West Africa and Problems

On my way home I realised that there are lots of problems in Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast. This ranges from congested traffic, water, good affordable health care, global warming, etc.

This is not the first time I have seen this problems, it would never be the last. Its the perspective we see this issues that make us different.

Then right there I got it. We aren’t solving the problems. We are rather making them. Most times making them worse.

“Problems that have solutions brings income” — Chizom Echehieuka

On Monday I was interviewed on a live interview broadcast session on Twitter with a Tech media agency that focus on entrepreneurship and innovation.

The questions aligned in this interview gave me the deeper understanding that despite the fact that I tweet about problems to be solved and the solutions on how this could be solved; despite the fact I write apps and kept them on my cloud servers waiting for an investor to invest in them, this solutions will never get to the right people without the right execution and the right set of real problems to be solved.

There are lots of problems in West African, but less problem solvers. We only dream about the solution but never work towards it. Some people who work towards it only day-dream about the end result but never consider the process of achieving the solution to be challenging.

Look around you. What problems do we see? Do you think you have a solution to that problem?

“Problems are wealth when a valued solution is added” — Chizom Echehieuka