Editorial
The diploma versus knowledge The third world will have to master science to develop its development capacities
Science remains very elitist because for several centuries it has been perceived as the preserve of a class that only admits the best brains who go through a rigid curriculum where only the crème de la crème filters through . However , science must be democratized for it to become an essential factor of development . Demystifying science would make it more digestible for people who are little or badly equipped for the challenges of the future . First , we must return to the human context . Every human being , regardless of his race , is endowed with an intelligence that can allow him to understand science , and geniuses or gifted people , logically exist in all races ; which implies that science can be understood and developed by a Tibetan monk as well as a citizen of Mandé in the depths of Mali , however the major di erence remains access to knowledge and especially to the type of knowledge that helps to place the human at the center of the development of his ecosystem .
If after the period of slavery and colonization as far as Africa is concerned , the often separatist elites thought that it was necessary to go to white school not always to learn to understand and apply , but above all to prove to the eyes of the world that they too were humans who could perform in the greatest institutions as well as Westerners and demolish the idea of sub-humans with lower intelligence , which seemed to stick to them so much because of the racist environment of the time , more than 60 years after independence , even if racist prejudices persist , it is perhaps time that in the countries of the third world and in Africa in particular that the diploma become no longer the sesame that opens the best doors to a higher social condition in its own right , but knowledge and its practice rather must become
Flashmag ! Issue 133 September 2022
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