Shortly after Independence, the Mozambican radical political leader, Samora Machel in trying to make education and literacy available to all, hatched the approach of, “We are Building a School.”
Author: Prof Makala Lilemba (Prof Makala Lilemba )
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Opinion – Politics of the accusing finger
In his book ‘The Accusing Finger’, Nyambe Wina (1992), a Zambian novelist, narrates an incident in which an officially engaged lady points an accusing finger at her fiancé for having put her in a woman way, despite his denial.
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Opinion – Servicing the N$150 billion debt curse
The Minister of Finance and Public Enterprises tabled the 2023/2024 national budget on 22 February 2023 which is anchored on three pillars: pro-sustainability, pro-poor and pro-growth.
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Opinion – Exploring the main component of the didactic situation
In the world of academia and pedagogics, the didactic situation is made of the learner, the subject matter and the teacher. For many centuries, the teacher had been at the centre of this triangle.
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Opinion – The Namibian Constitutional Day, 9 February, has come and gone without any fanfare.
In some countries, days like these are always celebrated with passion and patriotism as they remind the citizens of the days on which their countries were born and became nations.
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Opinion – Imaginary philosophy and mandate of rule
At the dawn of independence, the young and inexperienced African nations started drawing up their national development plans, which were hardly implemented, for various reasons.
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Opinion – Trial and error as political, educational systems’ hallmarks
In his documentary, ‘The Africans: A Triple Heritage, Programme 6: in Search of Stability’, Ali Mazrui (1986), the late renowned Kenyan academician and political analyst, likens Nigeria to an enormous political laboratory.
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Opinion – Positioning one another
Namibia is entering its 33rd year of nationhood, yet the process of the fair positioning of all Namibians in terms of jobs remains an illusion. The process has become so solidarised that it becomes almost impossible to penetrate it.
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Opinion – The role of philosophy of education
African countries adopted particular philosophies of education immediately after independence in efforts to transform the colonial education system.
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Opinion – The other side of the high failure rate
Many young people left their motherland in the Seventies into the unknown, with the main purpose of finding a system which would quench their educational thirst.