Modern Self Enslavement by Africans | Dr. Nkosana Moyo | TEDxALC
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Published 2019-06-21
Dr. Moyo, is the Founder and Executive Chairman of the Mandela Institute for Development Studies (‘MINDS’) and the former Chief Operations Officer and Vice President of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB). He serves as Member of Fund Advisory Board at Musa Capital Advisors, Ltd. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
All Comments (21)
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Dr Nkosana Moyo should be Zimbabwe's next President
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I think if all Africans start thinking along these lines then we will soon come out of the dark places. My take away is: do not externalize, but internalize. Forget about reparations and start making initiatives to improve Mother land. Our governments are a big let down at the moment, really selfish people who have no heart for the masses. Africa must ARISE!!!
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I have had the privilege of listening to and interacting with this man live in Botswana, what a legend
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As a fellow Zimbabweans who has spent much my adultlife an immigrant while longing to ship my newly acquired back home. I felt every inch of your incredible talk Dr Moyo. It's also alot more easier to pointout and treat external cancers than internal ones. 🙏🏾🙏🏾
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I love you!!!! You Are the first person to ever analyse African problems in the right way
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What a brave, courageous and honest thing to say -- identifying internalised oppression. Thank you for speaking and naming this.
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I have never heard such a well balanced as Moyo's. I think we Africans are fond of making foolish excuses when fail to deliver. We blame external forces for every challenge we encounter instead of doing thorough analysis and take firm actions. Most of the current African problems are internally oriented.
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Profound information, "emancipation of mental slavery" first step is awareness, identification of mental mind set, acceptance there is a need for cognitive root canal, take action. Thank you Dr. Moyo.
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DR NKOSANA MOYO FOR PRESIDENT IN ZIMBABWE 🇿🇼
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Only ordinary Africans would agree with him. The rulling class and their brigades would oppose the speech for the reasons best known to them. We have a serious problem on leadership/governance- there is a lot to do in this area. The level of accountability for our leaders is very low, the state organs are not independent, elections are not democratic etc.
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Most people think the root internal cause of African problems is poor and corrupt leadership. Maybe. However, the unspoken truth is Africa perennial problems can be traced onto the feet of the led not the leaders. Here's a scientific experiment: African countries has gone through numerous & different leadership changes but nothing really changes. The constant is always the followers. JFK -" ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country"
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I have never heard such a well balanced speech as Moyo's. This is a bitter pill to swallow but I wish Africans could take Moyo's position. We are full of excuses. We must be fully responsible for our lives and stop blaming others/former colonisers. They have stake on the current problems but even us Africans have been contributing emensely to the occurance of those problems.
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he is a very honest man, and I respect him for that, ❤
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One of the best talks I have heard in my 61 summers!
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Oh My God, how I wish every African Decision maker can watch this. Self emancipation is what we need on the Dark Continent
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Oh wow his my namesake...I feel like he talking about South Africa, this is the exact problem facing our country.
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No lies said! PREACH SIR👏👏👏
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Lack of self knowledge is the root of all African problems. If you KNOW YOURSELF there will be no need to blame anything/anyone else.
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This is one of our great talent who should be be given a chance to run Zimbabwe as our President . It's unfortunate he has very little audience and those that are popular are intellectually bankrupt.
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This hurts, because it's TRUE!!
