Over half of the world’s 57 million school drop-outs are in Africa

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BAAKO 10 years ago

every unfortunate thing is in Africa. do your research well and you will get to know that there are more school dropouts in developed countries as you think.

every unfortunate thing is in Africa. do your research well and you will get to know that there are more school dropouts in developed countries as you think.
OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

AUTHOR: MARTIN A.B.K. AMIDU....

It would appear that those in control of the NDC, for the time being, were bent on excluding other bona fide members of the Party who may wish to lay democratic claims to who becomes the ne ...
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AUTHOR: MARTIN A.B.K. AMIDU....

It would appear that those in control of the NDC, for the time being, were bent on excluding other bona fide members of the Party who may wish to lay democratic claims to who becomes the next flag bearer of the Party by excluding them even before the mortal remains of the demised President were interred. It is also symptomatic of how political party elites in Ghana and Africa worm their way into the confidences of persons perceived as likely to ascend to power positions for purposes of eventual personal economic gain at the expense of the generality of the mass of Party members and the Nation which every President swears to serve under the Constitution...
Shamu 10 years ago

NO wonder that, Africans have no head at all. This is the reason why nothing going on well over there in Africa. What we know is to steal, kill, rob and destroy. Beside that just to fuck that is all. So, people will be droppi ...
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NO wonder that, Africans have no head at all. This is the reason why nothing going on well over there in Africa. What we know is to steal, kill, rob and destroy. Beside that just to fuck that is all. So, people will be dropping out of school. Apart from pussy and women with big butt that we think of.
NAKED 10 years ago

Good one there at least I have seen a sensible person who can reason and think, first and foremost, what is education at all? In a country where I come from, they defined education as anyone who can read and write English lan ...
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Good one there at least I have seen a sensible person who can reason and think, first and foremost, what is education at all? In a country where I come from, they defined education as anyone who can read and write English language that is how they defined education in Ghana. A country where a lot of people look down upon those who can't speak and write English language do you think such country can develop no wonder Ghana is a country with good resources but the citizens are mentally weak unable to think and reason as well, they are still slaves to the so-called Europeans. They are still colonized mentally and physically but the reason is that they don't know that they are still under colonization. So in s nutshell that is how illiteracy is defined in Ghana. Then one may ask that how about the countries who are using their own language to study are they illiterates? a country like France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Finland, Norway, China etc can we classify their education system as substandard because they are not using English language to teach in their institutions? Africans will always embraced everything from west and east without thinking deep and its side effect in the future and we hate our own things so tell me are we humans? We always lionize the oppressors and disowned ours and we called ourselves educational elites now listen to a proverb from Europeans to Africans “you can take a monkey from bush but you can't take bush from monkey" how are we going to interpret it? it's simple to Europeans, Africa is bush let's see how they describe Africa they use the word Sub-Saharan and the question is do we have sub-Europeans or sub-Asians or sub-Americans, etc look how they have cited Africa in a World map, Africa as a continent is always at the bottom of the World map, the question is why they didn't cite Europe, Asia, America and Australia at the bottom but only Africa think about it brothers and sisters, the proverb means an African a monkey can come to western or eastern country to study or do anything but because he/she is from Africa you can't take Africa mentality from him or her then the stereotype goes, they are less humans, they don't have food to eat, always fighting among themselves etc so why Africans shouldn't cling to their own and abandoned their stupid act but yet still Africans are upholding their language and their barbaric culture, 500 years we are still slaves so when are we going to emancipate ourselves as a people created by YHWH.
The time has come for Africans to come together as one people and put their difference away and unit as people it has been a long time in slavery and colonization. The time has come for Ghanaians to put away their difference and unit to develop their nation it has been a long time in slavery and colonization.
God of our fathers have mercy on us especially banana republic of Ghana. Ghana, Ghana a country with good resources I had wanted to gather my people under one canopy as hen gathered it chicks but my people have abandoned their wisdom through thinking and now following the way of westerners through their devilcracy which is called democracy so now my people cannot be able to manage their own affairs, my people do not appreciate things manufactured in their country, my people preach devilcracy and practice vices, my people preach patriotism but they are not patriotic, my people have lost their sense of judging and now we are in a doom state they can't differentiate good things from bad ones and now engulf with tribalism which has become a canker in the country through bogus so-called educational elites and stomachticians who called themselves as politicians to separate the people in other not to come together to fight against their evil planning. A voice calling from within shouting my people, my people come together to build your nation we were created in the same image not let this stomachticians separate you they are doing it for their own selfish gain so wise up, awake from your slumber, the day is far spent and the night is near so let's ignore all these tribalism stuffs and come together as one people because together we can build a better nation.
The only way Africans can develop is to use their own language to study and do everything and stop patronizing anything from east or west, a small country like Ghana we can’t develop it why? Because we have pseudo intellectuals who always claims that they are the best but in reality they are at the bottom of the pit, our education system is not good, our education system does not allow us to think inside and out outside the box so for Ghana to develop it needs critical thinkers and nature incliners who can put things together other than that it will take millions of years we will still be where we are. Anyone who wants to study Nature University can contact me wellsbrains2000@yahoo.com, whatspp 008613566124757 when you contact me tell me which my article that you are interested so we can discuss it deeply because I have presented numerous articles on this web
Frank 10 years ago

Is all about wrong priorities. ALL WE THINK ABOUT ARE FUNERALS, IMPOVERISHING CELEBRATIONS AND ALCOHOL AND CONDOM PROMOTING FESTIVALS.

Blackman is stuck in the past

Is all about wrong priorities. ALL WE THINK ABOUT ARE FUNERALS, IMPOVERISHING CELEBRATIONS AND ALCOHOL AND CONDOM PROMOTING FESTIVALS.

Blackman is stuck in the past
kojo 10 years ago

Naked you had a good purport, but you started sounding like an angry muslim fundamentalist, anti-western talking head.

Naked you had a good purport, but you started sounding like an angry muslim fundamentalist, anti-western talking head.
kojo 10 years ago

Naked you had a good purport, but you started sounding like an angry muslim fundamentalist, anti-western talking head.

Naked you had a good purport, but you started sounding like an angry muslim fundamentalist, anti-western talking head.
Seliwa 10 years ago

The likes of the tribalistic headmaster of Walewale Senior High secondary Technical school will continue to deprive a lot of students from getting access to education. This is the scheme of John Mahama against the Mamprusilan ...
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The likes of the tribalistic headmaster of Walewale Senior High secondary Technical school will continue to deprive a lot of students from getting access to education. This is the scheme of John Mahama against the Mamprusiland, to deny their youth from having access to education. UNESCO should specifically identify and name govts which actions prevent the youth from having access to education.
Factually Reliable 10 years ago

They should tell us how they did their sampling, which places were the data collected. What is the population of africa compared to only india and China combined. And if you have illiteracy level of almost 50% of indians 1.2b ...
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They should tell us how they did their sampling, which places were the data collected. What is the population of africa compared to only india and China combined. And if you have illiteracy level of almost 50% of indians 1.2billion population then any useless small boy sit at the UN and do unreaonable adjustement of data he knows nothing off and pronounce every bad thing in Africa. Yet you get useless africans who behaves slaves taken it as gospel truth. Wht kind of stupidity is this.Its high time we told them to stop that nonsense.
dennis awah 10 years ago

factually reliable you have a point but your presentation is not correct.

Of the "facts" that the article has provided it does not compare africa to any other country as you do. you compare africa to india and or china. th ...
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factually reliable you have a point but your presentation is not correct.

Of the "facts" that the article has provided it does not compare africa to any other country as you do. you compare africa to india and or china. that is wrong. comparisons of countries to regions or continents is misleading.

my concern is not the numbers but the quality and access to education in Africa. India might have heir problems with poverty and populations but there is little doubt that their educational system produces the people they need do develop and improve their situation, their growing engineering, scientific, information technology and industrial exploits are not lost on us. TATA bought iconic British engineering firms JAGUAR and LANDROVER, etc.

education must have an outcome - that is the utilization of this knowledge to generate new knowledge, solve existing problems and create new opportunities, education must result in action otherwise it is useless. this does not happen in Africa, you cannot argue that we are not increasingly dependent on foreign knowledge to solve our problems, provide food for us to eat, etc etc. African countries are always on their knees begging for this and that from europe,asia and US. our best and most educated africans are likely working in foreign countries instead of contributing to their own countries development.

it was really insightful to hear the Nigerian Minister of oil resources (i think)on BBC last week saying how Nigeria wanted to become the leading African petro-chemical economy instead of a mere crude oil selling economy. the really interesting part was that the whole nigerian plan was based on help from foreign countries????????????????? Nigeria the land of Africa's and Worlds richest africans or blacks (incidentally all oil barons from dangote to the lady billionaire)do not have the intellectual and knowledge base to develop their own petrochemical industry in an age where knowledge is so easiyl accesible but rather need the help of the west????? therein lies our problem in relation to education. "do we even have a relevant educational system????" is the education we provide relevant to empowering ourselves to produce new knowledge, to solve our problems or is it still the Colonial, slave and servant creating education in Africa that produces "process workers" - lawyers, doctors, clerks, desk workers, drivers, nurses, traders, shopkeepers, cleaners, cashiers, etc rather than an educational system producing daring and aggressive thinkers, creators, problem solvers and action driven intellectuals. that is the real question????
Odoom 10 years ago

Fallout of Polling Station Elections
Katakyie Kwame Opoku Agyemang, Asante Bekwai-Asakyiri
(Free SHS Ambassador) Official blog: (www.katakyie.com)

Accra, Nov. 28 .......It would be recalled that the New Patrio ...
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Fallout of Polling Station Elections
Katakyie Kwame Opoku Agyemang, Asante Bekwai-Asakyiri
(Free SHS Ambassador) Official blog: (www.katakyie.com)

Accra, Nov. 28 .......It would be recalled that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) came out with many innovations within the party right after the 2008 electoral defeat. This was codenamed the 3 R's - Reflecting, Rebuilding and Recapturing power.

Key among such reforms was the expansion of the electoral college for the flagbearership contest. The proponents of the reforms were of the view that the expansion was the most ideal way of giving power to the grassroots and mobilising grass root support for general elections.

Since it was the considered opinion of many that general elections are won at the polling station level, there was a general consensus within the party that the reforms were long overdue.
Hence, the expansion of the electoral college from around 2000 voters to 115,000 in 2010. The NPP thus went into the 2012 elections in unity as there was no break-away faction within the party.

Fellow Kukrudites, permit me to share with you my perspective on the polling station elections. I have been to 6 different constituencies to observe proceedings.
But, all I can say for now is that, the NPP's Polling Station Executive Election is "Democratically Undemocratic". It is thus imperative for the party to make further reforms/innovations to reduce the challenges associated with it.

First, it is democratic because elections are being conducted somehow. However, it is undemocratic because of the way and manner the elections are being conducted.

• In some constituencies, the incumbent executives in collaboration with MPs decide the kind of people who should have access to the NPP nomination forms.

• A few, if not none of the favoured contestants actually paid for the forms or the filling fee. This problem was evident in some remote areas. Personally, I had to pay for the passport photographs of certain contestants in my hometown.

• There was widespread shortage of application forms, and this coupled with the limited time of filing, pushed many would-be contestants out. For me, the shortage was artificial as those behind it knew what they were doing.

• In some constituencies, court injunctions have been placed on the polling station elections because some aggrieved party members believe they were not given any hearing by the Constituency or Regional Executives.

