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Shemsi en Tehuti · (#7 (**permalink**))

I will say that most of the Nigerians I know are either business owners or have a graduate or professional degree past the bachelors. That can be a very good thing if only we Afrikans saw our "education" in the West as just a mechanism to channel back to our own development both in the Diaspora and on the Continent.

Unfortunately, most of the high-achieving Nigerians I know really don't give a phuck about Nigeria's welfare or connecting the educational-economic wealth in the States back home to raise conditions. It is sad, but that is the effect of most "highly educated people", and that is across the board not only for Nigerians. We have to keep mindful of the purpose of education. Using Dr. Amos Wilson's definition, it is simply a culture's tool to perpetuate itself through training of its subjects. So if we believe too much in the education we receive, we eventually come to disproportionately support our own subjugation by expending most of our energy and resources into the culture that profits from the exploitation of our people.