Relationship of Girls Education in Africa

During the Midwest conference, I was touched by the story of Girl child Education in Mali. Many girls have problem going to school. Girls start doing work at age of 6 - 8 as house girls or being maid at early age to support their family members and their education as well, doing a lot of domestic work at their homes. As time goes on, many Girl find their way to the town areas to look for more work to do in order to get more money, so that, they can buy them selves things like clothes and shoes. This exposed many girls in to early relationship with men and in order for them to win a man's heart or look beautiful they have to dress like secretaries put on short clothes, use cosmetics to belch their skins, and design their hair every time  like prostitudes to get attracted, yet decent dressing is when girls put on long clothes. This made me to come to a conclusion that, every thing happening in girl child education are similar in Africa and girls problems real need to be solved.

In developing history curriculum in South Sudan, the approach is, History curriculum developers should first of all look properly in to the community of South Sudan. Ask questions like, What is happening?, What was the previous history of South Sudan?, What are the problems in the country?, and How can the problems be solved through Education, most especially using History as a subject at school to solve these problems. This is because History as a subject, is to teach the origin of the indigenous of South Sudan and the social way of living. According to me, the following should be included in developing South Sudan History subject curriculum. History curriculum  should be critically selected by History specialist in curriculum development, the subject should create peace, talk about the origin of the South Sudanese people and culture to preserve the diverse cultures of South Sudan and respect for each culture in it's unique way. The subject should focus on creation of good leadership skills, for example a good leader should be competent, confident and knowledgable, by teaching history of great leaders in South Sudan and the world at large. History curriculum should create peace by using good language which would create unity. For example "we the South Sudanese than identifying according to particular ethnic group. History teachers must have knowledge on community psychology and Educational psychology. Finally teaching methods like, discussion, brainstorming, guided discovery  and story telling should be used, since they are learner centered  teaching methods which would help learners to develop critical way of thinking.