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Originally Posted by type r
in my line of work as a freelance consultant, i come across africans, asians and europeans (all white people are called europeans, heh heh) ...africans have a problem of lacking a sense of urgency, of overbooking themselves, and of not calling when unavailable. Africans have many many excuses, very many. Mhindis tend to look at each challenging situation with an attitude of "creative solution-finding."
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my opinion is that, the issues you raise are symptoms of deeper more profound causes implanted deep into the african person.europeans did not just wake up one morning and start keeping to schedule or being duty conscious. The most important cause is leadership. What do you think about a school principal who is at his job only when he likes, because he is boss and has roots in high places; or about a school teacher who takes leave of absence three times a week because the principal is subordinate to his relative who is minister of education. These charlatans run our public schools that educate sub saharan africa’s children. BUT WHY??
Many people have blamed everything on africa's size, on climate, others on the biblical curse of noah on canaan (genesis 9:20-25) and so on but as t.d.a puts it
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Originally Posted by t.d.a.
"how can we turn what seem like problems into opportunities and use them to drive our continent forward?"
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similarly, i have a problem figuring out why size, climate, despotism, hunger, poverty, disease, curse etc have failed to inspire change and advancement like in other continents, and have left us worse not better off. Could it have something to do with the relative distance of sub saharan africa to the advanced world? does being populated by mainly black people have something to do with it?? some times i feel like i’m thinking aloud!