21st Century Afropolitan

First of all, as a graduate of the University of Ghana, I will attest that all the issues raised here are genuine and problems we need to fix. But I will also add that this is a bit too generalizing to say the least. Here's why: A. On the Culture of Deference As an undergraduate student at UG, I was never quiet in any of my classes and actually challenged most of my professors pretty hard in many classrooms. Almost everyone in my Political Science Graduating Class of 2013 knew me even though I didn't graduate with them because I was always sharp and assertive in my first two and half years with the class. The problem with this culture of deference the author observed at UG is a spillover from the general Ghanaian Culture. Many of our professors are foreign educated and can easily accommodate assertive students. But students bring in their deference to authority from home and it doesn't help in changing professors' attitudes. We need a complete cultural overha