According to a study released by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Generation 2030/Africa," four in 10 people on earth will be African by 2100, with over 1 billion children living on the continent by mid-century.

The report warns that demographic change in Africa requires strong investment and attention so that "the children of today and tomorrow, have the potential to transform the continent,breaking centuries old cycles of poverty and inequity," otherwise the world risks creating dangerous political instability and myriad human rights disasters.

According to UNICEF (2018). Over 13.2 million Nigerian children is out of school. With this reports, what do you think is the future of African children? If you say doomed then you don't have to worry about apology because that wasn't rude.

According to Abdul'aziz Yari chairman of (NGF) and the outgoing governor of Zamfara state in Nigeria. " We are sitting on a time bomb,” he stressed the need for urgent actions against the increase in the number of unproductive population in the country. How can citizens be productive when teachers are absent in class?
According to Njoku (2018). Poor learning outcomes occasioned by the uncommitted, absent of teachers is one of the biggest reason why there is a gap in accessing education. Over 13.2 million children are out of school in one country alone. Indeed the future of African children would grow from political thugry, insurgency , unproductive etc to bombing the whole continent and ensure it fails to exist.

And how has African parents attended to the future of their own children? If only parents are very much concerned about the future of their own children they would have made sure that their children would be of good values to the society Tunde (2014).

The International Labour Organisation estimates that in Nigeria about 14 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 are involved in a form of economic activity.
Globally, there are 168 million children involved in child labour. Of these, 59 million are from sub-Saharan Africa.
Child trafficking is on it's increase, sexual abuse of children by their own parents is unique to African parents. Giving out little children for marriage is a norm in most part of Africa without considering the future of the child.
What solution do we have left to secure the future of an African child and redeem it's societies from break down? From birth, children look to their parents first to help them interpret the world around them. It should be no surprise then that how parents interact with their children shapes their children’s emotional, cognitive and social skills. These first relationships serve as a reference point for all future relationships, and also influence problem-solving abilities, peer relationships and basic coping skills.

We know that positive parenting can help a child tremendously by encouraging healthy brain development and emotional well-being.

What then does it take for parents to parent their children effectively? Getting more involved in parenting is all that is needed to shape the future of every African child.
According to Fetzer (2018). Volunteering in school, Dad's getting involved, get to know the friends of your children, talk and listen to your children every day is an effective way of being more involved in parenting. As little as this, if every parent and teacher see the need to spend productive time with their children they would be securing the future of their children and foster the existence of our societies.
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