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The day we stop learning is the day we die ~ Michael Scott. There is a joke in a part of the world that if somebody says "Are you are a learner", then it means you are a novice. Nevertheless, in every situation of life, knowledge is the proof that ignorance existed at a particular point in time and the only way to make progress in life is to reduce or eliminate Ignorance whenever possible. From the time when the Biblical Adam fell, to this present time, by default, most humans have possessed some strange characteristics. Managerial scientists call it the basic characteristics of human nature It states; Man is an indolent, inherently, lazy and has apparent dislike for work He must be coerced, controlled, directed, or even threatened with punishment for him to perform. He has to be motivated by economic incentives to improve his performance and output He has little ambition but needs security above all Okay, maybe that’s way too offside, alternat...

…they carried the village with them to the city and converted the city to a village. --Mensa Otabil Though the practice of democratic governance is now widespread in Africa, one soiled attitude (termed the village mentality) has extended its roots into the mental fabric of several African leaders and is diminishing their efficiency at solving the continent’s problems.  Over the years, each foregoing generation of leaders seemed to have passed on the baton of village mentality to its successors. As Mensa Otabil once put it, " they carried the village with them to the city and converted the city to a village."  Before I establish my thoughts on the transition of this meretricious mentality from the village to the city, let's make some facts known. Preceding the dramatic revolution in the political ideas of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the prosperity of an European country largely depended on the quality of its monarch (whether King...