What is really the cause of unemployment in Africa "Nigeria"

I was asked "What is really the cause of unemployment in most African countries"?  I hope my one bit experience can try to explain.

First and formost we need to disabuse our minds from what we have been made to think employment is. Employment in my sense represents Purpose. Jobs, Contracts, Entrepreneurship, Supplying, Investments are descriptors of paths to making money, it isnt purpose itself. We have a lot of problems and that means one needs to apply themselves.

Politically we don't have a purpose, there is no blue print that we are following ie how do we get there. Our leaders are not educated or wrongly orientated when it comes to development steps but if speaking in business terms, we have all focused on managing the visible natural resources but built very little resembling an industry, even now the companies busy in extraction cant sell their products because there isnt a diversified need in the market, they are also suffering the effects of underdevelopment.

As people and our leaders alike who are a product of us, we have no respect for development process.

These are industries that have been developed in foreign countries.

Advertising- what products and services do we produce for the advertising world to present to the market? We are seeing ads of foreign brands. We have no faith in what we produce in-house, by buying what foreigners make we are giving out our hard cash.

Arts & Crafts- we have no endearing for the works of art of our artists. How lovely it would be to hang a painting with the curves of our women and illustrations of our lands?! We dont study arts anymore in schools and that is a foundation of architects and the works that give us jobs in building stadiums, so it also affects the real-estate industry. A craft is what a profession is. Crafts is the core of any industry, it supports the engineering world. Art is an expression of how one sees life, an edified soul is secure.

Autos/Transportation- If we dont make cars why do we need roads? How do we reach our loved ones when they are far? How do we fly to the moon and improve communication if we don't industrialise?!

Beauty/Personal Care- We have really bad self care, our women are wearing fake hair and copying fashion, we dont promote the african look both for men and women. you may say its easy but in hindsight is it achieving the greater communal good?

Business Services. the business service sector is struggling because our educational sector is based on content developed to orientate us on foreign interests. A for apple can be A for akpu. Our kids dont know how to read or write properly which affects the art of communication and analytics of data found.

Apart from the fact that to actually yield returns in this sector we have to change the structure of how we do business. Most of us are traders, and that is just one sided. We need to improve the tax and its collection polices! There is a difference between a sugarcane seller and sugar producer. Business consultants are complex based, sales consultants how ever are transaction based. We have little respect for consult because we think we know it all. If we all realise that a consultant is a counsellor you will allow them to inform you. the knowledge of Pro and cons is only extracted during discuss, it isnt an actual science. A coach will hold your hand while achieving your goals towards full potential.

Children's Businesses- we are doing ok in this area but thats because women have taken it up. how ever the vastness of this area is huge and indirectly linked with several other industries. Ask your self who dosnt have kids? Who wants to raise them safe and sound?

Computers- as i explained earlier the fact that we have no nepa stops us from industrialising, our kids cant do programming, so software that solve african problems cant be developed.

Education/Instruction- forget about this if we have lecturers who never practised are teaching and sleep with students to give them marks. I resigned from a job at 22 because the employer who had a business in teaching computer literacy advertised and never intended in giving the kids what he said he would. I dont do witch hunting but if adults are riping knowledge out of kids what safety would they have for their pensions not to be rubbed in return.

Family values have disintegrated to supporting kids and adults in the name of survival to steal and cheat. Your kids buy you a car while not having a stable job and you say it is fine? Lawyers have now been labeled as 419.

Entertainment & Events - we like to dance but do we know that the Olympics is an event and must be entertaining? Do we support grass root games? Do we value our cultural heritage? Entertainment is an expression of art.

Financial- what do we produce to have what to regulate or manage? Financial industry isnt responsible for long term loans they are traders of paper. If our businesses are only trade based then we have the banks we have. Finance industry is a bank that supports savings of effort in paper. They are not meant for credit but they can offer it when the business has a well defined revenue generating path.

Food- do we diversify our dishes? We have mamaputs all over, do we belive in chefs? Most of our women cook, thats fine but the agricultural sector has been neglected. We have kids who go to study agriculture yet have never seen a farm or planted a garden seed. Food is a way of bringing people together.

Health Care/Medical - we go to babalawos, self medicate ourselves, drink ogogoro and then we face dealing with heartdeseas, liver failure and we dont have equipments to save lives. Our students dont care for life why should they care for a patient?

