How Africa can finance its education
By CNBC Africa
09 June 2018 |
8:34 am
Out of 127 million children on the continent, at least 61 per cent will leave school with nothing more than the most basic levels of literacy. The current status quo needs $25 billion annually to fund basic education.
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