THE FUTURE OF AFRICANS AS DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURS

Digital Entrepreneurship is a calling or Vocation to use Digital services or Information Technologies to solve problems affecting the society. It could be using or creating social media platforms to enhance others, for marketing or creating ecommerce platforms for business transactions. This can be achieved by 

- Keenly observing and identifying the problems around us and most often within us, 

- Proposing practical and feasible solutions,

- Making strategic plans and carrying them out jealously and consistently.

Africa is rated 1st Continent with over 50% of its population below 20yrs old. This is a significant asset that needs to be put to use to cultivate and create intergenerational wealth before 2030. Other assets which African countries possess amass are Lands, Green Environments, fertile soils, wild life species, mineral resources and most importantly Women.

There is need for our human resources (Youths, old Men and Women) to invest in Agriculture, Health and Computer Base Technologies since we want Africa to be at the top and get rid of Poverty. I’ll explain each field in detail and how it is paramount to our success.

1. Agriculture

Africa still has a lot of unused land, green environment and very fertile soils. The youths need to invest in cultivating food from these soils rather than importing food or soliciting for western aids. According to theworld bank statistics(https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/CMR), Cameroon export 6,527,310.84 in thousands of US$ and imports 10,368,581.74 in thousands of US$which is equal to a negative balance of -3,841,270.90 in thousands of US$.

The quantity we get as output from the soil is exponential if reasonable time, money and efforts are put to any given Agro related ventures. After the yields, we need to transform our yields ourselves to other Consumption sources of the value chain and not sell them raw to the west. The market is enormous and all we need to do is learn new and healthy ways of cultivation using improved varieties. If we do this, we will sell big and boost our economy. Cameroon’s trade growth rate is  4.53% compared to a world growth of 5.68%. Truth be told, Africans have got a strange, unsolicited and exaggerated taste for western products. That is why we need to multiply Project/Policies that are being put in place by many home based organizations (such as Startup Academy of Dr. Claudelle Noumbissi and the LENJVAL Group in Cameroon) that educate the population to consume Home made products and also the dangers of depending on the Western world.

2. Health 

Sickness such as malaria, HIV, cholera, cancer, etc are flues in this great continent. It sickens me to see adverts of the so called philanthropies of the west with images of young Africans all skinny and depressed. The fact that we are unable to cure ourselves is a big problem that only us Africans can figure out how to remedy the situation. We must learn how to make use of the herbs in our green environment to produce medication that’ll help cure us, animals and other plants. Our immune system will keep deteriorating if we don’t learn to cure ourselves our way. It is not spending more than 7yrs in studying abstract math, physics and chemistry that’ll change a thing but rather how well we commit to and practice the skillset of treating others using minerals from plants and microorganisms.

3. Computer Based Technologies

Now is a network Era. Which means everything would be interconnected, easily shared and accessible over the internet. That is why we need to create Digital services that meet the standards of this generation and Decade. As much as the west have created advanced technologies, we have an advantage that the internet exists to learn all this thing that have already been made and to adapt these technologies to our needs and doings. We need Computerized technologies to enhance and enable the Agricultural, Health, Education, Cultural, Energy and Economic sector of Africa. 

Thanks to organizations such as LENJVAL Group, Dangote Group, Krystal Digital and MAIBETA inc that are lifting the flames of Africa high in the domain of Digital Entrepreneurship. We hope that through collaboration, unity and Peace, we shall immerge during this decade between 2021 to 2030 maximum.

Author: LENJO VALERY L.