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Developing Africa, Not Westernizing It | Laiqa Walli | TEDxYouth@AKAMombasa
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2024
- Laiqi Walli, a student at the Aga Khan Academy in Mombasa, Kenya, offers an enlightening, youth perspective on the progress and ethics of East African development. Laiqa is an ambitious, vocal and focused student at the Aga Khan Academy Mombasa. She has a passion for the Visual Arts and strongly believes in valuing one’s culture. She thrives in an environment that stimulates her intellectually and thus enjoys discussing real world problems and their solutions. Having grown up in Tanzania, she considers the African influence to be an essential aspect of who she is. But she is concerned about the western takeover that she sees happening all around her under the name of ‘development’. She is concerned for the loss of a culture that is so inherent to who she is and wishes to challenges the concept of development. 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
No one will ever genuinely help Africa rise except AFRICANS THEMSELVES... Thank you
Yet you have these demonic countries that pillaged and enriched themselves from the riches of this continent. Sad bastards!!!!👊🏼
Do you really mean since Africans haven't helped any other hurting groups rise they're destined for the same treatment?
You are right
I want to try
And china😂
4:29 "Westernization is hindering our African innovation" "We must take authorities of our own progress" very true
@@bogdanov2395 It's because we as Africa allow it.
Whoo! Girl, thank you! Guilty for thinking that development was equal to westernization. Thank you for that perspective.
I had this argument with my Uncle about a month ago why we are trying to westernize Nigeria instead of making it more Nigerian and it was solely on development, this lady just spoke my heart. Thank you so much.
Bruuuuuuh!
Exactly!!! all these Lebanese guys building all these rubbish in Nigeria that have no use in our lives is mind blowing
Most Nigerians don't know history and are now in an Abusive relationship with the rest of the world
Loving who no love you
Do you know CHAMA Mission
This is the unfortunate reality we live in. It is inspiring to see such a young and smart member of the African youth stand up for the truth. We need more active members of our future doing what Laiqa Walli is doing. Truly amazing!
We are proud to have been part of this great initiative . Keep aiming higher
I'm African American and I 100% agree with everything that was said.
I’m Italian American and I agree 100%!!!
Everyone in Africa would trade places with you to live in America.
@Laiqa Walli How come so many Africans are scramming to get into America and not the other way around?
Because all of the resources are being extracted from those countries without compensation and not the other way around! Your diamonds,gold,platinum,uranium, oil,natural gases etc... But they give them 5 cents a day!!! Sorry to say but I’m an American and every Kingdom has fallen so count your blessings while you can.
@@charlesnelson6029count what blessings while poverty has been skilfully created for Africans who are supposed to be rich?
Well Said. These are the mindsets to change our nations in Africa.
had to click on pause to drop a comment halfway through cuz I'm already in love with everything Ms. Laiqi Walli is discussing in this talk. This is just FANTABULOUS!!!! Now let me go back and press play!
❤💜👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 a pep-talk not just for Africa but for the entire Global South 🙌🏻 our countries clearly need more youth leaders. The median age of an African is around 19 while their politicians are usually in their 70s and beyond. The proportion of youth in politics needs to go up 🙈
True very true problem is African leaders will be fossil’s before they leave their positions
Let Africa be Africa......I love this.
Yes Africa don’t need to copy western world development, we have our own way of development that is what many youth forget, thank you for this great message
More people need to see this👏👏👏👏💯
Small steps... We are getting there... SLOWLY but SURELY
Such an intelligent young woman. Our Africa needs more of these youths 🙏🙏🙏
Very very proud of you. Indeed Africa is raising and that Africa is represented by you. Thank you.
wow, I almost shed a tear with this speech... Africa rise🙌
Well said my dear sister. If we have more of your type gives hope for present and future Africa. The deepest message coming from an African youth.
Thank you very much.
Great. Love it. The wisdom of youth...the time is here.
So touching
Hello Laiqa Walli - thank you for this enlightening and courageous speech. Carry on and we know that right now Africa is changing and wakening up. One day I will look you up, to exchange ways of doing something for the future of our homeland MOTHER AFRICA.
African leaders should see this.
I’ll make that happen.
Wht a wonderful speech.....bst wishes from India 🇮🇳
I love this
Pronto ,spot on!
She is speaking the truth. I hope the young people are listening. The future is for those who identify what they are already having and using it.
This was so amazing. So well said. Only we as Africans can solve our own problems and develop our own countries from our own perspective and innovation. We should not lose our culture in a futile attempt to be like the West which is adding immensely to the issues we already and continue to face. Development is not equal to Westernization.
Hail Africa ❤️🗽
I like the video, congratulations, my dear!
Wow... intelligents sister 💪🏿thank you very much for such incredible knowledge Passover...our Ancestors are proud of you 👍🏿
Laiqa is so brilliant and extremely articulate. This was beautiful to watch ❤
21st century is not the Asian century its African, if they can get things right it will be an exciting century for Africa
Nice joke
Respect to sister
I love adapt and not adopt. We need to accept ourselves as Africa (we are blessed) and what we have and work with that. Let's embrace what we have work for us and the entire world. Let's develop Africa with what we have. Proud of you, Laiqi.
