How farming could employ Africa's young workforce -- and help build peace | Kola Masha

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🗓️ 10 July 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Africa's youth is coming of age rapidly, but job growth on the continent isn't keeping up. The result: financial insecurity and, in some cases, a turn towards insurgent groups. In a passionate talk, agricultural entrepreneur Kola Masha details his plan to bring leadership and investment to small farmers in Africa -- and employ a rising generation.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features agricultural leader, Kola Masha,
0:04.5	recorded live at TED Global 2017.
0:09.5	Since 1997, researchers at the University of Sussex
0:14.0	have monitored global trends in armed conflict.
0:18.5	Their research clearly shows that in Africa, over the last 10 years,
0:24.8	armed conflict has gone up by sevenfold.
0:29.4	Let's think about that.
0:31.2	Sevenfold in a single decade.
0:36.9	Why is this?
0:39.0	We believe as oxygen is to fire,
0:42.7	so our unemployed youth to insecurity.
0:46.8	We have a lot of youth on this continent.
0:51.3	Youth like Sandra,
0:59.0	who on a Saturday morning in March 2014, woke up excited at the prospects of getting a coveted job
1:03.0	at the Nigerian immigration services.
1:06.0	She kissed her daughter goodbye,
1:09.0	left her home, never to return.
1:13.2	Sondra and 15 other young Nigerians died that day, applying for a job.
1:21.2	In the ensuing stampede, as tens of thousands of people applied for a few thousand open decisions.
1:34.0	In the last 20 years, 20 million youths have entered the Nigerian workforce alone.
1:42.5	Today, half our population is under the age of 18. That's almost 80 million people
1:51.5	that will be entering the workforce in the next 20 years. My friends, if a wave of 20 million people entering the workforce triggered Niger Delta
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