Africa-Press – Angola. The president of the National Youth Council (CNJ), Isaías Kalunga, in Luanda asked African governments to focus on excellence in training, with a view to the continent’s development.
Isaías Kalunga, who was speaking, on Tuesday, during the “Forum on youth and the African dream”, held by the Angolan Youth Institute and the National Youth Council, at the National Historical Archive, in Camama, said that young people have the responsibility of transforming the continent into a world power, not making their children emigrate to other countries in search of better living conditions.
He added that the process of emigration of young people, often illegally, makes the African continent increasingly poor. “It is important that young people have knowledge, to make Africa a land of dreams”.
On the occasion, the head of the Department of Communication and Modernization of Services of the Angolan Youth Institute, José Mateus, said that, in order to build a better future for young Africans, it is necessary to empower them more and more in the various domains of social life, economic and political.
José Mateus defended the need to materialize the program “More citizenship, more Angola”, included in the Integral Youth Development Program.
He revealed that the forum aimed to encourage youth to practice good practices, for the construction of a safer society, as well as instilling patriotic and cultural values and greater involvement in issues aimed at the development of the African continent, in addition to looking at the challenges of the present and of the future.
He added that the forum also aimed to encourage, more and more, the participation of youth in policies and programs for the development of the continent, which is considered the cradle of humanity.
Historical date
José Mateus announced that the African Youth Day was established on November 1, 2006, with the approval of the African Youth Charter, ratified by Angola in 2008.
From this date, he stressed, every year, the African Union celebrates the African Youth Day, considered the trump and hope of the continent, because, through investments, they end up playing a fundamental role for its development.
The African Union, he underlined, estimates that young people make up 65 percent of the population, out of a horizon of more than one billion people in Africa. Therefore, it considers it necessary to transform the African demographic profile and adopt new technologies in a systematic and massive way for all.
The African Union, revealed, also assumes the importance of recognizing the active role of youth in the dialectic of development of the continent and defends that Agenda 2063 will only be successful if African States take into account the skills, talent, imagination , the commitment and hard work of young people.
To mark the date, this year, debates were created around the theme “The African dream”, an alert to the importance of engaging young people on the continent and the need to include them in spaces for participation and decision-making.
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