THE TALK LEADS THE WAY (ASTRAY): MISSION AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA TODAY

Abstract

As the globalised English language education system grows, so does a screen of deception that fools the people in the system into believing that they are seeing the other when actually looking into a mirror. The dual aims of globalised education, to destabilise and create dependency while enabling development, are too often not perceived as contradictory. In a world in which the African sub-continent has been turned into having client status for wealthy Western patrons, objectively has become the god of the day. The lack of fit of outside inputs into indigenous African communities has become the great secret (here exposed) of our era. Missionaries or religious-change-agents are advocated as the true harbingers of development, to enable change and not destruction to be brought onto communities engaged.