How Africa can use its traditional knowledge to make progress | Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu
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- Опубликовано: 30 окт 2017
- Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu wants to see Africans unleash their suppressed creative and innovative energies by acknowledging the significance of their indigenous, authentic knowledge. In this powerful talk, she shares examples of untapped, traditional African knowledge in agriculture and policy-making, calling on Africans to make progress by validating and dignifying their reality.
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This is by far the best TED talk by an African. She highlights perhaps the greatest challenges our generation faces going into this century.
Indeed Bior Arok 👏🏼👏🏼.
I agree with you.
I would like to share my ideas on TED, how can I do that?
Young African warriors are listening. Thank you.
This is why the great philosopher Bob Marley meant when he said: "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery". Look at everything we do as a people from a mainstream perspective, our system of governance, education, religion, marriage, language, judicial etc none of these are our traditional models or remote variations of them.
It might surprise some of you that there are Ghanaians born and raised in Ghana who has parents that forbid them from learning and speaking the local languages because speaking your own language in inferior and speaking English makes you smart etc.
This is the mindset that is truly holding us back.
Even Chinese food and other cultural restaurants in the US, adapt to the US culture, I mean they don't really sell traditional Chinese food in the Chinese restaurants. Similarly, McDonald's in China does not serve the same menu they serve in the US I believe.
That's what we should be doing, adapt and evolve instead of blindly following what the colonial masters left us, or our problems will never get solved. This was a great TED talk video, hopefully, the next generation are paying attention.
Yes! I love Marley the man had his way with lyrics in enlightening us through his music.
You're absolutely right! First in foremost we need to purge that white savior image and replace him with an image of ourselves to reinforce our belief in our godliness as a people. We are the original men,the original creators, builders or civilizations and empires the sooner we realize our potential, the heights we can reach,our duty to nature the better off we'll be.
Super apt! 👌🏾
But some cultures must be left behind if we must advance. I'm a Nigerian, and in the Northern part if Nigeria, they cant even speak English, all they speak is their local language. They are not educated not do they values western Education. All they care about is Islamic education. Their educated elites keep them ignorant so that they can be easily controlled.
So There's a balance to it. Western Education is very good and helps people to think for themselves, moving beyond local champion mentality.
@@Chuby_ubesieI agree. People throw out the baby with the bath water
Hi Chika, this is Uloma ABSU your room mate when you were a Public Administration student and made it to the best student as per your GPA upon graduation. By the way, I read Sociology Proud of you girl.
It's like taking a bat to someone's head. EVERY WORD she said and how she said it hit me really heard.
I am thankful for her existence, her research, and her speech. Definitely an eye opener.
Thank you sister, It was an extraordinary African speech. I firmly believe in the greatness of Africa. I love our continent.
This is a Great approach. We as Africa can provide solutions to our problems by advancing our traditional skills in Agriculture, Engineering, Medicine, Governance etc, we already have traditional methods that have been tried and tested. its a wake up call to all of us.
I am a watching this because of the grade 8 module activity...
Search for Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu's speech, " How Africa Can Use Its Traditional Knowledge to Make Progress". Pay attention to the stance and behavior of the speaker, then explain why the stance and behavior of the speaker is effective or not..
I didn't expect, this is so interesting.. I'm from Philippines by the way👍👍👍💕
i was born and raised in Kampala Uganda. i still live there. in nursery school we are taught about alphabets using European items
what hit me most as a toddler was when y was for yacht. wtf it looked weird like those yachts of sailing competitions. fast forward to secondary school we are taught European and north American geography. we studied Canadian prairies and the Rhine region for 2 years and also European history like world war 1 and 2. we are landlocked country but we studied fishing in the Atlantic. 2 years of something i will never do. and then am expected to compete with someone who was actually studying about his country.
we were taught the ADVANTAGES of coming EUROPEAN MISSIONARIES!!!!. not what was good about our own technology.
the major reason we are so poor is we are playing catch up with western civilization.
the only reason we failing to advance is we trying to copy systems that aren't ours.
but people in the west sit and think anything other than theirs is wrong. they say we are lazy and greedy people but they force us to implement their laws.
