Little Things Done Well, Key to African Industrialization
Man aspires for greatness and tries to attain it. He seeks to associate and be associated with lofty things. He will put all his efforts to be recognized. On the other hand, things deemed little and of less honorable value do not get his attention. However history has proven that most times the little unrecognized tasks are the necessary frame work for large complex systems. It is the basic part of a system however simple and dishonorable, that make up the complex and honorable system. The human body for example and all other biological systems consist of the cell which when compared with the entirety of the body is not spectacular. The amazing world of computers wouldn’t have been real without the unimpressive and lone-standing 1s and 0s. The lesson to be drawn for us in the African context is that we have to go back to the basics of all the endeavors we trade. Somehow, in our bid to catch up with the developed world, we have jumped the basics and have held on to the...