Renowned Ghanaian playwright, James Ebo Whyte, known in industry circles as Uncle Ebo Whyte says Gen Zs always get him bursting with laughter.
“I laugh at them…ooh I laugh at them because you see they added Z to generation which means they are the last generation. They lie bad, there will be generations after them. 20 years from now, they will realize that there are others after them,” the playwright explained his sentiments.
According to him, Gen Zs have their lives altered and different because of the influences of social media on their lives.
“Their lives have been influenced by social media. The world I grew in is not the world they are growing in. The temptations I had is not the temptations they have,” he added.
However, Ebo Whyte regards Gen Zs as “easy to reach, receptive and hungry for wisdom.”
Because Gen Zs live in their own world, he advised they can only maximize their potential by having matured minds.
Generation Z (often shortened to Gen Z), also known as Zoomers, is the demographic cohort succeeding Millennials and preceding Generation Alpha.
Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-late 1990s as starting birth years and the early 2010s as ending birth years, with the generation most frequently being defined as people born from 1997 to 2012. Most members of Generation Z are the children of younger Baby Boomers or Generation X.
As the first social generation to have grown up with access to the Internet and portable digital technology from a young age, members of Generation Z, even if not necessarily digitally literate, have been dubbed “digital native.