Home Products/Services- we dont decorate our homes, it isnt an expression of style, we put things but they dont represent who lives in it. Personally i would prefer to live in a Mud house and it has character than what we see today. The Interior designers are suffering to make business because we dont like to express our individuality through our homes. Our women are still cutting onions with their hands, where are our old day stone grinders, they sure help making better tasting dishes.

Import/Export - what african products do we produce to lure foreigners to buy our products? We have no standards which is why we loose ground to exportation. This industry represents quality. If we are wearing Gucci cant we influence the foreign fashion industry with our african prints? we havnt understood what pallet means "A TASTE of a continent"

Maintenance - do we have a maintenance culture or are we consumers? Anything produced, built, developed needs maintaining, this sector is the highest employer abroad.

Manufacturing- they produce practical tools, the manufacturing sector depends on what other sectors and people need to enhance lives and businesses. In one word they are the hardware to the rest industries which one can call software. They are the Matter to the minds design.

Media/Publishing - Do we read? Do we as people express? Freedom of speech the channels of communication is who they are. We are all each others guardians. If i may use a religeous way to describe them they are the "hopi ghosts" of the business and social world.

Online Businesses - this is just logistics in virtual form. You dont need an office any more, thats if the market can deal with not seeing someone for reassurance of delivery. They reduced the rate at which trees are cut. Post office has lost its value because they invented email. They are the products of the telecom and tech world.

Pet Businesses - which animal do we respect in africa? If we still think cats are witches, forgeting that kids who have no siblings can learn to communicate and care for another through handling animals. This industry was developed by explorers of the physical world and its habitants. We all love discovery channel and ofen times animals teach us better humanity. isn't the film industry supported through the natural world?

Plants/Agriculture - it is about our eco system, survival of which we cant do without. Creams are made of plants, herbs are used in pharmaceuticals, etc

Real Estate - what is the point of owning a land if we build houses face me i face you, fence to fence, no parks for kids to play and kids are arrested infront of the tv? What architecture is there? I personally dont buy a house if my kids need to be driven to the streets.

Recreation - Oambe and burials, thats all we attend. We have made a private family pain into social celebrations. It is changing and this isnt culture it needs to fade out. We dont know the content of our lands hence we trade it for peanuts, fighting for which is pointless later because the truth is "finders is always keepers".

Retail Businesses - we sell what others invent. this we are masters of. What else? we are depending on foreign trends, so if there isn't anything new on the market or a product ceases to exist then there is a hole in the pocket.

Security- Why security? This is handled by churches. Now terrorists have a better job to do barking at the flock to gather. What is security if not a philosophy/ideology in reverse?

Sports - this builds strategic minds, builds psychologically healthy individuals. It is a form of relaxation. Health is among the first needs that existed along side Arts and Agriculture which made it possible for the rest industries to develop. It also affects the sex drive of men in the positive sense.

Technology - our todays tools are only a modification of what was then. Facebook is a communication technology.

Travel - the only way you can see a vantage point to a situation is to travel, if you have no comparison you cant see the loopholes. Travel shows opportunities and this as Nigerians we do well but if we believe that it isnt possible to do at home what man has already done given the fact that the bright man lives in a harsher environment we have no excuse that we cant adopt and modify to our needs. South Africa wouldnt be what it is today if they didnt have the influence. We drove the colonialists but we didnt build from there. Creativity is bread through travel.

I could go on but a readable page will not be enough to draw a blue print so enjoy exploring your mind for possible opportunities. Every industry has its value but when we place value on money we cease to have a price. White man has no respect for money but they will demand quality and relax at doing the best in their own area. When someone comes to sell something to us we want it free or show no appreciation for effort. When money is stored it looses its value.

To have a good employment rate we need to have all these industries developed, we have to start and we should realise that during the starting phase there is little technology to leave many out of employment. If given a report, what industry do we know in Nigeria is succeeding or leading?

Employment is about putting minds and matter to good use. If one feels used one will never invest. We have loads of work to do but no one wants to be employed or maybe our politicians are not developers?

This is just a crude way of putting it out. i dont copy others theories but present what i have experienced.

Africa the cradle of life!

Africa the cradle of life
yet believes it is a slave!
your children are spread all over the world
yet you do not feel like a mother!
be happy that your kids are better than you.
be humble not arrogant in your joy
give more, remain endless for no one can be without you!"

by Alsu Odemwingie

Why do women insist?

"Why do women insist on native, church and legal ties and not just one?

