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Technology Tx
By Wanaku Verdzekov · · Africa & the Gulf of Guinea
Date note: Undated Facebook note, written between 2011 and 2014.
Tags: technology-transfer, knowledge
In sub-Saharan Africa, technology transfer is a non-starter until sub-Saharan Africans actually begin to transfer the knowledge they already have in their brains to real projects on the ground.
There is no use transferring technology that local brains will not use in the long run.
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— Wanaku Verdzekov
Reading & grammar
Reading level: Gr 8–10
Understand
- What does the author think must happen before technology transfer can work?
- Why is transferring unused technology pointless?
- What is "knowledge already in their brains"? Give an example from your community.
Grammar focus: concise argument. This whole piece is two sentences. It states a claim, then the reason. Concision makes an argument memorable, but leaves the reader to supply examples.
Try it: Expand the piece to a paragraph by adding one example and one counter-argument.
Discuss: Should African countries import technology or develop their own? Argue using a real example.