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This book investigates the prospects of Africa's sustainable industrialization, with an emphasis on youth entrepreneurship and the mechanisms in place to support both industrial and corporate entrepreneurs. The volume addresses two specific issues; first, industrialization and youth entrepreneurship and secondly, youth entrepreneurship training and education. The emphasis on youth entrepreneurship to drive sustainable industrialization in Africa is driven by three points: first, Africa's industrialization is still at its inception with severely limited existing stock of entrepreneurial talents, which makes it imperative to look to the continent's bulging youth population - the population dividend for the needed supply of successive generations of entrepreneurs. Secondly, sustainable industrialization would have to be oriented to green, ICT and inclusive growth which calls for a change in entrepreneurs' attitudes. Finally, at the centre of the Africa Rising narrative is a budding new cheetah generation of young entrepreneurs who are highly educated, professional and motivated by the need to set up new business models and practices to compete in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This volume forms part of an Education for Sustainable Development in Africa (ESDA) book series involving the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability and 8 partner African universities running Master's Programs in sustainable development. The book series is intended to serve primarily as undergraduate and graduate instruction materials for courses on sustainable development in Africa, as well as policy input to key developmental issues in Africa.

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Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan African Development Bank (AfDB), Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire

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