FOR ALL THOSE TURNED OFF BY YELLING: Imagine if your child froze to death in the landing gear of a plane trying to illegally travel to another country to find work to feed his family. That horrible fate, along with drowning at sea trying to find the same is happening to people close to her (you know the story already) and the yelling is a reflection of the pain. Imagine losing your child that way, their frozen body sliding out unceremoniously from a set of wheels being mangled as it falls, finally slamming into some unforgiving dirt or something. That will hurt and anger you when that fate is the result of something preventable. That's what she's thinking about when she is speaking with so much passion. Also keep in mind people attending TED talks are usually monied, and monied people have the ears of lawmakers. I hope you will listen to find out why lawmakers are so integral in her story.
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As much as I want to agree with everything she dramatically said, I think she over simplified the issue at stake. I started registering a brand in Ghana 🇬🇭 for the past two years and has since not gotten the license. No one to ask why and the agent leading the registration is a Christian and will not pay bribe. This is a business to alleviate poverty in my village. I have since moved back to the uk 🇬🇧 enjoying my life. However, this video has rekindled my drive. I will not stop 🛑
Dramatically? All these countries in Africa are poor af and people just donate and pity thinking it is helping without any research being done. I’d be just as mad if not more
@@Abel-ft1tv I'm not saying it was perfect. It definitely created civil strife, but it also created the infrastructure of a modern society. Even today, countries that were colonized are doing better than those that weren't.
My grandmother would say give a man a fish and you feed him for a day but teach him to fish and you feed him for life. It is just easy for people to give fish because it it's easier and doesn't require much effort on our part. We have been giving aid to Africa since I was a child and it has not help. However look at China who went through famine and look at them now after they embraced capitalism. It is not a perfect system but it is better than the rest.
Big up and a huge thank you to Magatte Wade., for cutting to the chase, with workable solutions for small and medium size businesses to trade and create jobs in Africa. Thank you.
Don't miss the point, which was attacking, not defending, corrupt African leaders. No one else is making laws in Africa but Africans. I wanna come and start a business, but only Rwanda seems to have reasonable legislation.
@@krzysztofchylinski6252you shouldn't be scavenging for opportunities at all in Africa. We know what your countries have done to Africa in terms of its resources and economy
Couldn't finish this thing but John Stossel did a story 10 or more years ago contrasting starting a business in Africa versus starting a business in Singapore or Hong Kong, I don't remember which one. His point was both were similarly impoverished after World War II and one is a jewel and the other is, well...
Great discussion that I wish was discussed more often - help impoverished countries become more self sufficient, stop NGOs that keep the people on their knees and corrupt governments in place.
digitalparker A few weeks in public speaking classes or drama would do her a world of good. I listened and the message was lost after she said SMEs and E commerce would create jobs. Doesn't matter if all the money is funneled back to USA before a single tour of Africa. Right message, wrong tone, wrong audience.
She supports limited government interference which is quite exactly what liberalism is (except in America, where it paradoxically also means left-wing ).
@@overthinkingintrovert396 even if it was a classical "liberal" idea (doesn't sound right, but ok), it was so long ago, that now it is a conservative stand indeed. Conservatism isn't a system, like socialism that you mentioned, it's a stance that you keep (conserve) good old ideas, until you're absolutely sure that the new one is better.
This incredible talk is seriously uncomfortable for a lot of people who prefer to blame certain other races or groups of people for the problems in Africa. It's because the truth is; lack of unregulated free markets cause suffering, and free markets create prosperity and opportunity.
The best step Africa can take is to abandon African culture in favour of modern culture. No one would think it was a good idea for medieval Europeans to have held on to their primitive culture and not advance, why is it acceptable to tell Africans to hold on to their primitive cultures, let alone hearing it from Africans themselves?
i came here expecting more excuses. what i heard were two things with a solution to offer. one, it is extremely difficult for people to start businesses, two, with an absence of foundational businesses the country as a whole is suffering. her proposed solution was to make starting a business easy or at the very least easier.
It's hard to start anything New anywhere. Not necessarily in Africa. But anywhere in the world. Africa is undergoing political revolution. Corruption rejuvenation and neo-colonial tiedown. Fighting corruption starts with you...
What solution she offer?? Start writing to who?? Will even work?? 'You never know until you try.' Yea, but why people in power want to help 'you' and the country? How a country develop is never about fixing everything but develop even with conflict and difficulty. She provides a shallow point of view. Life is never fair and laws are nonsense. But removing it will cost more chaos. At the end, do what you can do because you can only control your own action.
Also I don't mean literally like these schoolchildren mean literally I mean it as it is originally meant. She said in between all the yelling exactly what her problems were, exactly how she came to the solutions she was presenting, and how those solutions benefit society in Africa and the world at large. I know it's hard to listen when it feels like she's trying to indict the wrong people, but it came from a place of pain and of all the flaws people have when speaking publicly, this is just one of them. Like when people stutter a lot or talk too fast or too quietly. I intentionally left out what she said because it's worth listening to.
that's what she said but you simply missed the point. the point is not writing to someone. the point is you take action first and don't wait for those in power to start it. if those in power don't change then revolution will certainly happens.
