Dr Kenneth Vickery filled in for George Ayittey during this slot. We would have to wait a little longer for Big George, and it would be worthwhile. Ken is the author of Black and White in Southern Zambia. The essence of his talk was a quick, very quick history lesson on Africa. He came to…
Session 2: Looking Back to Look Forward was kicked off by Dr Zeresenay Alemseged, a palaeontologist from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Dr Zeray discovered the remains of the oldest humanoid child in Ethiopia in 2000. The discovery is affectionately named Selam, a 3-year-old hominid child, and was announced in 2006. He explains…
Bono is one of Africa’s biggest supporters. He was not listed on the official program for this TEDGlobal as a speaker and made an impromptu appearance on stage. Back in 2005, Bono won the TED Prize and accepted with a truly riveting talk on why the West should help Africa and how they can benefit…
Andrew Mwenda is a hard-hitting, in-your-face kind of journalist. He is currently on a year-long John S. Knight fellowship at Stanford University in the United States. So one of the things he immediately brought to our attention is that Sub-Saharan Africa received aid to the tune of 13% of GDP, while the Marshall Plan after…
Carol Pineau was the 3rd speaker for the first session of TEDGlobal. She is best known for her documentary Africa Open For Business. She told some of the stories from her inspiring documentary. The first was the story of Ruff’n Tumble, a very successful clothing designer from Nigeria. Another one was the great success of…