Intra-Continental Cooperation Key to Building Self-Sufficient African Education, Science Center Head Says

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Intra-Continental Cooperation Key to Building Self-Sufficient African Education, Science Center Head Says

"It is important for Africa to benefit from itself. And we can even connect education in Africa using AU and become one system," Director of the Zambian National Science Center Dr. Benson Banda told Sputnik Africa.

Africa "will be liberated completely" with the technologies of its own and through its rich resources, the official said on the sidelines of the Innovation Africa 2025 Ministerial Summit for Education, ICT & Skills held in Addis Ababa.

"When they are saying Africa is backwards, it doesn't mean that the brain is backwards. […] We are not that imbalanced. It's a question of how we want to position ourselves in this global arena," he noted.

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