Women need to be protected spiritually, financially, and culturally! The events however don't guarantee any success if in the heart of either party loyalty to the principle of care isn't present! Which is why women should do it for themselves! The day man dosnt feel trapped is the day a woman will submit! Men feel they don't need same securities, yet when any and all of this is taken from them they have all guns blazing!
Which is why a woman should just let a guy who dosn't want to marry them in any of the following ways go. One or 3 don't matter! Where was Adam when the serpent came? She was idle! While man was grazing!

Trying to persuade someone dosnt work! Which is why men love women who don't love them and later cry wolf who opened up! This dosnt mean that the woman who you are married to dosnt love you! Men don't appreciate easy, doesn't mean the one who makes it difficult loves you more! Just don't deny the lady the opportunity to give you more! A nun isn't better than a slut, they both have their wahala! Its the one that you can carry you choose and you all are wondering why women have shut their hearts, mind and soul, but left their legs apart?
Its not the women demanding for security! Its society saying to you; We need security to survive as man kind or we will be used as fuel like dinos to the next generations!

We are all born in sin, living in the pains of our fathers and mothers hurts! Parents respect your kids and children will honour you! God loves you because of your truth seeking heart, not because you think you are transactionally smart! Humans fall reguardless of financial security because they refuse to imbibe spirituality and understanding of systems! Change is inevitable, you either high with it or against it, the bruses are yours anyway! Reduce your risks by facing the obvious reguardless of it scares the life out of you!"

"A King "wisdom"!

"A King "wisdom" is never recognised in his own home. The Queen of the colonial land is always given more reverence outside of her country because no one comes close enough to see she is also human.

The art of story telling is to reach far, magnifying the existence of experience. There is no guarantee that those who project eloquence are actually well behaved ":)" i can be crazy but that doesn't make me not able to communicate. My character is far from, what i do to extract information others seek. This is for those who are trying to figure me out.

Man will always prefer to listen to things that is passed in whisper, rather than direct approach, so most times truth is presented in ways that is mysterious because it is impossible to digest it in its raw form. Gossip flies further than whats going on in our neighbourhoods. Listen to the sounds of your hood.

There is no doubt that there is a mighty force who created all, and to believe that Jesus was a wise man "reflective thinking", that had a normal life would not make people follow him, because men know how flawed they can be, we are all influenced by circumstances. Picturing him "like" everyone of us, makes him not special in the carnal "limited in vision" mind.

We are all children of God and we are not here to fight demons but principalities ie exploring views of life and accepting others opinions as communication of what we experience, rather than feeling forced in accepting another view.

Information is often misunderstood when presented in its direct form, we dont have shock absorbers, hence we must explore. First natures instinct is fear of the unknown, which makes us defensive. We praise God through how we live, hence makes his word "action" alive, and its hard for anyone to believe that God is in every one of us. In our own uniqueness he expresses himself, thats the only fact we can see, hence he becomes mysterious. Havnt you at some point found yourself hating what you loved or loving what you hated? Well its a mind shift so dont feel bad if you are misunderstood. people always come around in most cases when they find a way so dont shut the door. Invite them if they knock.

6 billion people on this planet, is six billion ways of expression. Speak your tong.

The antichrist is ME!

The antichrist is ME. Will you accept that revelation?
Arn't we all seeking peace? Arn't we who invited him by fighting each other? We are our own bad and good. We fight ourselves. Anyone who is anti creativity, exploration of knowledge, bias towards new and cant manage his own mind is an antichrist as i see.

I have long realised that if i fail to manage knowledge it means i am weak. In heart we are all killing ourselves. Everyday you react subjectively towards one event or the other you are destroying yourself and the world. Everyday they tell people to change their attitudes to life and how they use the world yet the instance 'instinct' uncontrolled leads to ones hell. We are saved by his grace, yet give him no glory, we have been mercilessly merced. I never react to my enemy because i will give out my position and that will make him arm himself. By not reacting i mean clearly making him use force to manipulate your mind to change.

I hate profecies because they hold both bad and good events to come and an ignorant mind "subjective view" will turn good to bad and someone pays the price. Every-time a mother and a father gives a child the benefits of their experiences to a child they brainwash the child and invariably create a picture for the child and he eventually follows that path. Every time a dad tells his boy that women are bad because he refuses to realise that his behaviour is what turned the woman who once loved him into his own enemy with his absent minded behaviour now stirs the son toward undue behaviour towards females. Anytime a mother makes her son pay for what her husband did because she dosnt know where to load her pain. Every time we dont face our fears and scare others from achieving their goals because we dont want to find out that it is us that have created our imaginary Ghosts of failure we invoke the antichrist.

