Category: Good governance

On Loss, Mourning and the Tragedy of a Generation

On By DabesakiIn Ethics, Good governance, Technical Education, Youth, Youth Employment, Youth Unemployment4 Comments

Loss So, I’ll get right to it. My sister, Ikoru Cotterell, died at 52 years old. She was very ill for a long time but died suddenly. Her death got me thinking about life, family, giving, altruism and kindness and related questions. How much help is reasonable when a person is alive and healthy? How …

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Individual versus national aspirations

On By DabesakiIn Aspirations, Education Policy, Good governance, Intra-African Scholarship, South Africa, UniversitiesLeave a comment

In this brief commentary, I reflect on what seems to have been a bane of  progress in post-colonial African countries: the tension between individual and national (state) aspirations. Here, national aspirations are seen as the vision of the elite, perhaps even narrower, the political elite, of a country about the expected future of the country. …

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