INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CHANGES IN EDUCATION
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Lifelong Learning and Sub-Saharan Africa's Dream of Economic Emancipation

Idowu Biao 1 *
1 Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University of Abomey Calavi, Bénin* Corresponding Author
International Journal of Changes in Education, 1(4), 2024, 208-217, https://doi.org/10.47852/bonviewIJCE42023476
Publication date: Nov 15, 2024
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ABSTRACT

Sub-Saharan Africa having remained economically poor throughout its more than sixty years of independence and relying on the finding that the acquisition of a high level of digital and entrepreneurship skills tends to create wealth for nations in modern times, this study investigates the extent to which sub-Saharan Africa’s higher education institutions may leverage the facilitation of the learning of digital technologies and entrepreneurship for Africa’s economic emancipation through lifelong learning. The work carried out at the level of eight (8) lifelong learning outfits of eight (8) premier universities drawn from the four (4) regions of sub-Saharan Africa is scrutinized through the administration of a six (6)-item questionnaire with a view to establish whether or not Africa’s higher education institutions are currently facilitating the learning of digital technologies and entrepreneurship through lifelong learning to a level that may promote Africa’s economic emancipation. The findings of the current study are that sub-Saharan Africa (i). possesses very few higher education institutions in comparison to the global average, (ii). is yet to prioritize lifelong learning both nationally and at the higher education level, and (iii). is incapable to produce the needed population of digital and entrepreneurship graduates that may propel its economic emancipation as a result of its current level of neglect of lifelong learning.

KEYWORDS

lifelong learning economic development digital skills entrepreneurial skills Sub-Saharan Africa

CITATION (APA)

Biao, I. (2024). Lifelong Learning and Sub-Saharan Africa's Dream of Economic Emancipation. International Journal of Changes in Education, 1(4), 208-217. https://doi.org/10.47852/bonviewIJCE42023476
Harvard
Biao, I. (2024). Lifelong Learning and Sub-Saharan Africa's Dream of Economic Emancipation. International Journal of Changes in Education, 1(4), pp. 208-217. https://doi.org/10.47852/bonviewIJCE42023476
Vancouver
Biao I. Lifelong Learning and Sub-Saharan Africa's Dream of Economic Emancipation. International Journal of Changes in Education. 2024;1(4):208-17. https://doi.org/10.47852/bonviewIJCE42023476
AMA
Biao I. Lifelong Learning and Sub-Saharan Africa's Dream of Economic Emancipation. International Journal of Changes in Education. 2024;1(4), 208-217. https://doi.org/10.47852/bonviewIJCE42023476
Chicago
Biao, Idowu. "Lifelong Learning and Sub-Saharan Africa's Dream of Economic Emancipation". International Journal of Changes in Education 2024 1 no. 4 (2024): 208-217. https://doi.org/10.47852/bonviewIJCE42023476
MLA
Biao, Idowu "Lifelong Learning and Sub-Saharan Africa's Dream of Economic Emancipation". International Journal of Changes in Education, vol. 1, no. 4, 2024, pp. 208-217. https://doi.org/10.47852/bonviewIJCE42023476

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