13th Annual Africa Young Graduates and Scholars conference gets underway in Johannesburg

Emerging scholars from different parts of Africa are meeting in South Africa for the 13th annual Africa Young Graduates and Scholars conference at the University of Johannesburg in Auckland Park Kingsway .Taking place under the theme, Youth Development in Africa: Challenges, Solutions and the Way Forward, the AYGS 2019 Conference, co-hosted this year by the Africa Institute of South Africa in the HSRC and the Division for Internationalisation at the University of Johannesburg, will explore youth development challenges in Africa based on solicited scholarly papers from emerging academics and researchers from the continent. Participants include young academics from Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and South Africa.More from Frank Lekaba researcher at the Africa Institute of South Africa.