Why do we have to wait for you to get
to high school or university to teach
you basic computer skills? Why wait
for your mind to harden and lose its
youthful flexibility and dedication
then attempt to empower you? In
Setswana, we say: it is easier to mould
and discipline a child while he is still
young than to let him take shape into
something different.
aspect of life, specific traits, or ways of
life that are abundant or visible in a lot
of individuals.
The ‘lot’ or majority now start to
believe that by virtue of them having
those particular traits in abundance,
they are normal.
You and I are different in the same
ways.
The same line of thought is what you
and I should take to propel ourselves
to greatness. Let’s mould our young
people at a tender age when they are
still full of energy.
I may want to be a doctor, you may
want to be an entrepreneur; at the
end of the day, we need each other to
propel this continent to greatness.
These entrepreneurship and innovation academies will provide a platform
for some of the continents’ most creative and intelligent youth to harness
their brain power and solve the problems this continent faces.
We are already intertwined by destiny
and invisible systems; why not capitalise on such synergies to publicly
empower our youth and expose them
to streams of avenues that will ensure
we change the fate of this continent?
We expect Americans and Chinese
to come to our countries, investigate
problems our farmers and financial
systems are battling with, then expect
them to create solutions and products
for those problems, and then sell them
to us.
We cannot continue to go about our
daily ways acting like Africa is not
collapsing even when it makes a
loud, shattering noise as it slams the
ground.
What is stopping us from doing the
same? Resources? Competition, lack
of Government support?
Be good, do good.
No one knows your problems and
challenges like you!
By virtue of you experiencing them
can you solve them better.
Earlier on, I was telling a friend that
normality is to a certain extent quantitatively objective, especially because
a lot of people believe in a certain
BANZA
It is all on you and I.