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Featured African-Accounts Video Africa Open for Business - Lesotho
Africa: Open for Business is an Africa almost never covered in the media - an Africa with stock markets, high rises, cell phones, internet cafes, and people who have dreams and aspirations and are driven to build a better future for their children. In short, an Africa that is not so foreign from Europe or the United States. This documentary is about Africa's spirit, the drive of the people, and about the desire to make a better life for the next generation. These are the people that are going to build Africa. These are the people who are Africa's future.
Euvin Naidoo on investing in Africa
In the talk that opened TEDGlobal's historic conference, "Africa: The
Next Chapter," South African investment banker Euvin Naidoo sets the
scene, framing the conversation that would unfold over the four-day
event. "What's the worst thing you've heard about Africa?" he asks.
After fielding call-outs of "famine," "war," "corruption," he urges
the audience to move past these preconceptions (reinforced, as they
are, by a narrowly focused media) and see the broader picture of a
continent on the cusp of enormous change. He sketches a compelling
profile of Africa as he sees it -- large, diverse, full of potential
-- and offers persuasive reasons why the continent's challenges
should be reframed as opportunities, and why investing in Africa can
make great business sense.
Muhammad Yunus: Creating a Poverty-Free World
Preview of Muhammad Yunus: Creating a Poverty-Free World - one of 16 DVDs created by Ashoka's Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship. Dr. Yunus, recently awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, offers his insights into what it will take to completely eradicate global poverty. He invisions a new kind of capitalism, and demonstrates how his creations, Grameen Bank and the Grameen Family of Companies, offer viable solutions to previously intractable challenges. Produced by Rooy Media LLC for Ashoka.
Jacqueline Novogratz: Tackling poverty with "patient capital"
Jacqueline Novogratz is pioneering new ways of tackling poverty. In her view, traditional charity rarely delivers lasting results. Her solution, outlined here through a series of revealing personal stories, is "patient capital": support for "bottom of the pyramid" businesses which the commercial market alone couldn't provide. The result: sustainable jobs, goods, services -- and dignity -- for the world's poorest.
Davos Open Forum 2005 - Entrepreneurship: Key for Development?
Entrepreneurship: The Key for Development?
Ensuring the inclusion of the poor in the overall growth process remains a global challenge and fostering entrepreneurship is considered part of the answer. The provision of credit to the poor -- highlighted by the "International Year of Microcredit 2005" -- is vital, along with other tools, to promoting entrepreneurship and reducing poverty.
1) How can entrepreneurship be promoted in order to stimulate bottom-up development?
2) What challenges and dangers do new microcredit instruments pose for the poor?
3) What is the potential role and responsibility of the private financial sector in fostering development?
Africa Open for Business - Nigeria
"Africa: Open For Business" probes into the world of successful African businesses and exposes myths while debunking fears surrounding doing business in Africa. With concise segments following successful African and Africa-based entrepreneurs, decade-long Journalist, Carol Pineau's film shows resilient and creative businesses who meet and exceed international standards everyday.
Africa Open for Business - Senegal
"Africa: Open For Business" probes into the world of successful African businesses and exposes myths while debunking fears surrounding doing business in Africa. With concise segments following successful African and Africa-based entrepreneurs, decade-long Journalist, Carol Pineau's film shows resilient and creative businesses who meet and exceed international standards everyday.
Africa Open for Business - Somalia
"Africa: Open For Business" probes into the world of successful African businesses and exposes myths while debunking fears surrounding doing business in Africa. With concise segments following successful African and Africa-based entrepreneurs, decade-long Journalist, Carol Pineau's film shows resilient and creative businesses who meet and exceed international standards everyday.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on aid versus trade
After four days of intense discussion on aid versus trade at
TEDGlobal 2007, it was up to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the former Finance
Minister of Nigeria, to sum up. She asks for the discussion to
continue, and to grow more sophisticated, more nuanced. And she
brilliantly refocuses the concept of aid from westernized nations: As
she points out, these other countries could not have been built
without aid from Africa. When the US or the UK gives aid, she says,
what they are really doing is giving *back.*
Africa has creative minds: William Kamkwamba
William Kamkwamba at the TED Summit in June 2007. It's a good thing to provide your family with electricity by building a wind-mill; it's down right impressive thing when you do it at 14, in a village in Malawi, using nothing but scraps of metal and a bicyle frame. It's this 'act now, ask questions later' mind set that will steer the creative economy in Malawi and other African countries.
Africa Open for Business - Zambia
"Africa: Open For Business" probes into the world of successful African businesses and exposes myths while debunking fears surrounding doing business in Africa. With concise segments following successful African and Africa-based entrepreneurs, decade-long Journalist, Carol Pineau's film shows resilient and creative businesses who meet and exceed international standards everyday.
George Ayittey: Cheetahs vs. Hippos for Africa's future
This grab-you-by the throat speech by Ghanaian economist George
Ayittey unleashes an almost breathtaking torrent of controlled anger
toward Africa's corrupt leaders and the complacent populace that
allows them to thrive. Why, then, does he remain optimistic? Because
of the new, fast-moving "Cheetah Generation," a "new breed of
Africans" taking their futures into their own hands, mobilizing
Africans to revive the indigenous markets and institutions that have
worked for centuries. As he says: "With Cheetahs, we can take Africa
back, one village at a time."
Africa Open for Business - Congo
"Africa: Open For Business" probes into the world of successful African businesses and exposes myths while debunking fears surrounding doing business in Africa. With concise segments following successful African and Africa-based entrepreneurs, decade-long Journalist, Carol Pineau's film shows resilient and creative businesses who meet and exceed international standards everyday.
Africa Open for Business - Uganda
"Africa: Open For Business" probes into the world of successful African businesses and exposes myths while debunking fears surrounding doing business in Africa. With concise segments following successful African and Africa-based entrepreneurs, decade-long Journalist, Carol Pineau's film shows resilient and creative businesses who meet and exceed international standards everyday.
Botswana, Open For Business
Filmmaker Carol Pineau, in her feature documentary, "Africa: Open For Business," explores the details of a very profitable entrepreneurship in Botswana.
Africa Open for Business - Lesotho
Africa: Open for Business is an Africa almost never covered in the media - an Africa with stock markets, high rises, cell phones, internet cafes, and people who have dreams and aspirations and are driven to build a better future for their children. In short, an Africa that is not so foreign from Europe or the United States. This documentary is about Africa's spirit, the drive of the people, and about the desire to make a better life for the next generation. These are the people that are going to build Africa. These are the people who are Africa's future.
Business of Development Video
Watch the Business of Development video, produced by World Television and edited for the BBC Africa conference.
Breaking Through Poverty with Microfinance - Grameen Foundation
For many of the world's poorest people, access to credit is their golden opportunity to forge a better life for their families with microfinance, a proven poverty reduction program. Since 1997, Grameen Foundation has been working across the globe to help them pull themselves from poverty by starting, sustaining or expand tiny businesses. Breaking Through gives you a glimpse of what this has meant for millions throughout Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Middle East. The 16-minute documentary introduces you to our front line partners and some of the families whose lives have changed through microfinance.
