The Future of Work: Can Africa become the world's workforce?
Some 47 per cent of the labour force in Africa will need to be re-skilled and up-skilled to meet the already changing work environment. PHOTO | FILE | NMG
Africa is currently home to a youth population of 77 per cent, and by 2050, two in every five children will be born in Africa. Africa is the youngest continent and the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) provides the continent a real opportunity to become the world’s workforce.
With 1.2 billion people on the continent, investments in human capital development on the continent for the 4IR will need to include revamping the education system to develop skilled labour for each of the new economies – digital, circular, bio, carbon, hydrogen, methanol, blue, shared etc. These investments would need to align with investments in general and economy specific infrastructure.
