Meet Ibrahim, 27, a 2015 Agronomy graduate from Tanzania’s Sokoine University of Agriculture, one of the leading agricultural colleges in Sub-Saharan Africa. You would expect him to be dressed in blue overalls, working on one of the largest plantations near Arusha, in Basutu or Ngarenairobi, where they grow barley and wheat.

However, Ibrahim sits in a comfy chair at his office in Morogoro, supervising three ICT graduates employed by his company. Indeed, it is becoming normal to major in chemistry at university only to practice “algebra”—as they say—in real life. More than 800,000 Tanzanians enter the highly-saturated job market each year.

Most of these young people fail to get decent employment even though youth employment is crucial to the development of any country. It is evident that our colleges and universities are creating products that are currently not demanded by the job market. — blog.wb.org/blogs