Young African leaders leave for Japan’s youth Initiative

NAIROBI, KENYA: Nearly 40 young African leaders, among them 32 Kenyans, will leave for Japan at the end of this month as the third batch of successful candidates to the Master’s Degree and Internship Program of the African Business Education (ABE) Initiative for Youth. 

The group, which includes 32 Kenyans and 2 participants each from Burundi, Eritrea and Somalia, will join the Japanese government-funded strategic five-year programme that aims at providing 1,000 African youth with opportunities to study Master’s degrees at Japanese universities and do internships at Japanese enterprises. It was launched by the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe during the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD V) in Yokohama, Japan in June 2013.