The African Football League(AFL) debuted with an impact schedule of the top clubs across the continent.
Link: African Football League(AFL)
Questions have been raised as to the need for the new competition. The Champion League format has taken root and is ripe for development. But the AFL has a societal goal that resonates beyond football. Keep African talent in Africa.
One of the driving goals of the AfCFTA is to keep resources and the globe’s largest young population in the continent.
Link: AfCFTA
The brain drain from African countries benefits the host countries in Asia Europe and North America but depletes the development of countries across the African continent.
Covid fallout had and is still presenting hardship and challenges across the globes health care and economies. Prior to Covid most young Africans wanted to stay home and develop businesses in their home country.
African economies are driven by the globe’s largest population of #Entrepreneurs.
Post covid inflation has hit the entrepreneurs in the informal economy harshly. Crime has soared in many countries and African talent is looking to emigrate.
The long term social goals in the development sector won’t convince many of the talent from emigrating but Digital Development Firms in Africa and abroad can share the talent abroad and lay the ground work for the return of the talent.
The African Union’s Development Agency has created a platform to leverage the skill sets of Digital Development and Marketing Firms to engage the diaspora with their homeland in capturing the pre-covid goals of the young talent, stay home and build out a business.
Link: https://www.nepad.org/blog/tackling-africas-brain-drain-challenge-through-smart-digital-technologies
