Africa Skills Week 2024 Draws To A Triumphant Close: ‘Change Your Country, And Change Africa’

Photography by Yaw Afrim Gyebi, Ghana Africa Skills Week (ASW) should be institutionalised as a biennial event to encourage dialogue, experience sharing and collaboration on skills development and employment in Africa, the inaugural conference’s outcome statement and call to action boldly states. In closing ASW, this communiqué says the conference had achieved enhanced policy dialogue “on the […]

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Africa’s Tech Skills Development Goes Beyond The Classroom

Tech skills development in Africa is increasingly going beyond the borders of the classroom as organisations take novel approaches to addressing pervasive skills availability constraints. Kholiwe Makhohliso, Managing Director at SAP Southern Africa, says upskilling and mobilising Africa’s considerable skills base is a defining opportunity for the future success of the continent. “Digital technologies continue […]

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