The UN Human Development Index reveals an age-old truth that education is the engineof development, and where there is lack of education, development is stunted. The biggest factor responsible for African underdevelopment is it's failure to make bold investments in education, and until we address the issue, Africa will remain poor.

According to the Global Campaign for Education ( GCE), 67 million children of primary school age are currently out of primary school. Close to half of this number lives in sub-Saharan Africa. The GCE predicts that at current pace, it is going to take Africa at least 75 years to archieve universal education at lower secondary level. However, Africa has failed to invest where it could yield the biggest and most sustainable rewards. Education has always been indispensable to nation-building everywhere, but some  African leaders have failed to learn fron the evidence and experiences of history.