As South Africa prepares to host the G20 Summit for the first time, one of the top concerns is South Africa’s youth, a precarious cohort of the population that, with limited opportunities to strengthen their education and skills development, faces a future of unemployment and hopelessness. “We have a constituency of young people, the only continent in the world that has a youth bulge. And if it’s true that we in Africa are not finding the skills, the employment to keep these youth in Africa or be part of skills development, young people are going to look for work everywhere else. Dr Silvestre Edward Kaweesi of Makerere University warned against surface-level optimism without structural investment in education, skills development, and economic inclusion. That’s on us.”The session’s speakers questioned what Africa’s formal inclusion in the G20 truly means.