The World against Poverty and Ignorance
Published: 18 October 2013 By Abiodun Giwa
Malala Yousafzai (Courtesy:asianews.it)
Listening to Alicia Keys' “Brand New Me” and “The Girl on Fire”, the lines are reminders of Malala Yousafzai, the16 years old girl from Pakistan and Taliban’s target for campaigning in favor of girls’ education.
A line in "The Girl on Fire" lyrics is instructive, "Looks like a girl,but she is a flame so bright she can burn you. She is on top of the world." Wonderfully, Keys may have written her song without any particular dramatis-persona in mind, other than... according to information on direct lyrics.com, The Girl on Fire is a direct female empowerment anthem.
Aside from her song, Keys has also been involved in the Global Citizen's program, which held a huge concert late September at the Central Park in New York City, seeking to end extreme poverty and advance children's education.
Agreeably, extreme poverty is partly the cause for the deprivation of education to children, irrespective of sex, in a larger part of the world. Apart from poverty, sociologically culture is also responsible for the problem of girls’ education in the Islamic world, which Pakistan -Yousafzai’s part of the world, belongs.
Incidentally, Yousafzai has exhibited the characteristics of a girl on fire against the culture. She has also shown experiences of rebirth that one can correlate her new life outside Pakistan to a new advent. Clockwise, the singer of the song about a girl on fire is in collaboration with a group working toward ensuring that all children are on fire, with effort to bring children who are not already in that state of mind to a state of affairs where they lack no food, believing lack of education and enlightenment are parts of poverty.
Interestingly, Yousafzai shot to limelight through the Taliban’s mindlessness aimed at sending her to the grave. Instead of the grave, the girl found herself in London. The girl refused to go to hell and ended in heaven! She has been waxing stronger since, and one would think that she is already a candidate for the Pakistan’s presidency. She says that if she becomes the president of Pakistan, she will spend a sizable part of the country's budget on education. Her response to news reports that some Pakistanis are not well disposed to her campaign, she says she is not surprised, because quite a number of Pakistanis are not appreciative of their leaders works and that she is careless. Reports said she was nominated for the Nobel Peace award, but that it eluded her. She still won one prize with good monetary value. She had been at the United Nations, and addresses children on education issues. She has held a meeting with President Barack Obama with Malia - Obama's 15 years old daughter - in attendance, and for which observers have lauded Obama for his daughter's presence, showing he still regards Yousafzai as a child prodigy.
Coincidentally, the United Nations where Yousafzai has addressed the world's children is not left out of the drive to eradicate illiteracy and to deal a blow to poverty. The UN, as a matter of fact, is the architect of eradication of poverty; Yousafzai and Global Citizens’ goals have only allied with the UN’s objective. According to the Un's Department of Economic and Social Affairs, poverty entails manifestations of hunger, malnutrition, limited access to education and other basic services, social discrimination and exclusion as well as lack of participation in decision making. What is the difference between the UN’s objective and Global Citizens’ objective?
The UN wants to eradicate poverty. The Global Citizens’ wants to eradicate extreme poverty. Yousafzai wants all girls to be educated, but she seems to have changed with her ‘one child, one book’ philosophy for education for all children irrespective of sex, and now in tandem with the Global Citizens on the need to educate all children for a better world, just like the UN.
Ultimately, when the Global Citizens’ eradicates extreme poverty and the UN eradicates poverty, then there will be no more poverty to eradicate, education will flourish and it will be Utopia.
A line in "The Girl on Fire" lyrics is instructive, "Looks like a girl,but she is a flame so bright she can burn you. She is on top of the world." Wonderfully, Keys may have written her song without any particular dramatis-persona in mind, other than... according to information on direct lyrics.com, The Girl on Fire is a direct female empowerment anthem.
Aside from her song, Keys has also been involved in the Global Citizen's program, which held a huge concert late September at the Central Park in New York City, seeking to end extreme poverty and advance children's education.
Agreeably, extreme poverty is partly the cause for the deprivation of education to children, irrespective of sex, in a larger part of the world. Apart from poverty, sociologically culture is also responsible for the problem of girls’ education in the Islamic world, which Pakistan -Yousafzai’s part of the world, belongs.
Incidentally, Yousafzai has exhibited the characteristics of a girl on fire against the culture. She has also shown experiences of rebirth that one can correlate her new life outside Pakistan to a new advent. Clockwise, the singer of the song about a girl on fire is in collaboration with a group working toward ensuring that all children are on fire, with effort to bring children who are not already in that state of mind to a state of affairs where they lack no food, believing lack of education and enlightenment are parts of poverty.
Interestingly, Yousafzai shot to limelight through the Taliban’s mindlessness aimed at sending her to the grave. Instead of the grave, the girl found herself in London. The girl refused to go to hell and ended in heaven! She has been waxing stronger since, and one would think that she is already a candidate for the Pakistan’s presidency. She says that if she becomes the president of Pakistan, she will spend a sizable part of the country's budget on education. Her response to news reports that some Pakistanis are not well disposed to her campaign, she says she is not surprised, because quite a number of Pakistanis are not appreciative of their leaders works and that she is careless. Reports said she was nominated for the Nobel Peace award, but that it eluded her. She still won one prize with good monetary value. She had been at the United Nations, and addresses children on education issues. She has held a meeting with President Barack Obama with Malia - Obama's 15 years old daughter - in attendance, and for which observers have lauded Obama for his daughter's presence, showing he still regards Yousafzai as a child prodigy.
Coincidentally, the United Nations where Yousafzai has addressed the world's children is not left out of the drive to eradicate illiteracy and to deal a blow to poverty. The UN, as a matter of fact, is the architect of eradication of poverty; Yousafzai and Global Citizens’ goals have only allied with the UN’s objective. According to the Un's Department of Economic and Social Affairs, poverty entails manifestations of hunger, malnutrition, limited access to education and other basic services, social discrimination and exclusion as well as lack of participation in decision making. What is the difference between the UN’s objective and Global Citizens’ objective?
The UN wants to eradicate poverty. The Global Citizens’ wants to eradicate extreme poverty. Yousafzai wants all girls to be educated, but she seems to have changed with her ‘one child, one book’ philosophy for education for all children irrespective of sex, and now in tandem with the Global Citizens on the need to educate all children for a better world, just like the UN.
Ultimately, when the Global Citizens’ eradicates extreme poverty and the UN eradicates poverty, then there will be no more poverty to eradicate, education will flourish and it will be Utopia.
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