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 Apostle
George Mbulo receiving an Master of Business Administration
(MBA) Degree from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California,
USA.
The
challenge of education in
Zambia,
as it also is representative of the general challenge faced by
most African nations, requires that we seriously consider how we
will prepare the human resource so critically needed for the
development of continent. We do not lack in the needed natural
resources to improve our standard of life in Africa. What has
seriously eluded us is the qualified and skilled human resource
to exploit the abundant natural resources replete on the African
continent.
The
plight of a myopic education system in
Africa
was extensively discussed in a two-day Seminar jointly organized
by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the Institute for African
Studies, which was held at Hotel Intercontinental in
Lusaka on
l7th and l8th October 1990.
One of the
presenters identified a problem that has affected the education
system in Africa to be the current economic depression tenable
in most African countries. It was noted that education has been
the worst hit among all the sectors because of lack of
commitment to this sector by the African national leadership. It
was further stated that the cutback in public expenditures that
emerged from the economic depression was not gradual but very
sharp and sometimes these cuts were unjustified. The consequence
of a lack of priority to the education sector has resulted into
poor quality of education in human resource terms. The Seminar
heard and dealt with a rather complicated outcome of misdirected
priorities, whose offshoot is the low quality of African
education, which has further weakened the prospects for economic
recovery in most of our African countries. The conclusion, which
is clearly reflected in the day-to-day life on the African
continent, is that because of the poor quality of the
educational systems, African countries are increasingly unable
to produce the necessary labour force that has the knowledge and
skills needed for effective economic development.
Therefore, we have a great need of strengthening the education
sector if we are to look into the future with optimism for a
better standard of life on our African continent. The private
sector, inclusive of the church and civil society, needs to
support our African nations through the enhancement of our
educational system on the continent of Africa
The
efforts of the State run institutions of learning faced with,
sometimes, that fleeting and lackadaisical support of the
present political systems in most African nations, needs to be
augmented by some private institutions of learning. The future
of our African nations and our economies is vitally linked to
how well a nation educates its population. Many African nations
shall surely suffer a major deficit in skilled and educated
labor, if we do not stand with our governments in this vital
need.
Capital
Christian Ministries International (CCMI) intends to make a
positive contribution to the development of Zambia and other
African nations by embarking on a long-term project of
establishing a Christian University in Lusaka, Zambia.
Mr. Edward Nkonde
is entrusted with the task of coordinating the Steering Team
that is spearheading the development of
Capital
Christian University. He is a university Lecturer at the
Copperbelt University (CBU) in Kitwe, Zambia. He has been an
educator for the past 25 years. Mr. Nkonde has extensive
ministry leadership experience and he's a well-respected and
mature servant of Christ. He has earned a Master's degree in
Education at the University of Zambia (UNZA) in Lusaka, Zambia. |
