Does the Future of Africa Rely on its Past?

The academic system as we know it in Africa has not significantly contributed to Africa’s development. This is because it has not been ‘contextualized’ so as to actually take into account the realities faced by African societies on a daily basis. African realities refer here to ‘culture’ and ‘traditions’, but not only. Since the academic system does not take into account the peculiarities of these realities, it fails to solve problems faced by African societies as the structure of the academi...