In Will Africa Feed China? Deborah Bräutigam, one of the world’s leading experts on China and Africa, probes the myths and realities behind the media headlines. I have already watched a few talks by Deborah […]
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Jacqueline Novogratz: Invest in Africa’s own solutions
“… there’s enormous opportunity to make poverty history. To do it right, we have to build business models that matter, that are scaleable and that work with Africans, Indians, people all over the developing world who fit in this category, to […]
Jean Margaritis: her experience as a US Peace Corps. volunteer in Lesotho.
“The beauty of Africa is not what we can do for it, but what it does to us.” – Jean Margaritis.
- Roald Dahl, Matilda.“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.”
Allan Savory: How to fight desertification and reverse climate change
In this talk, Allan Savory invites us to a journey of reeducation and discovery on how to fight desertification and reverse climate change. “Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert, […]
William and the Windmill
A video by Lucas Oleniuk and Randy Risling. Watch also his TED Talk.
William Kamkwamba: How I harnessed the wind
“So I would like to say something to all the people out there like me to the Africans, and the poor who are struggling with your dreams. God bless. Maybe one day you will watch […]
Chimamanda Adichie: We should all be feminists
“Gender matters. Men and women experience the world differently.” “My own definition of feminist is: a feminist is a man or a woman who says:’Yes, there is a problem with gender as it is today […]
