THE CULTURE OF CHANGE AND THE CHANGE OF CULTURE

TOWARDS AN AFRICAN TECHNOPRENEURSHIP RENAISSANCE

Abstract

Africa suffers from a public image which depicts inferiority and lack of rationality. The triadic evil of enslavement, colonialism and racism seem to perpetuate this Western stereotype. This inferiority complex has penetrated the subconscious of some
African minds reducing any of their would-be achievements to naught.On the African front, Africans themselves tend to preserve some anachronistic superstitious and conservation of primitive habits, thereby playing into the hands of the West. This
attitude should be jettisoned in favour of Africa that goes back to its roots of leading world's earliest civilizations since Africa was the cradle of civilization and culture and never a new comer to technology and civilisation. This paper blames ignorance and lack of awareness for this poor belief, and stresses that there has been something of the scientific, and technological about the African. To reach this goal the twenty first century African must look towards technopreneurship as a panacea to economic emancipation. African cultures are not subordinate to the West's.African states are encouraged to embrace a technology driven economy not just by consuming
technological products but by becoming technology donors. Since Africa has done it in the past, it can do it again and top the lead in technopreneurship. To create this awareness through education has been suggested. The study recommends funding of
projects and encouraging technological research by successive African governments.