[Music]
[Applause]
there is a photograph which shows an EMR
one day a chemical engineering graduate
holding a placard and looking for work
on the streets of Johannesburg South
Africa which is arguably one of the most
advanced economies across the African
continent now I see arguably because I’m
aware that they are Nigerians in the
audience across the African continent
there are millions of young people like
Anthea who face a future of uncertainty
and uncertainty that is compounded by
technological advancements like
automation and robotics which will
further reduce the number of jobs
available
growing up in Cameroon I was very
familiar with that abyss of despair
created by youth unemployment year after
year I worked thousands of young people
Corral from universities only to join a
green pool of unemployed graduates when
I was 11 years old and my very first
year at secondary school my older
brother was one of my greatest role
models they graduated from the
University of voya in Cameroon flying
colors I could not be at his graduation
but being a typical last child I made
sure I sent him a very long list of all
the things he was going to buy for me
when he got his first paycheck
yet months of the month and day after
day I watched my brother full of so much
ambition go out in search of a job only
to be told that there were no job like
many African youths
my older brother had spent 17 years of
his life in school preparing for a job
that seemed did not exist
I recall when I was fifteen years old
sitting in class in geography class and
learning about fishing in Norway now I
have nothing against nori or nothing I
didn’t unlock Indian fishing but I
wondered how this was relevant the
realities after graduation and how this
was preparing me for the real war in my
brother’s case he decided to take the
future in his hand and started a small
business fast forward to today he is
currently the director of the largest
national companies in Cameroon so I
eventually got everything I wanted on my
list but more so watching my elder
brother navigate this future of
uncertainty got me thinking about youth
entrepreneurship and about the education
system in Cameroon and it made me ask
this question what is entrepreneurship
were embedded in the education system
with this question in mind
I left Cameroon in 2008 to study at the
African Leadership Academy or le now
this is my very first time out of
Cameroon slice if you imagine how
excited I was in the land of Mandela the
land of a beauty but more still I was
curious
here’s the sea the youth unemployment
crisis in Cameroon was the same in other
parts of the continent and it didn’t
take very long for me to find an answer
in fact asked only three months of
living inside and studying with young
people from many countries across the
continent it became apparent that some
Harare to prod Elizabeth from Dar es
Salaam to Monrovia and from Mendes
Casablanca youth unemployment was
sweeping across the African continent
like a whirlwind in 2009 after being
immersed in an entrepreneurial
curriculum at Ealing I moved to the
United Kingdom Kaname
now my dream at the time was to become a
lawyer so I studied at all the green
anthropology and law in 2012 I graduated
from Ellis II and like many African
youth who study abroad far removed from
the realities of the continent all I
could think of was starting a career as
a lawyer and any thousands of pounds at
that time McKinsey Global Institute had
published a report called Africa at work
job creation and inclusive growth the
report showed that despite the creation
of 37 million new jobs over the past
decade only 28 percent of Africa’s labor
force had held those jobs
the report also showed that in the next
10 years Africa would need to create 54
million new jobs and yet in the same
period about 122 million young people
across the continent entered the liberal
so there’s a huge gap and this got me
thinking the time one of the loving at
all and the time one of ten years old
and the question I’d asked myself what
if entrepreneurship was embedded in the
education system it was then that I need
the decision to work towards actualizing
this possibility of actual of embedding
entrepreneurship in the education system
across the continent with the help of an
incubator program Pub Watson University
and supporters such as Amy and Ed
brakeman I started John Studd Academy
Africa in Cameroon in 2014 so thank you
my king see now my parents know her
responsible for my decisions with my
career the violin Howe at Olmstead
Academy Africa we use an interactive and
a practical approach to learning in
order to create and cultivate critical
thinking skills and an entrepreneurial
approach to problem-solving and in doing
so we help thousands of young people
across Cameron become valued
contributors in the job market in the
words of Tony aluminum I’m trippin
airship means African youth no longer
have to find a job or between to become
employees instead African users can
create their own jobs become employers
and take the future into their hand just
like my brother did instead of sitting
and lesson the future happen to them
now I realize that there’s so much hype
about the term entrepreneurship and it’s
become sort of a buzzword this day you
know the mini buzzword these days
recently someone told me my eyebrows
rhyme sweet that was the first time I
had the word so there are many buzzwords
and I feel entrepreneurship has a
tendency to become one of those both
worlds and there has been a paradigm
shift where by entrepreneurs are now
seen as magicians creating magic as
celebrities as rock stars as people
creating the latest app and earning
billions of dollars now there’s nothing
wrong with that but that is not the kind
of entrepreneurship and referring to the
kind of entrepreneurship and advocates
before today it won’t it’s one that
centers around enabling young people
especially in the African continent
navigate a future of uncertainty in two
main ways
the first is by training and retraining
young people with 21st century skill and
the second is by enabling these young
people to create value and not just any
kind of value but long-term and
sustainable value over the last three
years at John Studd Academy Africa we
have enabled young people over 350 of
them create long-term value in rural
areas and cities alike this includes
young people like Joyce bucolic II a
