This study examined entrepreneurship, capacity development and youth employment generation
in 20 selected sub-Saharan African countries from 2005 to 2017. The study employed the fixed
effect Panel estimator on the secondary annual data sourced for the study. Findings from the study
can be considered in two categories. One, findings show that human capital development and
institutional quality positively but insignificantly affect youth employment generation in the
selected countries while macroeconomic instability is intuitively observed to exert a positively
insignificant influence on youth employment generation. Two, findings also show that
entrepreneurial activities and infrastructural development are important determinants of youth
employment generation in the selected countries. The implication of these findings is that
entrepreneurial activities and infrastructural development should be of concern to the government
and policy makers as they are observed to be significant determinant of youth employment
generation. Therefore, as a matter of policy implication/recommendation the government of these
African Countries should ensure that the conclusion of this study is considered and implemented,
increase expenditure on health and education in order to speed up human capital development,
and make considerable effort to reduce the large informal sector by putting in place laws and rule
that will ensure that the activities of the self-employed people are recognized and accounted for
on a large scale