This is the right time for African youths to shine.

 

Why African young people should be empowered to build African Solutions.

By Muhumuza Faizo King | on 15th. SEPT. 2021

A view of an African Technologist.

Africa is the youngest and fastest-growing continent in the world. By 2030, there will be 375 million young people in the job market in Africa. Within a few decades, this demographic boom will push Africa’s workforce to more than a billion people, the largest in the world.

Let’s face it, the growing population will bring new challenges and new opportunities.
A pan – African like me will not inhabit in the current or future challenges, I will focus on the opportunities and I hope this article enthuses the reader to ruminate in the same direction like the writer.

Forces of 21^st century demand will require all of us to grow into ground-breaking thinkers who creatively put working solutions that are innovated and fashioned in Africa on board. Self-belief! Self-belief! This is the most important character in this day and age especially for a young African who wants to go all the way and shine. Remember this; you can have all the tactics in the world, but that essence of self-belief, that’s critical.

True innovation is intertwined with good governance. According to Mo Ibrahim foundation, “Progress had already been slowing down since 2015. However, over the decade, overall governance performance has slightly progressed, and in 2019, 61.2% of Africa’s population lived in a country where Overall Governance is better than in 2010.” Although, this should get better it is still good news.

Many African youths are living in countries that are divided, something we unapologetically disagree with. The good news is we can be proactive and understand what we can work with the tools we have to build the Africa we want one step at a time over and over and over again until we overwhelm the status quo to accept innovative change not as an option but as the only choice.

The more we commit to building a brand new African milieu the more we win and the most central thing is to keep winning as a continent because only then can we keep shining together and achieve global influence as an economic power while relishing all the recompenses that automatically come into the open.

Remember this is our time and nothing should delude you from trying to be the best version of yourself while helping Africa thrive.

Muhumuza Faizo King works with startups and companies of any size to support their innovation. In his role as CTO, he leverages his experience to help people bring their ideas to life, focusing on ERP Systems, value-driven Software Engineering, and on the technical and business impact of machine learning, business intelligence and Cloud computing. He is the author of many articles on this blog.