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Reimagining & Rebuilding Ecosystems |Venture Builder|@GearboxKE_| @timbuktooafrica |Previous TEDGlobal Curator| e/acc | Opinions are my own
New York City
Joined October 2007
No poverty reduction without industrialization.
The number of extreme poor worldwide has fallen from just under 2B in 1990 to ~650M today. But the African continent is bucking this trend, with the number of extreme poor actually growing. By 2030, SSA is projected to be home to 80% of the world's extreme poor—up from 67% today
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More instituions like @Ashesi are needed.
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RT @eajene: 'Africa' doesn't exist. "A Tanzanian and a Senegalese who want to do business can meet more conveniently in Doha than in Dar es….
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For those in the back 📢 📢. Tired of virtue signalling types who revel in infantilizing Africans. .
USAID cuts are killing children, and everyone's blaming Luke Farritor. A 23-year-old is getting death threats for trying to fix America's broken budget. But as an African, there’s an essential truth about this crisis that everyone is missing. Let me be absolutely clear: every
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RT @magattew: USAID cuts are killing children, and everyone's blaming Luke Farritor. A 23-year-old is getting death threats for trying to f….
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RT @magattew: This is exactly why Africa stays poor. Look at this wall of permits just to run a simple business. Every certificate is a ba….
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Not just price matching, but also the synthetic versions from diamonds to vanilla
There's no single raw material that comes out of Africa that hasn't been price-matched by other countries. Even Cobalt, which is highly concentrated in the DRC due to natural causes, has already been price-matched in Indonesia. In less than 9 years, Indonesia went from <1% of.
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RT @got_cake: This is Corey Alston, an american fifth generation sweetgrass weaver. He shapes intricate patterns into contemporary sculptur….
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RT @Arod95: Lukasa, quipu (Incan cord and knot record keeping system), and other tactile methods of recording history will always fill me w….
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RT @deedydas: 🚨 AI models just invented better, novel AI models. Chinese researchers fed all LLM research into a model and it discovered 1….
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I wish Africa had India's problems. Reading "Overcoming India's technological cowardice" by @sohamsankaran
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RT @nzisakiilu: Humble brag…They won’t believe a little girl from Kenya built the orchestration engine for this, but I did!.
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RT @MatthewBerman: Jensen: "I've created more billionaires on my management team than any CEO in the world."
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The warning was there preceding even the advent of artificial diamonds. from 2013
This such bad news for Botswana which has been one of Africa’s luckiest countries in recent decades, due to huge natural resource wealth and a tiny population . Now the diamond price shock is akin to the commodity price shock that hit Nigeria and others in the 1980s and 2015-16.
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How many Africans are aware of these attempts at modernization/industrialization? Ethiopia's attempt at Japanization, etc. Does it matter? Well, China succeeded after multiple tries to industrialize. You can still make it
“At the end of the Middle Ages, the political and social structures of European and African kingdoms were broadly similar. But by the 19th century, the industrial revolution conferred significant advantages to a handful of states in western Europe.��.
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