Obaba Museum

This line most probably resonates with most Africans because of Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart which describes anarchy supposedly caused by the infiltration of another race. It may or may not come to you as a surprise that Chinua Achebe himself borrowed it from William Butler Yeats’ Poem, The Second Coming.
The poem chronicles the disarray and pseudo-apocalyptic period after the second world war.

The pillars and foundations holds the house as the beams holds the bridges. What now holds the pillars, foundations and beams?

Education they say is should to be the foundation of any society that would love to develop.
Apparently our foundation has been long destroyed and the educational structure keeps falling.
Our beams have broken, there is no passage to the future we seek.

From underpaid primary school teachers to overworked secondary teachers to underappreciated, underpaid, overworked and underequipped university lecturers. Strikes after strike after strike like a building that is being stopped before any major milestone is completed.

Is the faulty educational system a product of the white man’s influence to limit the development of Africans or mismanagement on the part of the gatekeepers?

Let’s hear your view.