I got to witness the African startup revolution | Marcello Schermer | TEDxVienna

Entrepreneurs across Africa are creating new industries to solve local and global problems that the western world doesn't even know existed. From transport to healthcare and from energy to mobile, new disruptive solutions and industries are created in places as far as Ethiopia and Angola or Morocco and South Africa.

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After building local and regional entrepreneurship ecosystems and supporting startups in over 17 African countries, Marcello has learned that every country offers new surprises and defies prejudices.
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[@ndipgaston1643]

If you are proud to be African, hit Button here.

[@katisotlali6137]

One day I'll also be part of the change and growth happening in Africa . Africa Unite ✊.
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[@TheKamau90]

The word is finally getting out there....🇰🇪

[@khanyemawestern2392]

Kamau Karanja man I am South African and I want to see for myself what Kenya is doing

[@duncanocharo5171]

khanye mawestern what kenya is doing and other african countries will puzzle the rest of the world. The moment the word will reach to them we will be far away

[@julianaceansah8316]

Thanks for sharing the Tech Start Up Revolution that's transforming, creating new opportunities across Africa. Hopefully your Talk will capture the imagination of the people across the continent and investors alike. #africarising

[@1anre]

Cool stories. Naija we hail

[@tracethisspace]

If I could "love" this talk, I would. This was an entertaining, well-delivered talk with practical and realistically employable solutions. I hope he has his own TH-cam channel!

[@topgurl9313]

awesome. Thank you for this talk

[@njndox7252]

Thanks brother, teach them!

[@IdeaSeedAfrica]

Yes, totally support that. Witnessing this myself and am very happy to show the world what is really going on in the startup ecosystems in Lagos and Accra :)

[@itsAlabi]

The African StartUps Ecosystem Revolution. This is awesome!

[@erosivy3832]

Thanx dude get the word out there I'm a South African.

[@curioslywithvictormakau]

Think simpler-awesome!

[@Soulfood432hz]

Great video!

[@maureenwm]

Awesome talk.

[@codewithmatthew]

This is just the beginning. Africa just like any other continent will have a say in the future.

[@lesleyfelida3540]

That's what I like to hear about our continent, brother.

[@blissmnkandla7123]

Im Zimbabwean and proud

[@johng5295]

Thanks in a million. Awesome.

[@samsonneserab9282]

Thank you

[@BenjaminLutaayaug]

This is Africa. More like us..

[@jean-vickintsinzi]

Proud of Rwanda!

[@abbzque]

Good tech with dem there not like Ghana really bad idea to steal people money more and more for purpose of religion's

[@brivghtalex8902]

We are coming to creat many things, Africa believed in creativity structure right from our olden days..... Just that we need good government leaders in Nigeria particularly Africa as a whole, one love Africa...

[@Tonietones]

The future of the world is africa!

[@doneswiegers5353]

VIVA Africa !!

[@JusLivinAXA]

Amazing how we are all referred to as African but every westerner loves to emphasize that Afica in not a country!!

[@ubuntumike5794]

Jus Livin right

[@cn-yg6vf]

Good talk, however we need to tell our own story, now that channels to do it are there.

[@callistorising4961]

but who will hold the patent on these entrepreneurs products??????

[@ekramewoldaywolday6565]

Many people who want to see change

[@tfl4963]

Forever Kenyan and African

[@jimmymahlangu8849]

Africans forever ⚔️

[@tabora24television22]

from Tanzania

[@joshuaojo-aromokudu4176]

i love how he started off with Africa is not a country and then proceeded to talk about Africa and nearly actually said the country of Africa a couple times. Also why did he use "air quotes" when referring to Nollywood? The condescending viewpoint of Europeans toward Africa needs to stop. He didn't actually say anything useful or new, but maybe that is my view as an African. Maybe the things he is saying is new to Europeans.

[@kaschannelr-li]

I didn’t see any condescension from him! I believe he used air quotes because Nollywood is not an original word. It’s a coined word, mixture of Hollywood and Naija. To an African audience used to it, there’s no need to use air quotes but to other audiences it’s a different matter

[@lesleyfelida3540]

I'm an African Caribbean living in the Netherlands and can tell you that they do not teaches much about the continent. Many people here is still thinking that Africa is a land. A land with a lot of poor people and a lot people that's starving.
Like he remarks in the beginning.

[@greenthumb2124]

I just wish African countries agreed to form a USA, one language, one army, we would rule the world, definitely Africa is rich in everything

[@marthangafor6414]

Errr. When has the future of the world not been built in Africa??

[@henokmengsteab2177]

The Time we live is build by europa/asia/us/africanamericans .....humans.

[@curioslywithvictormakau]

Correct me, but i think the West is t blame or some of Africa's troubles. But the potential is great for Africans to reclaim their respect in the world stage. If only we invest in our minds and believe in ourselves, mentor our young people in a 21st century perspective, we can turn the tables very soon.

[@luziesielski6987]

IF I had like 10 milion € I would invest in a growing market in Africa.

[@ubuntumike5794]

Luzie Sielski you and I both sometimes I ask why do god keep blessing those with shallow hearts I understand they earn what they got but do they really need a 24 bedroom home for a family of 5🤔

[@kingrazakusher2837]

Luzie Sielski you are welcome in Africa as far as you come with positivity. . Your investment is welcome but trust me you don't need up to that amount to start up something in Africa .. even 1 million euro is enough to make something big over here

[@rachealappiah-kubi2990]

You don't really need €10 million. You just need an idea in Africa

[@maydate86]

Start with 10000 euros

[@eddyrandu3127]

come on

[@ndipgaston1643]

The capital of Nigeria is Abuja and not Lagos my friend.

[@dhuuxali9846]

Africa is not Africa!!! Really?? Why even that a question?

[@jiongezehotnewstv7770]

Ilussion

[@stochasticdifferentialeq.1393]

Iranian Pride

[@patrickkabunda177]

Hey there...Poc. Nigeria is no the biggest in Africa

[@oliverbirnso2884]

Nigeria is the biggest economy in the whole of Africa.

[@cn-yg6vf]

Yes it's big but highly inefficient and corrupt, Rwanda leads in governance and ease of doing business ,we can all learn from them.

[@mamgunisiphiwe1429]

I believe Rwanda is the biggest economy, and it's not being recognised because of Politics.
Nigeria is recognised as biggest economy because of oil.
But there are other countries being sidelined because of not agreeing with some of the instructions which the self anointed perfects of the world have ordered for them.
E.g Rwanda, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

[@ndipgaston1643]

Am sure he was talking based on population size.

[@ndipgaston1643]

@@mamgunisiphiwe1429 Nigeria is the biggest economy because it's got the population, the population is the market, the market makes the economy. Besides, Nigerians (especially the igbos?) Love business more than civil service.

[@oghuvwublessing705]

Jesus Christ is God.

[@Eseosaxo]

lagos is not the capital of Nigeria. we should not allow colonizers to tell our story...

[@christinemoyia1814]

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[@MsNadz808]

Thanks for your logic and reasoning sis... Unfortunate too many of us are missing these vital attributes

[@stochasticdifferentialeq.1393]

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[@eiffeltower7503]

Yes, Africa is rising but colonisers should stay away.

[@stochasticdifferentialeq.1393]

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