Bridging the Diaspora Divide - Teresa H. Clarke at TEDxEuston 

She is so right about that divide and conquer thing.

I was blessed to visit the continent some years ago: Ghana, West Africa, specifically. It was early on clear that (1) I had no real idea about the cultural diversity of the continental, and (2) though I am of African descent, there were big cultural differences. That said, I was surprised at how much Ghanaians (Akan, Ewe, and Ga, in my case) spoke like, conversed like, dressed like, dressed their hair like people I knew! I had an instant bond with a few friends, and realized that we as a people shared essentially the same worldview. When I came home, I could see echoes of Africa everywhere! #BridgingtheDiasporaDivide

As an African there is nothing I want more than for Africa to unite with the Diaspora, it's time for the African to unite with its sixth region the Diaspora.

Bridge the Diaspora Divide. #africanentrepreneurs

And for the Record. AFRICAN AMERICANS HAVE A CULTURE. AN AMAZING BEAUTIFUL AND FANTASTIC CULTURE!! It is culture that has brought the world Jazz, Rock, Blues, it is a culture that has taught the world about Human Rights, Respect and true meaning of Freedom. I remember being in school in the UK and learning about AA history and even my teacher said "It truly is the mark of the human spirit, to not lose hope when it seems impossible." This is AA Culture, from the impossible situation they started from they took the scraps that America had thrown them and they have built a culture that even they're enemies want to imitate. It breaks my heart when AA say they have no culture, I think in this modern day of mumblerap and Worldstar they've really forgot their worth.

This was an awesome 21 minutes. For the positive commentators - thank you. For the negative commentators, you just proved everything she said. Why do people hate Africa, I'll never understand! I'll get to the continent one day and I'll continue to build relationships and learn more about our culture from my people who have come from the continent to the states. Shout out to South America and the Caribbean too... We have to come together... It's been 6000 years of being our own enemy, and for what? Why? Because we speak different languages and have different customs and are descendent from different parts of the continent? Where would Africa be if there was unity? Just think about that and get out your mind that being African is a problem because it's not. Can we agree upon one thing? I think so! It's Pan Africanism... Red, Black & Green. I'm so proud and I would not trade being who I am for a billion dollars and please believe that I am 100% serious! I am not religious at all, I don't care about any potential mixture after we were stolen and placed in America; I just love Africa. I love being Black. There are many who feel this way... you don't have to wear a Dashiki or change your name, just understand that had certain events not occurred in history, you most likely would be on the continent. And if you are truly not descendent from Africa, power to whoever you are, embrace that and love it 100%. Anyone in Texas or nearby looking to network locally and travel to continent, inbox me. Peace to all.

African Americans or all those Africans in the Diaspora should know that they are welcome in any part of the African continent!

Would love to link up with my brothers and sisters in Africa.

Thank you! I am from Louisiana and these "Creoles" are on that "we are different " foolishness too. 🙄

I lived with an African Family when I went to Senegal twice. I loved the experience and the family. I plan on moving to Africa to do business and get involved in Africa. I would love to find my families in Africa.

Long live Africa build your own bridges not walls

Thanks Teresa. I think the time has come. And evil will triumph when good people do nothing. It's time to write our story and change our destiny because the narrative will glorify the hunter until the lion learns how to write his story. More love

(This AA is really the true daughter of her father.) That's adage in Africa. I hope she is working with Dr Arikana Qua, the former AU Chairperson.

Improve Family life. Don't imitate others.

My wife was born in California with her family originally from Ohio and Kentucky. We talk about it everyday, We cannot wait to have her family come breath the original African air! That day is coming!

