Continent
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50 billionaires worth 96 billion dollars own more wealth than the bottom 75 million people on the
continent.
And population growth is something that we don't have enough of a dialogue about on the
continent.
The consumption of electricity in Africa on the
continent
in Sub-Saharan Africa is equivalent to Spain.
They have strength, and we have to unleash that strength so that they can contribute to the
continent.
There are wolves again in Europe, and the wolves are moving west across the
continent.
I think about issues like climate change, and how six of the 10 worst impacted nations by climate change are actually on the
continent
of Africa.
But what's most heartening right now is that despite these challenges, what we're seeing is that there's a network of Africans all across the
continent
who are rising up and fighting back and demanding climate justice.
That they came for our children, scattering them across the
continent
until our homes sank?
It's vital and important art, but it cannot be the only art that comes out of the
continent.
I hope that people know that Africa is not just one huge, nameless
continent
that is all the same.
I also hope that you know that I hope I will be able to change the way people talk about African art on the
continent
and here, and I hope you know that African art is not just what you buy at Harlem markets in New York and that every piece of art you see has a story, and every artist has a name.
The Lagos state government, like far too many on our continent, pays lip service to ideas of inclusion, while acting as though progress can only be achieved by the erasure, exploitation and even elimination of groups it considers expendable.
Queer Africans continue to exist, even though queerness is now criminalized in most parts of the
continent.
Once a popular grain on much of the continent, fonio was grown all the way to ancient Egypt, where archaeologists found grains inside pyramids' burial grounds.
Most of the African continent, Europe, most of Asia, South America excluding Argentina, were all net importers of calories.
The African
continent
now imports over 300 trillion calories a year.
And so when you look at the combined demand increase coming from India, China and the African continent, and look at it versus the combined increase in production coming from India, China, the African continent, North America, South America and Europe, you are left with a 214-trillion-calorie deficit, one we can't produce.
Now, the African continent, on the other hand, has vast amounts of arable land remaining and significant upside potential in yields.
By the early 20th century, nearly every region of the globe had been visited and mapped, with only two key locations remaining: the North Pole, deep in the frozen waters of the Arctic region, and the South Pole, nestled within a recently discovered icy
continent
in the vast Antarctic Ocean.
We have seen it before, we have lived through it before on my continent, and I am very clear about that."
Since these measurements began in 2002, the ice sheet has lost so much ice that if that water were piled up on our smallest continent, it would drown Australia knee-deep.
It's therefore probable that Africa was formerly inhabited by extinct apes closely allied to the gorilla and chimpanzee, and as these two species are now man's nearest allies, it's somewhat more probable that our early progenitors lived on the African
continent
than elsewhere."
And it is quite clear that apes originated on the African
continent.
And at some point in the past, a sub-group of Africans left the African
continent
to go out and populate the rest of the world.
So, Africa is a complex
continent
full of contradictions, as you can see.
I mean, we need a whole conference just devoted to telling the good stories about the
continent.
The
continent
needs you.
A gentleman spoke yesterday about the indignity of us having to leave the
continent
so that we can fulfill our potential.
And as Africans, we need to take responsibility for our
continent.
In Africa, the
continent
has leapfrogged phone lines to go to mobile phones, bypassed traditional banks to go straight to mobile payments.
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