Wakanda complex | David Hundeyin | TEDxFolaOsibo
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- Using the fictional story Wakanda, David narrates what he refers to as the 'Wakanda complex' in Africa. He argues that the myth which speculates that Africa's resources feed the world needs to die. With pictorial and graphical representations to buttress his point, he argues that Africa’s biggest economic factor is and should always be its 1.2 billion human beings with skills, ideas and productive capacity - not the ‘vibranium’ buried under it. This is an absolute must watch. I am a writer, investigative journalist and broadcaster whose work has appeared on CNN, The Africa Report, Al Jazeera and The Washington Post. My work as a satirist on 'The Other News,' Nigeria's answer to The Daily Show has featured in the New Yorker Magazine and in the Netflix documentary 'Larry Charles' Dangerous World of Comedy.'
In 2018, I was nominated by the US State Department for the 2019 Edward Murrow program for journalists under the International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP). In February 2021, I won the People Journalism Prize for Africa 2020 for my work unraveling predatory legislation that was being rushed through Nigeria's House of Representatives. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
You won’t many Nigerian youths engage this informative and insightful master piece. These people deserve the leaders they get.
This needs to go viral, more africans need to see this.
Baba abeg invite me when you get nominated for that Pulitzer. Respect to a true African Hero
This explains the 'Resource Curse' succinctly. It also explains how Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Israel are overwhelmingly prosperous. You only build a nation by building and harnessing its people.
Isreal gets more aid from the US than the whole of sub Saharan Africa. Not to mention favourable trade deals with the US and Europe that no African country has.
Exactly what i think. Africa needs to understand that it’s largest resource is it’s humans. Human capital is really undervalued in Africa.
But what does "harnessing it's people" mean, exactly?
@@ade008 A good question that no one wants to address. The "people" he wants to "harness" are escaping "Nigeria" (Africa) to perform wonders under a different but conducive environment.
African governments, outing Africans first, by providing them with excellent health services, Education, and equipping Africans with the necessary skills needed, to mine, add value to Africa’s Natura resources. If African governments value and harness their young populations as their most valued resources, African nations, and Africans, will be unrivalled.
David is very intelligent 👌
... and a talented communicator.
More grace to do more for the continent.
The lonely voice in the wilderness!
God spares your life bro!
This David Hundeyin of a guy is very smart and intelligent. Such an inspiration
Outstanding. So, with our "Wakanda Complex" these primary input resources bind us to the industrial agendas of other nations. But what are our own, independently conceived agendas?
Thank you. The graph+table was actually damning.
Thanks, David. Until Africa gets delivered of the resource curse, it shall for long remain underdeveloped.
David u are the hero of our time, am so glad I lived in this era!
This talk is quite illuminating. So proud of you and your ability to put your thoughts across clearly.
More Nigerians need to watch this
They watch it, and then...?
It doesn't matter how much we watch and how much we know. Until we are ready to act, nothing will change
Mr David Hundeyin well done.. I enjoyed the way you relay your message. Please keep up the good work. 👏🏽
King David! Mighty proud of you.
I saw a documentary on Zambia’s copper industry. According to the agreements signed by the government and the mining companies Zambia provides power to the mines. So one year the mining companies exported $2bn dollars of copper and Zambia got $70m in royalties.
It was so shocking that a Scandinavian ambassador offered to draft a new contract for the government to force the mining companies to sign. The companies resisted.
What am I trying to say you can’t industrialise without funds.
You can’t develop R&D capacity without funds.
You can’t train without funds.
... and then what happened?
@@ade008 absolutely nothing. The President at the time passed away.
Nigeria is bless with intelligent journalist and David , Oseni & the like are an example
It's good to see he hasn't been killed into complacency by having resources as is the trend amongst much of the elite.
Always Forward thinking and enlightening
Keep making us proud, man
Wow! I knew this is what it is, the greatest wealth and resources is in the mind of man waiting to be harnessed. And African leaders are busy sharing mineral wealth. A big shame. Imagine the opportunity we have currently with the internet, and we are not utilizing it by making sure electricity becomes the paramount good for powering internet which will eliminate poverty, instead we are playing politics of mineral wealth sharing policies. David, you are a great guy. Keep up your good work.
This why education is important
Super Outstanding 😢Death to wakanda
This is brilliant. Wow
Excellent Story of the African mindset
Great speech! Thank you! Regional integration is the answer. Ecowas was created in 1975, but you will not find a single income-generating (industrial) project in West Africa built by two African countries working together. In addition, African countries do not trade with each other. The West or China are the preferred trade partners. When will we wake up??
Thank you, David.
Death to Wakanda!
Wow this is brilliant!
Good job, David! Consider improving your lighting or sitting close to a window if in daylight. Best.
Nice presentation David
Superb
I just love this guy..
I wouldn't go that far, but he has my respect, sure. 😅🤣😂
That's how sad things are in Africa; such that when the narrative started, I wasn't sure if it was Congo, Togo or Chad. How awful.
Very intelligent
Well done David
God bless David
True Talk. Please develop this theme. E ku se. Sosongo eti eti.
David my man
Waowu!
Excellent thoughts
You think your argument isn't weak too? If you have such clear thoughts , open your own TH-cam channel. Make a hero of yourself too.
Yes, very excellent
First reply was in error. Not meant for this post please
why is this low resolution
We have a long way to go in Africa,
But with a thousand simple steps. Not easy, but simple.
David is highly cerebral and audacious.
... plus he is a member of the cognitive elite.
