According to the World Bank, Africa’s youth account for 60 per cent of all of Africa’s jobless. This has led some experts to advance the argument that Africa’s youth employment might be more about quality of work than the absence of jobs. In the same period informal sector workers grew from 8.68 million workers to 13.3 million workers. Let’s face it, while Africa’s growth is impressive, it has produced spectacularly low numbers of decent jobs. The conversation about unemployment among Africa’s youth must question the structure of Africa’s economy and the quality of the growth miracle attributed to the so-called Africa Rising.

Source: The Star February 04, 2019 20:15 UTC