Those are real stories. They are real situations that have to sometimes find their way into the media, into the headlines. Not so much the misery of … - Amina J. Mohammed

Even I, as an African, say to people, ‘oo, I’m the United Nations’. That’s their conversation they need to have. I can have a private one as well, as a brother or sister conversation to them. But in this piece here, give them space, because every one of them has baggage, and that baggage is colonial. And many of them are tied to it inextricably, and it’s hard.

For the first time we’re not putting a band-aid on the problem, we’re looking at the root causes.

To begin to build the foundational skills of literacy and numeracy, by putting the digital in front so that we’re not waiting until oh, Africa is ready, or Africa has the resources right at the beginning.