The key to providing worthwhile employment to Africa’s burgeoning youth population is rolling out vocational skills linked to industry needs.
It is a muggy morning in Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa and a queue of unskilled labourers has formed around the perimeter of a downtown construction site. The lucky few at the front of the line will be admitted by the foreman and given something to do for the day.
Published in New African, February 2021
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