A Togolese man held a COCOA BEAN in an ITALIAN CHOCOLATE FESTIVAL and asked the participants what it was, no one could tell.
He travelled back home and held A BAR OF CHOCOLATE to COCOA FARMER in a remote village and asked them what it was, no one could had an idea.
The difference between this two groups of people is how they handle education.
When Togolese government takes education to those remote villages, they would rather teach kids the parts of an insect rather than how to make chocolate from cocoa beans.
The idea is foreign to africans, you are led to believe that making chocolate is a technology reserved for the whites, while in reality making a bar of chocolate is easier than farming a cocoa bean.
Young people leave Africa, some die trying to cross Mediterranean sea and when they hit European borders, the fish at these shores are more important than them, yet they have left the one who owns gold to go work for the black smith who melts gold.
Our education system should be about us not them.
A student who graduates from Murang'a should be able to know how to treat coffee and add value, The one who graduates from The Maa community should be aware of how to trade meat in the International market, while the one from nyandarua should know how to produce insecticide from pyrethurum.
Each county should have programs within their education system that seeks to create wealth from resources found within UNLESS someone shows me empirically the significance of uniform core subject across the country especially under CBC program.
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