Original Story Published by: Kenneth Omeruo for TechTrendsng.com
The challenges Africa face can only be solved by Africans. Every continent faces one challenge or the other but the difference between Africa and other continents is that Africa is yet to identify her strength, yet to create a strategy as to take up the responsibility of building her future rather than the over dependence on other continents. That is why Africa has largely remained poor even with her great human and natural resources.
We constantly need to remind ourselves that as Africa’s population is growing at a fast rate it becomes a greater challenge for the nations if something is not done to create wealth and provide jobs for young people in Africa. The changing dynamics in globalization and emerging technologies is moving at a great speed like never before. It becomes quite obvious that if urgent steps are not taken for Africa to become sustainable and take responsibility for her future, the continent will be in great crises in few years from now.
Africa’s hope for a future will be realized if the growing young Africans embrace technology, innovation and entrepreneurship like never before with a focus to build Africa’s future.
Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship are the keys to unlock Africa’s great potentials and the increasing population of young Africans are the drivers of this future. We are beginning to see increased attention of foreign investors into Africa who are willing to invest in African start-ups.
The 2017 World Economic Forum report on Africa’s potentials to compete globally shows positive indicators for hope and that more African countries like Mauritius, Rwanda, Kenya, Namibia, Burundi, Tanzania are beginning to attract more investments and are going in the right direction. The recently published Global Innovation Index (GII ) 2017 is a great resource for African countries, entrepreneurs and businesses to look at and know what others are doing and understand the need to invest in technology and innovation. The GII 2017 supports the fact that there is still hope for Africa if the right investments are made in technology, innovation and entrepreneurship.
The launch of dot Africa domain names offers great opportunity and increased attention to Africa. Its a great asset if leveraged well, that will bring positive attention to Africa and help build African brands and create collective wealth and prosperity through Africapitalism just as Tony Elumelu has rightly envisioned.
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