Afrilition offers a critical and creative discipline for the incredible future that is unfolding. Building this and other systemic frameworks makes the foundation of tomorrow robust and adaptive, not in competition but in offering an authentic alternative for humanity.
Afrilition as a path of evolution outlines key areas, chapter by chapter. It starts by setting out the critical role that women play and will play in African transformation. They make up about half of the African population and are primary child rearers, as well as key contributors, not just to the family but also to the wider African economy. The role of women cannot be overestimated. The African future, without the critical development and full partnership of women, is not just that of poverty but also a severely damaged family unit and fundamentally impaired community. In this part of Afrilition, it explores prototypes of fuller participation, while highlighting some African and Caribbean countries where great strides are being made to build a better and more interdependent world of gender inclusion. It points out the kind of results that this understanding and practice can bring to the African world.
Afrilition, in its following chapter, focuses on the youth, which as a demographic defines African transformation. As the rest of the world ages, Africa enters its own position as the beacon of global youth. Afrilition focuses the mind on the work of turning this demographic phenomenon into the transformative blessing that the African world needs. The discipline of ensuring the values that express the critical and creative potential of incoming generations are explored and practiced, whilst emphasising the power of a truly engaged younger Africa that builds its influence into a valuable leadership practice within an African world. A newer African world that learns to value the contribution and capability of the young in an age in which wisdom is not exclusive to years of experience, but also to critical technological understanding and engagement. Recognising the culture-shaping leadership that even now is available to the youth of the African world, decades before the demographic optimum is realised. The practices that are needed from now to engage and guide the emergence of this Afrilition generation.
