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The Africentric TED: The African Leadership Network conference

Fred Swaniker, Co-Founder & CEO of ALN, discusses the establishment and vision of ALN from African Leadership Network on Vimeo . Fred Swaniker, founder of the African Leadership Academy and the African Leadership Network, is no Afro-pessimist. In fact, Iā€™d say heā€™s a real-world, internationalist example of an Afrofuturist, a true Imhotep-hop man. And while heā€™s busy building excellence, heā€™s also helping, among those who follow his example, to destroy two poisonous Western myths about the 54 countries of the African continent and their billion citizens. One myth serves self-described conservatives, and the other serves self-described liberals. The conservative myth is that Africans are so primitive and backward that theyā€™re useless, and any attempt to save them is doomed. The liberal myth is that because Africans are so primitive and backward, theyā€™re useless in any attempt to save themselves, and thus require the benevolent intervention of White savioursā€¦ including people who m...