The Vice President Kwesi Amissah Arthur has stated that Africa needs to learn from its past, unlearn bad examples, keeping the good ones so we make rapid process and catch up with the rest of the world. He made this statement when on Friday 11th April at a special congregation at the University for Development Studies (UDS) when it conferred a Doctorate Degree (Phd) on the former President of Botswana, Festus Mogae in Tamale and also awarded postgraduate and undergraduate degrees to students who had successfully passed their course work.