bariteau de la
way you love
are there any who know this
title of tiken jah fakoly that comes from
go up lift the sea please I
see perfect there are lovers of
reggae I think we’ll be good
time
because we’re going to talk about reggae in this
title of tiken jah fakoly he explains to
what a point today more than ever
Africa needs its exiled sons
the Africans of the diaspora in this
same title
tiken jah fakoly are in two languages
in English and Bambara in English a
little as for the hour
comforted in their decision to be
left to open to the world and god knows
that these people are gone to
many reasons too often for
political reasons too often for
economic reasons
sometimes for social reasons and
sometimes even for reasons
cultural
they are in Bambara is a dialect
local or to those Africans we are talking about
in several countries like senegal
the mali the ivory coast guinea the
gambia mauritania and its doors for
tell them also to remember from there
from where they come from elsewhere he
says with an African saying
whatever the stay of the trunk
of tree in the water 22 will transform
never a crocodile
of hygiene jah fakoly for those who do not
do not know him is a very artist
committed to the development of
africa
someone I appreciate very much
if I have not all the time was
agree for all positions
but someone with whom I share a
vision that of a new Africa and
emerging
worn by his sons from here and elsewhere
when I was asked to do this
intervention on the diaspora
I had a little trouble formalizing my
title actually to the punctuated when we
talk about the role of the African diaspora
today it is obvious to
all the Africans they will say yes
obviously it’s people who are the
skin to advance the continent
they are even he shouts loudly
at the same time when you create a little
more to try to have some
more accurate information
how are they going to do it what
is the exact role
by the way who are these people from the
diaspora from where they come from how they
live there the answers become
less obvious
hence my question mark I’m going
tell you about a small country in Africa
from the west 100 95 196 mekm
square barely three times bigger
that narre region auvergne rhône-alpes
15 million inhabitants
senegal figure google in this
small country of west africa
nothing but Senegalese from the diaspora
in voice near the 2 billion dollars
per year to their loved ones is
equivalent to one quarter of the budget of
the state is actually more than help
international
yes world bank effect put all this
that you hear there they do not do it
weight compared to the funds that are
sent by the Senegalese of the
diaspora to say how much these
people weighs in the local economy
you talk about the economy but we can
extend that too to politics
this country tiny country has experienced two
democratic revolutions but everything
orchestrated from the diaspora or
in any case much worn by
political leaders of the diaspora is in
it’s not new
you put the story back first
Afro- independence movement against
colonization was carried by
Africans of the diaspora negritude
with famous writers like
Loved Caesarian Leopold Sedar Senghor
subsequently became who was
admitted by the French Academy
these people by literature have
fought colonization and have
participated in the release of their
peoples
however politics but we can
also is up in the field
scientist
someone like teacher sheikh
anta diop scientists recognized at the
international level had a lot
of craftsmanship to her in her title as
national appreciation culture the prior art
of the Negro civilizations
standards which by science has shown
the imprint of the black man in one
of the first civilizations the most
evolved the ancient egypt and in so much
other areas where we see
the imprint of this African diaspora
in the economic policy area
scientific cultural social and yet
when you ask the African states
so you ask Africans in
general and the knowledge
specifies that they have these people there
becomes a bit more complicated because
that we have a bad knowledge of these
people this even created a
some frustration is certain in
anyway a frustration that I have
known as an African diaspora
that’s good I’ll tell you my
history of Africans from the diaspora
frustrated I was born in Senegal where
I spent a lot of my
childhood I was lucky enough to have some
extraordinary parents who did
so that school is one of the things
the most important of my life to a
point such as during my teenage years
I have a teenage crisis like everything
the world I wanted to become a
professional footballer was not
bad in addition you have succeeded
tests and everything but I still have the
replica of my mother who resonates in
my head
she was telling me back then
malik you will never hear someone
to say I’m going to work on football on
said I will play football
a shortcut for my mom to try
to make me understand that in fact the
it was not a job
it was at leisure with eggs it’s
questionable today we agree
but it helped me a lot and I
can not thank enough for that
allowed me today to make
great schools today I am
telecom engineer graduated from
INSEE for those who do not know
it’s one of the biggest networks