It's happening in the USA with the category of Hispanic

A SOBER MESSAGE!!!...TO TO COME ALIVE!!!... AS A PEOPLE!!!>>>>>>>>> {EVERYBODY}....Using Africa As An Example!!! A Other Stories But? The... One About The Ship... Hah... Is... About Getting The Job Done!!! A Great Sense Of Humor Folds In In The Stories You Told!!!...Wonderful Wonderful Indeed!!!... You Are A Great Story Teller!!!... {THANKS FOR...THIS AMAZING!!... {AMAZING STORY...{INDEED!!!}

Africa s GDP will be 30 trillion USD ...in 2050 ....Africa has some of the oldest civilizations in the world ...we are not going anywhere

Madiba is ours. “Because there are so many ways that world is divided let us come together and bridge the diaspora divide “

There is nothing like success that brings us together

"Mana" Teresa H. Clarke you're perfectly right. Thank you so much for this inspiring message you brought to us. We really need to do a deep reflection on how we have been destroying ourselves. I know it's quite hard among ourselves to see Africans and the African descendants in other parts of the world as one body only. But we can change this scenario. I believe that making more this kind of awareness among our people will surely bring an unimaginable results in the very near future...let's believe...let's take action.

Bridging the African Diaspora Divide...we don’t have to be carbon copies of each or even have a single language, culture, religion, etc. to unite. We are one. Focus on our commonality and use our differences to make us stronger. “Where I am weak, you make me strong”, we have to be that for one another. We can, we will do this!!

ALL AFRICAN WE need to do coming reality make Africa great. First we need respect each other whatever we are GO AFRICA

As a FIRST NATIONS i understand this !!!!! Nations divided

Great presentation and analysis! It is informative and fun!

An eloquent plea for Pan-Africanism with a focus on Afro- international economics. Sister Clarke has the right idea. My preponderant question becomes...On what basis do we start? Global nepotism? Debasement of semitism? Mass extraction from IMF influence? We do have a SHARED experience, a common foe. Perhaps we can stand as one unified people under the umbrella for united colonial liberation. Either way, the time has longed passed. We need to get started!

Her humor is so awesome 😂

July/21/2019 is the day I'm watching this for the 1st time. Why was this video suppressed for so long?

We Are The Aboriginals Of All Lands.... So She Is Absolutely Right.... We Are All Of Those People. Colonialism Is What Divided Us All.

All I want to see is Africa unite in my time

Thank you so much may God bless you 👏👏👏👸🏽

I luv her speech so well,time to rise up and unite together and work together to make Africa great again. Thanks Teresa.

I think it is okay for us to be different. We do not all have to agree or be friends. What we do need to do is understand when we are supposed to work together.

How can modern governments, corrupt or otherwise, provide education, health care and jobs, for all their citizens when Africans persist in multiplying at the rate that they do? Get your fertility down to replacement level. The idea that population and the economy can increase perpetually, is a fairy tale.

9:38 that would be something a United Africa representation African Union at the United Nations Representing Africa on the world stage.

Sister first join us in our struggle of getting our land back, then we will know that we are together

the next african/black leader that promotes her ideas will go out like all the others that came before. see Thomas Sankara

Coloured people do have a culture

I know that this video is from 2014 but it is very relevant today in April 2020. As we watch Europe and North America struggle with the COVID-19 Pandemic, we see a country first mentality taking hold. I don't blame any country that is trying to save their people. However, this view will leave many African countries facing a much reduced or even eliminated financial aid platform. This means that African countries will have to manage their economies without charitable contributions from outside the continent. It also means that everything we do moving forward has NO strings attached from the UK or the US. We must now make policy decisions that focus on benefiting the country and not some foreign entity that gave us the funding. Teresa Clarke is exactly correct!

Theresa, your overall message is powerful but I have to correct you on the definition of the SA coloured people, of whom I am one. We may be marginalised in so many ways but we are a people with rich culture who have not been acknowledged even today. Please come to my house and I will sit with you amongst my friends so you can experience our rich culture.

We’re scattered because the Most High did us that way!!!!! Scattered to the four corners of earth 🌍

There is a lot of many to be made in Africa n Africans would rather welcome there brother m sisters back home to teach them new things!!

