FEATURED INTERVIEW · SOIL
"We Will Open Africa" — A Conversation with Aliko Dangote
IFC Managing Director Makhtar Diop sits down with Aliko Dangote to talk about building Africa's economic future: energy, fertiliser, water and logistics — and the case for African-led investment. The interview behind our founding notes.
MAN · LEADERSHIP
Fred Swaniker: The leaders who ruined Africa, and the generation who can fix it
The founder of the African Leadership Academy on why one good leader matters more in Africa than anywhere else, and why the next generation must build prosperity and institutions. TEDGlobal 2014.
SOIL · OPPORTUNITY
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: Want to help Africa? Do business here
Nigeria's first female Finance Minister, now head of the World Trade Organization, on the less-told story of reform, growth and business opportunity in Africa. TED 2007.
MAN · IDENTITY
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story
Why seeing Africa through one story — of poverty or war — robs us of dignity, and how telling our own stories changes how we see ourselves. TEDGlobal 2009.