Zitat des Tages von Richard Attias:
If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the barriers to their participation.
Not only do African students deserve excellent universities, they deserve good elementary and secondary schools, too - and then, to have access to ongoing vocational and job training to ensure their skills remain as relevant as possible to African organizations.
Bringing more large sporting events to Africa would help the continent develop sports policies and at the same time optimize its peoples' chances of achieving competitive success.
Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself.
It is my firm belief that action on the issues that matter for Africa must emerge from within Africa itself.
The cost of infrastructure development to host a mega-event can be offset against economic growth over future decades.
What the Olympics and other mega-events have shown is that the significant investment required to host an international games successfully has the power to transform a region, and even a nation.
Improving Africa's farming sector would have multiple positive outcomes for African people.
Africa's informal economy is one of the most innovative and inventive environments in the world. Yet it is an environment with little regulation in which workers are often exposed to hard conditions and live without a safety net.
For African societies, no issue looms larger than employment. Only vibrant entrepreneurship and thriving small businesses can hope to provide the millions of jobs that are needed.
When kids are young, before the age of ten, there is a critical window of opportunity when their habits and motivations can be influenced.
Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work.
Female success stories from sporting events like the Olympic Games have played a role in shifting the Indian perception to see the female athlete as a hero and a role model for young Indian girls.
Global sports tournaments have a range of benefits that go far beyond the games themselves. They can transform the image of a country or a region. They bring people together and reveal new possibilities to a nation's youth.
The factors that have been holding farmers back are similar to those that threaten other types of growth in Africa. Infrastructure and transport are in many cases quite poor, resulting in the losses of huge amounts of produce.
