Africa Must Focus On Capacity Building – Manuhwa

TO grow and accelerate development, Africa needs a new paradigm that focuses on building capacity, inspiring youths through diversity and inclusion to join the engineering profession.

President, Federation of African Engineering Organisations, Martin Manuhwa made the remark at the Edo University, Iyamho, third public lecture.

Speaking on the topic, Digitalisation of African Continent: The role of African Universities, Manuhwa spoke on the challenges facing engineering in Africa and the role of engineering and technology in development, with emphasis on IR4.0 and construction 4.0 models to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGS).

According to him, for Africa to achieve its SDGS target, human capital development, engineering institutional capacity building and international cooperation are major keys to development, prosperity and capacity building.

The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Emmanuel Aluyor, informed participants that the institution is keying into the digitalisation of its academic programmes through the deployment of digital teaching tools, which enabled the university to complete the 2019/ 2020 academic session on her CANVAS Learning Management System.