- CPI

WHY GIVE UP? ITS ABOUT YOUR TURN. OH YEA GRADUATES.

PUT YOUR LATENT SKILLS TO PLAY. IT WILL MAKE YOU.

Transform your frustrations and depression to constructive advocacy. Be real, be a problem solver, don't create one. YOUR SILENCE IS THE BIGGEST PROBLEM, ARE WE LOSING IT?

NO, ITS OUR NARRATIVE TO CREATING A BETTER AFRICA.

Unemployment is most pressing issue, amidst hunger, poor governance and poverty. These are the drivers to violent extremism and terrorism.

Is that bad and frustrating in Nigeria, when unemployed graduates are asked to bring 10 million naira for a 5 million naira loan?

Graduates are key to solving the pressing issues faced in Africa even amidst these impediments. Don’t give up.

The solution to unemployment in Africa is

"Made in Africa"

Think of a business, and fight it through with a charming business plan, as such that could entice the most stringent investors like the federal governments in your countries. When you get to the stream, you will surely cross it, with some powerful and strategic advocacy, the government will listen one day.

Title: Tuskegee University Commencement Address

Author: First Lady Michelle Obama
Year: 2015

And all of that is going to be a heavy burden to carry. It can feel isolating. It can make you feel like your life somehow doesn’t matter -- that you’re like the invisible man that Tuskegee grad Ralph Ellison wrote about all those years ago.

[…]

But, graduates, today, I want to be very clear that those feelings are not an excuse to just throw up our hands and give up. (Applause.) Not an excuse. They are not an excuse to lose hope. To succumb to feelings of despair and anger only means that in the end, we lose.

But here’s the thing -- our history provides us with a better story, a better blueprint for how we can win. It teaches us that when we pull ourselves out of those lowest emotional depths, and we channel our frustrations into studying and organizing and banding together -- then we can build ourselves and our communities up. We can take on those deep-rooted problems, and together -- together -- we can overcome anything that stands in our way.