What is the perception of today’s youth about work and values?
Without batting an eye, will some of them help themselves to the public purse if given the opportunity and flaunt the funds to the ‘less intelligent’?
Young people are regularly subjected to a confusing state of dilemma: as older adults advise them to adopt good morals and work hard, contrary to what they see and hear in the general society.
Some time ago, a teenager told his father that the eleventh commandment of the day is “You shall not be caught.” The father was August!
In my opinion, the young man was just “deep” and telling the truth, especially in an African environment where corruption is a big problem.
And what results are we getting? We are confronted with all the atrocities that they are forced to perpetrate.
Name it. Is internet fraud perpetrated among a few young people what is known as the ‘yahoo boys’ syndrome in Nigeria?
What about other vices like robbery, murder (the elders I think are not directly involved in the act)
What really interests our young people these days? For a change there are different
‘Reality television show’ about business and management. I wonder how popular this would be with young people compared to the ‘Big Brother’ type.
It might be a universal challenge going through the experience of a popular icon of American television.
He claimed that some students he visited in some US schools, to offer them scholarships, indicated that they would prefer I-pods and sneakers, while some poor children in South Africa would be happy if they could pay their school fees with free books in tow. .
This last option was finally carried out with $40 million of his money in January 2007, by building an excellent school for poor girls with above average academic performance.
So what can we say about young people in many countries?
What can we say about the perception of our young people about the values and dignity of work.
What I can figure out is that they want to empower themselves through honest and practical policies that help them redirect their energies to get ‘good things’ for themselves like in other climates and make the country prosperous through the provision of jobs.
For example, there is ‘work’ everywhere in black Africa, but there are no job packages for the multitude of unemployed youth.