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Toyosi Akerele: Young African women have been deprived over time.
There's been a serial relationship right here in Africa in terms
of trying to empower young, you know, empower women.
So I think it's imperative upon me as an educator and a pretty
young women to be able to hold the hands of other young people
and try to get them to go to school.
I also provide, you know, some form of, you know,
access to opportunity.
When there's something that is happening, there's a program,
there's an event, I try to nominate, you know,
these other young people so that they can get the chance
to benefit from some of the things I've benefited from.
And, finally, I also try to, you know, propagate the issue of,
you know, the concept of action learning.
It is important that people are given and enabled to provide an
enabling environment to practice many of the things
they've learned so that it becomes numb and it becomes
a part of their lives.
The vast untapped human and material resource of Africa
is one that African leaders need to begin to look at,
the time to, you know, go against sit tight
Africa leadership is now for young Africans to begin
to demand mandatria accountability.
I've had the chance to be in America,
and I see that it's a very developed environment.
I dream that Nigeria, my country, will be like that,
but I also want to be able say that, Mrs. Obama,
more than just meeting with us inside Africa should be able
to create for a sustainable engagement platform that will
empower us to go back to our home countries and teach other
young women what we've learned from the forum inside Africa.