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African universities are peddling entrepreneurship to fix unemployment.

05 July 2016

Africa’s unemployment problem, especially among young people, is well-documented. But some of the continent’s universities are adapting to this reality by increasingly focusing on entrepreneurship, especially in the tech space.

In South Africa, where almost one-third of the labour force is out of work, unemployment among 15- to 24-year-olds is approaching 50%. Young Kenyans, too, are struggling for work, with 17.3% unemployed.

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