DAR ES SALAAM, June 26 -- LET us get straight to the point: our youth are sitting on a goldmine and scrolling past it. Every year, embassies, foundations and foreign universities throw open their doors with scholarship offers and somehow, too many Tanzanian youths are too busy refreshing TikTok to notice.

You want opportunity? It is out there, wrapped in application forms, covered in essay prompts and hiding on embassy websites and scholarship portals. The truth is, the world wants you.

Yes, you, dear reader. Countries are actively seeking young minds from developing nations to come, learn, grow and carry that knowledge back home, or take it wherever it leads. And yet, too many of us are sleeping on it.

Let us be clear: the government ...