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In 2009, 20 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for an estimated 69% of the world's new HIV infections among young people, [51] with an estimated 4.3% of young women and 1.5% of young men in the region living with HIV. In Eastern and Southern Africa, 11.9% of the population living with HIV are aged 15–24, with 710,000 South African ...
75% of the African population is below the age of 35. [19] [20] For Africa to develop, focus, recognition and support must be on youths.[21]Youths can be a positive force for development [22] and their potential can be utilized and developed by quality education and skills improvement; employment opportunities; empowerment and entrepreneurship; good governance; health and well-being.
Sample of the Egyptian Book of the Dead of the scribe Nebqed, c. 1300 BC. Africa is divided into a great number of ethnic cultures. [17] [18] [19] The continent's cultural regeneration has also been an integral aspect of post-independence nation-building on the continent, with a recognition of the need to harness the cultural resources of Africa to enrich the process of education, requiring ...
Young people have engaged in attacks against oil firms and Nigerian militants, hostage taking and hijacking oil workers, youth militancy, vandalising oil pipelines, and detonating bombs. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] Tension in the public has caused conflict among minority and majority groups which has crippled national and social development. [ 45 ]
The participation of young people prompted Time magazine to include several youth members of the movement in its 2011 list of 100 most influential people. [27] Additionally, this movement utilized social media (which is considered an aspect of youth culture) [ citation needed ] to schedule, coordinate, and publicize events.
Urban young women, aged 15–24, have a prevalence of 3.9 percent, whereas young men have a prevalence of 1.1 percent. [14] One sixth of young people in Rwanda are considered vulnerable because of HIV's effect on their lives. [13] The Rwandan government focuses attention of youth health initiatives on reproductive and sexual health. [15]
Youth-driven activism requires young people to be the primary movers within an adult-led movement. Such is the case with the Sierra Club, where youth compel their peers to join and become active in the environmental movement.
Orunmila, the cultivator of Ifa-Ife divination, is the father of ancient Yoruba idealism. His (divine) idealism has inspired the entire Yoruba people in Africa and in the diaspora, especially those who were stolen (to the Americas and the West Indies) during the inhuman slave trade.