FAST TRACKING AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT

There’s a general problem going on in Africa right now, and that’s basically the problem of “under development”. Underdevelopment according to oxford advanced dictionary, is defined as “a country with unexploited potential” Basically, over here in Africa, we tend to view underdevelopment as poor road, poor economic system, irregular electricity and inadequacy of physical infrastructures. Well, I beg to disagree. According to the aforementioned definition, underdevelopment has little or nothing to do with inadequacy in physical infrastructures. Under development basically has to do with “PEOPLE” What makes a nation to become developed is not in the quantity of its physical infrastructures, but in the quality of its people. Africa as a continent has a low human capital development with a vast percentage of Africa‘s labour force concerned with making money with a little consideration for effective and good service delivery. A large percentage of our labour force are not productive and that’s basically one of the main reason why we are undeveloped. So, in fast tracking Africa’s development, we have to:

1. Invest in manpower development. “
A nation will only develop in accordance to the development of its people”. Hence, there’s has to be a massive shift into human development. We, as a continent must place more premium on our people as machinery to fast track national and continental development. We have to invest in our people by creating good and sustainable educational curricula that can re-invigorate the mentality of our people making us to shift from a resource based economy into a knowledge based economy. This, will not only make us to develop more efficiency with our resources, it will also make us to achieve sustainability by leveraging on our knowledge together with our God given resources in creating a developed Economy.


2. Create a sustainable organizational structures
Effective structures must also be created in order to fast track continental development. One of the greatest problem bedeviling against Africa is poor organizational structure. Everything has to be structured in such a way that the average individual must be able to attain their potential and everything have to structured with a superior organizational structure in order to enhance and promote efficiency. Structures have to be set up in the financial sector, educational sector, governmental ministry and other relevant ministerial organizational in order to promote efficiency and effective service delivery.

3. Change organizational and institutional beliefs
There’s a belief in Africa that says “just get a job and you will be fine” Well, sorry guys a job is not the ultimate, “service is”. You see, there’s so much poverty and poor institutional development in Africa that gives little or no credence to talents with people doing jobs that they have no little or no ability. This is basically one of the main reasons why we have poor product and service delivery. Well, to address this we have to change this belief and begin to change organizational belief from making money to offering quality service(s) We have to remodel the thought pattern of African workers from just getting a job that pays at the end of the month to creating services that satisfy wants and meet the needs of their fellow Africans. We have to have a productive mentality because without that we may never attain development. Let’s be quality conscious, let us change our mentality from “just getting a job” into creating sustainable and efficient products and services that will meet the needs and solve the problem of our people and the world at large.