In 2020, during the course of my work as a researcher and writer, I had the rare opportunity to work in internally displaced persons camps where I engaged with teenage girls. I met girls so traumatised by their personal experiences of violence, conflict, insurgency, and displacement; they could hardly speak before breaking down in tears. […]
In 2020, during the course of my work as a researcher and writer, I had the rare opportunity to work in internally displaced persons camps where I engaged with teenage girls. I met girls so traumatised by their personal experiences of violence, conflict, insurgency, and displacement; they could hardly speak before breaking down in tears.
These are more than just anecdotes; they are a very real backdrop to a potential crisis the world might be heading toward. Last month , the world’s population was projected to hit the 8 billion mark. “More than half of the projected increase in the global population up to 2050 will be concentrated in eight countries: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and the United Republic of Tanzania”, the United Nations reported on its website .
A key takeaway is that development is not just about kilometers of roads and flyovers that are built. Human-focused development promotes a healthy, educated population with access to key resources that make for economic development and wealth creation, enabling production and access to markets.that expanding human freedom is a pre-requisite for achieving human development.
What good would it do for Nigeria if our teeming mass of over 200 million people are displaced in makeshift camps or are out-of-school and unable to access education resources? For example, the few medical doctors who graduate annually, trained practically for free in our public universities are trooping out in droves the minute they take the Hippocratic oath.
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