Yes, it must be good to run a business. But where is it easiest to make a lot of money? What arrangements are needed to be able to climb from bottom to top (social mobility)? How to make it easier to start and run a business? What do entrepreneurs need to start businesses?
well, then you are missing the reason why. If i want someone to blindly stuff me with statements without evidence i would just go to the nearest church, or the news station, which ever one is closer.
Fandyus You obviously didn’t watch the video. She’s speaking out against the corruption among African governments that create an environment of hopelessness for the people of those countries. You’re apart of the problem for being Trump into something totally irrelevant to American politics.
Well, when the first two+ minutes are guilting about how when "her" people are trying to sneak into other people's countries, bad things happen to them... I'm not surprised.
I understand she is getting emotional with the topic as is something attached to her. However, no need to be yelling, though. You can still deliver your message being firm and controlling your tone. Maybe need to practice speech delivering....
Monica Macias And, as for you, theres no need to perpetuate the idea that a woman simply passionate about what she believes in, is speaking out of turn. She can yell all she wants. Her livelihood is being threatened constantly. Is yours?
Good intentions, but I feel bad for her she sounds on the verge of tears the whole time and it is painful to watch. It felt a bit uncoordinated but I see something special in her and her speech.
Timestamp ~6:12. Yes, muting the rant and using closed-captions made it possible to process her message. If tariffs are lowered, then corruption (bribes) becomes unnecessary. ?!
Not just tariffs, but that's one example. The more power the government has to determine the operations of the day to day economy, the more control it has over commerce, the more power it has to pick winners and losers. The moment the state has such power, people will be lining up to buy that power. It's why in the US once the government started subsidizing farmers, it very quickly became the case that wealthy farmers in no need of subsidy were soaking up the bulk. Why the moment the government had authority to license jobs outside medicine and law, businesses seeking to wall out competition were eager to have a license for their profession. The more complex and expansive the laws and bureaucracy, the more corrupt the system becomes over time. And this corruption also serves to concentrate the benefits of prosperity as the politically connected can capture regulations faster which increases their income which increases their political pull. Her point is, low economic freedom - caused by a non-independent judiciary, over-regulation, overly complex taxation, intrusive government programs, etc - breeds corruption and perpetuates poverty, which is a reality seen reflected pretty much worldwide.
she is mostly right but poverty is universal issue, not just an African issue. A lot of so called developing countries have huge poverty issues. the USA has around 20 million people living on the streets yet that are labeled the richest country in the world.
Glenn Chua lmfaooooo you heard a black woman say “we need more businesses in Africa” with passion and that translates to hate. Sure. Try having your livelihood trampled on constantly. What a daft comment.
I of course, understand her passion and desire, however, I don't think there's a need to be yelling - everyone can tell that she has more hatred and frustration in the tone of her speech, which displays way too much negativity (and/or hate) in my opinion, at least. I do respect her passion to bring out her point of view, and it sure would have been a much better TED Talk if she toned down a lot more. It feels more like a rant at some points in her talk.
My god stop yelling and being mad. You are speaking sense but you are annoying to listen to if you scream all the time, and people will be turned off a message that sounds antagonizing.
I wish Africa would have a revolution its the only civilization that never had an enlightment. Industry and business was dumped on people who were still in the Stone Age.
Now that Britain is about to leave Europe you could ask them to recolonise the continent as they ran things far better when they were in charge. Rhodesia was a rich country where there was no shortage of work, now it is a poor country with no work. Ask them to come back and be better to them this time.
Arent we all in a artificial purgatory, did we not come into a world of social competitions, popularity to harassment, to procurement like Brett kavanough
I was really focused to listen.The way she keep shouting make her look she is not right smt.The way you trying to give message to others as important as the message itself. Had to stop listening unfortunately.
the answers often come from those "insane" (according to normal people) people. he's/she's seems insane so his/her message/thought is not worth listening to.
Businesses need investment to get started... small and large. Laws need to be made and enforced to protect and encourage investment. Corruption is a huge problem, that needs to be addressed.
Corruption is created by laws? I profoundly disagree... I don't think her argument against corruption was well articulated at all. Also I noticed the "africa is a country" meme. In any case, I'm not sure free markets/trade will uplift African workers
Use the resources available. If there is something that’s too difficult or expensive to import then that’s a gap in the market for someone to fill. There should be a natural evolution of competitiveness that arises as societies grow, but the African people have generally never managed to coordinate between themselves & organize economic systems in which businesses can flourish. They’ve got the population growth part down no problem, lol. But seriously, if 55 nations can’t between them figure out how to run a society properly, it’s time to stop blaming the rest of the world & start considering that perhaps the problem lies within.
The problem does lie within. I think in another talk she was talking more about the gov tariffs. Long story short, African govs are very corrupt and they do all those kinds of tariffs all the time. Not to mention that many revolutions in Africa just trade one dictator or corrupt president for another, just like revolutions around the world.
Selling people is a good business. You should start this trade back up. It was so successful that it lasted for a couple centuries and you made decent profits.
