06/07/2026
If the conversation is about money, status, employment and prestige rather than the acquisition of knowledge, the ability to think properly, reason, and make sense of issues confronting our society, then let's look at it this way.
In very developed countries, where the systems work properly, a cleaner, a janitor, an office messenger, or a bus driver earns enough to take care of his family more than a Doctor, an engineer or a pharmacist in Ghana.
In Ghana, your height will disqualify you from joining the army no matter the course you read in school, but in other parts of the world it's about your ability to reason in difficult situations that matters.
In Ghana, you can have all As in your course of study, but if you go for an interview and you're shy, you cannot express yourself, or you don't even have 5 years of experience in the supposed field of study, you will not be employed.
Our educated men and women are leaving the country for other parts of the world to make a living without their law, medicine, engineering or pharmacy degrees because, despite the gold, bauxite, timber, and all the natural resources we boast of having, we cannot even pay these professionals well.
Some accountants have become social media marketers; doctors are now teaching how couples can have in*******se the right way on TV or podcasts; lawyers are now selling sh*to as a side hustle, and many people are now writing books to survive the Ghanaian system.
There are so many angles to this debate on important courses and useless courses in Ghana, but since everyone wants to focus on the courses instead of the foundation of the problem, the very poor educational system, which the same government of Ghana and ministers refuse to fix, the high cost of living where parents cannot even buy exercise books and crayons for their children in kindergarten, we still have schools under trees, children cross rivers to attend school etc.
If we really cared about these so-called courses deemed as useless, we would not only talk about it, but those in charge would quickly find a solution to it; but no, it's the usual talk shop.
The day the politician fixes the system, no one will have the time to be discussing such minor issues over all the major problems we are confronted with as a nation.
🪭 M_El_Kay
