[Music]
for a very very long time I have the
luck and the habit of you
I have everywhere in Africa
across the world through mali my
country
so these trips
they fit into various frames the
song for over 25 years now
to chair the first parliament of
children of mali it was the first
democratization of our country an honor
but it was for me barely
ten years a big responsibility but
a responsibility that has shaped all
my life so it turns out that even after
my marriage I have luck when I get
moves around the world where africa
or mali as part of my
citizen engagement my kids have a
term
they call it mom goes on a mission
so at first I tried to
explain the difference between my two
types of trips as part of a
professional mission or actually
in the citizen but I understood very
quick it nothing to do they will not
understand the difference between
would explain why I’m talking to you about
this but my cancer is that even two
camps we will meet again it will be
at the level allocates to the African level for
talk about my continent from our
continent
we are talking about africa in the same way
we talk about the africom the body
we are talking about Africa as the continent
where are the poorest countries
of the world
I do not want to debate that
you know it just like me
Africa today when we talk about it
it’s a painting without and we can say
hope diminishes
this is not the picture in any case of the
richest continent in the world tomorrow
and why am I going to this question
especially today as part of
this lecture the court I conducted a
reflection and if I told you that good
there have been a lot of reasons that have been
developed in relation to the under
development of these reasons they are
geographical they are cultural
they are historic
they are political they are sometimes
same ideology and I’m rather
to dwell on one of the latter has
and to tell you that we are at
21st century still in a world where he
there is a whole community
typhi that attributes the underdevelopment
from Africa guessing at what
reason we lack intelligence
African is very serious what I
tell you many scientists very
applauded and much appreciated by many
to be persuaded based on studies
scientists that today Africa
is not developed because everything
simply Africans are not
smart enough to develop their
continent so I’m sure this
Shocks you as it shocked me when
I learned a lot about this
question there over the years and I’m
sure it’s not nice for us in
as an African but what I would like
say especially to the African youth
it is important that they appropriate this
debate it’s important that they understand
that this debate exists and creating
this debate and feed it have a lot of
power and it’s important that we
Appropriate for concentrates rids and
to understand that finally
it’s crazy to debate
it’s a debate that’s been done
is created and punctuated to dominate us
but it’s still a pure fodé baro la
question of intelligence
when we talk about the measurement systems
of intelligence that exist they are
based on a Western world on
Western models and not a model
African
we can not speak of intelligence
when the measures of intelligence that
exist are in no way based on the
African realities
so they are completely beside the
plate
and by the way when we talk
intelligence
she is by publisher the intelligence
just like stupidity she and by publisher
that’s why in history we have
had picasso we had engine
we had pastors but we are
what you have heard from
generation to generation their children
their grandchildren
he remains the genius but not the story
showed us no and that’s why
that history has been renewed and that
in this same world history
Africans had a role to play
it’s a false debate because before
colonization in our different states
things were going well
were well
the progression she was pretty normal
and I remember I come from Mali
when we talked before we fellowship
Timbuktu
it was the city of knowledge and
of knowing the whole world were coming
search for knowledge at tombouctou
obviously today when we talk about
tombouctou unfortunately it is no longer
the case but it is not necessary that the
African youth forgets these moments and
his realities his truths our
history
so this debate remains a false debate but
why it is very important
why is it important for the
youth it’s important because it
we have to look at reality
the Africans we are we have
developed throughout history
a real inferiority complex and this
complex
it exists in each of us that we
whether or not he existed at one time
given of our life this complex
inferiority
he proves this inferiority complex that
somewhere we were fashioned by
this type of scientific ideology that
I mentioned earlier this complex
inferiority
he is not new over our
history of slavery
he was there at the time of colonization
he was there and even after
colonization of Africans have concluded
that finally Ben saw that Africa
became colonized be seen that
slavery
we were only
bad side of the story
well, finally, that may mean
that we are not the most
intelligent but understand that it’s
fake and fake
and this inferiority complex
it reminds me in fact and not of which I
meets in any case in
books called Idriss berkane
idriss berkane and is a specialist in
cognitive neuroscience idriss berkane
I remember one thing from him and I had
the chance to know him through a
superb formidable teacher of
