Entrepreneurship, Youth Unemployment, and Massive Job Creation

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• francis kwarteng 11 years ago

  Brother Kwesi,
  
  I can only hope our policy makers are listening to you.
  
  Great piece of work.
  
  Thanks.

  Brother Kwesi,
  
  I can only hope our policy makers are listening to you.
  
  Great piece of work.
  
  Thanks.

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• Kwesi Atta Sakyi 11 years ago

  Thanks, Francis. I always share my thoughts and this forum is consumed by people globally so if our own people do not make use of it, others would.

  Thanks, Francis. I always share my thoughts and this forum is consumed by people globally so if our own people do not make use of it, others would.

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• Okai 11 years ago

  19th century ideas. Grouping kids during their secondary sch. years is destructive. At that age, they are yet to find themselves and their strengths.

  19th century ideas. Grouping kids during their secondary sch. years is destructive. At that age, they are yet to find themselves and their strengths.

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• Kwesi Atta Sakyi 11 years ago

  Cite when in the 19th century these ideas were used, and give us alternate solutions to the mass youth unemployment debacle. You are among those who criticise for the sake of criticism, and are caught up in the Phd syndrome. ...
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  Cite when in the 19th century these ideas were used, and give us alternate solutions to the mass youth unemployment debacle. You are among those who criticise for the sake of criticism, and are caught up in the Phd syndrome. Do your homework thoroughly well and ask if there was no good aspect of Nkrumah's Workers' Brigade. The young in advanced countries have counsellors who study them to know their forte and to canalise their strengths into areas they are good at. Why does the GCE O Level settle on minimum of five subjects, including English, Maths, Science, and Social Studies? We need to catch them young. What is the use of generalist education which produces masses of failures who do not know their strengths? These school clubs I have proposed here will help to unearth and identify their talents early.

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• KKO 11 years ago

  I read you, Kwesi,
  I once lived next to a man who worked 18 hours a day, six days a week, to build an empire that was destroyed by conmen socialists who came to public view in stinky faded smocks, army coveralls and tattered ...
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  I read you, Kwesi,
  I once lived next to a man who worked 18 hours a day, six days a week, to build an empire that was destroyed by conmen socialists who came to public view in stinky faded smocks, army coveralls and tattered sandals.
  
  That lot make less than 0.01% of Ghana's population but control 95% of Ghana's wealth.
  
  Some of those foreign "capitalist leaches" have donated billions for research into preventable diseases in Africa, much of which have been stolen by African socialist leaders. As I write, it has just been reported that a huge chunk of the money that Americans have voted to fight Ebola in Africa has been stolen by African leaders, most of them socialists.
  
  One more thing, capitalism promotes open societies while socialism by its nature promotes closed, secretive societies. Remember Kofi Heheta's African Student in China, a friend of mine was nearly detained because someone smuggled one for him in late 1965. I got one in late 1966.
  
  Under any socialist state, half of the excellent pieces you write would never see the light of day!

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• KKO 11 years ago

  Nice try, Kwesi,
  But this "Nanny State" thing has never and will never work anywhere in the world. Check Cuna and North Korea.
  
  Just look around East Africa where you live. The only countries that are doing well, even by ...
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  Nice try, Kwesi,
  But this "Nanny State" thing has never and will never work anywhere in the world. Check Cuna and North Korea.
  
  Just look around East Africa where you live. The only countries that are doing well, even by world standards are Botswana, Malawi, and to some extent Kenya, and they are all countries that have embraced some form or other of the "open market" system.
  
  Across the border in Tanzania, Nyerere's name would have been lost in the maze but for his prolific writing in Swahili, as a classicist, all because of his disastrous flirtation with Ujamaa.
  
  The Ghana Armed Forces and the Police Service have all these "Brigades", but they can't even paint their barracks, let alone making desks and chairs for their dust strewn offices and stations!
  
  Apparently cholera is currently causing havoc in our national capital because while in the remotest villages in Ghana people build latrines and even toilets for themselves, in most parts of Accra people live under the notion that "if government will not build toilets, we shall sh** on the beaches and gutters." Yes, "the goat that wanted to cause havoc to his in-law's walls...."
  
  The CSIR has all kinds of institutes with professors in every discipline under the sun, but we still wait for white folks in America and Europe to make mosquito nets and nivaquine for us to fight malaria.
  
  No sir, let us create system that will help our youth to learn to fish, instead of buying them fish, much of which will be stolen by incompetent and clueless politicians!

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• Kwesi Atta Sakyi 11 years ago

  The indiscipline in Ghana can only be uprooted by the brigades which will instil military training. Se China and ex-communist and socialist countries which are now doing well have imbibed discipline from their past background ...
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  The indiscipline in Ghana can only be uprooted by the brigades which will instil military training. Se China and ex-communist and socialist countries which are now doing well have imbibed discipline from their past backgrounds. We have to start somewhere before we shift over to this winner- take- all kleptomaniac capitalistic enslavement. Fancy three days ago, BBC said only 1% of world population control 95% of total global wealth, and their wealth increased by 50%, while the 99% had their 5% share of global wealth grow by only 2%. Where do we stand with utter capitalism in our infantile stage of our development?

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