Jakaya Kikwete

compared to other options, is a long process in which the results take much longer to perceive. Humans, generally not the most patient of animals, find it easier to invest in more accepted ventures, such as transportation, which yield real-time visual improvements. Therefore, most government officials choose to take an easy route, one that makes voters happy. Jakaya Kikwete wrote How to Transform an Education System in hopes of persuading his audience of the idea that, despite requiring unpopular trade-offs and a prolonged amount of time, investing in education…

There are at least 30 million African children that are unable to get immunizations (“Immunization”). If they do not get immunizations that they are being put at risk for diseases like malaria, measles, polio and other serious life-threatening diseases, and they will all be around each other spreading all of that making the matter worse. Studies show that the majority of the deaths in Africa come from diseases that could have been treated or prevented with a vaccine (“Childhood Vaccination…