Rapelang Rabana speaks at TED2026: All of Us. April 13-17, 2026, Vancouver, BC. Photo: Ryan Lash / TED

August 24, 2026

TED

How to fix Africa's learning crisis

By 2030, nearly half the world's young people will be African. Yet for decades, the continent's learning crisis was treated with systems unfit for reality on the ground. Social entrepreneur Rapelang Rabana shows how homegrown leadership and technology designed for African classrooms can deliver foundational skills to millions of children — and shape a new future of education across the continent. (This ambitious idea is part of The Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.)

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