To adequately prepare for the future of work, African professionals will have to reimagine what education and professional life mean.
In 1968, a story emphasizing how unprepared millions of people were for significant, imminent change captured the West’s attention. The Population Bomb, written by Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich, claimed that population growth would lead to mass starvation across the world. Ehrlich, in fact, went as far as saying that he ‘would take even money that England