{"id":159,"date":"2017-05-25T10:29:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T10:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icae.global\/en\/?p=159"},"modified":"2017-05-25T10:29:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T10:29:14","slug":"africa-day-harnessing-the-demographic-dividend-through-investments-in-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/2017\/05\/africa-day-harnessing-the-demographic-dividend-through-investments-in-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Day: Harnessing the demographic dividend through investments in youth."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Continent of Africa observes and celebrates in a special way the 25 May. The day is known as \u201cAfrica Day.\u201d Africa Day is promoted by the African Union (AU). This year 2017, the African Union highlights the theme: \u2018Harnessing the demographic dividend through investments in youth.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vimfromzim.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/africa-day.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"Image result for africa day 2017 theme\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What began on 25 May 1963 as a day marking the foundation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), Africa Day has evolved into a platform for creating awareness about all things Africa, in Africa and around the world. Africa Day was formerly known as Africa Freedom Day. Today, Africa Day is celebrated in various countries on the African Continent, as well as by Africans in the diaspora. Some Western Aid agencies also celebrate the day to draw attention to some of the challenges facing Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Continent of Africa observes and celebrates in a special way the 25 May. The day is known as \u201cAfrica Day.\u201d Africa Day is promoted by the African Union (AU). This year 2017, the African Union highlights the theme: \u2018Harnessing the demographic dividend through investments in youth.\u2019 What began on 25 May 1963 as a &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Africa Day: Harnessing the demographic dividend through investments in youth.\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/2017\/05\/africa-day-harnessing-the-demographic-dividend-through-investments-in-youth\/#more-159\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Africa Day: Harnessing the demographic dividend through investments in youth.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","lalita-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AfricaDay.jpg","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/159\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icae.global\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}