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Fred Swaniker: The leaders who ruined Africa, and the generation who can fix it

Before he hit eighteen, Fred Swaniker had lived in Ghana, Gambia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. What he learned from a childhood across Africa was that while good leaders can't make much of a difference in societies with strong institutions, in countries with weak structures, leaders could make or break a country. In a passionate talk the entrepreneur ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/fred_swaniker_the_leaders_who_ruined_africa_and_the_generation_who_can_fix_it

Katlego Kolanyane-Kesupile: How I'm bringing queer pride to my rural village

In a poetic, personal talk, TED Fellow Katlego Kolanyane-Kesupile examines the connection between her modern queer lifestyle and her childhood upbringing in a rural village in Botswana. "In a time where being brown, queer, African and seen as worthy of space means being everything but rural, I fear that we're erasing the very struggles that got ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/katlego_kolanyane_kesupile_how_i_m_bringing_queer_pride_to_my_rural_village

Adjany Costa | TED Speaker

TED Fellow Adjany Costa is an Indigenous conservation champion.
Indigenous conservation champion
https://www.ted.com/speakers/adjany_costa

Katlego Kolanyane-Kesupile | TED Speaker

Katlego Kolanyane-Kesupile is the founder of the Queer Shorts Showcase Festival, Botswana's first and only LGBT-themed theatre festival.
Artist, activist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/katlego_kolanyane_kesupile

Steve Boyes | TED Speaker

Steve Boyes is working to study and conserve the endangered Okavango Delta in Botswana.
Conservation biologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/steve_boyes

Beverly + Dereck Joubert | TED Speaker

Documentary filmmakers Beverly and Dereck Joubert have worked to conserve wildlife for more than 25 years. As National Geographic Explorers in Residence, the couple influences public policy and perceptions.
Conservationists, filmmakers
https://www.ted.com/speakers/beverly_dereck_joubert

Siyanda Mohutsiwa | TED Speaker

When her hashtag #IfAfricaWasABar went viral, Botswana writer Siyanda Mohutsiwa triggered a lighthearted but electrifying discussion of some serious African issues.
Writer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/siyanda_mohutsiwa

World Lion Day: A visit to big-cat filmmakers Beverly & Dereck Joubert

Dereck and Beverly Joubert have been living in the bush in Botswana, making wildlife and conservation films together, for more than 30 years. Their films have shaped an intimate and profound narrative about the interconnected relationship among people, animals and the land, adding layers of understanding based on years of close and constant ...
Posted August 9, 2016
https://blog.ted.com/2016/08/09/world-lion-day-a-visit-to-big-cat-filmmakers-beverly-dereck-joubert

TEDxUBotswana - an independently organized event

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Event details: Gaborone, South-East, Botswana · April 4, 2019
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/32300

TEDxGaborone - an independently organized event

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Event details: Gaborone, Central, Botswana · November 14, 2015
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/16314

TEDxGaborone - an independently organized event

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Event details: Gaborone, Central, Botswana · March 31, 2017
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/20983

TEDxUniversityofBotswana - an independently organized event

About this event:
Event details: Gaborone, Botswana
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/12367

TEDxUBotswanaSalon - an independently organized event

About this event: we kick start the year 2020 with talks that spark conversations about the future. we look at the current systems, careers and deep within ourselves to check if we are ready for the forth industrial revolution. we ask ourselves these main questions: will our social institutions survive i.e will education ,health and others be the same will non ...
Event details: Gaborone, South-East, Botswana · March 16, 2020
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/36542

Joel Selanikio’s system for collecting big data on global health: A tale of two playlists

It may be the age of big data, but it’s still very hard to know how many children were born in Bolivia or Botswana last year, or to know something as simple as which clinics in the developing world have medicine and which don’t. Until recently, there was only one way to find answers to questions like these -- to send a group of workers out i...
Posted July 2, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/07/02/joel-selanikios-system-for-collecting-big-data-on-global-health-a-tale-of-two-playlists

What links the top 0.1 percent and the bottom billion? Rent

Paul Collier studies the poorest people on earth -- the 1 in 9 humans living in dysfunctional countries with broken economies, places whose income gaps are so wide it's hard for westerners to wrap their minds around it. In 2007, his book The Bottom Billion broke down the problems facing this group of people, stuck in failed and failing state...
Posted June 3, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/how-factory-jobs-and-natural-resources-can-improve-life-for-the-bottom-billion

The dreams that define us: The global talks in Session 10 of TED2016

Host Gerry Garbulsky has a feeling that this may be the session with "the most heavy accents” in TED history. The organizer of TEDxRiodelaPlata in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Garbulsky curated each speaker in his session because they’ve given a TEDx talk he loved. With speakers from Botswana, Brazil and Hungary, these ideas are truly without bo...
Posted February 18, 2016
https://blog.ted.com/2016/02/18/the-international-talks-in-session-10-of-ted2016

A sobering new video from Beverly and Dereck Joubert on World Lion Day

Documentary filmmakers Beverly and Dereck Joubert have worked to conserve wildlife in Africa for more than 30 years. Last year, I visited the Jouberts in one of the Great Plains safari camps and preserves they founded: Great Plains Conservation, launched a few years ago in Botswana and Kenya. You can read about my 2016 visit and their work i...
Posted August 10, 2017
https://blog.ted.com/2017/08/10/a-sobering-new-video-from-beverly-and-dereck-joubert-on-world-lion-day

