As a ONE Champion and founder of YouthXcel Africa, I spend a lot of time thinking about what young people across Africa are actually asking for, and what African youth development should look like when it reflects their realities. This year's International Youth Day theme gave language to something I had been circling for a while.
'Different Contexts, Common Aspirations' sounds like reassurance at first, a reminder that young people everywhere want roughly the same things. Sit with it...