If the statistics of primary and secondary school enrollment sits at 150 pupils (in the place of thousands) in the Niger Delta, and if at the higher levels, only a few African students are ’schooled’ by professors to carve knowledge spaces for themselves in the future, then the future picture of Africa in the knowledge arena is scary.

If a recent ICT4D conference and a number of other fora where future interventions in the development area, intellectual property, education, governance, has anything to go by, where no, or perhaps one or two Africans can (or are allowed to attend due to travel restrictions, etc), then the future is bleak and worrying.

So education needs in Africa has to be looked at again. At all level, primary and tertiary, most especially. Not so much from redefining curriculum but specific attempts at changing enrollment rates, basic issues as changing the deplorable lives and living conditions of teachers and professors for the better, paying particular attention to research and development and giving support and funds to a massive Doctoral program.