a survey on computer literacy. You will be surprised at the woeful results. Take him to the cyber café and let him have a taste of what is gradually shaping the future and that might prove to be his meal ticket in no distant date. Let him understand that more than the seas and oceans dividing Africa and the developed nation is a digital divide that dare to look at us in the eyes and tends to drain our will to fight against it.
We can work together. We should work together. Though we might be surrounded by diplomatic inconsistencies and poor infrastructures, we still have an unparalleled imagination which fuels our hope day after day.
One thing I know is that One day, in the words of Patrice Hemery Lumumba of Zaire, history shall have its say…..and Africa shall write her own history, and it shall be one of glory and dignity.
Popoola Edward Olayemi
me@edwardpopoola.com
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Oloka Obbo Odongo
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Re: The African Youth:: Adressing computer literacy first.
January 5, 2004 - 08:11 AM
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its a pleasure to read this wondrful visionary idea.its really true African youths needs to learn the content of the glass house" computer" so that we can change the history of Africa. no one will bother doing this if we donot wakeup now. I think government should this as their strategic plans for the youths in 2004.The computer plus internet have alot that can help in re- shapping African image.
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