What are good things about Africa?
What are good things about Africa?
I want to go to Africa and to go there, I have to convince my parents to take me there. Maybe one of you have anything about Africa I can use to convince them?
Africa is an incredibly diverse place and that is the first thing most Westerners need to understand. As the birthplace of humanity, Africa is home to the greatest genetic diversity in humans: see Africans have world’s greatest genetic variation.
That’s not all. The first heart transplant surgery in the world was performed in South Africa in 1967. South Africa is home to some world class universities.
Sometimes technology innovation is spurred by a lack of stable infrastructure. The mobile banking capabilities I have seen in South Africa and Kenya were years ahead of comparable technologies in the U.S.
When I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in rural South Africa, I used a mobile phone as a modem for my laptop years before “tethering” became the cool thing to do in the U.S. Mobile technology (aside from smartphones) was one of the areas where I felt the U.S. lags the rest of the world, including Africa. When I’d go online to troubleshoot how to connect different computer configurations or different phones, I’d often find the most useful technical advice came not from the U.S. or Europe, but from the Philippines.
Yes, there is poverty, poor education, and all kinds of problems in certain parts of Africa, but this is also true of the U.S. and Europe. Most people are as blind to the problems in their own backyard as they are to the good things about Africa.
I want to go to Africa and to go there, I have to convince my parents to take me there. Maybe one of you have anything about Africa I can use to convince them?
Africa is an incredibly diverse place and that is the first thing most Westerners need to understand. As the birthplace of humanity, Africa is home to the greatest genetic diversity in humans: see Africans have world’s greatest genetic variation.
That’s not all. The first heart transplant surgery in the world was performed in South Africa in 1967. South Africa is home to some world class universities.
Sometimes technology innovation is spurred by a lack of stable infrastructure. The mobile banking capabilities I have seen in South Africa and Kenya were years ahead of comparable technologies in the U.S.
When I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in rural South Africa, I used a mobile phone as a modem for my laptop years before “tethering” became the cool thing to do in the U.S. Mobile technology (aside from smartphones) was one of the areas where I felt the U.S. lags the rest of the world, including Africa. When I’d go online to troubleshoot how to connect different computer configurations or different phones, I’d often find the most useful technical advice came not from the U.S. or Europe, but from the Philippines.
Yes, there is poverty, poor education, and all kinds of problems in certain parts of Africa, but this is also true of the U.S. and Europe. Most people are as blind to the problems in their own backyard as they are to the good things about Africa.