Bright Young Minds: Felix Kariba

<p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Felix Kariba is an urban and regional development expert with broad experience supporting urban governance and formulation of development policies and strategies, as a practitioner and researcher for international organisations, local and national governments, the private sector, and non-profit organisations.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Listen or watch to explore:</strong></span></p> <ul class="ul1"> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Intro to his background, past work at the Cities Alliance, and more.</span></li> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The biggest challenge facing Africa’s youth and how it can be addressed. [60% of Africans today are under 25 and approx 11million young African’s are unemployed while the job market can only produce 3.7million jobs annually].</span></li> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ensuring we leave no one behind.</span></li> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">How African youth should be groomed to enable them to have the right skills set to contribute to the development of the continent.</span></li> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">His approach to continues learning and how he stays on top of trends and new developments.</span></li> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">How, as a young Kenyan, he is making sense of what is going on in Kenya and the world.</span></li> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">His vision for future cities, potential barriers and solutions.</span></li> <li class="li2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Advice to young people to remain hopeful of the future.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>About the Bright Young Minds Show on Future Cities Africa<br /></strong></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;">Africa has the youngest population in