Collaboration Key To Solving Africa’s Challenges, Says Consul General

TUnited States Consul General, Lagos, Mr . Will Stevens, has said collaboration between Africa and America’s thoughtleaderscriticaltosolving the challenges on the continent.

Speaking at the unveiling of a report by Jobberman, titled, ‘ Future Work Africa ( FWA): Designing Africa’s future of work’, Stevens explained that the challenges in Africa were also the same as global challenges.

The report, ‘ Future W ork Africa,’ unveils the opportunities in Africa’s evolving economy and skills relevant to the future of work.

Stevens said: “The challenges that we face as a world are global in nature, whether it be the impacts of climate change and how we mitigate those impacts, whether it be global foodinsecurity, orbacksliding in democracy and the challenges that are faced around the world, and we need to work together, we need to recognise that those are global challenges and recognise that there are going to be African solutions and American solutions. And we need to bring them together and collaborate.”

He added that the private sector should be given opportunities to invest and do business easily, saying this would help grow and develop Africa.

A co- founder, Mr. Mayowa Tijani, said he and two other Nigerians, Uche Pedro and Azeez Salawu, set up Future Work Africa.

Tijani added: “The project, born at a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundationgoalkeepersaccelerator in 2022, sought to understand the jobs of the future, and the skills needed by young people in Africa to effectively match those jobs.”