Skip to main content
  • ENG
  • FRA
  • ARA
Lema's Blog
  • Home
  • Blog
    • Sport
    • Economics & International Relations
    • Others
  • Gallery
  • About
  • Contact Me
  • More
    • Biography
    • My Works
    • Hobbies

The case for educational justice in post-COVID Africa

June 2, 2022 at 9:31 am, No comments
If generations of African youth are to prosper post-pandemic, a fundamental and vital shift in educational context and content is needed. 


As is still common in the “Global South,” Affo, 29, was born in a polygamous family comprising more than two dozen children. Yet, he is the second child to have obtained a high school degree and the only one to have gone to university: A rare “progressive” family and a great “achievement” by community standards. Affo was brought up in a place where educational opportunities are nearly non-existent. His native village is more than 15 km from the closest town with a high school. Growing up, Affo had no bicycle, much less a motorbike to commute the distance. When he was lucky, a rare commodity in such a place, he would get a lift along the way.

Added to that challenge was the fact that, for the seven years of his high schooling, he had to judiciously combine studies with various part-time jobs to make ends meet, not just to pay tuition fees, but also to cover daily expenses. Thus, he faced seemingly insurmountable disadvantages at achieving a basic education. But Affo’s is not an isolated story. Rather, it’s the specter that has been haunting Benin and the wider African continent. Read more...

No comments

Leave a reply







Recent Posts

  • Blessing Dams or Crushing Hope? A Theoretical Framework on State Capacity, Regime Types, and Conflict Dynamics over Dam Projects
    14 Apr, 2025
  • Alternance présidentielle et culture démocratique réaffirmée au Ghana
    24 Dec, 2024
  • Illegal Chinese Timber Trade Fuels Insurgency in Mozambique
    11 Jul, 2024
  • It’s not only Israel on trial. South Africa is testing the west’s claim to moral superiority
    17 Jan, 2024
  • Vanishing Line
    31 Dec, 2023
  • From a “project of the century” to “small is beautiful”: The changing face of the BRI in Africa
    3 Dec, 2023
  • Égalité de genre et survie des enfants de moins de cinq ans en Afrique: Dispositif constitutionnel, réglementaire, institutionnel et son impact
    3 Dec, 2023
Created with Mozello - the world's easiest to use website builder.

Create your website or online store with Mozello

Quickly, easily, without programming.

Report abuse Learn more