LETTER FROM THE EDITOR G


eneration Y (“GenY”), also known as the Millennial Generation, is a term used to


describe anyone born between 1980 and the year 2000, plus or minus a few years at either end. If you have access to the internet, or a subscription to Time Magazine, you’ve most likely already heard of GenY: The Me, Me, Me Generation, who in many cultural contexts can be found in groups taking selfies or still living with their parents in their late-20s.


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But is this generation – my generation – as shallow, lazy and selfish as our parent generations make us sound?


What the inflated titles won’t tell you is that those young people make up over a quarter of the world’s population, and are expected to remain at over half of the population of most African countries for the next three to five decades.i


And, unlike the generations that came


before it, GenY is a truly global term. It defines a community of young people who have grown up under a globalized world where the local and international are elaborately intertwined.


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Together, they’ve earned the title as “Most Educated Generation”, and all the debt that comes with it, while growing up in a global recession so severe, that it mimicked the Great Depression. They face a world of complex, inter-connected issues that affect youth worldwide across racial and class boundaries: skyrocketing youth unemployment rates, gaping


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