Theme: Creating Reality

TEDxYouth@Msasani is an independently organized, youth-centered TEDx event and will be happening for the first time in early 2017. In doing this, we hope to bring together and share ideas between all youth in Tanzania. The theme for our event is 'Creating Reality'.

International School of Tanganyika
Haile Selassie Road, Masaki
Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, PO Box 2651
Tanzania

Alexandria Osborne

NGO Leader, Author.

Alexandria Osborne was born in 1956 in Harlem, New York. Later moving to Michigan for a job, she married a Libyan American and converted to Islam. Finding it difficult to say her name – Alex – her Libyan in-laws gave her the name Nur, a name she adopted as her own. It was the beginning of a dynamic, cross-cultural life. She earned a PhD in Management with a specialty in Leadership and Organization Change. In 2009, she made her first visit to sub-Saharan Africa to begin a six-month fellowship for an international NGO in Tanzania. During her fellowship, she met her current husband, Saidi, and returned to his homeland in the coastal southern region of Lindi, Tanzania. In 2013, she founded the Lindi Islamic Foundation of Tanzania–LIFT. She now lives in Tanzania with her husband, their chickens and other farm animals where she enjoys starting off each morning with a good strong cup of Tanzanian coffee.

Denym Stengal

Amateur actress, student.

Denym is a Grade 12 student who has lived in Dar es Salaam and attended IST all her life. IST. She has been actively involved in community activities, from music to sport to student leadership roles and her one true love; the theatre. She has been a part of all of the school theatre productions and many local productions. Her theatre studies led her to run her own community and service project titled Stage for Change where they use theatre as a platform for social commentary and change at a community and nationally based level. Her work in Stage for Change has demonstrated to her theatre’s powerful potential as a social tool to evoke and provoke change within its audiences. Her talk will be about theatre’s capabilities beyond entertainment, and how it is becoming an important medium for communication today.

Ejaz Bhalloo

Student and religion researches.

Ejaz Bhalloo is 17 and currently undertaking the IB curriculum in the Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School. Living in Dar es Salaam his entire life, he is part of the MUN club and the LEO club. He is a lecturer on religion, humanity and politics and is an author of multiple related books. Throughout my lecturing I have learned that the world’s religions have great things in common, and learnt the need of respecting each other’s opinions. Inspired by this, the topic of my talk is “similarities between various world religions”.

Gwamaka Kifukwe

Development Expert and Civil Society Leader

He works at the Institute of African Leadership for Sustainable Development (UONGOZI Institute), a national organization focused on improving African leadership for sustainable development. He coordinates the Green Growth Platform, a program for encouraging environmentally sustainable development in Tanzania. He also leads the institute’s television programs, ‘In Focus’ which focuses on sustainable solutions in African communities and ‘Meet the Leader,’ where he carries out interviews on current, past and prospective African leaders. He also has been recognized for participating in the Global Shapers Community (a World Economic Forum initiative); President Obama’s YALI Mandela-Washington Fellow (inaugural class, 2014 – Public Management); and the University of Cape Town’s young leadership programme (inaugural class, 2015 – ‘Leading in Public Life’). He earned a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Nottingham.

Hussein Janmohamed

Student

Hussein is a sixteen year old at the International School of Tanganyika. He engages in many activities including Kilimanjaro Training, MUN and other community-related service activities. He also founded a project that motivates younger children in the realm of science and has been a student leader for the AISA GISS 2016. The focus of his Ted Talk is: ‘Power of the Teenage Brain’. Hussein talks about how our mentality towards adolescence stops us from realizing its true potential, and how we can turn the inconveniences of adolescence into strengths.

Yogesh Mudhra

Student

Yogesh is a 17 year old IB diploma student (turning 18 on the 12th February!) at the Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary school. He is Indian by nationality, but has lived in Kenya (3 years) Tanzania (11 years). At school, Yogesh is the Secretary General, and is also vice president of the school’s student council. Outside of school, Yogesh volunteers at the Hiari Orphanage. With his free time, he works on computer coding and related projects; one of his goals is to make a robot that can avoid obstacles before leaving Tanzania later this year. The focus of his talk will be “The history and current state of the robotics industry.