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Frugal innovation offers a path to economic acceleration across many industries, and the future of this
continent
depends on it.
And throughout my life, she's edited and published dozens of books and curated numerous exhibitions on every continent, not all about black photographers but all inspired by the curiosity of a little black girl from North Philadelphia.
This is the reality across the entire
continent
of Africa, and here's why.
In May of this year, we convened a symposium on African architecture, in Kigali, and we invited many of the leading African designers and architectural educators working across the
continent.
We admitted 11 fellows from across the
continent.
Of course, Africa is a
continent
full of catastrophes: There are immense ones, such as the horrific rapes in Congo and depressing ones, such as the fact that 5,000 people apply for one job vacancy in Nigeria.
How many of you are tired of seeing celebrities adopting kids from the African
continent?
We live in a world filled with hate: building walls, Brexit, xenophobia here on the African
continent.
So I left the
continent
when I was offered a scholarship to Boston University for my PhD.
It is disheartening to see that, with all our challenges, with all the talents, with all the skills we have in Africa as a continent, we tend to solve our problems by parachuting in experts from the West for short stays, exporting the best and brightest out of Africa, and treating Africa as a
continent
in perpetual need of handouts.
Michel is currently working in our labs to investigate the effects of climate change on insects, for his PhD, and has already secured his post-doctorate fellowship that will enable him to stay on the
continent.
We want to give more opportunities to African scholars, and I long to see a day when the most intelligent Africans will stay on this
continent
and receive high-quality education through initiatives like the Congo Basin Institute, and when that happens, Africa will be on the way to solving Africa's problems.
The African Union has set a goal of 2030 to eliminate malaria from the
continent.
So you had social complexity spanning the whole continent, even if no polity did similarly.
There's always one
continent
left out, the assumption being that sub-Saharan Africa had no religious beliefs.
In a bloodstained continent, these people alone were never conquered by the Spanish.
It's a bit funny to be at a conference dedicated to things not seen, and present my proposal to build a 6,000-kilometer-long wall across the entire African
continent.
A fantastic project, the initial plan called for a shelter belt of trees to be planted right across the African continent, from Mauritania in the west, all the way to Djibouti in the east.
So the last iteration of this project has been called Flow, with the idea now of creating a real network of artists around the world; really looking, not so much from Harlem and out, but looking across, and Flow looked at artists all born on the
continent
of Africa.
And as many of us think about that
continent
and think about what if means to us all in the 21st century, I have begun that looking through artists, through artworks, and imagining what they can tell us about the future, what they tell us about our future, and what they create in their sense of offering us this great possibility of watching that
continent
emerge as part of our bigger dialogue.
And this is a map of bitflows across the
continent.
I have to tell you, it's more than a little intimidating being up here, an old American guy trying to tell Africans something new about your own
continent.
That's what I found by flying low and slow all over the African
continent
as I photographed the spectacle of its diversity.
In a
continent
as dynamic and diverse as Africa, sometimes it seems that the only constant is change.
It's the coldest, highest, windiest and driest
continent
on Earth.
Late 1911, early 1912, there was a race to be the first to the South Pole: the heart of the Antarctic
continent.
500 years ago, sailing ships started getting reliable enough; we found a new
continent.
150 years ago, locomotives got efficient enough, steam power, that we turned the
continent
into a country.
And so, nobody, I think, would argue that airplanes, in the last 50 years, have turned the
continent
and the country now into a neighborhood.
I mean, look at the time it took to cross a
continent
in a Conestoga wagon, then on a railroad, then an airplane.
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