What We Get Wrong About Jobs in Africa

The Flip

The African continent has the highest levels of poverty, the lowest levels of formal employment, and its population is going to double in the next 30 years.

African countries need to create more jobs. But what kinds of jobs? And how?

What if I told you that the way governments and development organizations are trying to create jobs in Africa is all wrong?

To make a dent in this problem requires an understanding of the realities on the ground and how that has impacted the preferences of the labor markets in question.

The future of work, for Africans in particular, is not a formal job but a technology-enabled portfolio of work.

00:00 - Intro
01:36 - Informal is normal
03:14 - A portfolio of work
05:24 - Using jobtech platforms like Tendo for supplemental income
08:33 - To what degree can jobtech platforms address the underemployment issues across the continent?

To learn more about the Jobtech Alliance, visit https://jobtechalliance.com

Check out last year's podcast series on the future of work: https://go.theflip.africa/future-of-work

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