young woman from Berman de Cameroon
Joyce was part of our inaugural class in
2014 and using the entrepreneurial
skills she learned at the Academy she
started a catering business called wind
lights today
Joyce employs three other young people
and to the profits she makes is able to
cover the cost of her university
education it also includes young people
like Steve Young Misaki who is actually
seated in the audience today
CVL is a young woman from rural area
called ndu in cameroon and she was also
part of our inaugural class in 2014
using the entrepreneurial training she
received she started a radio program in
her local community to sensitize the
local population such as malaria and
hiv/aids she also became one of the 50
young people that was selected to join
the inaugural class of the year young
Africa Scholars Program and there’s more
she also won a scholarship and joined
the inaugural class of the African
Leadership College here in Mauritius but
she studies electrical engineering and
there’s two more she now runs a
nonprofit organization in Cameron which
empowers orphans and vulnerable children
I believe she deserves
like joys and like CBN there are
millions of young people across the
African continent with the potential to
create value for themselves and in their
communities what they need is training
and mentorship that will break the
barriers disease and ignite their
possibilities now there are other
initiatives and other institutions doing
fantastic work in this area of youth
entrepreneurship across the continent
institutions like with Rick wars in
Zimbabwe and natural comprehensive
college in Cameroon however and this is
a huge however by 2050 we need to create
jobs for an extra 1 billion people on
the continent now think about that
number 1 billion people or as a young
man I know coffret spanakopita if we do
not create jobs for an extra 1 billion
people on the continent by 2050 then we
are sitting on a ticking time bomb you
know I never imagined that quoting for a
20-car poor people ever going to get me
in trouble until two days ago when I was
on my strike to Mauritius and I was
rehearsing my speech to myself I was
talking out loud and I put in my
headphones and I got to this slide and I
said the words ticking time-bomb on an
airplane but it all seriousness I
believe the ticking time bomb metaphor
Fred use this demonstrate that dividend
of Africa’s youthful population is not a
given
in fact it requires urgent and
substantial investment
it also requires macroeconomic as well
as fiscal policies therefore I invite
all of you here today to think of the
different ways in which you can enable
entrepreneurship in your respective
communities and countries whether you’re
a student a teacher a lawyer a doctor
an accountant we all have an important
role to play in this full of youth
entrepreneurship across the continent
I believe Africa’s future lies with this
generation who will capture value
generate growth and create sustainable
development across the continent by
enabling African youth to navigate a
future of uncertainty we can and we will
empower the next generation and the
economic drivers of the future thank you
[Applause]
[Applause]
there is a photograph which shows an EMR
one day a chemical engineering graduate
holding a placard and looking for work
on the streets of Johannesburg South
Africa which is arguably one of the most
advanced economies across the African
continent now I see arguably because I’m
aware that they are Nigerians in the
audience across the African continent
there are millions of young people like
Anthea who face a future of uncertainty
and uncertainty that is compounded by
technological advancements like
automation and robotics which will
further reduce the number of jobs
available
growing up in Cameroon I was very
familiar with that abyss of despair
created by youth unemployment year after
year I worked thousands of young people
Corral from universities only to join a
green pool of unemployed graduates when
I was 11 years old and my very first
year at secondary school my older
brother was one of my greatest role
models they graduated from the
University of voya in Cameroon flying
colors I could not be at his graduation
but being a typical last child I made
sure I sent him a very long list of all
the things he was going to buy for me
when he got his first paycheck
yet months of the month and day after
day I watched my brother full of so much
ambition go out in search of a job only
to be told that there were no job like
many African youths
my older brother had spent 17 years of
his life in school preparing for a job
that seemed did not exist
I recall when I was fifteen years old
sitting in class in geography class and
learning about fishing in Norway now I
have nothing against nori or nothing I
didn’t unlock Indian fishing but I
wondered how this was relevant the
realities after graduation and how this
was preparing me for the real war in my
brother’s case he decided to take the
future in his hand and started a small
business fast forward to today he is
currently the director of the largest
national companies in Cameroon so I
eventually got everything I wanted on my
list but more so watching my elder
brother navigate this future of
uncertainty got me thinking about youth
entrepreneurship and about the education
system in Cameroon and it made me ask
this question what is entrepreneurship
were embedded in the education system
with this question in mind
I left Cameroon in 2008 to study at the
African Leadership Academy or le now
this is my very first time out of
Cameroon slice if you imagine how
excited I was in the land of Mandela the
land of a beauty but more still I was
curious
here’s the sea the youth unemployment
crisis in Cameroon was the same in other
parts of the continent and it didn’t
take very long for me to find an answer
in fact asked only three months of
living inside and studying with young
people from many countries across the
continent it became apparent that some
Harare to prod Elizabeth from Dar es
Salaam to Monrovia and from Mendes
Casablanca youth unemployment was
sweeping across the African continent
like a whirlwind in 2009 after being
immersed in an entrepreneurial
curriculum at Ealing I moved to the
United Kingdom Kaname
now my dream at the time was to become a
lawyer so I studied at all the green
anthropology and law in 2012 I graduated
