Where are the contemporary Pan-African intellectuals | Tutu Agyare | TEDxEuston
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- Where the contemporary Pan-African intellectuals
TUTU AGYARE is the straight-talking Ghanaian who “baptised” the floor of the London Stock Exchange by being the first African to trade on it in his early 20s.He later pursued a successful career at UBS investment bank for two decades, where he became head of Europe, Middle East and African investment. In 2007 he set up Nubuke Investments, a company solely focused on African investment opportunities. Today, he is a much sought-after business leader and investor, and one of a handful of Africans who sit on the board of a FTSE 100 company. Agyare is known for confronting critics of the African investment trajectory and challenges them to “wake up and smell the coffee” and realise that the rest of the world is making a beeline for Africa. Having experienced the best of the South and the West, Agyare uses his experience to navigate his way through what he describes as a rich environment for opportunity. Most recently voted one of the 100 most influential Africans by NewAfrican magazine. He is a keen supporter of the arts and a founder director of the Nubuke Foundation in Ghana, co-Chair of the Tate Modern African Committee and a board member of 1-54 London’s premier Contemporary African Art Fair.gy
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Exactly, our African civilization doesn't need to resemble wester or European civilization
exactly
tellus of athens Who told you that there is no judiciary system in traditional African institutions?
Indeed, Africa is one of the homes of advanced legal institutions. Perhaps
the most famous of these institutions are the courts still found among the
Bantu states of the southern third of the continent.
-Bohannan (1968, 199).
The Somali legal system has all the makings for becoming one of the
finest legal systems of the world. All it needs to achieve this status is
exposure to the daily hustle-bustle of the market place of ideas, goods
and services in the context of the world economy.
-Heath (2001).
There is even a book about it, if you're interested.
@@semykeba2707 What book are you referring too. I would like to read that also.
Semy Keba what’s the book?
Ooh yeah, you being told all that with a man dressed in fine suits and lives Britain's finest in mansions sorruonded with rolls Royces how much western does it get? . The reason we copy the western model is because they have advanced ahead of us. Many are just listening because they can see his wealthy but not questioning what his actually saying. The original European settlers lived in caves and wore animal hides they progressed through the rennaccence to the iron edge and finally the birth of Industrialization . Africa never progressed anywhere, still today Africa is the only Unindustrialized continent. African education is so poor it can't produce engineers who can design and built something like a microprocessor, car, aircraft etc.The government leadership invests in corruption not the economy. I'd rather listen to Elon Musk, Bill Gates or Steve Jobs than this and by the way am African.
Akala has taught me a lot about these issues raised.
Where are the pan-Africanist who can structure an economic system that provides employment for all? Where are the pan African thinkers who can devise a system of governance that is democratic, yet quasi-traditional? I am looking for them too! I'd like to join the team.
Julius Malema it is the future and the big change or i hope so, i am 17 but i will support from Spain and Ethiopia to Julius Malema, a revoutionaty of South Africa.
That's why we need to invest in and encourage our young kings and queens because they might just have the ideas and means if we push them up to make these things happen.
I am here.
We have a culture problem. The largest problem that we have in our culture is a lack of personal accountability.
Once you begin to incorporate this concept into your personal concept of your culture you WILL become a respectable agent of change.
@@aniabell155 While I am not a fan of Obama his rhetoric was right when he stated "WE are the ONES, WE have been waiting for". Inspire through action. It is ONLY through building that you can teach your children to build. Whatever business idea YOU have make it work by any means necessary. Do so with the love of your life rather than alone or your children will learn to attempt this team sport called life with the handicap of functioning alone.
We have to come together and brainstorm it’s the first step
One has to look no further than the revolutionary political parties on the African continent to find contemporary African intellectuals. These intellectuals are not of the bougeois type, but are the revolutionary intelligensia.
Revolutionary cadres understand the class struggle, and in an organized manner know how we will proceed with development. But we must first seize the reigns of power, establishing African primacy along the length and breath of Africa under an All-African Union Government. Then, and only then, can independent development programs be implemented that will provide growth to all sectors of Africa in the speediest manner possible.
I hope we are sharing these videos on face book...the people need to hear.
7 years old video and still true today. We don’t respect our own cultures. We’ve been led to believe in everyone but ourselves.
that idea is coming from me. God is doing a new thing and Africa will rise.
Aman!!
Respect to Fela anikulapo Kuti. Really challenged the status quo of Nigeria and Africans generally, and spoke boldly against imperialism and colonialism through his music.
Woe this brother took the thoughts right out my mind. Change the curriculum. Stop copying western model. Use African thinkers in developing. etc etc etc. We are winning because we are changing. Long live PanAfricanism
I love u brother trust me u have rebirthed the spirit of pan africanism in me oncemore
I love this! I could have listened to some more.
Julius Malema it is a leader and Gadafi, they are both pan-africans! RIP that incredible man
gadaffi is not pan african. He is pan arab
@@Tu51ndBl4d3 Exactly!
@@Tu51ndBl4d3 he was both
Tu51ndBl4d3 the pan Arab movement wasn’t working so he adopted pan Africanism instead
@@Tu51ndBl4d3 He was both. Both are equally needed for their own people. He ended up being a pan-African and done a lot for Africa.
Balance is always the answer. Balance truth, decency and love. Also respect for the environment.
Ase. Enlightening presentation.
So true.... where are the African intellectual
Truth, African solutions for African problems.
good job brother keep up the good work in you
He articulated exactly what I struggle with in my mind. Verbatim. + a few other names.
Onyeukwu Onwukwe same here!
the next generation has the answer.
I really hope so.
MACHAR LAUSHI, if the young American left is any indication, we are in real trouble.
