THE TOMORROW`S PEOPLE.


                                                                  livepopulation.com

 75 % of the total Kenyan population is aged between 18-35 years old. This means of the reported 47.6 million people; Youths are around 35 million. That is according to Kenya's 2019 population census data. Due to it high population of youths Kenya stands on the runway of economic take-off if we find a way to harness the creativity and entrepreneurship that our youths.  

Youths are a force that can drive and create demand for goods and services especially due to the growing digital economy. My view for Kenya's youth is, we will need to inoculate a culture of self-dependency in a critical mass of the youth demographic. There is need to be shifted from the historical socialization of young people that education will position them to get well-paying jobs. We need to understand that education ought to prepare us to create jobs by harnessing our creativity, starting with small start-ups that government and its agencies can hand-hold to achieve scale. Secondly, we need to point out to youths that what we call "talent "can be professionalized to make it profitable for us to engage in activities we are passionate about, either acting, sport or even singing. 

It is worth to remind Kenya's that the goals envisioned for the youths are a journey and every step we take individually and collectively, helps us as a country to walk that journey together. At the end of it all the hope is to create a country that is progressive and cohesive and creates opportunity for self-advancement of all citizens irrespective of where they come from. Secondly is aimed to create industrial hubs across the country to harness resources. Only in this way will we progress in helping the youths in revival of Kenya's economy to which young people will feel confident to live and work and invest to be the tomorrow's people.    

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