Literacy and globalization: Towards a learning society in Africa - Growth points for policy and practice

The central argument of this paper is as follows: today's problems cannot be solved with yesterday's ways of thinking. Mobilization for literacy is entering a period of rare uncertainty, and this paradox alone requires courageous initiatives that are determinedly innovative and strategic. If these uncertainties and paradoxes are seen not as a justification for paralysis and passive imitation of the past, but rather as a pre-requisite for innovation, then the need to shift to a different level of strategic action becomes so obvious as to need no further argument