This was the main thrust of a
lecture entitled “Education and Training for Smooth Leadership” which Mr
Nforgwei delivered at the National Youth Leadership Conference in Yaounde on
Tuesday August 13.
Rogers Nforgwei |
“It is important to get relevant
education because if you have education and come out without skills then you
are not trained,” the publisher whose organization represents UK-based
Cambridge Publishers in Cameroon said after his presentation. “Even when the
education system doesn’t train you with skills that you need for the job
market, you should be able to stretch out and train yourself”.
Many Cameroonians don’t have
personal development programs, claims Mr Nforgwei.
“They don’t read books. They don’t listen
to news. They don’t do any research. All they do is say I have a degree from
the University. And so what?”
He hailed university-trained youth
who for lack of work have “thought out of the box” and turned to lucrative
ventures like riding commercial motorcycles.
Personal Experience
While recounting his life’s story,
the business mogul said he broke the barriers of restricted reasoning before
rising to the pedestal on which he stands today.
“I came from nothing and I think
today I am impacting a lot of people”.
Over 100 people directly or
indirectly have a source of income or a second source of income from the
business Mr Nforgwei runs.
“Either they are authors of my
business, working in the business or they are selling in the business and I am
running a foundation that is impacting the youths and the community as a
whole”.
Mr Nforgwei urged youths to be
visionary as people without visions are wasting their time.
“If you don’t have something that
wakes you up in the morning and you go to, you waste your time chatting with
friends and start blaming people, the government and the country”.
“The blame game doesn’t help, you
came into the world alone and you have to fight for yourself. Yes you came into
a nation where there is a president, ministers and whoever but essentially you
came alone, so you should learn to fight alone”.
Youth Migration
The National Youth Leadership
Conference where Nforgwei Rogers spoke to over 60 youths was organized by the
Youth Employment Service Cameroon as part of activities to mark the 2013
edition of the International Youth Day.
The theme for this year’s
commemoration was “Youth Migration: Moving Development Forward”.
According to the United Nations, of
the annual total of some 214 million international migrants, young people
constitute about 30 per cent, yet too little is known about their struggles and
experiences.
Africa’s over 200million youth
population has been branded the best educated, most connected and most informed
of the continent’s generations so far. Yet, the group has largely remained
apathetic and disengaged because it is allegedly locked away by the continent’s
singed leadership.
About 30million Africans currently
live outside the continent and the number continues to grow daily. If the trend
and current socio-political dispensation continue, the gory statistic could
strike a tipping point by 2040, when it is projected half of the world’s youth
population would be Africans.
By Ndi Eugene Ndi
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