• Young, gifted and black: Africa’s next generation

  • Feb 20 2025
  • Length: 21 mins
  • Podcast

Young, gifted and black: Africa’s next generation

  • 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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