How can Africans find solutions to Africa's problems? Conservation biologist Kevin Njabo tells his personal story of how he nearly became part of the group of African scientists who seek an education abroad and never return — and why he's now building a permanent base on the continent to nurture and support local talent. "I'm not coming back alone. I'm bringing with me Western scientists, entrepreneurs and students," Njabo says. "When that happens, Africa will be on the way to solving Africa's problems."
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This is lovely
Christerfa Akuse Ikr, african nations can/have done so much from so little do it’s nice to see institutes being built to hone/teach those skills
As a South African, I’m so proud to hear other African nations are starting to understand that education and innovation are the key. African nations can/have made so much from nothing, no funding, no resources and no exposure to developed nations. War tore too many of these nations apart but because of it they learnt how to do the best from the least and that is Fucking amazing.
Or maybe african IQ is low becouse there is poor education? Seembs much more plousible.
Asia has 4.6 billion people. Africa will never have as many. You cannot live in most places of africa because it’s a dry dustbowl.
They used to call Rhodesia the bread basket of Africa for all the food it produced
Now there is starvation
Jet Nassar whoever conquers the land is the rightful owner. Learn the history of war.
Valient Six… might is right. Sad but true
Here’s a Ted talk that makes sense. You can’t fix a poor countries issues by letting more move to the west. The best and brightest need to stay and solve that countries problems
Technocracy would be nice but that’s an unreachable dream. At least shifting immigration would be feasible, if only just.
Elle T Moving is a very different thing than mass migration from one culture into another
AugustusPugin Rose O’Donnell would look right at home with all those hippos lol
atomixfang It’s actually freedom of speech…just saying
Hose Clamp Heavy pillaging? You mean the billions of dollars in humanitarian aid sent there every year?
Stop mass immigration to the west, problem solved. This is da wae!
Siddhartha02 they’ll stop immigrating when we stop meddling in their affairs and exploiting their resources. Also stopping the Chinese invasion of Africa would help.
Best solution?
The final solution.
Grizzlyman MeinTeil leave the jooz out of this.
You say that like there are more Africans running around than Arabs and Mexicans here, your projection is evident lol.
Older General Skywalker NEIN
I like how there are many videos about Africa recently. We’re talking about the continent which will have the most inhabitans in a few decades and has the biggest social problems right now. Africa is so important. It’s about time we invest in its developement instead of destroying it.
It’s important to cut the African population before its 2 late
crippling autism username checks out
The bullshit Lol.
J seems very unlikely to me, Asia already has neraly 3 billion people, not to mention many parts of Africa are at the very least very difficult to inhabit, and then the jungles and deserts and all. Plus the fact that in countries like India and Pakistan the birth rate is still going strong, tho china and Japan may be nullifiers.
Donald Sanders #FreeLiangelo
Well done! You threw a passive aggressive insult on the internet without showing what is wrong with their argument, you sure made them look stupid.
Stay in AFRICA dont Move !!!
As constructive as this talk is I am afraid that the discourse in this comment section will be poisoned by edgy teenlords being flamboyant with their generic trolling. *But TED, meh, meh, meh science! I am a high intellect! Where is meh science?*
“High intellect” LMAO
“muh science”
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Try to stop refugees… Others have tried.
Since when was Youtube “discourse” relevant? You’re complaining about something that doesn’t matter.
Well we could stop all Africans from coming into our country….. Or Africans could pay them more and have them stay…..
THEY TOOK OR JEBS
Julian Ioisi they are taking our land and destroying our culture while we help immigrants from sub Saharan Africa to get an education and help you, not a fair trade
How about identifying high IQ individuals from within your society and supplying a special educational pipeline from which to groom the future?
Tark McCoy this could work
Pretty sure thats the basis of a lot of diatopian future movies lol
Scholarships
Focus more on African science. Ya know, the kind that calls lightning out of the sky.
xpluralx aren’t you edgy
be careful you may cut yourself with that kind of edginess.
Crackaboooom. Yeah I remember that woman. So funny
I agree, countries like America have been brain draining places like Africa for far too long.
Yeah, America sends in troops to evwru country and forcibly removes them dailey. None come here willingly. Clearly its America’s fault.
Grizzlyman MeinTeil what?
Yeah. Because in 0 A.D. Africa was so far advanced beyond greek and Celtic machinery and metal work. America must have a time machine in the future.
I promise we will give them all back! Now please take all the jiggaboos home!
The problem is there is not much brain in Africa to drain. Low average IQ means the few smart people have great urge to leave.
Great story we need more people like him
The number of racist comments here is astounding
You must be new here, we will show you da wae
Cuz dont advocate white genocide, its funny how it goes in the states. I dont mind racists people, the ones who actually admit it. Its the closet racists who are the problem, smile in your face and stab you in the back.
I find it more astounding that you’re astounded by it.
The British Empire was doing a valiant and vastly under-appreciated job of slowly improving African countries. But then Africa had to go and get all proud about things, and wanted to run before they could walk.
+Marco Polo So you’re saying eliminate all Africans?
