There is the idea that is usually floated that the problem of graduate unemployment stems from the lack of adequate entrepreneurship training for the students who pass through the educational system since government cannot employ every graduate, which I agree with perfectly. But I feel that is just a minute angle to the challenge we face. The bigger picture has to do with the general failure of the educational system to holistically develop those who go through it, into well thinking and well positioned “homo sapiens” to be able to face the future.

Some 21 years ago, the first mobile telephony service, Mobitel, was introduced into the country. Not just anybody could own a phone even if they so desired. Not only were the phones themselves a scarce commodity, but getting a SIM could cost you an entire fortune.