The World Bank
The World Bank has granted a loan amounting to six billion FCFA to the Republic of Benin to finance the country's development projects.
The project is to lead to the development of the poorest communities to have basic socio-economic services and towards education, health, and water sectors.
The financing will also help carry out several activities within the framework of the initial project, particularly the strengthening of institutional capacities within communes and communities.
The main purpose of the project, which was launched in 2005, is to promote the development of Benin's fragile infrastructure.
The project will be recognized to focus on the sectoral ministries, communes, and village communities to increase access of the poorest communities to the basic social and financial services.
A child needs education for future development.
In many Third World countries, there is a decline in the reading standard of children, due to many problems, such as the inability to purchase books and the failure of parents themselves to read and teach their children to follow their steps.
Most of the time, when the performance of a child at school is poor, the fault is placed at the doorsteps of teachers, but then, as parents, what help do we give our children when they are out of sight of teachers?
Educationists had often said that in Africa, the reading ability of children is poor because they are not encouraged to read and learn. Parents who did not get the opportunity to be educated may feel that education is a waste of time, and therefore, the child should engage in trade.
But now it is well accepted that since a child out of school is a waste of natural resources, the children's interest in books should be a priority and considered a responsibility for every parent and teacher. The library is said to be the heart of a school. It plays a major role in teaching and encouraging children to read.
The numerous books in the library are a source of delight to children, as they take in and take out books regularly. This improves their reading ability.
Kwaw Ansah's Love brewed in the African pot.
African films continue to face many problems competing with other films on the international level. The more the film industry fights for international recognition, the more it lags due to many reasons.
African films are only watched by Africans and other Third World countries. According to film critics, the stories used for most of the African films are insignificant, and thus, if the African film industry wants their films to be accepted on an international level, then they must base the films on good stories.
Kwaw Ansah’s “Love Brewed in an African Port” tackles the residual effects of still-recent colonialism on the minds and hearts of the Ghanaian people. Despite the problems and barriers, Kwaw Ansah’s “Love Brewed in an African Port,” released in 1981, achieved success both in Africa and on the international level.
Ansah’s hope in making the film was that it would prove to be popular both with African audiences and well-regarded critics and peers. He was successful on both grounds.
The film earned awards worldwide, including the prestigious Omar Ganda Prize for most “remarkable direction and production in line with African realities” at the seventh Pan-African Film Festival (FEPACO), the first to be awarded to a film from an Anglophone country; the UNESCO film award in France; and the Jury’s Special Silver Peacock Award for a genuine and talented attempt to find a national cultural identity at the International Film Festival of India.
