GEO-6 for Youth: Africa


Rami Elsayed


Key Messages


By 2030, the number of African youths will have increased by 42 per cent. However, they face significant economic challenges; accounting for 60 per cent of all unemployed in Africa.


Young people can create a sustainable future that safeguards and multiplies green jobs if they fully appreciate the challenges that can hamstring that future and the immense opportunities it presents.


It is incumbent on African youth themselves to mobilize their demographic dominance, imagination, innovation, and brilliance towards achieving a sustainable future that will guarantee them green jobs and wellbeing.


7.1 Introduction


As the anonymous quote attributed to different sources goes, ‘the best way to predict the future is to invent it.’ This is particularly important for youth because their young age gives them the largest stake in the future. This chapter explore different futures, and as such, helps to identify the actions needed to realize a desirable future. Young people can, in essence, create a sustainable one that safeguards and multiplies green jobs. But they can only do that if they fully appreciate the challenges that can hamstring that future and the immense opportunities such a future presents.


7.2 Letters from 2063


To envision this future clearly, select African youth have written letters from the year 2063. This is the year at the heart of Agenda 2063, the African Union’s roadmap to a better future for the continent.


These letters articulate different environmental scenarios, providing both caution and inspiration. After all is said and done, it is incumbent on African youth themselves to mobilize their demographic dominance, imagination, innovation, and brilliance towards achieving a sustainable future that will guarantee them green jobs and wellbeing.


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