Why today is a good day for those who really dig the wilderness

On Sunday, June 22, 2014 the Okavango Delta in Botswana, home to the world’s largest remaining elephant population, was named the 1,000th UNESCO World Heritage Site. Why should we care? Well, says TED Fellow and National Geographic Emerging Explorer Steve Boyes, because wilderness matters. “Wilderness cannot be restored or re-created, only destr...
Posted June 23, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/why-today-is-a-good-day-for-those-who-really-dig-the-wilderness

The complex challenges of life-work partnerships: News from TEDWomen speakers

  When we started TEDWomen in 2010, we felt strongly that we wanted to include a talks that break the traditional TED Talk model and present pairs of speakers instead of solos. Our first “Duet” featured the married couple Beverly and Dereck Joubert. I wrote about them on this blog earlier this month. As National Geographic Explorers in...
Posted August 28, 2017
https://blog.ted.com/2017/08/28/tedwomen-exploring-the-complex-challenges-of-life-work-partnerships

Meet the TEDGlobal 2017 Fellows

Meet the new class of TEDGlobal 2017 Fellows! Representing 18 countries -- including, for the first time in our program, Somalia, Uruguay, Liberia and Zimbabwe -- this class clears a high bar of talent, creativity and eccentricity. Among those selected, you'll find a Somali computer scientist catalyzing the tech scene in Somalia and Somalila...
Posted May 23, 2017
https://blog.ted.com/2017/05/23/meet-the-tedglobal-2017-fellows

TEDxFSCJWomen: TEDxFSCJWomen 20201115 - an independently organized event

About this event: In this moment, women’s leadership is more important than ever. This is an uncertain time. And yet, amid the environmental, political, and economic challenges confronting us at every level, now is the time to engage. Join TEDxFSCJWomen for Fearless, a virtual event featuring prerecorded talks from TEDWomen 2020 as well as a live and locally o...
Event details: Jacksonville, Florida, United States · November 14, 2020
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/40207

TEDxMahikeng - an independently organized event

About this event: TEDxMahikeng 2019: Pathways How do we find ourselves here? Founded by Kgosi Molema Tawana, way back when rocks were soft, our patch of the world remains the beloved home of a proud people, Barolong boo Ratshidi. Once misnamed Mafeking, we were reborn Mafikeng, and have reinvented as Mahikeng. With each incarnation, we embraced a renew...
Event details: Mahikeng, North West, South Africa · March 29, 2019
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/31367

Moving healthcare forward: The talks of TED Salon: Catalyst

Healthcare is at a turning point. Big data, evolving consumer preferences and shifting cost structures are just a few of the many complex factors shaping the opportunities and challenges that will define the future. How can we all become forces for positive change and progress? For the first time, TED partnered with Optum, a health servic...
Posted August 17, 2018
https://blog.ted.com/2018/08/17/moving-healthcare-forward-the-talks-of-ted-salon-catalyst

To engage joyfully with the world: More bold ideas from the TED Fellows

“The politics of joy” is a phrase that resonates through this session of TED Fellows talks. These talks, by and large, come from people who’ve taken a hard look at the world and its problems and decided to engage joyfully, with creativity, fresh insight and heart. From a soccer project that empowers young refugees, to an SMS service for cow ...
Posted August 28, 2017
https://blog.ted.com/2017/08/28/to-engage-joyfully-with-the-world-more-bold-ideas-from-the-ted-fellows

Joshua Wanyama | TED Fellow

Co-Founder & CEP / Pamoja Media
https://www.ted.com/profiles/4756/about

Fred Swaniker | TED Fellow

Pan African educator
https://www.ted.com/profiles/9423/about

Explorer Steve Boyes takes us on an epic journey to save Africa’s last remaining wetland wilderness

Steve Boyes is passionately devoted to the preservation of wilderness, as well as to restoring and protecting species and landscapes already damaged by human intervention. At TED2014, the ornithologist and National Geographic Emerging Explorer spoke to the TED Blog about his work to save South Africa’s endangered Cape parrot and his campaign...
Posted May 2, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/05/02/explorer-steve-boyes-takes-us-on-an-epic-journey

Investigating the root causes of the global health crisis: Paul Farmer on the TED Book "The Upstream Doctors"

By Paul Farmer At the end of almost a decade spent in teaching hospitals and clinics, most (we hope all) physicians have honed their clinical acumen by focusing on the care of the patient who is right in front of them. Perhaps this is as it should be: as patients, we don't want our doctors (or nurses or social workers) distracted by "outs...
Posted June 5, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/06/05/investigating-the-root-causes-of-the-global-health-crisis-paul-farmer-on-the-upstream-doctors

Siyanda Mohutsiwa: How young Africans found a voice on Twitter

What can a young woman with an idea, an Internet connection and a bit of creativity achieve? That's all Siyanda Mohutsiwa needed to unite young African voices in a new way. Hear how Mohutsiwa and other young people across the continent are using social media to overcome borders and circumstance, accessing something they have long had to violentl...
https://www.ted.com/talks/siyanda_mohutsiwa_how_young_africans_found_a_voice_on_twitter

Hans Rosling: Insights on HIV, in stunning data visuals

Hans Rosling unveils data visuals that untangle the complex risk factors of one of the world's deadliest (and most misunderstood) diseases: HIV. By following the data, he suggests a surprising key to ending the epidemic.
https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_insights_on_hiv_in_stunning_data_visuals
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