Africa is facing a crossroads: allow an education crisis to become a generational catastrophe or invest in education as a means to a more prosperous future for all.
In the past year, the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted learning across sub-Saharan Africa. In many countries, children have missed at least 20 weeks of school - half an academic year. Child labour, early marriage, and teenage pregnancies are on the rise, meaning that millions of children and young people - especially girls - will never return to classrooms even when schools reopen.
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