ONE VOICE: Family Planning is Essential For Africa’s Future. Two African Billionaires and Bill Gates agree.

Bill Gates, the second most extravagant individual in the world; Aliko Dangote, the most extravagant man in Africa; and Mohammed "Mo" Ibrahim, a U.K very rich person conceived in Sudan, talked about ways Africa can arrive at its potential in the coming a very long time during an occasion at the Africa Center in Harlem in New York City on Monday.

As Africa’s population expands, the continent needs to create jobs and keep up with food demand, the billionaires said during a fireside chat at an event called The Future Africa Forum. Ibrahim said there is a controversial topic that can help Africa develop sustainable communities and cities: family planning.

According to the United Nations, Africa’s population is expected to reach 2.4 billion people by 2050—double that of the population in 2016. Gates said it is estimated that 50% of all newborns worldwide will be born in Africa by the end of the century.

"At the point when our economy is developing by two percent, we're running on a treadmill," Ibrahim stated, clarifying that joblessness rates are as of now high, particularly among the young in nations like South Africa. "For what reason would we say we are Africans reluctant to discuss family arranging?"

Entryways says the discussion regarding family arranging is imperative to get right.

"In case you're not cautious, any individual who is an outcast could be misjudged," he said. Populace control has for quite some time been a code word for settlers and racists, however these very rich people refered to what research has since quite a while ago appeared: that as a nation builds up its economy and more individuals get taught and move to urban areas, its populace development rate begins to decay.

The best methodology toward family arranging, particularly in provincial regions, is to improve access to human services and instruction, Gates said. "In the event that you mess up wellbeing and instruction, you get more individuals. Be that as it may, in the event that you hit the nail on the head, in the long run your populace goes down," he said. When individuals receive family arranging strategies like contraceptives and populace development rates moderate, different issues are simpler to address, Gates included.

"Africa today has the greatest hole in what individuals need in family arranging, and what's accessible to them. Melinda [Gates] is attempting to close that hole, since then everything gets simpler—training, nourishment, dependability, occupations," said Gates.

Ibrahim went above and beyond, clarifying that significant social issues, similar to fundamentalism and viciousness, are side-effects of populace development outpacing work development. "On the off chance that you have two children, you can teach them. In any case, in the event that you have seven to eight children and no employments, you have Boko Haram," said Ibrahim, making a reference to the jihadi fear based oppressor association in Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon.

In numerous country parts of Africa, having huge families is the standard. For families with ranches, more youngsters implies more hands to help with cultivating. What's more, since human services can be spotty in places—with few specialists treating an enormous populace—it's not bizarre for kids to pass on at a youthful age. As individuals' monetary status builds, ladies will in general have less kids.

The discussion spread over different subjects—from how interest in horticulture and completed item assembling could assist Africa with making employments and keep cash inside the nation to how defilement could be diminished by another age of pioneers.

Toward the beginning of the occasion, it was declared that Dangote, by means of the Aliko Dangote Foundation, will give $20 million to help finish the last period of the Africa Center—the gallery on Fifth Avenue at 109th Street in Harlem. The setting will presently be known as the Africa Center at Aliko Dangote Hall. A $5 million award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the Africa Center was additionally declared. Ibrahim, through his Ibrahim Family Foundation, has given $7 million to the middle.

At a certain point, Dangote raised the way that he has not marked on to The Giving Pledge — a gathering propelled by Gates and Warren Buffett in which very rich people guarantee to give at any rate half of their fortune to worthy missions — in light of the fact that as a Muslim, under Islamic law he is permitted to part with close to 33% of his riches. Ibrahim shied away from that thought and asked Muhammadu Sanusi II, the fourteenth Emir of Kano — a strict pioneer in upper east Nigeria who was sitting in the crowd — if what Dangote said was valid.

The emir clarified that under Islamic law, a Muslim can part with 100% of their fortune when they are alive. In any case, a Muslim's will can't assign more than 33% of his fortune to individuals outside of his family.

The crowd chuckled as Dangote admitted to being in the wrong.