Original Ghana Story_A Story of Lack of Local Ingenuity for Technology and Engineering in Ghana

Original Ghana Story_A Story of Lack of Local Ingenuity for Technology and Engineering in Ghana

Imagine if all groups of children that got together during Christmas time in Ghana to build a Christmas hut, decided to advance their designs and build quality each year. And filled them with more and more gadgets they made from scraps each year. And better still maintained their structures and gadgets until they outgrew them.  And then trained the next generation of kids to build the same and coached them to keep improving on them.

Imagine.

Imagine they started this in 1950 with this kids creativity culture unsupervised by adults. And maintained that culture through all the 20 or so generations of kids until the year 2000. This nation would have been a first rate nation by the year 2000.

But no!!

Those creations were short lived and that awesome culture has disappeared all together over time. Not to mention that the designs and build quality of the items never improved. Before we get consumed by political activism, remember that technology is much cooler and that technology is serendipity.

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