Belgium cut off aid because Uganda was sentencing homosexuals to prison without knowing they were sending convicted pedophiles . people get only a piece of the iceberg and make blunt comments and stupid conclusions .
the worst part is people like these create fear in the west. they see someone who says their might be a better way as enemies of their civilization
That’s true, a lot (not all) of Westerners in particular are threatened by the idea of Africans progressing through their indigenous knowledge systems. After all, the West itself is derived from the ideas of Greek philosophers who were students of black African mystery systems in Egypt.
She is right 100%
Indeed she is and I've thought about this personally. Learning about ancient african civilizations made me realize we as a people really thrived to coexist with everything on this planet first and foremost, upheld morality above all from kings to noblemen to everyday africans, but atlas they try to tell us we are born violent and criminal.
The fact that this type of vital information gets 46K views while WizKid videos gets 100 million views is part of why we're where we are
Rashad Hamid hahahaha
Sad!
As important as this video and and significant as this spectacular woman’s work is, WizKid’s music is also very important
@@dilahk95 I love Whizkid. I'm not dismissing his music. I am suggesting we show at least, a little more interest in feeding our minds with more than entertainment.
@@funprints1 I'm in total agreement
Wow. Goosebumps. Tears. What A Woman. This needs to go viral. Thank you Chika. May God Bless You Richly.
African land-area specific traditional farming knowledge is relevant today. This talk is decolonising farming. Beautiful
I have never looked at our education system this way. This is eye opening. A should be for Africa or something!
We should be un-apologeticly AFRICANS!
What a wonderful presentation! She has a perspective that offers insights on a wide range of subjects. Thanks, TED!
Powerful. Thank you Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu.
The first and most bending symbol of the slave master is that cross, the sooner we realize what gate that crossed opened the sooner we can close that gate and move forward in purity of spirit.
Amazing and insightful...She's awesome
thank you madam. you are blessing to us.
Fantastic presentation. Worthy of a standing ovation
Beautiful. Thank you for the reminder. It is in our hands
Amazing ,I'm truly appreciative to have find this video on RUclips.This women not only that she's extremely beautiful and smart but she's also a source of inspiration of what could be done in Africa and as an African myself it makes me happy that Africa contains such smart people for his future.
this is amazing, motivating and eye opening
Wao, this is brilliant! True daughter of our land. I am inspired and so proud of what we are; A people pregnant with civilization...we must revisit our roots.
Very nice... Thanks for the information, challenge and proactivity in researching originally Afrikan concepts in Agriculture
Great video! I think she is absolutely right!
i pray your quest goes above and beyond and becomes the basis for changing the curriculum and belief in our systems that have already been working and needs to be implemented.
Amazing episode, food for the mind and heart !!!
This is quite very well spoken. Every country has their unique qualities to offer to the world. If we blindly follow the standardized global curriculum, we will very soon squander the qualities and skills we received. So is the case with INDIA. We had golden knowledge once (eg. AYURVEDA), but colonial rule murdered those 1000s of year's knowledge pretty ruthlessly.
The best way for Africa is the oldest way the traditional way.
A spectacular speech.
Jealous pundits hate this video. They hate to see anything good about Africa.
Thumbs up to the African lady thumbs up.
The great great grandchildren of Mungo Park the owners of A is for Apple. This got to me. 😢 😭
Asante sana.
That was TREMENDOUS...
Thank you 🌕 💞
So good!!!
Wow, this was inspiring!
A very interesting and useful talk.
Beautiful.
I wonder why I am just hearing of this lady, wow, this is amazing,Africa needs more of this depth and knowledge.
My kindda lady. I wouldn't have articulated this any better
Great lecture
Boy oh boy did I need this
Taking notes..
Why is mpesa so successful and has ended up inspiring the cash app to be adopted in the rest of the world? It was an original idea as a solution to the need of a Kenyan to have quick access to money, no Western/eastern anything, provided our solution to our problem and what a success it is!
