Youth are key to reining in Africa’s self-inflicted woes

Africa’s so-called global underdevelopment and marginalisation has defied much of the development policy experiments of the last three decades. Our continent is increasingly defined by foreign sketched and widely publicised pictures of starving children, warring communities, environmental disasters, grand corruption, and despotic regimes.

While some of these could be factual, it is important to affirm that these are not the defining features of the continent.