Giving Compass' Take:

• Bill Gates warns that stability in Africa makes a huge difference to the world, and that investing in the health and education of its young people is vital. In this video, Gates expresses hope that the Trump administration will recognize the urgency.

• How can we bring more attention to the importance of education in Africa and all over the globe? Which collaborations and partnerships will be key to this effort?

• Here's another example of supporting education in Africa. 

What worries Bill Gates most? The booming population of Africa looms over his foundation’s latest global survey. By the end of this century there will be 4 billion more people on Earth — and 3 billion of these extra souls will be born in Africa. The challenge, he says, is that “Africa must almost quadruple its agricultural productivity to feed itself. That’s very daunting.”

The philanthropist is torn between sending out a message of hope and a message of fear when I meet him at his foundation’s spacious campus in the heart of his hometown, Seattle.

He is reaching for what works best to revive the west’s faltering conscience in the face of “America first” nationalism and rising pull-up-the-drawbridge populism in Europe. The spirit of generosity is under assault as government aid budgets come under constant sniper fire from right-wing politicians and their media.

Read the full article about Africa's youth boom by Polly Toynbee at The Guardian.