The assumption that if you equip young Africans with digital skills, employment will follow has been proven wrong over the years. Millions of young Africans continue to graduate from school each year for economies that cannot absorb them. At the same time, artificial intelligence is already shaping the nature of work, routine tasks, and changing the skills employers demand.
For years, the response has centred on digital skills. Governments have launched coding programmes, development organisations have funded digital literacy initiatives, and private companies have invested in technical training. These efforts have expanded access to digital education, but they have not resolved the fundamental problem: many young people still struggle to convert those skills into meaningful economic opportunities.
According to Maggie Gu, founder and president of Tomorrow Foundation, an initiative focused on digital skills, entrepreneurship, and AI literacy in Africa, the conversation has focused too narrowly on training individuals instead of fixing
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