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A Brief Perspective of the Sustainable Development Goals

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WRITTEN BY: Asanya Boluwatife Ndidi The unanimous agreement of the 193 member states of the United Nations General Assembly to the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development in 2015 produced one of the most ambitious and inclusive global aspirations in history. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a collection of 17 interlinked global goals designed to be a blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. Targeted at committing members states to ensure greater inclusivity, end poverty and push the world to a more sustainable path. The SDGs are broad and interdependent thus begetting the question as to how well these broad global aspirations are likely to result in implementable developments especially in developing countries. The inclusion of so many goals without a hierarchy of priority and without reference to inherent contradictions that are likely to result in conflict between the goals may have unintended negative consequences which may inhibit the timely/e...
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Educational Reforms

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  WRITTEN BY: Asanya Boluwatife Ndidi Education is the passport to the future of every nation (Nelson Mandela) and no nation can grow above its educational system. The pivotal role education plays as bedrock for national development cannot be overemphasized. However,education as a major catalyst for emancipation and evolution of countries has not taken a centre stage in Nigeria despite notable improvements in the sector. According to UNICEF, one in every 5 out of the world's school children is in Nigeria. Despite the fact that primary education is compulsory and free, about 10.5 million of the country's children are not in school and in the Northern part of the country, the picture is even bleaker with a net attendance rate of 53% and significant marginalization in the area of female education. Factors that can be attributed to the educational deprivation include poor financing of the educational sector which results in poor infrastructure leading to unconducive learning enviro...
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VISION IN LEADERSHIP

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WRITTEN BY: Asanya Boluwatife Ndidi We need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great vision, who dream greatly and strive to make their dream come through, who can kindle the people with fire from their own burning souls.          ~Theodore Roosevelt A leader without vision is a wandering leader, like a rolling stone without a moss.          ~Asanya Boluwatife Vision is a critical component of effective leadership. What is vision? Why is vision important in Leadership and how should it be employed? Vision can be defined as a big picture in the leaders imagination that motivates and inspires people to take action when communicated compellingly, passionately and clearly, thereby ensuring that everyone is working towards a common goal. Simply put, Vision provides a picture, like a sign post describing the leaders goals or direction and means of accomplishing them. Vision is a mental picture of what the future could be...
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THE CONS AND EFFECT OF INFORMAL EDUCATION IN AFRICA

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The cons and effect of informal education in Africa What is Informal Learning? Informal means something casual, natural, easy-going, or unofficial. Informal learning is also known as informal education. It is the kind of knowledge someone gains from the Internet, browse it on their own, or register for online training. In other words, things you learn outside the formal environment are called informal learning. Such knowledge is gained under the influence of society or surroundings without any theoretical practices like cooking, swimming, or driving. Another example of informal learning is your mother tongue because you do not need an academic institute to learn ‘how to speak’ this language. You adapt the knowledge of language from your surroundings. But to learn how to write it, you are moved to a formal learning technique. Some of you might know the concept of informal learning or education as ‘asynchronous,’ in which students are not restricted to time and place. They ar...
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THE ADVANTAGES OF FORMAL EDUCATION IN AFRICA

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The Advantages of Formal Educational System in Africa and Beyond. The concept of Education is widely appreciated in modern times as Africa and the world at large have come to appreciate the major role it plays in the development of societies. As the 4th Sustainable Development Goal is to ensure inclusive and quality Education across the globe, it has become pertinent that all aspects of this concept are understood and leveraged to achieve this goal. The varied types of Education are known to be the formal, informal and non-formal (Passion In Education, 2019). However, what remains the common type and most referred to when the concept of Education is brought up is the Formal type of education. A little history lays bare the facts that indeed Formal education is not of African origin but after the colonization of the continent, it has come to stay. What then makes Formal education the most seemingly important and talked about type of education as opposed to the remaining two ...
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THE INTRODUCTION (HISTORY) FORMAL EDUCATION IN AFRICA

