Careers in Africa

[Grace Nakate]

Positive practical advice ppl!  Unlike the original person who posted this thread - I am a very mature person who has been working in the UK for what appears to a decade!  The challenge I've met on looking to relocate to use my skills in Africa are mostly down to paper qualifications - if one choses to go down the root of not utilising the "who you know" route.

This brings me back to Eddington's suggestion -create my own business, thinking outside the box (which by the way, is the only way forward, so i'm in no way knocking it) etc...Here I've found I've had to "grease some" parts of the transitional journey in order to approve the business - kinda like paying security/protection to not only get it up and running but also to sustain it. Also learnt that guys in Africa may lack the "techno-how", but they sure make up for it being sharp and will out manouvre you ten-fold if you blink!

Bottom line is - you wanna a job in Africa - take it in bite-size.  Go visit the country in question first, research as much as you can beforehand on lifestyle, work ethics - generally all that you can. Go in with a view to intergrate, an open mind and plenty of humour is a positive start, as opposed to asserting learnt practices from here.

2cents worth - BTW Eddington & Idris, thanks.

[richard]

Thanks Grace, that makes so much sense

[thomas maximus]

Africa is the best country.
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Positive practical advice ppl!  Unlike the original person who posted this thread - I am a very mature person who has been working in the UK for what appears to a decade!  The challenge I've met on looking to relocate to use my skills in Africa are mostly down to paper qualifications - if one choses to go down the root of not utilising the "who you know" route.

This brings me back to Eddington's suggestion -create my own business, thinking outside the box (which by the way, is the only way forward, so i'm in no way knocking it) etc...Here I've found I've had to "grease some" parts of the transitional journey in order to approve the business - kinda like paying security/protection to not only get it up and running but also to sustain it. Also learnt that guys in Africa may lack the "techno-how", but they sure make up for it being sharp and will out manouvre you ten-fold if you blink!

Bottom line is - you wanna a job in Africa - take it in bite-size.  Go visit the country in question first, research as much as you can beforehand on lifestyle, work ethics - generally all that you can. Go in with a view to intergrate, an open mind and plenty of humour is a positive start, as opposed to asserting learnt practices from here.

2cents worth - BTW Eddington & Idris, thanks.

[arsah]

No, Eddington, you're not wrong. The real issue about our dear Continent - AFRICA - is the disunity among us. We only think of SELF.....not our countries, not our regions and worst still not about the continent as a whole. Several years ago, the late Reggae crooner, Bob Marley sang,' AFRICA UNITE.' Typically, most people chose not to see the message in the music. Rather, we chose to 'celebrate' the rhythm and the voice, whist dancing away the lyrics.....the true meaning.

So where are today? Still dancing away the real truth! Still in our state of disunity! Still on our trail of SELF, rather than COLLECTIVE propagation! Still nurturing the mindset that there is nothing good about Africa.

It is this erroneous mindset that convinces us that it is better to go to foreign lands and inadvertently channel our energies towards 'developing the developed' (to borrow a phrase from you).

Look at how many Africans are in the diaspora? Some never remember home. Some pretend they were never Africans. They spend the time seeking after opportunities that are not there. YET, those same opportunities are there back home. And really, their lives would have been better, had they believed....had they tried!!

We accept, there are challenges in Africa. I can list a few, as i'm sure others can. Indeed, we cannot deny that fact. BUT we must RISE ABOVE, WALK and WORK around those challenges to make something happen. It is interesting that we have so many Africans in the diaspora teaching people how to overcome challenges, improve themselves and their environment (again developing the developed), but they never think of doing the same thing for those 'back home.'

AFRICA cannot develop itself.....the Europeans, the Americans, not even the Chinese can develop Africa. WE, AFRICANS are the only ones who can develop Africa

And how? By coming together - UNIFYING - to change our mindset, think positively about Africa, speak positively about Africa. Most of all, by BELIEVING in Africa and the opportunities that abound in Africa.

This is my submission!

That was well said,good thinking.

[nguyen viet hung]

Thanks you so much !

[cadee]

Africa is a place of vast opportunities. Since most of it in early phase of development, the need for experts in every field is heavily required. The potential key areas are tourism, oil and gas, mining, infrastructure, education, engineering, banking, finance, environment and FMGC.

[rajin]

The potential key areas are tourism, oil and gas, mining, infrastructure, education, engineering, banking, finance, environment and FMGC.

[rjs]

Most of Africa is still untapped. Vast opportunities lie there. African youth just needs more bit of encouragement and they will flourish.

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[Mr 007]

Libya says New York Times journalists will be freed
Stephen Farrell Stephen Farrell was kidnapped by Taliban forces in Afghanistan in 2009
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Four New York Times journalists who were reported missing in Libya were captured by loyalists of Col Muammar Gaddafi and will be freed on Friday, Col Gaddafi's son has told US media.

They were covering the Libyan conflict and were last heard from on Tuesday.

The group includes Beirut bureau chief Anthony Shadid, reporter Stephen Farrell and photographers Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario.

The four had reportedly entered Libya without visas over the Egyptian border.

"They entered the country illegally and when the army, when they liberated the city of Ajdabiya from the terrorists and they found her, they arrest her because you know, foreigners in this place," Seif al-Islam, Col Gaddafi's son, said in an ABC News interview on Thursday, apparently referring to Ms Addario.

"But then they were happy because they found out she is American, not European. And thanks to that, she will be free tomorrow," he said.

Libyan officials told the US state department on Thursday that all four would be released, the New York Times reported.

Mr Farrell, one of the missing reporters, was kidnapped by Taliban forces in Afghanistan in 2009 before being rescued by British commandos.

Four BBC journalists who had been captured by forces loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi were released last week.

The Arabic service journalists were beaten with fists, knees and rifles, hooded and subjected to mock executions by Libyan troops and secret police.

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, an Iraqi national, and Andrei Netto, a Brazilian journalist, were also taken into custody on 2 March.

Netto was released last week, but Abdul-Ahad, an award-winning correspondent, was held until Wednesday.
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