of engineering schools in France who
believe that between 20% and 25% of
French engineers and I had the
also lucky to have a degree of
Grenoble test management
all his diplomas there allowed me to
take my first steps in
important companies like a
a subsidiary of the highco group listed
40 or so at eads the parent company
airbus or in a subsidiary of the
National Center for Space Studies and
all the while like most
Senegalese from the diaspora
I, too, sent money to
family and sent a lot of money
but paradoxically is what I’m going
tell you there but very personal that
only my commitment is not necessarily the
case of others more send less useful
I did not feel what I saw
that the money I sent was
did not necessarily resolve
economic and social issues
which would have liked to attack me
and it created a new frustration
there the school was very important
for me in particular my economics classes
and I thank again my teachers
for that we do not say it often enough
but my economics teachers have succeeded
to make me understand how much
the company and the entrepreneurs was
important in the development of a
society appears quite obvious but
companies put wealth
in the crates of the state for the good
common
companies create gross wealth
for society and better yet
these are the vectors of employment at
me to say that a person who
works feeds ten other people
around it otherwise if you
have 10 people work for you
participate in social fulfillment
200 other people
from then on it became a
evidence for me actually that if we
had otherwise impacted one of
best ways
it might be entrepreneurship
these two where was born the idea of
the mobile africa is a start-up
Senegalese has been in existence for three years
with a creed he meets our two
previous benefits
the credo is to make available
digital tools that allow you to
to know better the ga sport but who
also involves them more on
local social issues
concretely today we
work with the media
local African radio stations
televisions on concepts
programs in which
Political Mayors and Ministers
we give the opportunity directly to
people from the diaspora to be able to ask
their questions in real time via the
mobile and social networks
another example we are working too
with associations that are
involved in issues
local often social to humanitarian
as for example the fight against
Cancer
schooling of children from families
disadvantaged or the construction
of orphanages with these associations there
where we accompany them on the
digital communication
but above all we give them
digital means that allow
simply to collect money
easily via the mobile with people
of the African diaspora
another example we are working too
with international organizations on
entrepreneurship competitions where
the idea is also to allow
African diaspora of power
give their voice to be able to vote for
choose the best project anyway
the best projects that are by the
after
he then enjoys a
accompaniment and possibly a
financing by other examples where I
may not unfortunately quote with
the time allotted to me
but these little experiences we have
also allowed to see
the opportunities in africa
I had never made sense even though
I am from Africa I have never
had the chance to work in africa
before this experience there this little
experience and beautiful experience that does not
does that start eventually but who
allowed us to see also the
opportunities in africa
currently
you take nothing but Africa
western people who mostly
speak French like us all
for those who do not know it
not currently 50% of people who
speak French in the world
live in africa and that figure is going
to rise to 80% within a few years a
huge opportunity for all of us here
for those who are in the field of
digital
I would say that in 10 in countries
like senegal the rate of
mobile penetration is superior
at 100%
in other words, you are in a
territory where you have more than
mobile phones than to be from
living people
does that mean it means
simply that for those who have
services to go on the on the mobile
it’s not so a huge opportunity
but due to use because people
have two three four
sometimes even five phones at the same
time it’s amazing I talked about the
digital that is my domain but in
other areas like energies
renewable the solar
agribusiness biogas etc etc
today African startups have
understood this
do you figure that 5 over the year 2016 the
african start-up from dakar to naïrobi
Casablanca
we raised $ 360 million on
2007
it’s an evolution of 30% 33% forgiveness
compared to 2015 it seems a lot
but in my eyes not enough
with everything I saw as
innovation it’s absolutely not
enough are still a lot of things
to do that and that’s where
I call on the African diaspora
look at me today telling them
that even if they do not have the
opportunity to create businesses
they can no longer scroll because
they have the opportunity to invest in
these African nuggets that today
just wait for that and I end up there
where I started to join in tiken
jah fakoly what he said at the beginning
today since Africa has never
need his exiled sons thank you
of your attention
[Applause]
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