The recent UN statistics reveal that by the year 2040, Africa will have two billion people living on the continent and will a home of two out of five of the young people in the world. This shows that a lot of investment and development needs to be focused on the youth population as a future venture. Yaya Toure, the Ivorian professional footballer, this past Friday wrote an article focusing on youth development in Africa published by the Guardian, partnering up with the Bill Melinda Foundation. Toure say that "young minds must be fed.Girls and boys must have equal access to decent primary and secondary schooling, learning numeracy, literacy and IT skills that we'd all expect for our children. Many are forced to leave school too early - wasting their potential before it has even begun." To look at this subject we have partnered up with the African Leadership Academy:with us we have Sharmi Surianarain: who is currently the Director of Lifelong Engagement at the African Leadership Academy, leading the effort to reconnect ALA graduates to each other, to ALA, and to Africa, and Alexia Paradzai: who was born in Zimbabwe and lived in the small town of Chiredzi for most of her life. Her father works as a freelance hunter and her mother is a house wife. She is currently working on a project she started (AfroFresco) and the hope is to make the arts interesting and relevant to more Zimbabweans. AfroFresco is a platform to introduce more people to Zimbabwean arts using social media and public spaces:
