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Tackling Africa's "unemployable" challenge: 

http://www.worldpolicy.org/blog/2015/09/29/tackling-africas-unemployable-challenge

"Clearly there are not enough jobs to absorb the 40+ million unemployed young people in West Africa alone, but this does not mean we cannot start with filling positions that do exist. The young workplace entrants of today are the potential employers and entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

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