By Innocent Chia
It is exceptionally difficult in today’s world to find anyone without
knowledge of the building blocks of story writing and journalism: Who
does What, Where, When, Why and How? They are often referred to in the
industry as 5Ws + H. I have been pondering for quite a while now about
the importance of each and every one of these questions, particularly
within the context of critical thinking and human development.
As
we usher in the year 2013, it is my submission that the Developing
World has, for far too long, been focusing on the wrong question.
Africans, particularly those 30 years of age and above, are not rushed
with shaking-off a troubling “Who” hangover inherited from their parents
and grandparents. The most important question I suggest we should be
asking is “Why?” Herewith some thoughts...
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Obsession with bread and butter issues has surely taken a toll, I think. To put it in other terms, as one of my congeners aptly put it, in the evolution of Homo sapiens camerunensis, a stage has reached where the stomach has virtually taken over functions originally intended for the brain, a phenomenon treated with levity and mirthful laughter and even baptised "belletics".
The inquiring mind is for another time. If you try to engage a lecturer of UB with the most basic debate on the paradoxical coexistence of unemployment and so many things that need doing in the city, a ready-made answer typical of herd mentality is quickly offered you - people educated to serve colonial needs cannot create anything - and before you venture to throw in a follow up question, you are hastily abandoned as your listener rushes to watch the Cup of Nations match in which Cameroon is not doing particularly well.
Posted by: John Dinga | Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 09:25 AM
When one becomes indolent for long, indolence takes control of him for life. Maybe that is the situation here, especially where the brain knows what to do but the stomach is in control, so the brain succumbs so as to exist. So we are talking here of politics of existence.
Posted by: IBM | Tuesday, 22 January 2013 at 04:21 PM