Africa: Goodbye, university

PEP Forum Uganda

In 2018, Bryan Caplan wrote the book "The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money". What makes new technology and education due to skills from our own time experience? Bryan Caplan is concerned about the disruptions in human capital development, and the inability to think a thought longer than five centimeters.

After several years of discussing brain drain and black vs white education gap - as if it wasn't enough to think for family, relatives and students in Africa struggle to fund all the years of study: a lot of money is needed to achieve an intellectual university degree, is it worth it? But it is a question that will always remain unanswered: why is it so? Such questions can be crucial to almost everything related to the culture and quality of universities. Yet, a new world order has emerged that looks at the current university system with deep skepticism, and in 2003 Robert Kagan wrote about "Paradise and Power" how the elite in some countries of the world invest their money in Panama Papers and send their children to prestigious universities, to get the best education.

Social anthropologist Marcel Mauss article (1926) ,'Critique interne de la"Legende de l'Abraham' influenced Africa, but he never published a book, Mauss especially challenged a racist anthropology of African societies known as the "Hamitic hypothesis" and well-known to students of Africa; it states that everything of value ever found in Africa was brought there and linked it with the agitation of the Jewish question that still applies around the world - a basic argument in his essay is that the social category "race" is not a category that denotes vulnerability, but a categorization system derived from an analysis which he believes is "unforgettable." And what about Claude Lévi-Strauss ? The founder of Structuralism –⁠ he published a lot, but not in the beginning, because then he sat and thought and read and noted; it took him four years before anything bigger come up. In return he then published a book that changed the way we think about kinship. He would have lost money today if he had global funding, or from a research organization: "yours is empty", they would say about his research.