Lead Afrique International has held its annual Black Star Summit, bringing together stakeholders to explore collaborative and innovative solutions to Ghana’s pressing socio-economic challenges.
Delivering the keynote address at the event on Thursday, May 1, General Manager of Channel One TV/Citi FM and host of the Citi Breakfast Show, Bernard Koku Avle, underscored the critical role of skill application in driving national development.
He argued that Ghana’s future will be determined not merely by its youthful population, but by how well individuals, regardless of age, deploy their abilities for the collective good.
“…For me, no matter your age, if you deploy it, it is an advantage. So I don’t buy the argument that because we have a lot of young people, it means that the future belongs to us.
“If we have a lot of young, miseducated, wrong-minded people, it is just catastrophic. I think what is important with the talent of the people is what you do with them,” Mr. Avle stated.
He further called on the youth to maximise the potential of social media by using it as a platform for informed and constructive national dialogue.
“As young people, you have the legitimacy in the market. The market is not for those who shout the loudest but for people who have researched and, through practice, bring in different perspectives. One of the reasons we suffer as a country is that our public discourse is very weak,” he added.