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Objects of the African Heartsong | Tony Akudinobi | TEDxAbayi


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always a fool hole in them I’m happy
this is objects of African hat song
build the future what that speaker came
up just a short while ago and he was
talking about Africa the objects of
African had sown these are things that
come from within and when they come from
within they now also have to meet with
the context outside now when they fuse
that’s the way to the future well let me
thank you very much I’ll just be pin
into the future and building it to make
it as strong and as fine well when we
are looking at the future we are looking
at two things or we’re looking at ways
of getting to where we want to be the
first thing is the design the plan what
do you have here these are my walks
these are this is called meeting of
minds this is the planning stage but as
also a saying that since the meeting of
minds is a great modern meeting of minds
great minds nine sacred mother it will
give back to something I need to give
back to that glorious future we are all
the work within the work within whatever
you are doing whatever you wherever
you’re going
whatever you think the within is very
very important because on the road
within you sleep with anything with you
you are outside within is with you
anyway you’re good within is really so
it is ver
very important and that is why when
you’re projecting from the within it
makes a whole lot of sense because it’s
going to be there with you whether you
like it I don’t like it so this is the
work within the urban strength the vine
shrine is a very simple scene wherever
you are wherever you may be the urban
shrine nobody bothers to know whether
you’re Yoruba whether you’re evil
whether you’re from a pipe bomb in the
urban shrine basically the unknown means
the worship is the urban you have so
many other principles in the oven that
would affect you what I know or you
don’t know the aesthetics the plan so
many other things so when you’re looking
at the urban shrine you come when I say
a car or good morning if she smile is
their smile
and it remains they smile or to make a
guess one of the most important things
when you’re building the risk the future
is that you must research you must go
back into the history of where you are
where you are going to and it’s only
from there you can now project into the
story of what America is now what I’m
not going to tell here but all the same
in the story and as an important
variable and building the future you
must research thank you this is the
trail of a dancer the trail of a dancer
tells you two stories what about a trail
of a dancer where does this start does
the dance actually start on the stage
know if you are sad and you have a dance
maybe your left leg with moving will
just be there so when you’re looking at
the trail of a dancer it’s a whole build
up of so many things but right there
when a spotlight is on that is when you
are performing but thereafter you still
have to contend with the future you are
or nada keep well this is evil what the
truth of the matter is when you’re
moving on on that part on that
trajectory there is no feel like this
person is this this person is this you
must also take into cognitive they have
walked their parts and there certain
things must also led but be that as it
may you have your own qualities you have
your own pattern and you have your own
being and I start continues you must
find out I walk your path on that
contemporary African Highway Apodaca
that’s a very simple thing because we
all know that the lion is very grateful
but something whatever that bits or the
feets a lion is not easy but along that
part you are going to meet and content
with so many of them and when you meet
and contend with so many of them it will
not stop you
that is a decision a deception is a part
of what you have to do the mixture there
that takes into cognizance equator and
so many other things whatever you are
doing today when you put a part of that
your history your being it is stronger
in the total essence a behalf cast a
behalf cast is just the story of what
when you go to our area is a different
in if you go to long ways it differently
me go to brasses it effective but you
still have somewhere they’re called what
is this called the markets well the
market day knows what it’s called
but the truth of the matter is in all
those things it’s a fusion and it is in
that fusion
look at the madness I was telling
somebody the other day when I look at a
bar and you believe or you don’t believe
the roots are maybe good the roads may
be terrible but if you go down world you
find some other people who are sitting
on planks over a dead quarter and they
have what they have
the I passed my maple and they are
walking to India a CD and producing that
is a part of building the future who
crazy who is just talking about the
feminine aspect of it anyway look at it
the king is the king but you guys a is
the closest person does the last whisper
before he goes to bed and if you can
tell how important it is it’s same thing
and the glory of an eagle you patch on
his show that resistance in his reign
you reign
she is reigning to thank you the last
rush table the Lazarus table is about
the Nigeria youth and anywhere they look
at it it is written that for the past is
living the present to fact in a yawning
gap the shunted precipice too deep this
one it’s been a problem generous bridges
to close the gap for the chemist and on
quicksand to Judea future we really have
to take care of them as a part of
Bhatia we deserve amazed about sleep in
where we come from the African
architecture there’s always a nun bidi
where you sleep but when you sleep
actually
you are taking two different dimensions
you dream so many things if maybe one
would look around this hole find
somebody has a name like
Joseph that means when you sleep all is
not ended
you cannot wake into other time order
realms and order inventions and then
you’ll achieve so much when you come
back move but please what I’m saying is
that those distractions are part of the
journey
they’re a part of the journey and when
you have set out on that journey on the
contemporary African highway you must
keep focused those structures will be
there may be pleasurable distractions
Lama Bala father and son very curious
relationship but it goes test to see how
we faced is that mirrored mirrors within
twelve day time glory to each son he has
a part to each father he has it but they
have mirror of life of being showing
both of them what life is supposed to be
and what life is all about but to each
his part thank you different offensive
and Ayinde
inflatius Evancho need a jaundice
Evancho he did for my uncle he did this
is it on that journey on building their
future you meet all sorts well well
narrative Mason is a part of it you just
have to take care but you must move in
the midst of all these things this
is Ebola mean ebola mean was when some
slaves were taken to the US and they got
to that place and they looked at the
police and they asked what are we coming
here to do they say they were going to
be slaves they jumped into the ocean
many of them said they were coming back
well the story is that nobody knows
whether they are coming back or at the
ground but the fact is on that part of
the contemporary African highway we have
to go through it you look at the design
from the design you have to walk the
part there must be a commitment to what
the part and as a commitment there will
be challenges some of the challenges are
going to be very pleasurable some of the
challenges some of the deception some of
the diversions are going to be such that
when you get to the end of that bend it
is only then you find out that you have
to go and start all afresh so that’s me
and that’s the other people where
follows the water so thank you very much
thank you
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