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Andrew Mwenda na mtazamo mpya kuhusu Afrika

Filmed Jun 2007 • Posted Sep 2007TEDGlobal 2007
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katika maongezi haya, mwandishi wa habari Andrew mwenda anatuambia kubadilisha "swali kuhusu Afrika" kuangalia zaidi ya habari za umaskini, vita na hali ya kushindwa kujisaidia, na kuona fursa za kutengeneza ustawi na furaha katika kila eneo barani.

Journalist Andrew Mwenda has spent his career fighting for free speech and economic empowerment throughout Africa. He argues that aid makes objects of the poor -- they become passive recipients of charity rather than active participants in their own economic betterment. Full bio ยป

Translated into Swahili by Joachim Mangilima
Reviewed by Hector Mongi
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