Lindiwe Mazibuko : Why the African diaspora is crucial to the continent's future

 

Lindiwe Mazibuko·TEDxEuston

Why the African diaspora is crucial to the continent’s future

Summary

Diaspora shows a dispersion of any people from their original homeland. The speaker suggests to the African diaspora that they return to their home countries and devote themselves to public service.

Now, many students leave their country to study and to get a job to send money to their parents and families temporarily. However, they don’t return and they don’t want to return. It’s because they think that they won’t earn enough in Africa and they are fed up with African politics.

The speaker knew that because she worked as a politician thus she wants to change African politics with them. She was too young, didn’t have enough experience, so it was difficult for females alone to disrupt the political status quo.

She knows that the reasons that young people couldn’t earn enough money in Africa are political-economic problems and large numbers of young people have to join political organizations to influence change from within. They have to actively seek to take up a leadership role in government, the state, and public services. First, registering is responsible for young people.

I found the great words in the story: cash transfers from Africans living outside of the continent have now begun to exceed donor aid from foreign countries into Africa. Now is the time to change. With African new energies around entrepreneurialism and innovation, change politics rightly. 

If no one does anything, there is no lasting prosperity. Emerging from stereotypes of the dark continent, and the hopeless continent, commit to public service and challenge.