media needs to support entrprise in africa
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This presentation was delivered at AFFORDs Global Enterprise Week looking at the media's role in supporting business development in Africa.TRANSCRIPT
Media, Enterprise & Africa
Changing the Face of Africa
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Dictatorships Child Soldiers NGOs Famine CorruptionWar Research Violence
Dependent Disaster HIV/AIDs Starving Babies Western Aid Campaigning
Development Illiterate Doom’n’Gloom Black
Poverty
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But where is Business & Enterprise ?
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"For all that has changed, Africa continues to be
described through a series of lacks and absences, failings and problems, plagues and
catastrophes"
(James Ferguson, Global Shadows)
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What Impact does this
have?
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Destroying Africa’s Image
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Collateral Damage
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Creating a Culture of Dependency
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What can we do?
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Read Binyavanga Wainaina‘How to Write about Africa’
“Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has
won the Nobel Prize. An AK-47, prominent ribs, naked breasts: use
these. If you must include an African, make sure you get one in Masai or
Zulu or Dogon dress”
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Duncan McNicholl‘Perspectives of Poverty’
Think and Act Differently
Entrepreneur : Edward Kabzela is an area maintenance mechanic
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The Malawian who Harnessed the Airwaves
Showcase stories like 22 year old William Kamkwamba innovative
entrepreneur © 2011 Changing the Face of Africa
African Governments need to promote success on an
International level like India
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Final Quote
"This nation was built by men who took risks - pioneers who were not
afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure,
scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of
progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action”
~Brooks Atkinson
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