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For me it’s not about the ownership of property but a collective identity assimilation. Tht crip pr blood in south central LA is banging for the same reason as a tht street gangster in Pretoria. We have the same pain and need the same gain, so let’s come to the table and see how we can secure this gain with utmost dignity and understanding

Awesome teacher !!!

Thank you very much, may God give you wisdom

4:00 lol She has finished us in Nigeria

Well spoken. It's time we all unite. Stop living for self.

This is one of the best talks I have heard of Africa.

This is so important!

When we finally learn to love and accept ourselves as a beautiful proud people, then we can come together for great and positive change

Indeed! Let's bridge the Diaspora Divide!

17:25 I love this lady. I would definitely take her As a wife if she was single.

15:04 This woman knows what JJC means.lol.look out o!

I have experienced some negative comments from African people. There is division.

Be wary of the "other" who talks badly to you about your brother.

Long may the African continent survive, but in a good and honest way.

Shell is problematic.

Africa should be made safe for people in the diaspora to live there.

This woman is wonderful❤️ I wished the people in the audience payed more attention to her words

What a brilliant presentation! And one has to see through::consciousness, trust, and mostly action may be the main points that are needed. But first, humbly recognising the existing ignorance and fear.may help to trigger the need for prompt actions Despite difficulties, I believe that everything is feasible! The rest may just history: progressive synergy, and the absence of the divide may occur.

This lady hit where it's most painful! Yes the African diaspora is divided. I am, myself African. You ask a fellow countryman how you should start your life to be less dependent. The response? They usually ask you why you are rushing! Terrible response! You have no time to waste in North America or Europe. Every minute you waste will inflict you a damage worth 1000 dollars or more. I am sure that many people in this audience occupy, six years later, the highest positions in their career either in Africa or in international institutions/companies. My question is: They listened, did they hear anything? Six years later, nothing the situation is not better. Yeah, the African diaspora should wake up right now!

It sounds so Nigerian to enter into something only if there is something to gain. Up Nija

Let's get to know each other

It is written in THE Bible that the poor will always be with us. POOR has many meaning. YAD HAI WAW HAI OUR CREATOR, OUR FATHER OF YISRAEL OUR SOON COMING KING YAD HAI WAW HAI AND HIS 144,000 IS THE ONLY TRUE FORCE THAT UNITES. ALL ELSE IS FALSE. HIS SON YAD HAI WAW HAI OSHEA /SALVATION TO WHOM ALL POWER IN HEAVEN AND EARTH IS GIVEN. REVELATION 21. HIS SPIRIT YAD HAI WAW HAI DIVINE SPIRIT OF LOVE. HE WHO HOVERS OVER THE WATER IS HOVERING OVER THE RIGHTEOUS. PSALM 91 YADAH, YADAH TO YAD HAI WAW HAI. THE DIVISION WILL ALWAYS BE. THOSE WHO SERVE THE ALMIGHTY YAD HAI WAW HAI. THOSE WHO SERVE THE WORLD SYSTEM.

Thanks for this amazing talk.🙏🏿

Good information. creating trade among ourselves is key

I love this, thank you!

This post is so Old.... my view on this subject has changed. I believe we now need to listen to each other, and understand each other’s view point. Life is very short, it’s better to live as one race together rather than divided. Blessings!

So outstanding....

But I agree with her.

There's a Japanese joke about life boats as well... I forgot most of them, but the captain tells the Germans "It is the rule that you must go to the life boats."

Thankful

excellent x

Shell financed this.

Which Diaspora? The true one in the Western Hemisphere, or the one African emigrants call themselves?

Can someone interpret the title Madiba for me please.

I don't know she didn't refer to Obama as Kenyan American? We all appreciate that unlike her kind, #justsaying

What truly unites us WE ALL HUMANS, before any other description. I see this concept being better beginning for equality and end of racism than any other. I sure wish for the day when racism will be only word in history.

1000% I know that Africa will unite, I just wish they would do it in my lifetime. If only two African countries united, that's all it would take. 🤜🏽🤛🏽