KARIBU Unit 12 | Africa Rising | Technology Economy Youth AfCFTA Future | Grades 6 to 12

Africa is not just a history lesson. It is the future.

This final unit covers where Africa is heading. The mobile money revolution, the African Continental Free Trade Area, the technology startup boom, Africa's extraordinary youth population, climate leadership, and the African Union's growing global voice. By 2050 one in four people on Earth will be African. Students finish this curriculum knowing that the story is not over. It is just getting started.

Includes a reading guide with Did You Know fact boxes, 16 vocabulary terms, a mobile money case study, a futures thinking activity, discussion questions, a crossword puzzle, a two-level quiz for middle school and high school, and a complete answer key.

This is Unit 12 of the 12-unit KARIBU African Studies curriculum.