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GENERAL OVERVIEW OF EDUCATION IN AFRICA  The topic of African education and its development has often been in consistent limelight. Over the last half-century, this attention has resulted in an increase in education in Sub-Saharan Africa. This is evident in the statistics as from 1970 to 2010, the percentage of children across the region who complete primary school rose by almost 50% (from 46% of children to 68%) and the proportion of children completing lower secondary school nearly doubled (from 22% to 40%). Despite these significant improvements, roughly one-third of children still do not complete basic school. Furthermore, efforts to assess the quality of that education have indicated that even after several years of study, a large majority of students have insufficient literacy or numeracy skills (Bold et al., 2017; Adeniran et al., 2020). The campaign to promote access to high-quality education in Africa has never been more fierce, as various agencies and NGOs (in...
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THE IMPACTS AND IMPORTANCE OF WESTERN EDUCATION IN AFRICA

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THE IMPACTS AND IMPORTANCE OF WESTERN EDUCATION IN AFRICA Africa is known as a dark continent because it lacked a great sense of globalization and education which was prominent in most continents. Ignorance is a disease that this continent suffered from for so long. Nevertheless, Africa is a home endowed with resources and amazing cultural activities. The westerners were aware of this fact and that was why they slyly moved into this continent not to improve the use of her resources for her people but to gain from these resources. They devised so many means which included trading their goods to African countries, bringing in their own religion which they presumed was best and colonization. Yes, colonization. This dealt a great blow on African countries.  THE IMPACTS : Africans were people that couldn’t be defended physically. Having known this, the westerners decided to use them mentally. Thinking that the westerners; colonizers were doing them a great favor was the bigg...
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THE AFRICAN SOCIAL PROBLEM ON IMPROVING LITERACY IN AFRICA

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Africa Social Problem on Improving Literacy in Africa Africa is the largest continent across the globe that has most of its individuals succumbed to illiteracy. It is vital to point out at the outset that reading is a perquisite to literacy but most Africans, especially children find it difficult to flip and dribble within the pages. A study cited by Global Citizens stated that over half the world’s 10- years-olds could be unable to read by the end of 2021, with Africa’s children in particular set to struggle a lot. The study went to dissect that if measures are not put in place to enhance global literacy, by 2030, a whooping amount of 750 million will fall victim to illiteracy with sub-Saharan Africa securing a percentage of 40, which in fact, would contradict the moral and rationale of the well-crafted Agenda 2063 of African Union and Sustainable Development Goals number 4.  That said, at this juncture, it is healthy I introduce in the discourse some of the social pro...
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AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY: The difference between pre-colonial and postcolonial education in Africa.

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The Difference Between Pre-colonial and Post-colonial Education in Africa By Maame Ama Bainson The state of education in Africa is a buzzing topic in our world today. However, it is impossible to discuss the history of African education without mentioning colonization. The history of education in Africa can be separated into two periods: pre-colonial and post-colonial. The colonization of Africa by the seven western European powers took place between 1881 and 1914. What then was the state of education in Africa before this period, during this period and after this period? Pre-colonial Africa was mostly made up of tribes who often migrated depending on seasons, availability of fertile soil or political circumstances. Individuals and households, within that period, were to some extent economically self-sufficient. This is in the sense that they produced their own food and were responsible for their own shelter and security and hence had no need for the scope of knowledge that...
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THE IMPACTS AND IMPORTANCE OF WESTERN EDUCATION IN AFRICA

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THE IMPACTS AND IMPORTANCE OF WESTERN EDUCATION IN AFRICA Africa is known as a dark continent because it lacked a great sense of globalization and education which was prominent in most continents. Ignorance is a disease that this continent suffered from for so long. Nevertheless, Africa is a home endowed with resources and amazing cultural activities. The westerners were aware of this fact and that was why they slyly moved into this continent not to improve the use of her resources for her people but to gain from these resources. They devised so many means which included trading their goods to African countries, bringing in their own religion which they presumed was best and colonization. Yes, colonization. This dealt a great blow on African countries.  THE IMPACTS : Africans were people that couldn’t be defended physically. Having known this, the westerners decided to use them mentally. Thinking that the westerners; colonizers were doing them a great favor was the bigg...
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