from Ellis II and like many African
youth who study abroad far removed from
the realities of the continent all I
could think of was starting a career as
a lawyer and any thousands of pounds at
that time McKinsey Global Institute had
published a report called Africa at work
job creation and inclusive growth the
report showed that despite the creation
of 37 million new jobs over the past
decade only 28 percent of Africa’s labor
force had held those jobs
the report also showed that in the next
10 years Africa would need to create 54
million new jobs and yet in the same
period about 122 million young people
across the continent entered the liberal
so there’s a huge gap and this got me
thinking the time one of the loving at
all and the time one of ten years old
and the question I’d asked myself what
if entrepreneurship was embedded in the
education system it was then that I need
the decision to work towards actualizing
this possibility of actual of embedding
entrepreneurship in the education system
across the continent with the help of an
incubator program Pub Watson University
and supporters such as Amy and Ed
brakeman I started John Studd Academy
Africa in Cameroon in 2014 so thank you
my king see now my parents know her
responsible for my decisions with my
career the violin Howe at Olmstead
Academy Africa we use an interactive and
a practical approach to learning in
order to create and cultivate critical
thinking skills and an entrepreneurial
approach to problem-solving and in doing
so we help thousands of young people
across Cameron become valued
contributors in the job market in the
words of Tony aluminum I’m trippin
airship means African youth no longer
have to find a job or between to become
employees instead African users can
create their own jobs become employers
and take the future into their hand just
like my brother did instead of sitting
and lesson the future happen to them
now I realize that there’s so much hype
about the term entrepreneurship and it’s
become sort of a buzzword this day you
know the mini buzzword these days
recently someone told me my eyebrows
rhyme sweet that was the first time I
had the word so there are many buzzwords
and I feel entrepreneurship has a
tendency to become one of those both
worlds and there has been a paradigm
shift where by entrepreneurs are now
seen as magicians creating magic as
celebrities as rock stars as people
creating the latest app and earning
billions of dollars now there’s nothing
wrong with that but that is not the kind
of entrepreneurship and referring to the
kind of entrepreneurship and advocates
before today it won’t it’s one that
centers around enabling young people
especially in the African continent
navigate a future of uncertainty in two
main ways
the first is by training and retraining
young people with 21st century skill and
the second is by enabling these young
people to create value and not just any
kind of value but long-term and
sustainable value over the last three
years at John Studd Academy Africa we
have enabled young people over 350 of
them create long-term value in rural
areas and cities alike this includes
young people like Joyce bucolic II a
young woman from Berman de Cameroon
Joyce was part of our inaugural class in
2014 and using the entrepreneurial
skills she learned at the Academy she
started a catering business called wind
lights today
Joyce employs three other young people
and to the profits she makes is able to
cover the cost of her university
education it also includes young people
like Steve Young Misaki who is actually
seated in the audience today
CVL is a young woman from rural area
called ndu in cameroon and she was also
part of our inaugural class in 2014
using the entrepreneurial training she
received she started a radio program in
her local community to sensitize the
local population such as malaria and
hiv/aids she also became one of the 50
young people that was selected to join
the inaugural class of the year young
Africa Scholars Program and there’s more
she also won a scholarship and joined
the inaugural class of the African
Leadership College here in Mauritius but
she studies electrical engineering and
there’s two more she now runs a
nonprofit organization in Cameron which
empowers orphans and vulnerable children
I believe she deserves
like joys and like CBN there are
millions of young people across the
African continent with the potential to
create value for themselves and in their
communities what they need is training
and mentorship that will break the
barriers disease and ignite their
possibilities now there are other
initiatives and other institutions doing
fantastic work in this area of youth
entrepreneurship across the continent
institutions like with Rick wars in
Zimbabwe and natural comprehensive
college in Cameroon however and this is
a huge however by 2050 we need to create
jobs for an extra 1 billion people on
the continent now think about that
number 1 billion people or as a young
man I know coffret spanakopita if we do
not create jobs for an extra 1 billion
people on the continent by 2050 then we
are sitting on a ticking time bomb you
know I never imagined that quoting for a
20-car poor people ever going to get me
in trouble until two days ago when I was
on my strike to Mauritius and I was
rehearsing my speech to myself I was
talking out loud and I put in my
headphones and I got to this slide and I
said the words ticking time-bomb on an
airplane but it all seriousness I
believe the ticking time bomb metaphor
Fred use this demonstrate that dividend
of Africa’s youthful population is not a
given
in fact it requires urgent and
substantial investment
it also requires macroeconomic as well
as fiscal policies therefore I invite
all of you here today to think of the
different ways in which you can enable
entrepreneurship in your respective
communities and countries whether you’re
a student a teacher a lawyer a doctor
an accountant we all have an important
role to play in this full of youth
entrepreneurship across the continent
I believe Africa’s future lies with this
generation who will capture value
generate growth and create sustainable
development across the continent by
enabling African youth to navigate a
future of uncertainty we can and we will
empower the next generation and the
economic drivers of the future thank you
[Applause]
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