www.ted.com South African investment banker Euvin Naidoo explains why investing in Africa can make great business sense.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes — including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http
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Information on the African International Investment Expo and Achiever Awards 2010, scheduled to take place in Johannesburg, South Africa on 20th November 2010, to celebrate Africa Industrialisation Day
www.ted.com Negative images of Africa dominate the news famine and disease, conflict and corruption. But Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the former Finance Minister of Nigeria and now a director of the World Bank, says there’s a less-told story unfolding in many African nations: one of reform, economic growth and business opportunity. Cracking down on corruption — and the perception of corruption — will be the key to its success. She tells how high-ranking Nigerian officials taking money illicitly have been jailed, and how citizens and prospective business partners are getting at least a partial picture now of where money flows.
Speaker: His Excellency Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda Perceptions and stereotype of Africa and Rwanda as perpetual basket cases and donor havens only sustained by aid, charity and pity no longer correspond to contemporary development of the past decade. Rwanda, under the leadership of one of Africas most able leaders, President Paul Kagame has undertaken considerable reforms leading to serious domestic and foreign investment. President Kagame has single-handedly redefined the way African leaders should engage the best of the Western and Eastern world. He has appointed some the world’s greatest minds in business and strategic investment to his council of economic advisers. President Kagame also put Rwanda on the global map by hosting UN secretary-general Ban-Ki Moon and US President George W. Bush. Some of the recent indicators that prove President Kagames esteem with world leaders include his appointment by Bill Clinton to the board of the Clinton Global Initiative. Tony Blair also recently became the Rwandan Governments advisor for no fees; Bill Gates has personally been working closely with President Kagame in supporting the health sector in Rwanda. Paul Farmer, a Harvard professor and world’s leading authority on public health-care in poor countries is advising President Kagame to develop one of the most innovative national health insurance systems in the world. The strategic alliances between Rwanda/Kagame and some of the leading minds in business …