Africentric videos for KLA students

Watch and learn! Take notes! Then for Saturday's competition, and then light everyone up (with the illuminating facts).

Click on the photographs to be led to external video links.

If you don't have time to watch everything, watch at least one video from each category.




ECONOMICS

Who are Africa's billionaires?





















Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, the world's wealthiest African


















Former Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: Want to help Africa? Do business here




Euvin Naidoo on Investing in Africa




EDUCATION

Ghanaian Educator Fred Swaniker and the African Leadership Academy














The South Africa-based AIMS (African Institute for Mathematical Sciences)



Ghanaian Educator Patrick Awuah: Educating a new generation of African Leaders




CIVILISATIONS

The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu



(Watch parts 2- 6, if you have time: 2 - 6; double-click on the video file above and search for the title and part # in the video host)


Basil Davidson on the Origin of Egyptian Civilisation



(Watch the parts 1 + 3, if you have time; double-click on the video file above and search for the title and part # in the video host)


Timbuktu Scribes



(Watch part 2 if you have time; double-click on the video file above and search for the title and part # in the video host)


THE ARTS

Kenyan Artist Wangechi Mutu - This You Call Civilisation

Nigerian Author Chimamanda Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story

Kenyan Animation Studio







Nigerian Sculptor El Anatsui - "Heaven and Earth"

El Anatsui installing "Between Earth and Heaven" or see more Metropolitan Museum Videos

SCIENCE, INVENTION + ENGINEERING



Guyanese historian, linguist and anthropologist Ivan Van Sertima on Africans in Science





Ghanaian-American Entrepreneur and Technologist Nii Simmonds, Co-Founder of Afrobotics



Afrobotics Homepage


African American Lonnie Johnson, Inventor of the Super-Soaker

super soaker inventor

Malawian engineering prodigy William Kamkwamba



Ghanaian Computing Engineer and Brain-Computer Researcher

TONIGHT ON THE TERRORDOME: Mohammed Ibrahim on Good Governance as the Engine of African Development

6 pm Mountain Time
FM 88.5 Edmonton
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When Sudanese engineer and entrepreneur Mohamed Ibrahim built a cellular communication network across the African continent, he likely had no idea he’d meet such massive financial, social and political success.

Ibrahim eventually sold his Celtel company for $3.4 billion, and used his money to establish the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. The Foundation’s major goal is to improve governance across the African continent, since without government provision of security, rule of law, justice and human development, and facilitation of trade, citizens have a much more difficult time of transforming their societies for the better.

The Mohamed Ibrahim Foundation awards excellence in national leadership to any African federal leader who came to power democratically and left his or her country in better political, economic and social conditions.

Worth $5 million initially and $200,000 annually for life, the prize is awarded by a panel of internationally respected jurors including Nobel Prize winners, and can be given to any leader who left office within the previous three years. It’s the most lucrative prize in the world.

The money, argues Ibrahim, is not only to celebrate such excellent leadership, but to provide prestige, comfort and security for leaders who cannot, unlike their Northern counterparts, rely on endless consultancies and speaking engagements which routinely yield millions of dollars annually.

In 2007, Mozambique’s Joaquim Chissano won the prize for leading Mozambique from conflict to peace and democracy, and in 2008 Festus Mogae of Botswana won for “outstanding leadership [that] ensured Botswana’s continued stability and prosperity in the face of an HIV/AIDS pandemic which threatened the future of his country and people.”

But Ibrahim argues that his greater accomplishment is the Ibrahim Index of Good Governance, a broad and deep survey of governance across the 54 countries of the continent and its island satellites.

International agencies supply the Index its raw data, which a team of African academics analyse and translate into performance scores in key areas from human rights and education to safety and transparency.

By ranking countries, Ibrahim argues that states will engage in positive competition to attract investment by improving quality of governance and civic life.

Dr. Ibrahim has received recognition around the world, including the Economists Innovation Award for Social & Economic Innovation, the BNP Paribas Prize for Philanthropy, and placement on TIME Magazine’s 2008 and 2009 lists of the world’s 100 most influential people.

Mo Ibrahim spoke at the sixth anniversary of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore on July 15, 2010.

TONIGHT ON THE TERRORDOME: Molefi Kete Asante - Du Bois, Africa and the Convergence of Consciousness

6 pm Mountain Time
FM 88.5 Edmonton
cjsr.com worldwide
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Few American scholars achieved the depth and breadth of accomplishment of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois.

Born in 1868, three years after the end of the American civil war, Du Bois was the first African to receive a PhD from Harvard University.

Du Bois also studied at the University of Berlin, becoming a professor of History and Economics, and wrote 36 books and more than 4000 articles and essays. For a time he headed the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People and was founding editor of its newspaper The Crisis.

After the US government refused to renew his passport, Du Bois moved in 1963 to Ghana at the invitation of President Kwame Nkrumah, where he directed work on the Encyclopedia Africana.

Du Bois died on August 27, 1963, having made a profound impact on African intellectualism globally, especially through his 1903 essay “The Talented Tenth” about the necessity of a vanguard of educated African-Americans to lead the upliftment of the entire nationality, and his 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk, which described the “double-consciousness” or dual-identity of Africans in America.

Addressing WEB Du Bois’s cultural and intellectual significance, as well as perceptions of some his political or analytical shortcomings, is another giant of Africana thought, Dr. Molefi Kete Asante.

Molefi Kete Asante is a full professor in the Department of African American Studies at Temple University. He’s the founding editor of The Journal of Black Studies, and the author of more than 300 articles. His sixty-eight books include Afrocentricity, The Encyclopedia of Black Studies, Erasing Racism: The Survival of the American Nation, and Ancient Egyptian Philosophers.