I hear this all the time....but I remember when I was a child (even up to a teenager) I would hear people say "your generation will change things...your generation will do this or that, your generation, your generation, your generation...". What now? I'm grown. MY generation is turning around and saying the same thing about the teens today. WE ARE THE ONES OUR PARENTS WERE TALKING ABOUT IN THE FIRST PLACE. Right here, right now. No more passing the buck. Is there some law that states once you hit your late 20s you're no longer capable of changing society? Once we're of the age where we focus on making a living, do we throw up our hands and hope that our kids will save us? The cycle goes on and on....
Hope I don't come off as an angry bridge dweller, it's just so frustrating. People seem so....weary today...
@@danielleivy8180 word
@@danielleivy8180 Thats facts man 💯💯💯
If you decide to gather all your thoughts in a well articulated book, I will gladly guy a copy sir.
The majority of the Africa states have just agreed on an economic common market.
The next step is to have aunties States of Africa. After that is a continenta United States of Africa military.
These goals are definitely achievable especially when the resources of Africans from the diaspora is added to the equation.
In all due respect we don't need added Nkrumah. Nkrumah left behind numerous books with his plans.
Then their a young leaders like Julius Malema, Lumumba, and the ambassador of the OAU.
AFRICANS LETS UNITE QUICKLY
I watched this and I am sad. I'm watching this in 2020.
Africa should be run by great men and women who have vision and can see ahead. Africa needs to sort out its health care system, food system, roads, trains and schools etc.
Were are the pan africanist i am a South Sudanese and i strongly believe that this is what we really need as african as large i will really like to join and become a member africa is for african please someone help me locate and assist me in becoming a member
Nice talk. Good questions he's asking. But he totally ignores the realities of "leadership" failure that continues till today.
Tellus Of Athens a social democracy
Africa is poor because it's not industrialized, so the economic GDP low . The reason for that is that Africa relys on exporting minerals and farming goods mostly, the continent has no manufacturing of its own. Many huge economies are held by exporting vehicles, electronic products, machinery etc which Africa has none . The education system is just poor, which can't produce highly skilled workers in the tech industry + there is no funding of local manufacturing provided. In the end you have a high population in poverty because there middle class's skilled workers who can drive industrialization which then raises the GDP into a rich country.
Exactly!Are you writing your book?
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Will the West and other countries with their military might leave Africa alone to get on with their own business?
Somehow that is the issue we all are challenged with. On both sides of the Atlantic. Wherever they want African resources, they sell the guns and start the wars. For us African Americans it is lies and assassination.
At least there's Demand Africa.
I'm right here. Get with me.
buy the large 3d printer that makes cement homes
But where does the cement come from? How does it get to where it is needed? Where does the money to pay for the homes come from if the people who are to live in them don´t have the resources or can´t get loans to pay for them? Where do the skilled workers who can operate and repair the printer come from? Before we buy into another technological tool, these and so many other questions need to be answered...
And pay for them with the oil gold diamonds platinum and plutonium revenue. But the leaders are scared of western leaders
I' m sorry but I don't think the solution is buying for continent that is poor, the solution is coming up with African ideas to solve African problems not shipping wealth to other continents by always thinking that spending is the solution. African need to own means of production
Mlungisi Dlamini precisely! we have to become producers. We can’t consume our way to economic liberation
WOW AFRICANS I WISH THIS SPIRIT OUR BRO AND SISTERS HAVE CAN COME AND SHARE WITH SA WE HAVE A PROBLEM THIS SIDE THESE LIBERALS FOUGHT PAN AFRICANISM TOO MUCH..BUT THE YOUTH DO TRY TO DEFY THT....WE STILL MISS THE LIKES OF ROBERT SOBUKWE, KWAME, LUMUMBA, NYERERE
AND ETC
Where can i get the Pan Africanism school?
If you know of any interesting real African show with African Constructive view let me know.
When can i get the Pan African ism school?
Great lecture
Kwame Nkrumah was a revolutionary pan-africanist and SOCIALIST who fought for the total liberation and unification of the continent. If Nkrumah is your man, then you must be engaged in revolutionary organizing to liberate and unite the continent. Enough with trying to remix and water him down. Nkrumah was a SOCIALIST REVOLUTIONARY. He also wrote many books, so if folks want to know about his vision for africa and how we can achieve that - READ HIS WORK. Start with africa must unite, class struggle in africa and neocolonialism the last stage of imperialism. Pan-African intellectuals do exist and they are to be found in revolutionary pan-african organizations, not sitting on imperial NGOs board.
Don't think that the "tribale" ruling from pre-coloniaal times is an answer for modern problems facing Africa.
The biggest challenge probely the expected population growth .
Education and development creating a competitive economy probely are.
We should also understand the diversity of Africa and the different problems in different regions.There is no one cure for Africa.
Pan-African thinkers don't regonise this enough. Most of the time they think in generalisations , missing the complexity and diversity of Africa.
No we as Pan-Africanist have considered this. Europe is continent that has different cultures but they form an economic system that functions. The goal is to create a socialist economic system, build schools that teach this economics, and one the leaders are on code, those differences in diversity will be meaningless.
For a voracious reader how’d u refer to Nkrumah’s trip as going to see what they were doing in China... please go back n check
Is Africa prepared to fight the West for their freedom to industrialise.African mines tend to be owned by multi national companies in the US and America etc.There are people in Africa who take bribes to prevent the continent from moving forward.
Drugs has destroyed all .
Sounds like he is fishing.
For ideas
He´s wearing a suit. That´s cultural apropiation.
Not really, anyone can wear a suit, just means he's a civilised being. Suits aren't tied to any race or ethnicity.
This is not pan Africanism!!!
@powernomics