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News of the Sunday, November 25, 2018
Source: ghananewsagency.org
2018-11-25
Some people working in a factory
Professor Maxwell Owusu, a lecturer at the University of Michigan in the United States, said developed countries have literacy skills and a culture conducive to national development.
He said it was imperative that Africa in general and Ghana in particular create their own knowledge through reading and do not always depend on foreigners to get help.
Professor Owusu stated this in Accra at the seventh Kobina Sekyi Memorial Lecture on "Culture, Nationalism and Nation Building: The Role of the Ghanaian Intelligies".
The conference was organized by the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana at Legon in collaboration with the Advanced Studies Center of African Society at Western Cape University in South Africa.
Professor Owusu said the country needed a strong literacy culture to stimulate industrialization for holistic development.
He said that an industrialized country created employment opportunities for its citizens because the industrial sector was a major employer for skilled and unskilled labor.
Professor Owusu explained that industrialization helped to facilitate the changes and technological advances that were essential for development.
"Thanks to industrialization, a country can keep its currency by reducing its imports. This is especially true when industries are established to produce previously imported goods. These currencies can be used to import essential capital goods and stimulate capital formation, "he added.
Professor Owusu said that nationalism derives its strength from many roots such as the love of its people, its customs, its traditions, its culture, its ethnic and tribal gods and its homeland.
He said some political leaders in Africa and Ghana, particularly poorly managed resources, were leading to a high level of poverty.
It is concerned about the country's inability to establish a research university and urges the Government to work towards creating one to widen the frontier of research problems.
"The University of Cape Town, South Africa, is the only African university in the world rankings of 2018 universities in 2018".
He urged political science students to be objective and not to join any political party at school to be able to criticize constructively without fear or favor.
He advised students to seek excellence and read more books in order to broaden their knowledge of intellectual discourse.
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor said the company needed effective leaders to chart the course of development, adding that this could be done through investments in education.
He advised students to learn harshly and imitate the life of the late Mr. Kobina Sekyi, lawyer, politician and writer who had contributed to the social development of the country.
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