Africa: Possibilities and Challenges

Abstract

Africa is considered to be the richest gathering of natural resources such as: oil, copper, diamond, bauxite, lithium, gold, hardwood forests and tropical fruits. Also, Africa owns the greatest spare of precious metals in the world and two thirds of the total of the unused farmlands in the whole world. These spares of the natural resources profoundly contribute in supporting the economics of the African countries and enhancing the opportunities of growth and supporting the development indicators of the developing continent. Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent and it is characterized by the cultural ideological and religious diversity. The challenges and the obstacles that face the continent are basically presented in: the problem of economic and social deterioration, the problem of administrative corruption and immigration of the competent persons. The problem of colonization with all of its negative effects that they left in many of the African countries that lead to the spread of the ethnic wars and armed conflicts and economic liability. At the beginning of the current millennium, the African union created continent space like the conglomerates of the other continents in Europe, Asia and America. Since Egypt took over the leadership of the African union in 2019 during the president Al-Sisi, the foreign investment directed to Africa has increased, Egypt was eager to activate the technical cooperation with the African countries through the pivotal role of the Egyptian agency of partnership for development, in fields such as health and high education as scholarships were provided for the students. The universities can make use of this by making common research projects to solve many problems of the continent. I mention from these problems what is related to the field of education and childhood such as: the phenomenon of child labor in Africa, the African children literature, the common African culture among the African countries and its effect on the upbringing patterns and the phenomenon of child recruitment in the armed conflicts and the African conflicts.