Swaniker: "Lifting Africa up by empowering its youth"

A recent McKinsey Voices post by Fred Swaniker, Founder and CEO of African Leadership Academy, focuses on the importance of providing Africa's youth bulge with opportunity and specifically entrepreneurial training. Swaniker concludes that Africa is a "ticking time bomb" unless African youth are provided with the skills to create their own jobs, just like the Educate! program does. Check it out!

"So what does the average unemployed youth look like in Africa? She is an 18-year-old girl, living in a rural area, literate but not attending school. Building her skills, reaping her energy, and realizing her aspirations would help every African country improve its living standards and ignite economic growth. Empowering her with opportunities to reach and apply her full potential is both our most important challenge and our most vital opportunity."