{"id":5143,"date":"2024-01-15T21:24:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T15:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainblog.ise.education\/?post_type=video&#038;p=5143"},"modified":"2024-01-15T23:16:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T17:46:05","slug":"the-real-reasons-africa-is-poor-and-why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"video","link":"https:\/\/blog.silgondev.com\/hi\/video\/the-real-reasons-africa-is-poor-and-why-it-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Reasons Africa Is Poor\u2014and Why It Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that by 2050,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imf.org\/en\/Publications\/fandd\/issues\/2023\/09\/PT-african-century#:~:text=The%20United%20Nations%20projects%20that,world's%20population%20will%20be%20African.\">fully a quarter<\/a>\u00a0of the planet&#8217;s population will reside in Africa? Yet despite abundant natural resources and a young and ambitious population, the continent remains\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2017\/07\/27\/africa-the-richest-continent-on-earth-is-the-poorest-au-envoy-to-us\/\/\">the poorest of them all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Senegal and now residing in Austin, Texas,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.magattewade.com\/\">Magatte Wade<\/a>\u00a0is director of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasnetwork.org\/partners\/center-for-african-prosperity\">Center for African Prosperity<\/a>\u00a0at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasnetwork.org\/\">Atlas Network<\/a>, a nonprofit that supports think tanks and activist groups in the developing world. A serial entrepreneur, she&#8217;s currently the CEO (and founder) of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/skinisskin.com\/\">SkinIsSkin<\/a>, which sells a series of skin and lip products sourced in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Wade is also the author of the new memoir and manifesto,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0CM925P1L\/reasonmagazinea-20\/\"><i>The Heart of a Cheetah: How We Have Been Lied To about African Poverty\u2014and What That Means for Human Flourishing<\/i><\/a>. The solution to Africa&#8217;s problems lie with what her mentor, the late economist George Ayittey, called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/OPINION\/08\/25\/ayittey.cheetahs.hippos\/index.html\">the cheetah generation<\/a>,&#8221; young Africans who embrace free markets, individualism, human rights, and transparency in government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><em>Reason<\/em>&#8216;s Nick Gillespie sat down with Wade to discuss her book, &#8220;conscious capitalism,&#8221; charter cities, and how cryptocurrencies are helping people like her build the Africa\u2014and the world\u2014they want.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that by 2050,\u00a0fully a quarter\u00a0of the planet&#8217;s population will reside in Africa? Yet despite abundant natural resources and a young and ambitious population, the continent remains\u00a0the poorest of them all. Born in Senegal and now residing in Austin, Texas,\u00a0Magatte Wade\u00a0is director of the\u00a0Center for African Prosperity\u00a0at the\u00a0Atlas Network, a nonprofit that supports [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5211,"template":"","categories":[11],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.silgondev.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/video\/5143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.silgondev.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/video"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.silgondev.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/video"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.silgondev.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.silgondev.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.silgondev.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.silgondev.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.silgondev.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}