Get on the women and youth pedestal

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It is a great time to be an African, to be a woman and to be young. And if you’re a young African woman, then you have a triple advantage and a platform to propel yourself to great heights. The problem with platitudes about moments like these though, is that we can get so caught up in the excitement of the moment and fail to have a strategy to marshall the resources into actual action.

I have heard it said time and again that our model is far from becoming the ‘build it and they will come’ that more sophisticated economies have mastered. Because our structures still have a long way to go, it is important to put in some work into identifying what the best path for each person is, and concertedly working on it.