Wangari Maathai: Money Alone Won't Help Africa
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- Complete video at: fora.tv/2009/04...
Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai argues that well-intentioned aid to Africa may have unexpected negative consequences. She draws from Sharon Stone's pledge to buy anti-malaria bed nets in Tanzania to explain why money alone will not solve Africa's problems.
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Wangari Muta Maathai is the founder of the Green Belt Movement, which, through networks of rural women, has planted over 30 million trees across Kenya since 1977. In 2002, she was elected to Kenya's Parliament in the first free elections in a generation, and in 2003 was appointed Assistant Minister for Environment, Natural Resources, and Wildlife.
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 2004, she is the author of Unbowed: A Memoir, and speaks to organizations around the world. Her newest book, The Challenge for Africa addresses the intricacies of African issues, such as the lack of technological developments, the absence of fair international trade, population pressures and enduring hunger, and the dearth of genuine political and economic leadership.
Maathai stresses the need for Africans to invent and implement their own solutions, rather than relying on foreign aid and Western visions of change, and calls for a revolution in leadership on both a political and individual level.
Wangari Maathai, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004, is the founder of the Green Belt Movement in her home country of Kenya, an environmental group that has restored indigenous forests and assisted rural women by paying them to plant trees in their communities. Since 1977, it has planted more than 30 million trees in Kenya and has been replicated in dozens of other African countries. Having helped transform Kenya from a vicious dictatorship to a fledgling progressive democracy, Maathai is currently Kenya's Deputy Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources and a member of Parliament.
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RIP Madam, you fought a good fight.
Mosquitoes don't only bite when your asleep 4:13. This Lady is very profoound>>>
rest in peace Mama, your legacy remain alive....
I remember once I was in form one secondary school, our class teacher asked me what what to be when I'm done with school, and I said I want to be like professor Wangari Maathai .
Wouldnt it be awesome to be that intelligent!
This is a great analogy for a lot of charities. Passion is great but you have to think beyond your nose.
Always my Icon
I love the last statement she made. Its so true.
Rest in peace Prof. Mathaai. We will truly miss you.
Wow !,wow! 2024!
good talk !! nice listening 2u wangari... mosquitoes don't bit only when u are a sleep!
Kenya now we have scarcity of such minds. Rest in peace Maathai
My idol We need to apply her ideas to AFRICA. Umoja
long life wangari mathai u are the best
Great point!
Insightful
Legend✨✨✨✨
Let those with ears hear...and those with understanding understand what WANGARI says
I am glad people are eager to help other people and countries.people should help create schools and companies so African people can do it themselves eventually. Whats the point on feeding them for one year? if the problem is a long term one? that is hypocrisy, so the people that help can say they helped.but is that the best u can do? a one time contribution? or a one time contribution that could last for long time and be the starting point of a REAL CHANGE!
if africans cannot help themselves, then there is nothing anyone else can do.
grow up and learn to take care of your own.
I agree with him: "poor people" need to fight instead of being assisted. I was not born rich but not that poor either. I worked my way to a decent situation. Americans worked their way to what they are now. The British and the French did the same and many people around the globe.
The only useful help is some help to change the structure of their society provided they want it to change and are ready to sacrify themselves for the next generations.
As they say "no pain no gain".
@CesarManiaX Taiwan has a low birth rate compared to Africa. Taiwanese women don't marry at 17 and have 5 or 6 kids.
Taiwan also made it's business license system very easy to get through, while the process in Nigeria and Senegal is very complicated. You have to bribe your way into everything.
Africa got stuck in the "natural resource" track, while China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and Israel got into technology.
I was watching an infomercial about starvation in Africa. The premise was that Taiwan donated so much rice, it could feed all the starving people of Africa. All they needed was your donation so they could pay to have it shipped. Let's be logical: look at Taiwan, now look at Africa. how is it that a tiny island in the pacific can grow enough food for Africa, but the entire continent can't feed itself? Ridiculous.
she bites her tongue at 0.57
@cirosuperiore
You are so egoistic and dangerous,but let me gues u do not know what ua talking about....anyway as the matter of fact the european now do help each other like they do to the greece later to some one else,the chinese they are now thinking to help the euro zone,U.S.A also borrows money ,nevertheless think of how much resources the people of northen hemisphere exploited and still exploit from Africa and somewhere else...is it bad if they will return the favour in the right way?
might have been gandhi but i wouldnt put my money on it..
@arronnov Your vision is distorted either by your emotions or somelse's emotions. Colonialization of Africa was both good and bad. The bad is the Marx's idealogy and the good was what Europe's religion.
@imperiallion Horrible language. Horrible ideas.
@arronnov Your sentence struction is horrible. Where did you learn English ? Are you a hs grad ? You ideas are from the streets.
Why you gotta be so rude? She put her life into this career and your busy here being rude . I bet your English is much worse than her English. Shame on you.
@@martinmuya vkorchnoifan wasn't referring to Maathai, they were referring to another youtube that went by the name "arronnov" at the time (I presume the channel or the comments were deleted as they no longer exist). This is how the old UA-cam comment system worked, you didn't directly reply under someones statement, but you had to "@" someone in a new comment thread.