TED Talks is the stuff of dreams. I wish to see young Afrika produce such occasions, which of course alludes to a need for the pursuit of real money or economy, real development and real education based on real research. Dr Lewis Gordon beautifully points out at the DNA of the south Afrikan university as not being a south Afrikan university at all! It follows the biography of Afrikans -not narrative arcs at all. The south Afrikan university, your cherished UCT, Wits, Rhodes, and UP, for instance, are all mosaics of British-French and German imitative combinations. They mix the lecture, the assignment, the test, with the research. It is not necessarily a bad combination, but let us look at the south Afrikan context for a while. Do we need more of this theoretical and research approach or the practical university? Personally, I would like to think we could do well with a practical skills + research based institution that is then made widely available. I am thinking about participation in the economy here, and the lack of job opportunities. A practical skills + research institution, which will be later supplemented by a theoretical one which reports our findings plus what is being done currently, should work best in improving our economy. The model is stereotypical Sino-Japanese if you do not pick it up. We are to divide job tasks to distribute income while producing technological products. Thereafter, if the economy picks up real well, which it should since a practical based economy should make abundant crucial skills, including polishing jewels and turning our natural resources into finished goods. Then, exporting raw materials and buying them back at exorbitant fees, as well as uh, tax transference should be halted and the country receives its full income. If that scenario is successful, then we should be able to prevent daylight robbery like Starbucks who take Ethiopian coffee bought at around $1 a particular size and later sold at $15, which robs Ethiopia of a whooping $14 per that particular size. Swiss miners of copper do the same to Zambia, have monopoly of buying the raw copper, then they sell it to subsidiary or affiliated companies in tax havens, thereafter they inflate the prices, globally, and make a killing! Sorry, Im lazy to go on with this trail of thought. So, Im posting.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 05:16:25 +0000
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