Africa’s Top 9 TVET Highlights 2024

The great novelist Chinua Achebe wrote in his novel Things Fall Apart that ‘‘until the lions learn to write, every story will glorify the hunter.’’ Having followed up the TVET calendar week in week out, I hereby share Africa’s top nine TVET highlights. Though not in any order but mindful of the potential impact both in the short and long run.

1. Launch of WorldSkills Africa.

The launch of WorldSkills Africa at the 37th Ordinary session of African Union Assembly in Ethiopia was a strategic move in enhancing Africa’s active participation in global world skills matters. For example, we witnessed an increase in membership of African countries in WorldSkills International, with Nigeria and Ethiopia attending the 47th WorldSkills competition in Lyon, France. WorldSkills Africa remains the champion of member countries on the continent while still tapping into the myriad of opportunities that the WorldSkills International presents in achieving demographic dividend.