marketing that I had 17 years ago of
that taught me a lot and he says
this he tells us about the theory of
the elephant the theory of the elephant
that’s why he explains to us that in
antiquity
there was no doing we were taking
simply a little rope for
attach to an elephant’s leg and
with this little door
the baby elephant he was growing up
adulthood with this thought that he does not
can not break free with this thought
that he was a slave to this rope
and yet god alone knows you know
like me the strength and intelligence of
the elephant the elephant is symbolized
like strength and memory and
intelligence but until today
what I ‘m telling you is not a
anecdote this
so were to tie and make
slave an elephant we put him a
little rope to the dough and you and me
in one way or another this
little rope she exists and I would like
just invite you to if we could
close our eyes just a few seconds
think of an elephant imagine that your
neighbor left right behind
he is an elephant
imagine that you have a rope on the
beach the hind leg of the elephant
imagine that this rope
you grew up with in mind that
you can not free yourself
you have this card you feel it
this rope she is there she exists
you can open your eyes and well
this rope
we are all adult elephants
and it’s up to us to free ourselves
of this rope
it’s up to us nobody else
can not free us from this rope and
with africa it’s exactly the same
thing it takes that youth
understand that africa
nobody will develop it for us
because the Africans we are
we have been shaped by this continent
this is our middle person better than
we can not understand the realities of
our continent and we need to
let’s release 7 mental channels that
exists among Africans and nobody
will do it for us and there is another
scientist who said the thing
next
the solution to the problems of africa
it’s unique you just have to
let the Africans settle themselves
their problems and I share
entirely this assertion
and that’s why an experience of my
life hit me a lot because
the experience itself has had the merit
to exist
this is the meeting in 2010 at
President Obama’s initiative with the
young African leaders because he
explained to us this he felt that the
Next 50 years to come this is the
African youth that will make this continent
there and that it was more important for
him to meet this youth
African
2
listen and that’s where it’s interesting
to listen from the youth the
issues they encounter in their
states and the solutions he advocates
to meet those challenges there and it’s this
message there it is necessary that the world accepts
and understand that to develop
africa
we need African solutions but
however, this will not be done alone
it’s not like a gift from god even god
tells us I think it’s said in the
whole world help you heaven will help you
it will not happen miraculously
we need to realize our potential
we need to be aware that
Africa is full of potential and
of assets and he not handing out
potentialities and potential
there is one that is unique to africa
it’s the demographic dividend yes the
demographic dividend that we want us
pass as a threat
first for our continent and then
a threat to the world
no the demographic dividend that’s
our greatest strength in less than 30
years we will be more than 2 billion
of Africans, so close to 80% are
young people in 2030
Africa will have one but two higher
that china is in 2050 the highest
in the world
it is a wealth our wealth
human resources and that’s our plus
great wealth
because it’s this wealth that makes us
will engage us
commitment the commitment that constitutes
the common thread of all my actions
of all the initiatives that I had the
luck and honor to implement
for over 25 years now and
commitment
he holds to each of us
commitment each must after having
realized his potential and after having
broken the chain realized that everyone at his
level can bring his little
contribution
and it’s thanks to this commitment will count
Africa and it’s thanks to this
commitment that Africa will be a day and
soon the richest continent to
world and commitment
I wish I could not
not have it recognized the actions of
the association for the development of
africa
because in mali
young people understood their role
have to play young people engage they
organize an annual camp
is called canada youth leadership
and what we group together every year
young people from all over the country
the ten regions of our country and thanks to
it
at the end of the leadership camp he
engages in their community at
within an ohada club and they perpetuate
their commitment forever he
commitment and for my part I come back to
the anecdote I told you about
beginning of my children
in fact as they say the truth sort
from the mouths of children
I did not know the meaning of my
commitment I was just doing it all
naturally because at ten years old I
am found at the head of a
institution that proved beyond the
good faith of our authorities
real concrete actions but
finally when he talks about mission
That’s what it’s about
this citizen engagement and my mission and
that’s why I invite every young person
African every young Malian to commit
and to finish I will say that to engage
and to take action
there is no perfect moment
best time is today and I
finished on a quote that tells us that
the best time to plant a tree
it was 20 years ago but the right time
to do it
today I thank you
[Applause]
for a very very long time I have the
luck and the habit of you
I have everywhere in Africa
across the world through mali my
country
so these trips
they fit into various frames the
song for over 25 years now
to chair the first parliament of
children of mali it was the first
democratization of our country an honor
but it was for me barely
ten years a big responsibility but
a responsibility that has shaped all
my life so it turns out that even after
my marriage I have luck when I get
moves around the world where africa
or mali as part of my
citizen engagement my kids have a
term
they call it mom goes on a mission
so at first I tried to
explain the difference between my two
types of trips as part of a
professional mission or actually
in the citizen but I understood very
quick it nothing to do they will not
understand the difference between
would explain why I’m talking to you about
this but my cancer is that even two
camps we will meet again it will be
at the level allocates to the African level for
talk about my continent from our
continent
we are talking about africa in the same way
we talk about the africom the body
we are talking about Africa as the continent
where are the poorest countries
of the world
I do not want to debate that
you know it just like me
Africa today when we talk about it
it’s a painting without and we can say
hope diminishes
this is not the picture in any case of the
richest continent in the world tomorrow
and why am I going to this question
especially today as part of
this lecture the court I conducted a
reflection and if I told you that good
there have been a lot of reasons that have been
developed in relation to the under
development of these reasons they are
geographical they are cultural
they are historic
they are political they are sometimes
same ideology and I’m rather
to dwell on one of the latter has
and to tell you that we are at
21st century still in a world where he
there is a whole community
typhi that attributes the underdevelopment
from Africa guessing at what
reason we lack intelligence
African is very serious what I
tell you many scientists very
applauded and much appreciated by many
to be persuaded based on studies
scientists that today Africa
is not developed because everything
simply Africans are not
smart enough to develop their
continent so I’m sure this
Shocks you as it shocked me when
I learned a lot about this
question there over the years and I’m
sure it’s not nice for us in
as an African but what I would like
say especially to the African youth
it is important that they appropriate this
debate it’s important that they understand
that this debate exists and creating
this debate and feed it have a lot of
power and it’s important that we
Appropriate for concentrates rids and
to understand that finally
it’s crazy to debate
it’s a debate that’s been done
is created and punctuated to dominate us
but it’s still a pure fodé baro la
question of intelligence
when we talk about the measurement systems
of intelligence that exist they are
based on a Western world on
Western models and not a model
African
we can not speak of intelligence
when the measures of intelligence that
exist are in no way based on the
African realities
so they are completely beside the
plate
and by the way when we talk
intelligence
she is by publisher the intelligence
just like stupidity she and by publisher
that’s why in history we have
had picasso we had engine
we had pastors but we are
what you have heard from
generation to generation their children
their grandchildren
he remains the genius but not the story
showed us no and that’s why
that history has been renewed and that
in this same world history
Africans had a role to play
it’s a false debate because before
colonization in our different states
things were going well
were well
the progression she was pretty normal
and I remember I come from Mali
when we talked before we fellowship
Timbuktu
it was the city of knowledge and
of knowing the whole world were coming
search for knowledge at tombouctou
obviously today when we talk about
tombouctou unfortunately it is no longer
the case but it is not necessary that the
African youth forgets these moments and
his realities his truths our
history
so this debate remains a false debate but
why it is very important
why is it important for the
youth it’s important because it
we have to look at reality
the Africans we are we have
developed throughout history
a real inferiority complex and this
complex
it exists in each of us that we
whether or not he existed at one time
given of our life this complex
inferiority
he proves this inferiority complex that
somewhere we were fashioned by
this type of scientific ideology that
I mentioned earlier this complex
inferiority
he is not new over our
history of slavery
he was there at the time of colonization
he was there and even after
colonization of Africans have concluded
that finally Ben saw that Africa
became colonized be seen that
slavery
we were only
bad side of the story
well, finally, that may mean
that we are not the most
intelligent but understand that it’s
fake and fake
and this inferiority complex
it reminds me in fact and not of which I
meets in any case in
books called Idriss berkane
idriss berkane and is a specialist in
cognitive neuroscience idriss berkane
I remember one thing from him and I had
the chance to know him through a
superb formidable teacher of
marketing that I had 17 years ago of
