When will developing countries stop importing knowledge?

It is lamentable that, in spite of setting up hundreds of universities and research institutes, developing countries continue to import knowledge.

For instance, African countries are not just importing equipment and finished products from the West and East, but are also importing knowledge in the form of prescriptions on how to use those imports.

Each imported piece of machinery comes with a manual demonstrating how to use it, not how to build it from scratch.

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