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The Present Condition:
Africa is dead, non-existent to most people across the world due to its backwardness in the global economy and its resistance to latest developments. Countries and continents who today are world leaders in the global economy got there by improvising on science, technology, information and communication systems. There are millions of Africans making ground breaking research all across the world and we have decided to go back home and create a special interest in science and technology in our youths. Technology fuels the world and the only way we can make it as a continent is embracing it. Raya Dunayevskaya (1973) stated that, “the tragedy of the African revolutions began so soon after the revolution had succeeded because leaders were so weighed down with the consciousness of technological backwardness”. And according to UNESCO’s 1998 World Science Report, "_ Africa will be unable to rise above its current level of poverty without pursuing manufacturing more purposefully. Doing that will necessarily require greater focus on industrial research and development...".
Africa is filled with rich and natural resources. Crude oil, agricultural products, diamonds, etc. But as the market value of this products decreases, we need more technological invention. This increases our need to make a continental commitment to science and technology. African youths have the aptitude and all they need is an opportunity such as these to fully tap and utilize these talents.
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