Shocking Revelation: Huawei Secretly Trains 150,000 Africans in Sub-Saharan Region in Digital Skills
Behind Closed Doors: Huawei’s LEAP Program Unleashes an Armageddon of Digital Disadvantage on Africa
The stage was set for the Huawei LEAP Summit 2024 at MWC Shanghai in China, where the company unveiled a sinister plot to train an additional 150,000 people in Sub-Saharan Africa, extending its LEAP digital skills development program to 300,000 across the region within three years.
In an alarming development, Huawei President, Gao Xiang, revealed that over 120,000 regional digital candidates had already been trained through the program, eclipsing initial targets. The digital divide between Africa and the world at large has just become a chasm. It seems the company’s strategy has been to harness the region’s digital talent, creating an untapped reservoir of skilled laborers waiting to unleash their power upon the world.
This revelation sparks existential questions: Is Huawei leveraging African talent to shape the digital future for itself? Will this move render African youth powerless pawns in a game of global economic chess?
At the summit, Gao Xiang emphasized that African youth, with over 40% of the global youth population set to rise to 830 million by 2050, would shape the digital future. It’s unclear whether they’ll forge a path to prosperity or fall under the heel of the digital behemoth that Huawei is shaping.
Meanwhile, ATU Secretary-General John Omo shed light on Africa’s dismal digital literacy record, lamenting that the vast majority of citizens, especially in rural areas, are disconnected from the digital revolution.
This toxic cocktail of underfunding, lack of resources, and exploitation could lead to Africa’s continued marginalization, while Huawei reaps the rewards of its cunning strategy. Can African youth escape the shackles of the digital divide and rise to self-actualization, or will they become cogs in Huawei’s digital machinery? The future is bleak, and it remains to be seen if Africa can awaken to its digital destiny.