that taught me a lot and he says
this he tells us about the theory of
the elephant the theory of the elephant
that’s why he explains to us that in
antiquity
there was no doing we were taking
simply a little rope for
attach to an elephant’s leg and
with this little door
the baby elephant he was growing up
adulthood with this thought that he does not
can not break free with this thought
that he was a slave to this rope
and yet god alone knows you know
like me the strength and intelligence of
the elephant the elephant is symbolized
like strength and memory and
intelligence but until today
what I ‘m telling you is not a
anecdote this
so were to tie and make
slave an elephant we put him a
little rope to the dough and you and me
in one way or another this
little rope she exists and I would like
just invite you to if we could
close our eyes just a few seconds
think of an elephant imagine that your
neighbor left right behind
he is an elephant
imagine that you have a rope on the
beach the hind leg of the elephant
imagine that this rope
you grew up with in mind that
you can not free yourself
you have this card you feel it
this rope she is there she exists
you can open your eyes and well
this rope
we are all adult elephants
and it’s up to us to free ourselves
of this rope
it’s up to us nobody else
can not free us from this rope and
with africa it’s exactly the same
thing it takes that youth
understand that africa
nobody will develop it for us
because the Africans we are
we have been shaped by this continent
this is our middle person better than
we can not understand the realities of
our continent and we need to
let’s release 7 mental channels that
exists among Africans and nobody
will do it for us and there is another
scientist who said the thing
next
the solution to the problems of africa
it’s unique you just have to
let the Africans settle themselves
their problems and I share
entirely this assertion
and that’s why an experience of my
life hit me a lot because
the experience itself has had the merit
to exist
this is the meeting in 2010 at
President Obama’s initiative with the
young African leaders because he
explained to us this he felt that the
Next 50 years to come this is the
African youth that will make this continent
there and that it was more important for
him to meet this youth
African
2
listen and that’s where it’s interesting
to listen from the youth the
issues they encounter in their
states and the solutions he advocates
to meet those challenges there and it’s this
message there it is necessary that the world accepts
and understand that to develop
africa
we need African solutions but
however, this will not be done alone
it’s not like a gift from god even god
tells us I think it’s said in the
whole world help you heaven will help you
it will not happen miraculously
we need to realize our potential
we need to be aware that
Africa is full of potential and
of assets and he not handing out
potentialities and potential
there is one that is unique to africa
it’s the demographic dividend yes the
demographic dividend that we want us
pass as a threat
first for our continent and then
a threat to the world
no the demographic dividend that’s
our greatest strength in less than 30
years we will be more than 2 billion
of Africans, so close to 80% are
young people in 2030
Africa will have one but two higher
that china is in 2050 the highest
in the world
it is a wealth our wealth
human resources and that’s our plus
great wealth
because it’s this wealth that makes us
will engage us
commitment the commitment that constitutes
the common thread of all my actions
of all the initiatives that I had the
luck and honor to implement
for over 25 years now and
commitment
he holds to each of us
commitment each must after having
realized his potential and after having
broken the chain realized that everyone at his
level can bring his little
contribution
and it’s thanks to this commitment will count
Africa and it’s thanks to this
commitment that Africa will be a day and
soon the richest continent to
world and commitment
I wish I could not
not have it recognized the actions of
the association for the development of
africa
because in mali
young people understood their role
have to play young people engage they
organize an annual camp
is called canada youth leadership
and what we group together every year
young people from all over the country
the ten regions of our country and thanks to
it
at the end of the leadership camp he
engages in their community at
within an ohada club and they perpetuate
their commitment forever he
commitment and for my part I come back to
the anecdote I told you about
beginning of my children
in fact as they say the truth sort
from the mouths of children
I did not know the meaning of my
commitment I was just doing it all
naturally because at ten years old I
am found at the head of a
institution that proved beyond the
good faith of our authorities
real concrete actions but
finally when he talks about mission
That’s what it’s about
this citizen engagement and my mission and
that’s why I invite every young person
African every young Malian to commit
and to finish I will say that to engage
and to take action
there is no perfect moment
best time is today and I
finished on a quote that tells us that
the best time to plant a tree
it was 20 years ago but the right time
to do it
today I thank you
[Applause]
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