UEW Public Lecture Series: Pan-Africanists demand urgent change in Africa’s teaching methodologies

Pan-Africanists have made a passionate call to leaders of Africa to consider instituting reforms in Africa’s teaching methodologies.

They suggest the current module of teaching is obsolete and does not provide answers to Africa’s growing challenges.

At the University of Education, Winneba’s public lecture series themed “Empowering Minds, Shaping Futures for 21st Century Education, Dr. Samuel Koranteng Pipim, leadership expert and theologian wondered why Ghana at the moment has the “highest concentration of teachers and professors” and yet struggling to address basic challenges, and “graduates jobless but employers struggling to find skilled laborers”.

He suggested that current teaching module is of the 19th century and does not provide solutions to the 21st century’s problems and thus called for a reform.

His counterpart, Professor Patrice Lumumba, a Pan-Africanist and academician also did not express a dissenting opinion as he held that the “establishment of schools” across Africa “by the British was “to raise young men and women to support the colonial empire”.

He called on African leaders to institute cutting-edge reforms in the education sector which will conform to and help address the growing needs and challenges of the continent.

Other speakers including Professor Badu Akosah, a Pan-Africanist and Vice Chancellor of the UEW, Professor Stephen Johnson Mitchual all shared similar beliefs.

For his part, Deputy Minister of Education, Dr Clement Apaak, pledged the Government of Ghana’s commitment to supervising reforms that would help establish a robust problem-solving educational system.

He said Ghana is “at a critical juncture where the quality of education we provide today will determine the trajectory of Ghana’s future”.

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