Every time you dont stretch a hand because you are busy trying to amas riches that cannot be taken to the other world be it true or not. Every time you rub your neighbour of a smile with your hearts pain. Every time you pollute this earth with bad vibes you are affecting the forces that create rebirth. Every time you covet another's glory because you want it easy. Every time you worship that money yet have lost sight of value. Every time you are afraid to question what others are saying when you know it dosnt sit right with you or acknowledge that someone supported you. Every time you seas knowledge that is of no use to you alone away from someone in the bid to subject them to slavery you invoke the antichrist.

I hate prophesies because some moron like Hitler, who cant develop his own purpose uses others words to give himself an ideology for others. I hate the kind that says science is bad yet it has allowed so many lives to flourish. I hate to hate but i don't act in anger. You wake up in the morning when you know someone hasn't woken up on the other side of the planet and you cant smile just to yourself in the mirror or you went to bed with hate? Or you deprived your spouse of affection clearly seeing that the person has opened up because you want to hear sorry? Or you cant say sorry?

Today on youtube i saw a clip where they we likening Obama to be the Antichrist. I shake my head, we are all looking for physical signs when it is sitting in everyone. Sincerely how far can envy and jealousy be evoked in others by those who have the audacity to hope? He may be a mason, he may be all sorts of things, and so was said of Mandela. Where is the guy now? If he coughs everyone is afraid that hell will break loose. I wish you saw the anguish of the older generation, they cant belive this is what they have fought for. To Obama like Bill many women would like to have a chance at giving a blow job. Hey but we have a black sister who is there to woop his fine ass back home. Hmmmmm, envy, yeah, well it only hunts "them".

Men of power have always been envied. Why not! He is relevant and you are still a pauper? It begs to ask "does the black man in america think that it is a big deal for a black man to be president"? Try Buckingham palace, try be the president in Russia! Try be a black president of China, let us see. Is it in America where the natives there are Red Indians who havnt stepped up to the plate just like the Africans? or the Irish gangsters who were sent away? The land of the Mixed is what you think is hard to rule? Yeah man thinks he has achieved it all. Well how about this prophesy, lets see how workable it is to change the genetics of the linage of the kings.

He who has written of a thief to condemnation and gives no second chance to him to regain his strength to get back after he has realised his mistake, because he needs an outlet for hate. He who prosecutes the prostitute that he visits, who has written of a disabled to be unable. He who has kept a mother in bondage to religious and egoistical beliefs, who cant see a person outside of her sex is an antichrist.

Madeleine Albright said, “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.” and hell to men who keep their wives as maids for their children become servants. And mark me i have seen this happening a lot. Yes evil should come, so we remember what light is. You are afraid of the mark of the devil? Well if thou hath allowed his seed to brew in your hearts womb thou art him.

You are afraid of the Worlds Order? If you have failed to follow the simple rules of the 10 commandments what makes you think you wouldn't be imprisoned by your own guilt? The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. Man should be careful of what he sows, the weapon used against others is the weapon that will be used in return. Personally i am happy that i have lived to 33, the age of Christ, now i am waiting for death for i fear it not, i have felt and seen it not once. I am waiting for the rapture because i have had a glimpse of it and i fear it not. The idle mind lives in hell, the informed become wise and thus happy that they have seen the kingdom of heaven.

The end sure is coming, the end of ignorance.

"With you!

In morning dreams,
I spend the day with you!
Oh dreaded stars of fallen dreams,
Am I to pay my dues?

Can someone tell?
How much is due?
How much should someone pay?

My mind says no!
My heart says yes!
My soul connects to you!

My head up high!
I take my days in strides,
Each step I am with you!

Someday I know,
My dream will wake,
For now is JUST!!!
I want to be with you!

Drifting in dreams!
I am right here but far away,
My soul traces your embrace,
The universe whispers,
Await for my return.

by Alsu Odemwingie

Punitive damages!

Any kind of relationship I judge on punitive damages and risk management. Not that they are bad but i ask myself "would I take someone of their path or they mine"? Because later I don't want arguments based on I or you sacrificed!

Many marry because they dont want to be alone, yet find themselves even more alone because they thought they found someone who understands them. But how is one to understand you if you dont know what you want? Where are you going, or who are you before you involve someone in your life? Do not subject others into your pain or loneliness, share it! They can only give you a piece of the puzzle not everything! Weigh your expectations dont load it on someone who dosnt know the inner workings of your mind! True relationships work when you show what makes you happy and sad, but at the end of the day the solution to your loneliness is to be your own best friend!"