This is Africa’s most consequential decade. Those who take office in the next decade will be compelled to deliver results, to make decisions that will shape our socioeconomic norms for the next 100 years. Education systems are out of sync with labour markets. Africa stands at a pivotal moment where leadership transformation is both a necessity and an opportunity. The decisions made in this coming decade on health, education, jobs and more will echo into the continent’s, and indeed the world’s, socioeconomic makeup for the next century.