International Day of the Girl Child Obiageli “Oby” Ezekwesili
I join that call wearing three hats: as a member of the advisory council behind Columbia University’s report Accelerating Efforts to End Child Marriage; as Civil Society Representative on the Steering Committee of the African Union’s Decade of Accelerated Action for the Transformation of Education and Skills Development in Africa (2025–2034); and as the leader of Human Capital Africa, an organisation that has spent years arguing that Africa’s human capital crisis begins in the early-grade classroom.
If every African girl completed secondary education, child marriage could be almost eliminated.
Track girls’ learning, their transition to secondary school, and child marriage rates in national accountability systems.
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