In order to achieve a unified voice of youth in advocacy and policy during the implementation, follow-up, and review of the Global Compact For Migration; the African Youth Architects ( AYA) in partnership with the Centre Culturel Africain du Maroc ( CCA Maroc), over the week held a Youth Forum on Migration for 500+ African youth migrants presently living in Morocco, and hoping to proceed to Spain.  T he Forum was  entirely sponsored by SAMAGEC  and the aim of the Forum is to build the capacities of the migrants and to make them benefit from a newly established project that will support them to be independent and establish their own businesses. The Forum was attended by the Founder and Ag. Executive Chairperson of the AYA, Ms. Fatou Hydra and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of AYA, Mr. Zama Joel. The AYA donated some new clothes and food items to the migrants and thereafter built their capacities through arts and culture. We must first agree that a legal m...

The Secretariat of the African Youth Architects (AYA) in Rabat, Morocco, as part of the development of the AYA Secretariat, are pleased to announce that the AYA is recruiting TWO (2) young information-literates and enthusiastic Pan-Africanists, who are youth architects- and are passionate about the AU AGENDA 2063 and the SDG's. The positions are VOLUNTARY and PART-TIME but INTERNS will all be COMPENSATED with some HANDSOME AMOUNT, a CERTIFICATE and be entitled to become a MEMBER of the African Youth Architects  ( AYA) Ideal candidates should preferrably have (1 Year Experience) as a Social Media Intern/ or Knowledge of Social Media in General  (with Instagram and Facebook proficiency) The Intern (s) will be responsible for:        1. Will report to Director for Admin and Information & Communications Department        2. Will control/ manage all social media pages of the AYA for a period of SIX (6) MONTHS     ...

AYA focus on empowering the youth and creating job opportunities for them. The sole objective of AYA is to launch an international campaign on the attainment of a relevant and a quality education for all, and the implementation of the World Programme of Action for Youth, the SDG's and the AU AGENDA 2063. To make this difference in the lives of the youths, we want to see ( AfriKa ) and not AfriCa for the Africa we want; we are open to partnership with individuals or organizations, in order to create a suitable platform for coordinated actions and mass mobilization towards youth unemployment and employment creation for the youths in all sectors in Africa. As the number of youths increased population wise in recent  years, which doesn’t exclude asylum seekers and refugees, West Africa in particular had seen an exponentially increase over the past decades, and countries like The Gambia, , Nigeria, Somalia, Senegal , Mali, Sudan, Siera Leone, Ghana, Guinea Conakry, etc, have been count...

The names below are the Focal Points of The African Youth Architects  ( AYA) across Africa. 1. Manara El Deib ( Academic Researcher,  Teaching Assistant and a Dynamic Youth Activist Passionate About Migration)--Egypt Ms. Manara El Deib is an iconoclastic academic researcher,  a veteran teaching assistant at Arma Jaya University and UKDW in Indonesia; and also in Egypt at Alexandria University. She is working on urban movement ( rural-urban migration) in order to fight human migration in rural and urban areas in Egypt. She is also a Co-founder of an NGO working on child education. 2.  Elizabeth Talatu Williams   (  Gender and Reproductive Health Activist and Youth Leader)- NIGERIA  Elizabeth Talatu Williams has worked in the public health field for the last 5 years - with expertise in managing teams, monitoring and evaluation of programs, report writing, and research. Her expertise has seen her manage projects mainly focused...

The famous young Gambian West African writer and scholar, born Modou Lamin Sowe ( 1990),  well known by his penname Modou Lamin Age- Almusaf Sowe, a former teacher-librarian and drama coordinator at Masroor Senior Secondary School,  the  founder of the Young Writers' Association of The Gambia  ( YWAG), former university-librarian and the director of academic research at the African Development University  (ADU ), an independent researcher and scholar of intellectual property and library and information studies,  has suggested adding 16 new words, new senses and new sub-entries in the English language dictionary. Speaking to Mr. Sowe in his library earlier this weekend to the African Youth Architects  ( AYA ), Mr. Sowe said is not about level of education, nationality,  knowledge or the degrees one has obtained, but some people are just born special to create history in this world.  The 28-year-old unmarried Gambian scholar suggested t...

            AYA Campaigns for the ''AFRIKA'' We Want, and Not the ''AFRICA'' They want for Us! We, the African Youth Architects, are united in our conviction that the crisis currently affecting Africa is not only a migration or refugee crisis, but also a crisis of unprecedented raise of youth unemployment manifested in abysmal trends and indicators.  The African Youth Architects (AYA) focus on empowering the African youths and their organizations by creating job opportunities for them, in order to tackle youth unemployment by 2030. The sole objective of AYA is to launch an international campaign on the attainment of a relevant and a quality education for all, the implementation of the World Programme of Action for Youth, and the AU AGENDA 2063, in partnership with international organizations, in order to create a suitable platform for coordinated actions and mass mobilization towards youth unemployment and employment cre...