Originally published by Africa Is A Country · Cindy Kasanga. Read the full story →
Although increasingly celebrated as an asset, Africa’s youth remain locked out of power and decent work. Photo by Joshua Duneebon on Unsplash Africa’s youth have been called the continent’s greatest asset so many times that the phrase has lost its weight. Assets are meant to be invested in. The real question is who benefits from keeping this one deferred. Africa is young; its youth population is projected to rise by 132 million this decade alone. But demographic scale is not destiny. A co