The Impact That "Job Decentralisation" Can Bring To Most African Countries
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"Quick money syndrome" is the reason why innovativeness, decentralisation and entrepreneurship will continue to suffer. Let's look at it in a broader term; A graduate who has spent a whole lot of money going to college never wants to start small, build a business or build a dream rather, they want to work in big firms collect six figure salaries and never be useful to the economy or the country at large rather than only taking care of himself and his family alone. I've seen many graduates and I've spoken to a whole lot of them about starting small, but the mentality or mindset that they deserve makes.
When you go to a lot of colleges in Nigeria, they theorize entrepreneurship to their students rather than practicalise it for them and this of course doesn't impact most of these student in anyway. Truth is, most African countries has failed at job creation that is, centralised job opportunities for direct qualified applicants to occupy after acquiring a degree and what's the worst is that it even directly impedes the opportunity of entrepreneurship, for example the government of Nigeria doesn't scout and support entrepreneurship schemes that might generally benefit the nation at large.
So starting small is something that most people hardly want to do simply because they've got priorities to sort out and they're working under a timeline. The most ironical part is that most college graduate miss out on opportunities to become their own boss, create wealth and decentralised job opportunities and rather prefer to sit idle and wait for the oil company jobs that's already nepotized by huge individual giving the appointment to their friends and families. At the end of the day, they end up doing the things they wouldn't even think of because they've failed at landing that huge job.
So people go for more difficult choices at the end simply because the choices they've been exposed to in the first places seems unpalatable and this is largely ironical. I believe decentralisation of job creation is the only true way to tackle unemployment however decentralising job creation itself is a difficult task since everyone wants to work in a centralised firm and earn huge. Truth is, a tiny population of people are actually earning huge but then if a tiny population of a country is earning the big bucks in the small number of firms paying well and the large percentage are unemployed or earning almost nothing the country will still be classified as a poor country.
I believe each and every centralised job in the country (Nigeria as a case study) needs to be able to indirectly provide an opportunity for another person to have a job. Government can enact bills that will provide a funding for businesses that has the prospect of providing steady job opportunities for citizens of the country and also stop the dichotomy that only hugely educated people or people with first class can only get some particular jobs. Although this will work in the political sectors because we need experience in the governing of a nation. But currently our leaders are hardly educated. So like I said, decentralising job creation will make people more innovative and hardworking rather than becoming redundant and influencing no one at all.
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