Amazing 👏🏾👏🏾. Corruption is what is finishing us
Africans wake up.
Watching from Philippines, Nice speech by the way
Very powerful talk
showing an accurate and deep understanding; great perceptive. Thank you for all the insightful information. 💡
That is my girl!
Very interesting and inspirational perspective
Finally
This is indeed great message...... Africans weke up. Westernization is different from development
Woow I'm speechless 😶
She's spot on
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CONSTRUCTIVELY TIMELY AND APPROPRIATE. HOWEVER, all nation's and in particular must REDIRECT THEIR EDUCATION SYSTEM TO MAKE ALL SCHOOLS FULLY COMPREHENSIVE WHEREIN STUDENTS WILL BE DEVELOPED IN THEIR NATURAL ABILITY FROM PRE SCHOOL TO UNIVERSITY LEVEL. SUCH A SYSTEM REQUIRES THE BEST TRAINED TUTORS FOR THE BEST EQUIPPED AND ARCHITECTURALLY PLANNED SCHOOLS IN THE BEST LOCATIONS
Nice speech. It would have been appropriate to allow her to have it in Swahili, since it is addressed to Africans... TedX speeches in Italy are held in Italian and streamed with English subtitles...
rising
She makes a very good point. Africa shouldn't not follow the exact model of the West. Africa needs to take indigenous cultures and the environment into consideration while developing. Being self sufficient is important but development doesn't mean turning your entire country into a concrete jungle. So it's important to retain African traditions, designs, art, etc while incorporating some elements of the West.
Louder!!!!
Such a brave woman, I support her point of view.
Keep your Western culture in the West mates. Stop promoting it as THE one and only true way of living. Peace.
How can I get hold of this lady. We need her to visit Zambia
🖤💜💚
2021 and Africa is going toward have Kiswahili as the official language so African are going away from the westernized ideals. Africa is getting better and I'm proud of that.
My parents, in particular my mother, had this way of thinking and as a result I've been feeling like a tourist in my own country.
I swear our transport system is very spontaneous and still safe.. there is always a fast means of transport each time!
Sister you doing great job God bless you
*Laiqa Walli can get it
Laiqa...JESUS be your anchor. You got it well...so well. I hope more will get it too. Authenticity is what we are all made unic about. Africa is part of the world...so are all Africans regardless of social, gender etc and regardlessa of the type of education level we all get...every one plays a role.. Being politically correct is a trap. We need to be humble about who is next to us. That's loving your neighbourh as yourself.
Good
Whoa
This girl gets it!! So hard to find people in UK who this like this. I searched everywhere to find some where that taught Yoruba in my youth. It wasn't on any syllabus. Still isn't!! Yet almost any other nationality in the UK can study their language to GCSE level. 🤦🏽♀️ It's not acceptable any more. Someone needs to make an app that translates English into Yoruba too. Google translate doesn't do this!! Only the other way round.😱 Totally inadequate!! It's 2021!! Time for us to develop the things we need ourselves & tell our own stories. 🤓 👑🎉🎉
Tshirt is sick though
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👍
❤❤❤.
Laiqa this is interesting.
I’ve got an idea for this.
The younger generation will solve these problems. They have fresh ideas, and have not been brainwashed. They have clear eyes with clear visions.
My teacher forced me to watch this.
Asante! Hakuna Matatu! :)
Stop westernizing Africa. Your focuses should be totally different and pan_ Africanist. Be vigilant, the struggle continues!
We live in Colombia the same situation: we just copy everything from EU/USA just because it is from EU/USA. I think you are right about looking inside. I call it to "look at ourselves with our own eyes". However, I consider to be a mistake to turn now anti-west. That would be the other extreme. I consider the Nasa-Native-People to have a very interesting concept of identity: For us, identity equals change. Our most core value is adaptation. WE have been changing by learning from other cultures even before the whites came. For us, they ain't over or below us, they are just other humans with some things that are useful and others that ain't. All we want is the freedom to have our OWN criteria do integrate (or not) a cultural element, and not integrating it just because it is from the West.
It amazes me that Indians identify as African. I respect it because some of them are direct descendants
Hopefully one day Africans in India will be loved
Both terms, not the same. Mindset change needed
So true, Swahili is slowly going away. Sooo sad, soooo sad. The sooner we realize that, the sooner we will love Swahili. I love Swahili
Ok understand her underlining message
A wise man would not reject a superior fruit simply because it was grown in a foreign garden
Hindu proverb
mind you, Africa is way bigger than it is depicted on that map!
I've been saying this for years 😭😭😭
The problem is that, our grandparents didn’t do NOTHING I mean absolutely NOTHING so that we the younger generation will take over but they failed to and that’s what is harming us till now, if they were doing something related to the development of the continent then we wouldn’t have any problems of continuing from where they stopped this is what is disturbing us my African brothers and sisters.