The Utne Reader calls Asante one of the "100 Leading Thinkers" in the United States, and Asante has appeared on Nightline, The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, The Today Show, The Tony Brown Show, and 60 Minutes.

The African Union cited Asante as one of the top twelve scholars of African descent when it invited him to give one of the keynote addresses at the Conference of Intellectuals of Africa and the Diaspora in Dakar in 2004.

He spoke on November 12, 2008 at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Dubois and Africa: The Convergence of Consciousness

Africa Day 2010

This Saturday, June 12, Edmonton hosts the Africa Day Festival! The Africa Day Festival features a bounty of African cultures in Canada with musics, art, words of inspiration, community members and leaders, and a dazzling array of international cuisines.

The event begins with a family-friendly indoor-outdoor community celebration at the Africa Centre on 131st Avenue and 127th Street, featuring drummers, dancers, musicians and children’s activities.

The festival peaks with a dinner gala featuring the Juno Award Winning African Guitar Summit at the Edmonton Expo Centre at Northlands. Door Opens @ 7:00 PM.

Thulasiraj Ravilla: How low-cost eye care can be world-class

3 Day Novel Contest, Season 1, Episode 3

Superb television series by wunderkind producer Tate Young, featuring a dozen writers (some experienced, some brand new) trying to write a novel in three days in a box bookstore in E-Town, while being tormented by challenges and judges including yours truly, your friendly neighbourhood Minister Faust.

Part One of Three




Part Two of Three




Part Three of Three

Frederick Balagadde: Bio-lab on a microchip | Video on TED.com

3 Day Novel Contest, Season 1, Episode 2

Superb television series by wunderkind producer Tate Young, featuring a dozen writers (some experienced, some brand new) trying to write a novel in three days in a box bookstore in E-Town, while being tormented by challenges and judges including yours truly, your friendly neighbourhood Minister Faust.

Part One of Three



Part Two of Three



Part Three of Three

3 Day Novel Contest, Season 1, Episode 1

Superb television series by wunderkind producer Tate Young, featuring a dozen writers (some experienced, some brand new) trying to write a novel in three days in a box bookstore in E-Town, while being tormented by challenges and judges including yours truly, your friendly neighbourhood Minister Faust.

Part One of Three



Part Two of Three



Part Three of Three

From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain - Unnofficial Book Trailer, Version A

BBC News - Kenya enters children's animation arena

BBC News - Kenya enters children's animation arena

Africa’s billionaires: who are they? | Voxafrica, La télévision Pan-Africaine

Africa’s billionaires: who are they? | Voxafrica, La télévision Pan-Africaine

Aid: how much of it really gets through? | Voxafrica, La télévision Pan-Africaine

Aid: how much of it really gets through? | Voxafrica, La télévision Pan-Africaine

Is Africa the new hotspot? | Voxafrica, La télévision Pan-Africaine

Is Africa the new hotspot? | Voxafrica, La télévision Pan-Africaine

Don't you think it's time for a FAUSTIAN BARGAIN?

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How can you not love something called "Afrobotics"?

"Afrobotics seeks to use competitive robotics to imbue the next generation of Africans with a cadre of scientists, engineers, innovators and entrepreneurs who are not only knowledgeable and skilled but critical thinkers and problem solvers.

"A cadre that is hands-on, technically creative and determined to apply their abilities to problems relevant to Africa.

"Our mission is to inspire African students to be science, engineering, and technology leaders, by enabling them in innovative team-based competitions that build science, engineering and technology skills, that inspire entrepreneurial risk-taking, and that foster well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence, communication, and leadership."

Afrobotics | Afrobotics.com

Herman Chinery-Hesse: Turn the brain-drain into the round-trip brain-train

"Herman Chinery-Hesse, or ‘Africa’s Bill Gates’ as he is called by the BBC, is a highly respected Ghanaian technology entrepreneur who co-founded a million-dollar software company, SOFTtribe, and a truly visionary company, BSL.

"Chinery-Hesse had a fairly privileged childhood and left Ghana to study industrial technology at the Texas State University in San Marcos.

"However, he returned to Ghana in 1990 with the intention of staying for good. Unlike many of his peers who felt that all real opportunities were to be found abroad, he set about finding opportunities at home.

"His first project involved writing a software program for a travel agency in Accra to automate its accounting and customer service functions. The software was so successful that it was adopted by travel agents throughout the country."

Full story here.

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Chinery-Hesse – Ghana’s Bill Gates

Using Technology to Boost Trade in Africa

Mo Ibrahim: "The other, brighter Africa"

Mohamed Ibrahim, telecom billionaire, writes:

"Alongside this focus on improving African governance, we must also put pressure on our leaders to encourage regional integration. Many small, landlocked African countries will never become serious players in the global economy without increased cooperation within their own regions.

"Today’s haphazard, overlapping regional integration is proving largely ineffective, and this severely hampers African countries’ ability to compete in international markets.

"One of the consequences of this lack of cooperation for Africa’s 967 million people is the bureaucratic replication and currency-exchange issues that being divided into 53 countries entails. China, with 1.3 billion people, is just one country; and the European Union, with some 500 million people, functions as a single economic market, with most of its members sharing a single currency.

"If Africa’s small and diverse nations do not come together, they will never integrate properly into the world economy, and so will not reap the benefits of our globalised world.

"Economic integration must be backed up by increased intra-regional trade; less than 4% of Africa’s trade is between African countries, compared to over 70% in Europe and over 50% in Asia.

"The International Monetary Fund credits Asian intra-regional trade as the main factor behind its recent export boom and strong economic growth. Africa, with its huge and often untapped markets, must follow the same path."

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