Oluyomi Ola-David Insights

Opt To serve Volunteer  To grow Opt To lead Volunteer To follow Opt  To farm Volunteer To grow Opt To wait Volunteer  To go Opt To learn Volunteer To grow Opt To watch Volunteer To tend  Opt  To read Volunteer  To grow Opt To act Volunteer  To have Opt To think Volunteer To grow Opt  To thank Volunteer To smile Opt To change Volunteer  To grow Opt To live Volunteer To speak ... Photo credit: Oluyomi Ola-David

Africa is a steeply religious climate and this fact is somewhat pivotal to the successful implementation of any development policy or programme.  In #Nigeria and many parts of #Africa, religious and/or faith-based organisations (FBOs) have provided growth opportunities in social and human capital for many previously indigent citizens. While enrolled as passionate volunteers in various units of such organisations, many members of FBOs may be able to develop their innate talent, team skills, as well as build valuable community for personal, social and business success. Even in the midst of economic recession, FBOs have demonstrable capacity to garner support through regular membership subscriptions. With efficiently managed human resource and financial resource pools, FBOs execute value-adding community and infrastructural projects while others build viable business models that create employment. Moreover, the many incidences of local government failure in social welfare maximisation has

This week, while looking through shelves to pick out some pre-searched books in development economics and macroeconomics from a University Library, I came by a title on the role of religious organisations in African development. At that instant, I was reminded that I had once thought out the inevitable role of piety in the development of religious Africa. In order to design appropriate and effective interventions for Africa, it is necessary to study the culture and structure of the average African personality. In recent history, economic agents, who seek to take advantage of the fearful, insecure and superstitious African, have been observed to design appropriate media messages, methods, and materials that perpetrate their trade. Using fundamental brainwashing tactics, religious extremists reck a lot of havoc on the minds and perspectives of adherents. The monumental damages to human lives and infrastructure, engineered by such religious devotees can be observed throughout Africa. Furt