A powerful new video, street art campaigns and youth-driven events are marking the milestone on the road to the continent’s ...

A version of this essay was originally published in the African Youth Survey in August 2024. Africa is young and female. Despite the dominant Western discourse that focuses on the continent’s vast ...

Sixty percent of African youth are looking to leave because unchecked corruption threatens their future, according to a poll of more than 5,600 youngsters in 16 countries released Tuesday.

Africa faces a trio of issues that are accelerating youth migration – the youth ‘population bulge’, high unemployment and mounting climate impacts. The ability of young people to move is an important ...

Africa, with its 54 diverse countries and 1.3 billion people, is united by a common strength: its youth. Over 60 percent of the population is under 25, driving a growing sense of optimism about ...

Kenya, East Africa’s dominant economy, has grappled with escalating living costs that have spiked food prices and other commodities, amid a rising unemployment rate among the country’s youth.

Cabinet Secretary for Public Service, Human Capital Development, and Special Programmes, Geoffrey Ruku, has called on African youth to take the lead in transforming the continent by embracing the ...