Affi Agbodo

Across Africa, the boom in private universities is masking a crisis of relevance. When institutions prioritize enrollment over outcomes, they risk becoming diploma factories instead of engines of economic development.

A lifetime of expertise shouldn't retire with you. Yet most corporate wisdom fades just as the next generation needs it most. Universities now invite professionals to teach—but knowing a subject isn't knowing how to teach it. True impact requires transforming experience into teachable legacy. That’s where pedagogy bridges the gap between career mastery and educating future solvers.

We spend trillions and debate endless reforms, yet we've stopped asking education's most fundamental question: What is it actually for? If the answer has quietly become "economic sorting," we shouldn't be surprised by student anxiety and societal fracture. What if we reclaimed education's true purpose: to shape how we think about ourselves, our world, and our responsibility to make it better?