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6:19am, 1 Jun - ‪+263 77 ▩▩▩ ▩▩▩▩‬: THE E LEARNING:   A Program that is too costly for Africa. I have recently had a chance to be engaged in an E learning program at a school stationed in Binga. The facilitators of the program have spoken so sweet of the program such that the other side of the coin is left hidden. They talk of the world of technology that is quickly painting our era. The laptops are all available for the program to be accomplished. With all the exposure I have on technological provisions, I am hundred percent sure that it is costly. We should not forget that this world is controlled by capitalists who are consistently creating  utopias for poor people to strive for, mostly in vain. In the process, poor people lose their hardly earned dollar, only to discover later that the programs were just to costly for them. We have had such programs before, wherein capitalits paint the world in the same color and therefore enforce policies that works against the poor. The Structural Adjustment comes into my mind in this case. The Bretton Wood institution painted them bright and were sold out to the poor world. Conversely, third world governments emmersed themselves implementing the SAPs. But 20 years has elapsed after Structural Adjustments were implementet and we still have poverty ravaging Africa. On the part of the developed world, Structural adjustments worked to their favor. They had the opportunity to once more dictate pace for Africa and poor countries at large for their advantage. The programs distabilised the social cohesion, therefore thronging poor countries   into strives that the capitalist later on called human rights abuses. There are many donations that have been directed to poor countries and in all, I have realised that the donor sources benefit more than the donor target. With this E learning, huge sums of African money will be siphoned off to rich countries in order to purchase computers. In commerce, E learning would be classified as a services, right at the apex of production. But as African countries we are yet  to promote our primary and ssecondary spheres of production. How then do we venture into massive  and expensive programs that will only be costly  for us. Africans should derive their own ways of accomplishing moves that are aimed  at bettering themselves. We have a lot in store within our knowledge  sytems yet we are made wonderers. In frenzy; we gallop about in pursuit of utopias created in the West and East as  directed by the financial veto. Resultantly; we venture into  debts. Tell me of an African country  that does not owe BrettonWood institutions?  I am not technophobic but each  and every environment has its own  suitable technology. The  technics used should be guided byprinciple of affordability, hence E learning will be  costly for Africa for the mean time. Lets  set  our own standards and sell them out to the world too. Africa should deviate from being a   consumer market of developed countries and   change, becoming a production host.