TED Video: Educating A New Generation of African Leaders
Going through all the TED talk videos can be pretty time consuming, I often find a few to be more relevant than others. The video above is one of those. Please be patient, it picks up midway through the talk. If I were a teacher at a Nigerian college my first two classes will be spent on talks like these. That is PHCN permitting.
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Thanks for sharing. Going to download the podcast on Ted homepage.
that one was better than some of the others i've watched..
I don't know about the focus on leadership though..
well i don't know the focus is excessive.
I mean, fine, competent, dedicated, hard-working, creative, honorable, uncorruptible leaders is important. but what about the ones they lead ?
between scarcity of ressources and issues in top-down planning/decision-making/improvement, i can find a few reasons to be disturbed.
but hey, that's better than George Ayittey's incoherence and Andrew Mwenda's downright stupidity.
Thought I was the only guy who did not get Ayitteh..lol. I have assumed that since so many seem to get it. I must be wrong. Hmmm maybe not so..
The leadership guy just probably focused on the area where he could make an impact. The truth is that there are many more areas where there is need for a break with the past. I am sure he is aware of this. But that would have really made his talk fluid and not focused. That is what I think.
well the issue is that on that stage, there were people like Andrew Mwenda who talked about how much of a waste investments in primary education are..
so even if we assume that he knows that educating the leaders isn't enough, he didn't say it. and the people listenning may decide that yes, all it takes is educating a few leaders and everything will be fine.
but hey, he was defending his turf.
(how many of our past leaders got a quality post-secondary education ? how many of the ones who did made a difference ? i don't know, something tells me that university education is really really not a priority)
as far as Ayittey.. man, he seems to be some sort of nativist-libertarian or something.. i don't know, anytime someone can describe, with a straight face, our traditional societies as some sort of free-market paradise, i'm tempted to label them "cranks".. or may be he should stick to being an angry anti-government anti-injustice motivator and not say a word about what SHOULD be done.
But i'm glad i'm not the only one who doesn't get him.
@Random African, man you need to start that blog...I'd like to take my own swipe at you..lol
Thanks for the link...
He actually had me from the very beginning...
Inspired leadership
Guardians of the society
Courage
Conscious decisions
I don't think our politicians can spell any of these words...
@catwalq i do not think many of us can spell those words either.thanks for coming.