Great and inspiring
Amazing ❤❤❤
Motivational presentation.
I read this book by Dr. George Ayyitte of Ghana; Applied Economics For Africa, and the book changed my perspective on African Economics.
Africa has always been a free market based economy and if we are to progress, we must revert back to those free market principles.
Fantastic speech
did you guys in the comments watch the actual video?
I cannot appreciate this girl enough!!!
Wow!!!
OH WOW!
Awesome talk
Together! Truth will prosper if we want it to
This right here is Gold👑😁
We have “traditionally” built roads, diversion channels , and constructed dams , and drilled for water in Awdal, Somalia . All without the help of gov. & or nonprofit/ngo’s . All it took was an African diaspora to come home and do the work the gov should have decades ago. The process isn’t easy but knowing you did the work that was needed for the people outweighs everything else. Sometimes our leaders aren’t really leaders, they’re just scapegoats for the board of directors of this planet. True Happiness is all over Africa, you just need a sense of humor to recognize it.
Profound.
This is an excellent talk! She makes such important points about valuing traditional knowledge and about the harms of western and colonial practices. Thank you for posting this and to Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu for sharing her knowledge and experiences so passionately. TED Talks: PLEASE list what country and what people your speakers are from not just the continent of Africa! As part of valuing indigenous people and knowledge, we must acknowledge that there is great diversity in the entire continent of Africa. This is an important part of undoing racism, colonialism, and the harms of capitalism.
Who need apple, when u have mango trees,coconut trees,corn field and almonds trees outside ur house. 😂😂😂🇱🇷
NNE GOD BLESS YOU
Best TED talk I have watched so far. Thank you Chika.
We can unlearn looking down on ourselves.
oh yes
maintained the Afrikan accent great! seems to have wide knowledge of various Afrikan countries history great fully Afrikan name..great I've learnt about Tasa irrigation system and Gachacha judicial system.. kudos...may the research on Afrikan methods of operations in every sector start reigning. spread this knowledge please on the ground. Thanks
Preach sister preach
I thought it was a pretty great speech, and very informative. I am honestly surprised to hear that education their is still so rooted in a European way, of course teaching a child the letters of the alphabet trough items/objects/animals they have little to no knowledge of what so ever is just plain silly.
All I want is a woman like this by my side.
Intriguing but insightful...
Anyone knows how to spell the agricultural technique she was speaking about?
Indeed, education should always be localized. There is no one-size-fits-all system.
I would want to have her contact for more information about conservation
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5/5
We are truly free once we learn to get from underneath the slavemaster symbol though... it's one of the things that was tortured into our ancestors.
I am Proud of you, Chika. Though you speak english i feel the strong igbotic flavour in your words. I am feeling poetic right now. Maybe i will right a poem. I have always felt this itch to spread the Nigerian Story. We need more Nigerian content home and abroad. We are actually the best. Funniest country every. Maybe our problem largely has to do with finding ourselves i mean culturally. Thank you for the wonderful IDEA. keep sharing.
Crop yield is not the only measure of agricultural performance. Avoiding flood and wind erosion are necessary to preserve depth of top soil. During the dustbowl years they learned that preserving root structures and contour farming were simple ways of preventing top soil erosion. The method she proposes may yield more crops in a season, but what are the long term consequences to the top soil to dig those deep holes. I would be curious. Maybe it is a technique worth a case study on a small plot. How are the holes dug, with expensive labor? are the additional yields worth the labor to dig the holes? We cannot adopt a drastic new method of industrial farming unless we know for certain. Perhaps it worked well when the population of South Africa was in the thousands. It is now in the tens of millions.
Permaculture is the best way to grow soil.
I guess it was just an example
A for Akara
3:54 - 4:21 😁😁you got me
TRUTH ON TRUTH ON TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!
What is up with the comment section... Truly scary. I thought this was a great insight and hoped to find the same mindset among people having watched her talk...
