Of L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University педагогика. Психология. ӘЛеуметтану
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Historically, the hegemony of the African feudal lords has never been catalysts for progress, safe only for promoting debilitating internecine wars, pillaging communities and slave raiding. Sadly, we see the reminiscence of this hapless past in contemporary Africa. Once again Africans are living precariously and are susceptible to slavery. Everyday across the Mediterranean, Africans are being shipped across the sea in the most inhuman conditions to places where they are treated with hostility and indignation, slaving away only to remit money home to impoverished relatives. A clear indication that the African economy cannot be able to absorb its able bodied, employable youths. Arguably, if as has been the case after the end of colonization all over Africa that economic production is much below that capacity to absorb the ever-growing army of youths that form the bulk of the African population, it would appear logical to devise doable social development initiatives to garner the underused capacity of the continent’s economy to address society’s challenges. Mass job-creating initiatives such as building Community Parks, constructing bridges and access roads; river channelization are all doable community development projects. Plantations on partnership or cooperative, or contract bases can transform subsistent peasant farming into modern extensive farming that will, in turn, lead to efficiency in food storage and distribution. Initiatives to build new towns, infrastructures, and a raft of others, executed exclusively with the local labor forces would all have the additional advantage of triggering the private sector investment and job creation that would help overcome lack of economic capacity. These never happened when Africans were being massively shipped to slave on plantations in the Americas in the 18th century, it never happened when Africans labored on plantations under colonization at home. And although food production today throughout Africa, at best, continues to be at the subsistence level, yet all the legacies of colonial systematized mass agricultural production, functioning urban infrastructures have all become derelict followed by barbaric plundering of the assets. In Nigeria, none of the attempts to restore the systems has yielded significant results. A wanton prodigality of the huge resource-endowment in Africa. жүктеу/скачать 3,76 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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