I completely agree with him that the most valuable asset in Africa is its people. Human capital outweighs any natural resource in terms of value. However, I disagree with his conclusion that 'economies dominated by natural resource exports will always be poor'. I think that statement is entirely false. He missed the mark by limiting the Wakanda analogy to only Africa.
Just take a look at countries like the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, known as the petro-dollar states. They are swimming in money from their oil reserves. They have used this wealth to bring about incredible transformations in their countries, from impressive skyscrapers to pushing the boundaries with technology like weather control. They take great pride in their oil-based economies and wouldn't mind being symbolized by oil barrels on a map. Another example is Norway, starting with oil sales and having the foresight to invest the profits into global stocks. Now they possess the world's largest wealth fund, valued at over a trillion dollars.
Overall, I believe that countries blessed with natural resources actually have an easier and straightforward path to prosperity if they can intelligently manage those resources, while keeping corruption levels low.
Personally, I've also never been a big fan of the fictional Wakanda story, but he should strive for greater intellectual honesty when drawing conclusions from such analogies.
Good presentation overall, but a poorly- constructed conclusion, which unfortunately is not (much of) a solution.
Apply sense.
He already gave a solution.
Listen carefully
I assume the conclusion/solution you're referring to is that 'resource nationalism' should be replaced by strategies of human capacity development and diplomatic and economic integration. I agree that the term 'human capacity development' is vague and general. One could ask, "human capacity development, to what end?" Then diplomatic and economic integration with whom, and why? Allow me to add a layer of detail to both of these, as I see it.
Imagine the house that the advanced, organised nations currently occupies has three floors, built over few hundred years. Each 'floor' is the foundation of the next. Let's call these:
1. philosophical quest for truth
2. scientific quest for laws | craft, art and design movements
3. application of science to technological innovation
Our attempt to duplicate the 'top (3rd) floor' without support of our own foundational floors will be folly, as we'll forever be dependent on true innovation of others. So, my humble prognosis is that one high priority of this generation of African intellectuals and thought leaders must be a strategic project to adapt our languages, cultures and traditions to today's world, bringing them back to life. For example, from my own field, I know that Unicode code-points still do not exist for several Yorùbá language characters. This means that publishing Yorùbá language content on the web is not as straightforward as doing so in English. I have therefore made resolving this my personal mission.
So as one strategic foundation, I believe we should promote and preserve the reading, writing and computer encoding of our languages.
You may ask, "where's the economic value in that?" My answer is that the dignity gained and felt from just that, is what money is actually for.
Then, on diplomatic and economic integration: African countries whose primary strategic interests align, and whose economic outputs complement, rather than compete with each other will integrate most seamlessly. However, this depends on those African country first creating and offering unique goods for which they can establish 'strategic competitive advantage'.
@@ade008 Finally, you made the point: the last paragraph of your essay surmises exactly the "solution," which is that only specialized "industrial revolution" of the specific African nations is the key to "Africa's (collective) development," and not this so-called "integration" and "trade," and such abstract terminology as "harnessing human resources."
David Hundeyin is from amongst the "Yoruba" group who are excelling outside Nigeria, but he is still very much heavily in denial that "Nigeria" could ever work shackled under a "feudal" system. That is the reason why his analyses about Nigeria's (and Africa's) development often falls flat on its face.
Hundeyin is right about the problems, and pitfalls, but he lacks any credible solutions to those problems. Now, the next question is how would African countries achieve the 'strategic competitive advantage' which must come from "industrial revolution" that you alluded in the last paragraph of your essay?
Death to the Wakandan Complex is a perfect conclusion for this presentation. 10/10.
By inference, focus on human capital development, skills acquisition, education and a paradigm shift with regard to trade between African states.
Basically industrialization of Africa rather than reliance on resource trade with the Aide donors.
Hotep Africans will not listen
investigate obi, nothing for u, why come and leave in edo state, u ran to us causing trouble in nigeria like nnamdi kanu.
Illetracy and poverty resides in your life go and look for an alfa to deliver you b4 it's too late ...
Are you even real? You are blaming this man? Try taking your medications.
😂you can still investigate obi...your APc people have the resources...abi una no get journalists again...
I think you completely missed the point with your argument. It is both flawed and weak. Flawed because you failed to separate fact from fiction. It is a fact and not a myth that African history, colonial and post colonial, has been swayed by the calculative vicissitudes of the world around it. And these challenges persist. What is also fact and not a myth is that, the continent of Africa has immense, but unrealised potentials with regards to it's resources (natural resources, human resources, etc). The argument that it has less natural resources than some other regions of the world that you cited, and therefore the continued talk of Africa as a resource rich continent suggests what you termed a "wakanda complex", is a weak one. It is also not a myth that African resources have been used to power economies outside of the continent and that includes even the human resources that you talked about (First, through slavery and now through voluntary migration). It is a fact that a larger proportion of African people in these resource-rich countries have not been the beneficiaries of the proceeds from their resources. The question therefore ought not to be whether African resources are more or less than what you can find elsewhere in Canada or saudi, etc, or that they should shift focus away from those resources (as you alluded). Rather, the question should be about the challenges that African countries have had to adapt to. It is important that those challenges are understood in their right contexts. This will allow African countries work towards taking better charge of whatever resources they have and channelling it towards their own development, just as the countries you cited have done. In other words, African countries need to become more savvy with their resources and desist from perpetually been dealt a bad hand in their deals with the outside world. Failing that, they can develop their human capital as much as they want, but a greater proportion of those over 1 billion human capital will end up continuing to be of more gains to the outside world than the African continent.
Dude, try using paragraphs when making your points.. This is unreadable.