Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta told French entrepreneurs that Africa’s true potential; is its young people and not the traditional natural resources the continent has.
“I tell people all the time, we look at the African continent sometimes from a perspective of its natural wealth. The gold, the diamonds, the oil, the gas; but what we tend not to see is what is the true African potential.” Kenyatta said.
He added further that, “the true African potential is our young men and women; and their capacity to participate with you to build a greater and better world for all of us.”
Speaking on the long standing issue of immigration that sees economically active African youth leaving the continent to Europe; Uhuru Kenyatta stated that, “We know we have huge problems with regard to migration that make people have this feeling or this understanding; that all that Africa can contribute is migrants.”
“But you must ask yourself, why do these young men and women risk their lives to cross thousands of miles of land; risk their lives to cross the Mediterranean. It is in search of opportunity,” President Kenyatta added.