Young, gifted and black: Africa’s next generation
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Africa’s young are educated, ambitious side-hustlers. But they are hampered by their economies and dispirited by their politicians. How to harness their vast potential? America’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency is, in a real-world accounting, not actually budging the budget much (8:25). And why Germans take more days off sick than other Europeans do (15:48).
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