Words 4 You From Qhub Africa

  This would be very brief, my name is Boye. I remember in my 3rd year at uni I had this course called Operational and Quantum Mathematics (Math 324). At the beginning of the semester, the course was somehow. I missed the first two classes (The lecturer was the type that would hit the ground running at the beginning of every semester- bloody ITK) but I had my buddies Tamara and Mayowa explain the classes to me more than once, yet my knowledge was still not grounded coupled with the fact that as we progressed into the semester this course began to unveil weird levels of difficulties, so I had zero confidence in my knowledge of this course but I gave a front of “master of knowledge”. Well, I soon got exposed as the first test came and I failed like a woeful cat. 2 /15 was a major stain on my reputation. I couldn’t allow any evidence of this evil fail to exist, so I destroyed the script and cleared my brain of the memory, this was done before I had cried and yelled at myself for being...

Why have we marginalized African students so much, especially at the tertiary level? Their central pain point is acquiring new knowledge (specialized), and internalizing this knowledge well enough so that when they are asked in an exam or test, they are able to communicate this knowledge back clearly and concisely to earn themselves good grades and graduate ‘colorfully’. But we don’t create solutions to help make this focal pain point easy for them rather we have abandoned them to be ravaged and ‘figure shit out by themselves’ meanwhile; we focus our energies on creating technologies that make our marketplace more in sync with the global marketplace while we neglect our future Africans to wallow and be submerged in failures after failure until their innate power is lost to self-doubt and they are pushed to embrace mediocrity as their best bet. Let me put this in a more practical context; the girl that would spearhead the first all-African moon landing is probably somewhere in a unive...