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Seeing the Challenges in Africa as opportunities…Euvin Naidoo, VP of South Africa’s Standard Bank speaks at TEDGlobal conference, Arusha-Tanzania. He provides the facts and figures, and forces you to see beyond the obvious.

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Prepping for the premiere of the conference video of the Arusha TEDGlobal conference in August, TED Blog is featuring postings from some Afro-bloggers, including yours truly. Here are excerpts from Imnakoya:
As one of the missing-in-action Fellows who couldn’t attend the conference, the only rational thing I could do was plug into the mainstream media (MSM)-dominated […]

Hash’s (at White African) blog response (“Where were the Hippos?”) to the Economist article on the TED African conference is interesting. This is the statement that provoked the Hash:
There were notably few of the hard-knuckle African politicians who often run the interior or defence ministry or act as kingmakers, sometimes bankrolling rotten presidents. - […]

I don’t think it’s immodest to see the June 4-7 2007 TEDGlobal conference as a revolution. Although the conference is several days over, the impact continue to sizzle in the minds of the attendees, and in those who weren’t physically present at the Arusha-Tanzania venue of the conference but tuned in to the sessions via […]

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“Right now, the circumstances under which you are born determine your life - I want to see that change. As Africans, we need to take responsibility for the future of the continent.”
This was the closing statement of Ory Okolloh a Harvard-trained Kenyan lawyer and blogger at Kenyan Pundit, I just read the summary of […]