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It\u2019s lost opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>The sad issue is that our highly learned people have studied only how to think and not production.<\/p>\n<p>What will a scholar gains from knowing the longest river in Africa? Knowing the number Muslim pray in a day. Knowing about the biggest animal on the earth. In deed, this is exactly what our colonial master taught Africans.<\/p>\n<p>This has made Africans scholars containers of useless knowledge<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 320px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-4690-1\" width=\"320\" height=\"400\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/WhatsApp-Video-2021-03-11-at-7.47.44-AM.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/WhatsApp-Video-2021-03-11-at-7.47.44-AM.mp4\">https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/WhatsApp-Video-2021-03-11-at-7.47.44-AM.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; When 54 nations in Africa are waiting for covid-vaccines to come from some foreign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/19555746_101.jpg",1024,576,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/19555746_101-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/19555746_101-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/19555746_101-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/19555746_101.jpg",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/19555746_101.jpg",1024,576,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/19555746_101.jpg",1024,576,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/19555746_101.jpg",1024,576,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/19555746_101.jpg",825,464,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/19555746_101.jpg",590,332,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"nkyeremunews","author_link":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/author\/nkyeremunews\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/category\/uncategorised\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Nkyeremu<\/a>","tag_info":"Nkyeremu","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/19555746_101.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkyeremunews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}