What is the Niger case study of a failed World Bank project?
What was the traditional method of solving the problem?
WHICH ORGANISATIONS OR INDIVIDUALS ARE READY TO HELP SOME OF US GROW AFRICA. WE CANT ACCESS THE BANK LOANS SO AT THE END OF THE DAY QUESTION RENAINS WHO WILL BELIEVE IN OUT AFRICAN DREAM WITHOUT COLLATERAL.
Not only Africa but also Asian
Was that Wakanda?😂💯💯
Kokrookoo! Adeakyeoo!
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I feel the rage in her voice though, she tried to suppress it brilliantly
NGL Africa has the potential to be a developed country, their land is rich in the most sought-after minerals, such as diamond. Yet the foreign companies own the point of access to such minerals, AKA mines. Now my response to Developing Africa & not westernizing it, is that it should look at Japan for example. Japan is one of the many developed & urbanized countries in Asia, yet they never westernized, they never lost their culture. You see modern shrines that look beautiful at night, you see monthly festivals. However, it surprises me how the western fast-food companies only change their menu in Japan & keep it the same in the rest of the world. That's because they know that if they don't blend the Japanese culture into their menus, they won't get any customers. Starbucks however has the advantage of having regional products, meaning that if you want a certain drink, you'd need to buy at the country that is available. I can confirm that due to going to a Starbucks in Peru, my home country, and the plenty of Starbucks in the US. I hope the best for the developing countries.
Kokrookoo! Adeakyeoo!
I am a child of Africa, born in Zimbabwe. My parents were born in India. Their parents were born in Ireland. Ireland in that time suffered colonisation, and great poverty, and the only alternative for the common man was to join the army. This does not excuse colonisation, it only serves to add context. This said, your talk is topical, and well reasoned, in a superficial way, failing to admit that Africa is multilayered, and education in Africa needs to also be multilayered. By multilayered I mean the focus needs to emphasise both Africa in the present and Africa in the future, with the present being how it can rebuild a "national" pride in being African, and a future in realising that its market is Western or Eastern, ie not African. By this I mean education has to take into account the future prospects of the individual, what market their skill set will flourish. An indepth knowledge of the receiving culture, especially economic, will serve those who aspire to international dealings, whilst for a greater majority they need to be taught simple economics. I worked in Malawi where I noticed a profound failing of an African education - at roadside vegetable stalls everyone was selling the same vegetable. There would be twenty potato stalls at one stop, and at the next roadside market, twenty resellers of tomato. No variety meant no sales. No sales meant a stagnant economy, a shared poverty. Africa as a whole works like this, with no market in Africa needing the produce of the country next door, and very few prepared to pay the costs of bringing food from further away. This Africa's market is either further East of Africa or further west of Africa. Education needs to move beyond literature to simple economics. To completely reject the West or the East is shortsighted. Educate differently by all means, but remember it is only a thriving economy that will lift people and nations. The most efficient way forward is to change your naming of the education system - if it is known as a western education, it will be fought. If purveyed as an African education, it will be embraced. Choose your battles - with an anti western philosophy you raise a nation expending effort with no economic gain. The effort spent in toppling a statue doesn't build a future. Instead it encourages a grudge, and a grudge puts the focus on/ transfers power to the very culture you proclaim to hate. Look at South Africa - nearly thirty years independence has borne an economic generation who don't know how to build. What a waste. Thirty years of focus on the past, just like your rejection of Western education, leaves a country, a continent, without a future. Educate for where they will work, give each person dignity and hope, and you will build a nation.
But they want them to fail...
It's literally an African problem. Tourists and foreigners come to our countries to see what we have, not the KFC and McDonald's they already have. They are in awe of the very little unwesternized culture we show. But the new generations are losing that.
Muhammad gadhafi was great
For muslim world and Africa
How can you talk while wearing that clothes? I dont understand
Ehhh. I agree with preserving African culture and tradition, but I can't really see why you'd want to go without western technology. Sure, it's not perfect and it won't work everywhere, but it's still a big improvement.
Our generation tries so hard to fit in and it is damaging our self image
Can you please learn Urdu and give a lecture to Pakistanis? Man do people here think moderenisation is equals westernization.
This one hella lightskined and pretty African woman. Africa needs a major airlines aside from Ethiopia airlines. 1 major airlines can't represent the whole continent.
LOL
Big banks ruling?
Yeesh
The west is keeping us down by all cost. The only way we can grow faster is to do the following: 1Get a stronger military that is more power that cannot be intimidated. Because if we don't they can invade us at anytime. 2 we should be technologically independent. 3 we should have a stable political system that cannot be easily corrupted by others. 4 have a stronger economy via Agriculture and industrialization. 5 get our innovative young talented youth and open a school of innovation were the can improve their skills, and pay them well. 6 create our own educational system. 7 Above all teach out children about the only true God that is God all might.