Why Africa must become a center of knowledge again | Olu?fe??mi Ta?i?wo? - a podcast by TED

How can Africa, the home to some of the largest bodies of water in the world, be said to have a water crisis? It doesn't, says Olu?fe??mi Ta?i?wo? -- it has a knowledge crisis. Ta?i?wo? suggests that lack of knowledge on important topics like water and food is what stands between Africa's current state and a future of prosperity. In a powerful talk, he calls for Africa to make the production of knowledge within the continent rewarding and reclaim its position as a locus of learning on behalf of humanity.

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