The Gravity Life In Botswana
Each and every child is taught how to be given money and be proud of using it without any thought of how to save it for tomorrow. The future can be distorted any time, what we see is not what we get. How can we do it? It is still a relevant question to our wants to give passion to our righteous path so that purpose can get along with our visions.
With more than 60% of the population under the age of 25, sub-Saharan Africa is already the world's youngest region today -- and, by 2030, will be home to more than one-quarter of the world's under-25 population."
Crisis or opportunity? That is up to us. This is not an easy time to be trying to launch the greatest employment-creation revolution in history!
I was speaking to a well-meaning African policymaker the other day who spoke passionately about “a manufacturing revolution in his country, in order to create jobs.”
I thought to myself: “It may not be enough to create jobs, because manufacturing was principally a tool of the last industrial revolution.”
# Having a job really matters!
Not everyone can start their own business. We must help those who can start their own businesses, so they can employ others, but ultimately, we must face the huge challenge of creating employment through bold courageous policymaking, including improving and transforming our education systems to prepare our next generation for the jobs of the future (not jobs which soon will be extinct!)
I wish I could say to you, “Here's an African country that has got this right." I really wish I could! We are running out of time, so we must use the little time we have wisely.
I recently shared how Kofi Annan told me whilst we were traveling in Mali several years ago: “Look at all these young men milling around with nothing to do. Either they will have to cross the Sahara and Mediterranean Sea to look for work in Europe, or they will start listening to extremists, and come back to fight us.”
He was speaking prophetically, because both are happening with vengeance!
Study to show yourself approved. Be patient. Don’t allow frustration or bitterness to take root in anything you do, or towards anybody.
If you just sit in your office or your home, and fume about the poor conditions [including lack of money] you are not an entrepreneur.