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How do we as African peoples, anywhere in the world, free ourselves from economic and political domination? Maybe that question makes losers of us from the beginning. Maybe the question should be, "Since we're living in what seems destined to be the Chinese Century, what giant leaps can we make now so that the 2100s will be the Pan-African Century?" We could begin by asking Fred Swaniker. He's the founder of the African Leadership Academy, and he's recently launched the African Leadership Network Conference, which features a pan-African array of energetic leaders in a TED-style speakers’ forum. Participants expand their social networks, allowing them to build the continent intellectually, culturally, economically, and politically with a range of allies they would otherwise never meet. The ALN provides a context in which the continent is not ignored, and is not a target for contempt disguised as compassion. New generation of Africa's Leaders must rise t...

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, I’d say he’s a real-world, internationalist example of an Afrofuturist, a true Imhotep-hop man. And while he’s busy building excellence, he’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 they’re useless, and any attempt to save them is doomed. The liberal myth is that because Africans are so primitive and backward, they’re useless in any attempt to save themselves, and thus require the benevolent intervention of White saviours… including people who m...

Watch and learn! Take notes! Then for Saturday's competition, and then light everyone up (with the illuminating facts). Click on the photographs to be led to external video links. If you don't have time to watch everything, watch at least one video from each category. ECONOMICS Who are Africa's billionaires? Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, the world's wealthiest African Former Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: Want to help Africa? Do business here Euvin Naidoo on Investing in Africa EDUCATION Ghanaian Educator Fred Swaniker and the African Leadership Academy The South Africa-based AIMS ( African Institute for Mathematical Sciences) Ghanaian Educator Patrick Awuah: Educating a new generation of African Leaders CIVILISATIONS The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu (Watch parts 2- 6, if you have time: 2 - 6 ; double-click on the video file above and search for the title and part # in the video host ) Basil Davidson on the Origin of Egyptian Civilisation (Watch the...