• In other areas, elections were held as early as 5am with the sole purpose of denying others the opportunity to participate in the elections,

• In others, only 5 nomination forms were just given to incumbent polling station chairpersons for distribution to party members, who would genuinely vote for them when constituency and other elections are held.
Those perceived to belong to other factions were denied the opportunity to either buy a form or file their nominations. This means that the incumbent polling station executives who are not popular in their towns and villages still retained their positions.

• Not much publicity was given to the sale of nomination forms. However, those preferred candidates were aware of the election procedures.

• Over 98 per cent of the polling station executives in the villages are illiterates, and the highest educational qualification of the remaining 2 per cent was Middle School Leaving Certificate (M.S.L.C.).

Conclusion:

• The expansion of the electoral college is good on paper, but practically, it is very undemocratic.

• It is the breeding ground of apathy within the party as most people I interviewed swore not to vote for the NPP because of the apparent cheating.
To some, those 'elected' polling station executives can remain in that position, but the NPP cannot win power.

• Unless anybody who has the ambition to unseat the incumbent MP budgets for not less than GHC2m (2bn old cedis), it is a foregone conclusion for the incumbent MPs to be re-elected.

• Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is poised to win the next primaries. I'd be surprised if he fails to secure over 90 per cent of the total valid votes in the next flagbearership slot. This is because everything is cooked for him at the grassroots.

• However, as to whether Nana could beat John Mahama or not is another food for thought. This is because many people at the grassroots are aggrieved with the polling station election procedure. They believe they have been unfairly treated.

• The fracas between Hon. Ursula Owusu and her Constituency Chairman is a case in point.
Sulemanrufayi 10 years ago

Am one of the 57million school drop-outs and I need some help

Am one of the 57million school drop-outs and I need some help
ghanaba 10 years ago

and so what...... there were almost 2 million chinese for thousands of state jobs. God does not populate the world for mulitinationals and corrupt individuals.this applies also to the churches. God is in his temple for his pu ...
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and so what...... there were almost 2 million chinese for thousands of state jobs. God does not populate the world for mulitinationals and corrupt individuals.this applies also to the churches. God is in his temple for his purpose and only that shall prevail. hundreds of years of bla bla have never brought us nearer to food and job creations through pronouncement which are so infinitestine as compared to God's creation.
MENSAH 10 years ago

I don't think the solution of African students drop-outs lies on domestic financing through any effective taxations.
African's life has since time immemorial, been on the adversarial side:POVERTY,SUFFERING,BRIBERY & CORRUPTI ...
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I don't think the solution of African students drop-outs lies on domestic financing through any effective taxations.
African's life has since time immemorial, been on the adversarial side:POVERTY,SUFFERING,BRIBERY & CORRUPTION,MILITARY COUPS,UNDER-DEVELOPMENT,FAMINE,DROUGHT,LACK OF INFRASTRUCTURAL SERVICES ETC.
Are you suggesting some more taxation could be the solution?
I have another school of taught:

IF THE WESTERN BLOCK,WILL RATHER TRY TO TRAIN AFRICAN YOUTH,ON SKILLS THAT ARE TAILORED TO PROCESSING OUR RAW MATERIALS,RATHER THAN BUYING FROM US IN CRUDE FORM,THAT CAN TURN THE YOUTH FROM BEING JUST DROP-OUTS TO BE ABLE, SKILLED AND PROFITABLE,LABOUR FORCE,TO TURN THINGS AROUND FOR AFRICA.

Don't beat the side of a drum,if the top should be the right target,to create the kind of sound,we all need.
You people know the right thing to do,but behave as if you don't know.
Slavery days are gone,but Africans are still serving you crooks.
You always come to show us what dampens our spirit but not that which energises and ensures confidence,faith and poise to do things differently and effectively.
AFRICA IS TIRED OF NEGATIVITY,WE NEEDS SOMETHING POSITIVE THAT STRIKES BETTER NOTES/CORDS BUT NOT DISCORDS.

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