Oumou Yakubu - Geopolitics

On a humid night in Niamey, Niger, a fifteen-year-old boy named Hamid scrolls through a borrowed smartphone. The median age in his country is also fifteen , the youngest on earth. Eight thousand kilometres east, in Patna, India, a nineteen-year-old girl named Priya finishes her shift at a call centre, earning just enough to keep her younger brothers in school. They have never met. They share no language, no faith, no culture. But they share a century.