Digital Skills Provide a Development Path for Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa is urbanizing with massive rural-urban migration. But unlike the urbanization of the Western world decades and centuries ago, Sub-Saharan Africa is missing a critical component: industrialized urban cities. In other words, unlike in the Western world where industrialization preceded urbanization, Sub-Saharan Africa’s urban cities are growing with marginal manufacturing output and industrial capacities.