I've recovered. So, I had the confidence now in something that kind of worked. I thought, well, let me head to East Africa and test it there to ultimately scale across continents. And I landed in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
And there was tens of thousands of mills, so operationally we couldn't have thousands of staff and thousands of vehicles driving around all of East Africa aimlessly looking for mills trying to figure out which ones to fix. And so again, we turned to technology.
But you said Africa, which is a place where I currently do a lot of work. Africa is the world's largest island. No, don't judge me.
more selfish. They start They start sort of multiplying without thought of the broader organism. African tribes, and he said, "Remarkably, it's extremely low." What What are these guys doing where Western
frequency and surveillance on their lives so they come across the South Africans Al They Global you feel me got for you maor the
frequency and surveillance on their lives so they come across the South Africans Al They Global you feel me got for you maor the
video that went viral yesterday, there are just so many that you can't even regulate them. And such disaster unfortunately is not uncommon in Central African Republic. you know alluding to the the fact that it's not regulated earlier in the year up to this point uh three different incidents already occurred one in February another in March and then in June as well killing dozens of people so it's not something
In 2022 and 2023, he embarked on a world tour of 80 cities across North America, Europe, UK, Australia, and, of course, Africa. In 2024, he performed his largest capacity venue in the UK at the renowned OVO Wembley Arena. So again, please welcome Adekunle Gold.
And I found in these sounds myself. African creatives are really great, and we just need more creative education.
And I found in these sounds myself. African dancers are important because they're able to sell, they're able to tell stories behind songs, and yeah honestly, I think just find unique ways
They're not connected, but it just felt important to just highlight that. Africa, there's a change coming. There's a change coming.
And we celebrate Africa Day as the moment where the nations decided to work together 60 years ago, where Africa actually had a lot of progression. Some good things were happening.
It's important, I think, for our younger generation to understand that, hey, you know what? Africa hasn't always been in conflict. We had a moment of union.
I want to-- Africans are incredibly agile. As you said, I do 16 different things.
They're not connected, but it just felt important to just highlight that. Africa, there's a change coming. There's a change coming, and Africa has, in my opinion, the most amount of growth potential in all of the continents around the world as a people,
I want to-- Africans are incredibly agile. As you said, I do 16 different things, but I don't consider it as that.
And then, you start getting into the pigeonhole of stereotype that goes with us. African people, they like to fight. Africa people, look at how they're treating each other.
African people, they like to fight. Africa people, look at how they're treating each other. People don't see that.
There are a lot of them. Africa is in it.
There are a lot of them. African women, men, they have so much fashion.
Rosenir and non-timber forest products in Brazil, Esther and mangrove restoration and sustainable tourism in Costa Rica, Denisha and urban wetland restoration in South Africa, Sofia and sustainable forest management efforts in Portugal-- they seem like separate and unrelated stories. But each one of them is a piece in the puzzle of conserving and restoring Earth's ecosystems.
to the point where, as I mentioned in the book, Dylann Roof dedicated the website-- African sayings. That's a very good one.
to the point where, as I mentioned in the book, Dylann Roof dedicated the website-- "Africa is Not a Country." But I hope we consider teaching a lot more of this in schools.
It's not assumed that black people participate in this kind of, uh, milieu. So start with that. Where where does Africa? Where does South Africa? Where does Cape Town where do where do you play? Uh, in your view of the relationship between this new economic engine and the role that Africa plays in
about storytelling? And to top it all, I'm so lucky I'm an African. So I grew up in storytelling. We grew up in Africa's story, then we build a bridge and saying, When I worked at Geneva when I worked at Nike, all of my job
about storytelling? And to top it all, I'm so lucky I'm an African. So I grew up in storytelling. We grew up in African stories also matter. So my job is not to copy paste a European or US or Japanese or Brazilian stories
about storytelling? And to top it all, I'm so lucky I'm an African. So I grew up in storytelling. We grew up in Africans. But also the African thing is, what is that? I also need to remember myself that Africa has 54 countries and Africa is not a homogeneous group. So when I
More than half of those young consumers in the year 2030 here in the United States are going to be what today we call minorities, African-Americans, Hispanics, Asian-Americans, and so on. And then last change-- and I'm sure you're going to have a lot of follow up questions about it-- population above 60.
Blessing, though, requires a bit of explanation we found in our careers women of color. We've often been the first like yourself. You were the first African American woman tenured professor at the Harvard Business School. Myself, I was the first African American vice president at Google and my co author, who was the first African American woman to serve as a CBS White House correspondent. And so, given
African American communities experience injustice in profound ways.
African American kids. I want you to see yourself globally global because ah, lot of the African American
African and Saturday school. So, for example, my my family is all from Ghana, and we I had a similar things that we
Africa having a major blip in a way that you could call the last couple of centuries of African history, maybe Africa's Dark Ages and even in that there have been
Africans shock, horror, are doing a little bit better on that is now being turned into racial resentment and race bating by much of the British press, who believed that
Africa, I'm talking about the approximately 500,000 Africa African Africans that were brought to the the United
Africans were sold into the Virginia colonies. They arrived on a ship called the White Lion, and they were sold against their will. So that is the introduction of
African-American artists, Latin American artists, women artists, all underrepresented.
Africans were not shown in their humanity.
Africa was at the periphery of the world.
African pedal tavern. And then they hear the strains of the song coming out from the honky tonks.
Africanized honey bees don't have mites.
Africa it's just not about the lion, tigers, and bears.
Africanancestry.com. Africanancestry.com. So these things that literally allow people to go back because we were going from, hey, you're African booty scratchers.
African-American founders-- African-American women founders-- are responsible for $30 billion worth of revenue businesses
Africa also has 6 out of 10 of the world's fastest growing economies.
Africa, Middle East, et cetera?
Africa north to south is one fifth of that.
Africa, Asia, et cetera.
Africa. He then tried to change his travel plans to go to Botswana.
Africa and Football Dreams?