By the year 2050, the African continent will have more than 2.5 billion people.
The co-founder Next leaders initiative Peter David stated this during the celebration of Mandela international day with young African leaders that cut across the continent which was celebrated on the 18th of July 2020.
The celebration which took place via Zoom quoted the co-founder as saying that his dream was to meet 3 people in the world and Nelson Mandela is one of them, Unfortunately, he could not see him and is one of his greatest regret in life.
Peter David who is the co-founder of Nelis is currently living in Tokyo, Japan.
. Peter David said Mandela’s famous Book “Long Walk to Freedom” with 800 pages is a must-read and lamented that Where did the walk go after 1999? where are we now in Africa?
He said there is the need to have at least one million committed leaders in Africa to make changes in Leadership across the continent because in 2050 Africa’s population is going to be about 2.5 billion people and 4.5 billion in 2100 respectively.
He added that the continent should start devising ways of survival.
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Peter David further extensively spoke about the requisite Leadership skills the continent needed to take it to the next step.
According to him, Africa needs leadership that will improve new values and enables the growth of new technology.
He said in 1990 there are 400 million people in Africa and in 2019 we have about 1 billion in Africa. The population keeps on increasing with the current situation of unemployment, poverty, and hunger across the entire continent.
The co-founder said the continent can make changes in the following ways by adopting-Principle,-Passion Positivism, Patience, Pragmatism.
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The celebration by NELIS took place via zoom and some of the highlights where participants were drawn from different parts of Africa including head of NELIS in Kano Malam Abubakar Musa Umar
