Leaving an internship with more than a certificate
Eighteen hundred immersion placements opened in Togo this September. Spots are no longer scarce. What is scarce is what you take home on the last day.
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Youth and skills
How a skill gets built when school is not enough: turning an internship into more than a certificate, practice that sells before the diploma, and the move from hoped-for employment to work you build yourself.
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AI doesn't eliminate jobs, it shifts tasks
More than 1,000 layoffs at African startups in the first half of 2026, and one working-age Togolese in ten who says they have already used AI. What moves are the motions of work.
Learning young: skill as a springboard
In a saturated market, technical skill is the one lever you actually control. How to build it without an expensive degree, with the informal market as training ground.
African youth and digital: a badly connected present
The digital divide is not a question of smartphones, but of skills. What young people already have, and what is missing to accelerate.
Starting young: what I wish I'd known
Starting with no network, no capital and before feeling ready: concrete lessons from an independent path begun early, from Lomé.