Do artists need an education

Do artists need an education by The Katalist-swmasaba@yahoo.com
Correct me if am wrong but it is said that the teacher to student ratio is about 1 to 200 in Uganda. Tertiary institutions churn out about 4-5 hundred thousand children every year compared to about 50 thousand jobs created each year. These deficits make one think about whether it is worthwhile to even attend a class when some of our western counterparts run multi-national companies with a click of a mouse behind a cozy closed door somewhere in California or some expensive all paid for hotel.
One would argue that ignorance is far more expensive than an education. Artists brag about making millions even after dropping out of school. The same artists can barely read the fine print of their respect contracts that they often sign without much care.
An American rapper by the names of 50 cent managed to negotiate a deal that earned him 1 million dollars even before even stepping into the studio. A fit that has never been matched worldwide. Usually the money paid upfront  has to recuperated with future proceeds but his case was an exception thanks to his clever business acumen though I don’t think he cleared school. One can’t ignore that the circumstances in their area is far more different from ours. In Uganda, artists rise and fall every 6 months largely because of lack of a common sense academic approach to their respective careers.

DO ARTISTS NEED AN EDUCATION ???  It is clear that those who have an education have far more to offer than those that don’t. You can tell by the type of items that the various artists seem to purchase even when the money made is not that good. Why buy expensive cars, bogus real estate, large mansions and move around with ten people at a time, when all you need is a flat, one nice car, a few quiet businesses and good media appeal that attracts good elite sponsers. Having mentioned the later and the former it is safe to say that you can pretty much judge and see where these individual artists lie.
I guess the head teacher will not allow dreadlocks in the class or skimpy mini skirts moving around provocatively in the compound. However that having been said I think these artists really need an education because my guess is that 80% of them barely make it to the university which is where the true light of the world is witnessed. Nowadays, at least in Sub-Saharan Africa, an artist must attain at least a degree to be respectable in society unlike a statesman who only needs to crack a few sensational lines and get voted into office. What an awful picture !

Do you get a picture of how the system works. It is said that when you look at the grades earned in school one can conclude that the A’s end up working for the C’s while the B’s buy the products. The person who came into this conclusion basically was of the view that most A’s go corporate in companies created by the C’s while the B’s are the miscellaneous middle class. A fair state of affairs but one needs to have experience school to get the concept.

I do believe that these artists need to think of grabbing some books before grabbing the faulty microphones as is the case in Uganda I should say.