We have to do more than pray and say positive affirmations. We must put in the work.

John Perkins: On Globalization

John Perkins: The Secret History of the American Empire

⁣Dr. Arthur Lewis - White Economic Domination Worldwide

⁣Prof. Ali Mazrui
Tools of Exploitation in Africa

In light of the recent global protests against racism, calls to #DefundThePolice and the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic, one question has been repeatedly asked:
“How can the Black community create sustainable change for ourselves?”

This discussion will focus on attempting to answer that question by focusing on one word: infrastructure.

Structural racism/white supremacy have always created roadblocks to our community building the necessary framework to protect and provide for our communities. Many of us are exhausted with talking about “the problem” and want to build more sustainable solutions to the many challenges our community faces.

Panelists:
Bakari Jones, Business strategist
Danielle Torain, Executive Director - OSI-Baltimore
Changa Onyango, Director - AO Services
Heber Brown III, Director - The Black Church Food Security Network

Moderator:
Dayvon Love, Director of Public Policy - Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle

⁣Project currently devising for simultaneous broadcast weekly Video and Podcast on Pan-Afrikan Economics.

Draft for Project currently devising for simultaneous broadcast weekly Video and Podcast on Pan-Afrikan Economics. Comments welcome.

Vintage video of an interview with Dr. Claude Andersen

How much can the informal marketplace teach you about the African economy? Knowledge Management Specialist, Charles Dhewa, threads the link between indigenous knowledge, with its application in the marketplace, and the development of solutions in tackling African challenges. In a talk filled with facts and anecdotes, Charles reminds us that "when we import knowledge at the expense of indigenous knowledge, our major loss is African identity”, and how not all skills can be learnt in a classroom if African countries are to build strong and thriving home-grown economies. Charles Dhewa is the CEO of Knowledge Transfer Africa, which he founded in 2006 after realising that agricultural value chain actors in developing countries needed a knowledge broker to keep reminding them of what they could be forgetting and under-estimating. Working at the intersection of formal and informal agricultural markets in Zimbabwe, his organisation has setup a fluid knowledge and information platform called MKambo which tracks, trends and ensures agricultural value chains are driven by knowledge, technology and innovation. Charles is always clarifying opportunities and influencing policy through his thought leadership blog ‘eMKambo’. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx