Historian Kenneth Vickery is a pinch-speaker today, filling in for George Ayittey. It’s awfully hard to fill Ayittey’s shoes, but Ayittey has been well represented… Read More »Ken Vickery drops some history on us

Zeray Alemseged is an Ethiopian paleontologist who claims responsibility for an amazing discovery: the world’s oldest child skeleton. In northeastern Ethiopia, he’s discovered a skeleton… Read More »A 3.3 million year old toddler

This post is part of a series of posts from TEDAfrica in 2007. It doesn’t make much sense without reading this earlier post on a… Read More »Bono versus Mwenda

Ugandan journalist Andrew Mwenda is man of strong opinions. His opinions in 2005 about Museveni’s government were strong enough to put him in jail briefly.… Read More »Getting rowdy with Andrew Mwenda

If there’s a document that summarizes the spirit of African 2.0 that Emeka is trying to showcase at this conference, it’s Carol Pineau’s film, “Africa:… Read More »Africa – open for business

June Arunga tells us in her three minute talk that, as a kid growing up in Kenya, she was fascinated by “cool stuff” from around… Read More »A different image of Africa