“Optimize! Africa” is a weekly leadership column focused on the issues that shape Africa’s future through the lens of people, purpose, and performance. It explores themes such as leadership, workforce optimization, education, employability, organizational culture, governance, productivity, institutional effectiveness, and human capital development across the continent. The column’s initiator/author is Amara C. Ezediniru, Ph.D., a Nigerian workforce optimization strategist.

This week:  Africa doesn’t have a talent problem. It has a systems problem.

Across Africa, conversations about unemployment, poor governance, declining productivity, weak institutions, and underperforming organizations often return to one conclusion:  We lack talent.

But perhaps the real problem is not talent. Perhaps the real problem is systems.

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