Some of the things in 2018 that global thinkers made are listed below...

Over the past year, Ethiopia has gone through a historic transformation at breakneck speed, reports NPR correspondent Eyder Peralta. The country welcomed a new reformist prime minister, who forged peace with former enemy Eritrea and freed thousands of political prisoners.

Tobias Denskus, a professor of international development communications at Malmo University and the founder of Aidnography, a global health and development blog, thinks that could inspire other African countries. "Eritrea is one of the most isolated, autocratic and dictatorial nations," he says. "I'm hoping that positive social change in neighboring countries like Ethiopia will lead Eritrea to do the same.

The majority of Africa's population is young — and that so-called youth bulge will mean "more and more people will make the shift from rural to urban centers in search of jobs and opportunity and driven by changing climate," says Kennedy Odede, co-founder and CEO of the nonprofit SHOFCO, which provides education, grassroots organizing and services like health care and water in the slums of Kenya.

The changing urban landscape will be a challenge for governments. They "will have to be responsive to rapid change or risk humanitarian crises and destabilization," Odede says. If governments do not provide better services for this new urban population, Odede says there could be an "urban spring" — protests and chaos from angry, uneducated, marginalized youth. But he is an optimist: "There is opportunity in this to harness the energy and intellect of young people.

This makes me wanna go back to africa

Haha have you even been to Africa?

naw but my great great great grandpa has lmfao

Lmao figured

Africa is a decent place

You've been there?

"Well before your time sport."
"Addoroth will rise again!"

citation please.