It is my belief that the organizers of this symposium thought about the topic because poverty is a phenomenon that we can no longer ignore. Rural Africa is a world where poverty reign and reigns supreme. Most people that leave in these places rely on farming. Due to the unfavourable weather conditions and loss of land . African rural families can no longer rely on subsistence farming as their means of survival.
Most families invest their earnings in the education of their children.
They believe that these children will look after them in their old age. Most of these parents meet the shock of their lives if they leave long enough to see their children work. The graduates that are produced by our educational institutions are suspectable to what I call the urban disease. The are suitable for life in urban areas and this is the desire to settle at place that are closer to the metropolitan areas. These are the areas that where better life or quality of life is promised.