The Way Forward for Africa: Scholarships, Training, and a Youth-Centered Foreign Policy

 


President John Mahama’s directive to Ghana’s new envoys - to secure international scholarships and training opportunities for young people - is exemplary leadership.


This is the way forward for Africa: transforming our embassies and missions into gateways of education, skills, and opportunity for the next generation.


A model worth emulating across the continent.

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