Accra-Ghana, June 01, CDA Consult – According to Dr. Kodjoe Sumney, President of Missions Africa Incorporated, a Christian non-profit humanitarian organisation, Africa’s economic revolution might have been hastened if the continent practised socialist democracy with a concentration on vocational education and entrepreneurship.
Dr. Sumney used China as an example to argue for “whole process people’s democracy” engaging all units of the population, which he claimed must be combined with technical and vocational training to create a launchpad for accelerated economic growth in Africa.
“It is a socialist democracy model that covers all aspects of the democratic process and all sectors of society,” Dr. Sumney explained. It is a functioning democracy.
“China is not the brutal and savage country that we have been taught. During communism. China now, from 1978 to 2023, has pulled 800 million people out of poverty (10%) and achieved annual economic development in all sectors. China had 60 billionaires under the age of 40; 14 of them joined the billionaire club for the first time in 2020 this year.
“The increase reflects a broader, unprecedented rise in the fortunes of China’s urban-wealthy, with the country now home to 878 billionaires worth a total of $4 trillion.” In 2010, there were just 189 billionaires in the country.”
Dr. Sumney identified three levels of vocational education—junior secondary, senior secondary, and tertiary—with different levels for vocational and technical training, as well as talent-specialized secondary and technical education, at this year’s African Union Day Commemoration Service in Accra.
This year’s commemoration, the nineteenth, had the theme “Solution for Graduate Unemployment” and was monitored by the Communication for Development and Advocacy Consult (CDA Consult).
Dr Sumney believes that a skill workers’ college should be established to train secondary-level skill workers in building, masonry, carpentry, roofing, tiles, painting and decorating, real estate development, engineering, auto and bodywork and auto electronics.
He urged African leaders to employ “African herbs to immunise ourselves against these viruses.”
