10 best TED Talks given by Africans

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Andrew Mwenda: Aid for Africa? No thanks. Journalist Andrew Mwenda has spent his career fighting for free speech and economic empowerment throughout Africa. He argues that aid makes objects of the poor — they become passive recipients of charity rather than active participants in their own economic betterment.

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