Wakanda Forever!
Wakanda forever
At the time I was a Christian way I saw wizards every night so much I was insane since I came out of those idiots I sleep so well. I thank the ancestors for enlightening me.
I for Igloo 😱
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Very good talk and so true! It has been an unforgivable arrogance to try and pretend that the colonists knew better than what local peoples have developed over many generations. We need many more people like you!
I always displise the traditional viewpoint that only because a mistakte is often repeated it gains value. I heighly douth that the africans in developt parts of aftrica would want to go back to the state before the colonisation
Yes it's horrible that 100 years of colonization has increased life expectancy, engineering ability, and communication on the scale that took thousands of years to do the first time.
+Paul White, absolutelly agree with you, sr.
There's some expertices that just natives can develop. Of course the knowlege from other countries are important... but nothing like a knowleage created focused on own problem, not just in other's problem. Colonization did'nt happend to help african people, happend to help european people. It's terribly falacious to say that would took thousands of years to create better life spectancy or engeneering.
Ok, deear diesel, tell us how it really was before the last 100 years. You clearly know the history better than most of us here- why not prove to us what you claim?
It must be India which is that challenging. I uphold India for promoting their culture alongside modernity!!!
The hateful comments on this video disgust me. You all are so certain that Africa’s failure to capitalize on all of the international assistance they’ve received is their own fault, and the West is the only answer to them, despite the millions and millions we’ve spent and countless programs we’ve implemented trying to develop their countries ourselves, which have yielded disappointingly little success. We can’t even solve our own comparatively minuscule political, economic, or educational problems here-we haven’t made any substantial progress with those for decades; yet we think our greater level of development qualifies us to tell them what to do in order to solve their problems in a climate that is totally foreign to us. Our assistance is important for them, but trying to implement systems there that can only work under ideal circumstances, not understanding the realities that might not allow them to succeed because we are outsiders, is a waste of our time and money. We need to stop fueling so much money into programs that have been shown to fail time and time again-because of corruption, ineptitude, and idealism, and start coming up with new approaches that show a better understanding of the people and the social structure there, and more thoughtful and practical problem-solving than we’ve had to offer them in the past.
Amazing TED talk. I agree with the fact that the curriculum content in most African countries needs to change. Sad however that she never mentioned her country Nigeria, or the city she grew up in, but we know the country and city where she got her PhD.
Perhaps a more beneficial education sheet would be double-sided, having various regional words: A is for Africa / A is for America?
But then why not have a giant sheet for every culture
The big elephant in the room, which we constantly fail to face is the very use of foreign language. When and if we ever get ready to really use traditional knowledge, then we will revert to indigenous languages. As long as English remains the formal language of education, then A is and remains for Apple and E for England.
My fear in all these is the fact that there isnt much time left for Africa. Our elders who know most of these indigenous ideas are dying and we're left with only what research fellows from the west have written down concerning our own way of life. And this will only be written according to their own narrative. Ours is getting lost. We don't even have people going in to bring these age proven methods into the lamp light. Everyone is going in for more paying research topics. So thank God for you Sister. Ride on. Hopefully we'll catch up and surpass.
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africa is a great continent, filled with wonderful people
You should go live there.
They're plenty of terrible people everywhere.
Africa has potential, but in its current state it's vastly inferior to the western world.
Theres too much hate here. Africa isnt a bogeyman but an entire continent. There's so much variety in people there. Though they may be lacking, are Africans not people just like us?
I have never like the term "developing countries" it's so deeming.
Rayyah Amber yeah who made their standards the SI unit? We should set our own standards and stop striving for their approval
Nigerian are presently practising democratic systems that the average Nigerian do not understand. twenty years of democracy and the country is poorer than the brutal regime of the military era. Nigerian should consider infusing western and eastern system of governments, with its traditional system of government to create a hybrid political system that can work for the country
Africa should arise..We have all it takes.It is us who will emancipate ourselves from slavery of the mind.We have all it takes to top this noecolonialism