TROLLS EVERYWHERE IN THIS THREAD!
Oh the colonialist savior meme, how insightful.
Milton Mumfrey oh by controling resources and demanding taxing over their resources and land? Yeah France and Belgium still do so and ik sure i missed a few of those lovely coorporations
Obviously, that’s not what I’m saying. In fact, the opposite take the parasites out of Africa which is sucking it’s resources so it can grow.
Africans point their finger and blame the white man for their problems but they fail to realize their plight comes from within.
Nail on the head here. Well said.
Zeryk how does their issued come from within? What do you mean by that??? Like be specific if you can. Just curious
Olanrewaju Kayode… he cant, he’s just a troll
What about the US sticking their nose in to every countries business? Stealing their resources and slowing down thier development.
Charles Gordon less simple than “the whyte man did it”
I know Gaddafi was… well Gaddafi, but his ideas for a continent-wide currency that would rival the USD would’ve solved some economic problems. Too bad the US had to assassinate him before Africa was gonna rival the American empire
Meh. A real “African Union” wouldn’t have been achieved in his lifetime anyway. There’s still too much corruption, religios hatred and civil wars going on to realisticly unite Africa in the near future. There’s peace and prosperity in the EU and it’s still going to fall apart in the next decade
There’s no african scientific brain death, there’s africa climate and water problem, hard to breed bright minds in that environment.
Smart brains need food and water, and agriculture needs stable climate and and water.
Nothing short of geo-engineering will change that.
lloydgush the root of the problems faced in African nations is neither the climate nor access to water. You seem to just be making grand assumptions based on circulating ideas that you’ve never actually confirmed yourself. What you’re saying makes no sense and you’ve given me no reason or evidence to support your claims. I can see now that it would be pointless to argue with you.
Olanrewaju, actually I’ve confirmed myself.
It has all to do with infrastructure and agriculture. Here’s one big importance of water, navigable rivers.
They play an important part making infrastructure damage less effective in war, therefore discouraging it during civil wars. They also give your infrastructure and irrigation a backbone to stand on.
I said it was complicated.
lloydgush yeah I have my doubts. Maybe if your were talking about a small nation or region but you’re blanketing this issue to the whole continent which is again, ludicrous.
Well, I’m talking about statistics. And because of the statistical nature of it that it works better for greater geographical areas, specially continents, specially because neighboring nations have so much influence in the long run. (if it wasn’t for neighboring nations the congo would be heaven compared to the average, but it’s exactly the stability around nigeria that makes them such a powerhouse. Of course the niger river helps a lot too. But when it comes to the impact of more than average stability, botswana is a great example. But this stability is dependent on geographical factors and instability can spread like wildfire.)
But when it comes to small nations like singapore stuff gets more complicated, exactly because the smaller the sample the less typical it’s likely to be, and other factos that would be considered small become comparatively huge.
lloydgush I was under the impression you were talking about geography. What kind of statistics are you measuring? Temperature? Precipitation? Different areas have different climates so generalizing a whole continetent will surely skew whatever statistics your are measuring and observing. I’m sorry but what you’re saying just doesn’t make any sense to me and I’m sure others would agree.
Most of the racist commentators aren’t worth even a toe of this Man! Africans are as intelligent as others, but during centuries they had, unfortunately, no opportunity to get education, even primary.
Africans hadn’t even invented the wheel or an alphabet when the white man showed up. And when they did the first thing they did was sell their neighbor for a handful of beads. Truth hurts don’t it.
MISSISSIPPIREBEL100 So you’re saying that intelligence is linked to race. Well maybe you’d be right, centuries ago. Now in this day and age, information and technology isn’t confined geographically. Today, anyone can become anything, do anything given proper resources. If Africa had universal public education and standard living conditions like the UK or America has, there wouldn’t be this issue.
+Mariel1e Sad He is smart and he’s doing good things, but Native Africans as a racial group are not as intelligent as others and there is evidence for this. They are also culturally very different from westerners, lacking hundreds of years of social evolution is a really big deal. Throwing money at them will do nothing, they are more likely to buy machettes and cocaine than books and food.
If you find the best Africans, the one’s who deserve a better life and protect them from the others with walls and military force at least some of them will thrive. This is where all prosperous civilizations start, with a stone wall, religion and a caste system.
Sorry to burst your bubble Sarah but Africans have had all the benefits of modern society for a very long time, And those benefits continued until whiny SJWs forced out the white led governments. Once that happened Africa is quickly sliding back into the hellhole it was prior to his coming. Look a Mogadishu formally Rhodesia. Now take a look at South Africa today. To see what it really is like I recommend Lauren Southerns videos.
Blacks in universities are demanding that voodoo be taught next to western science. All this is sad but true.
Nope. Wrong. Do some reading on Neanderthal DNA and how it’s distributed around the globe.
And kick all those western foreign military bases/ intelligence /UN meddling out. You’ll then see through the Hegelian Dialects.
Why?
Solutions like these are great. Being dependent on outsiders breeds resentment on both sides and isn’t anywhere near as effective as change from within.