The youth of the African continent should prepare themselves for a rebellion against their older generation and claim their leadership role, former president Thabo Mbeki said Sunday.
Mbeki, who was addressing the Youth 21 global leadership forum in Nairobi, Kenya, said two thirds of the continents population was young and that in 2045 they would be the leaders responsible for the two billion projected continental population.
To ensure that [the youth] actually exercises the leadership everybody rhetorically accepts and proclaims is its due, the youth must organise and ready itself to rebel, so to speak.