‘Let’s use knowledge for positive change’
Knowledge acquired should be used to effect positive change in Africa, a former principal of the SOS-Gmeiner International College (SOS-GIC), Mrs Margaret Nkrumah, has said.
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She said students who were privileged to receive formal education should give back to society by using their knowledge to help uplift the image of Africa.
“You should think critically and innovatively to contribute to finding solutions for Africa,” she said.
Developing Africa
Speaking at a public lecture organised by SOS-GIC in Accra on the theme “Knowledge in the service of Africa, the role of National and International Education”, Mrs Nkrumah explained that even though Africa was endowed with lots of resources, it continued to be one of the most deprived continents.
She stated that students who had pride in themselves as Africans would have the compassion to emerge as activists and thinkers whose ideas would be used to develop the continent.
Explaining further, she said the SOS-GIC was bent on not just producing academically excellent students but students with the African mentality.
“We produce students with a Pan-African focus, with leadership qualities and commitment to uplift Africa,” Mrs Nkrumah stated.
She urged the students to always remember that Africa was where they belonged and that regardless of their status, they always had to look back saying, “No matter how high you rise, your lives are meaningless unless you have given and imparted the lives of others.”
