The only thing dark about Africa is your ignorance | Magda Baghazal

The only thing dark about Africa is your ignorance | Magda Baghazal | TEDxYouth@RegentsSchool

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8 жыл бұрын

In this talk, Magda dismisses our stereotypical views of her home continent.
Magda is a year 12 student at Regent's school
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

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@richmondmawuli9265 4 жыл бұрын

"Africa is not a country it's a continent" thank you for telling them

@tshepiyanodon6908 4 жыл бұрын

AFRICA....... LET'S STOP EXPLAINING OURSELVES TO THE WEST.... WE DON'T NEED TO BE VALIDATED BY THEM.

@thankyoumrsg6590 4 жыл бұрын

There are children of African descent growing up in the West who need to know the truth becayse the Medua us very unkind and there are companies milking people using this lie. most of all it scares investors away

@leonm.yamija5236 4 жыл бұрын

Even the west need to be told the truth. They have brain washed

@KushQueen9 3 жыл бұрын

FACTS!!!

@kyuuk3tsuki 2 жыл бұрын

except that none of these countries has ever done anything on their own. Rudimentary skills at best....at best.

@abdiomarimohamed6626 2 жыл бұрын

@@kyuuk3tsuki Explain pls, didn't get your point! Kindly!

@denniskihara5039 4 жыл бұрын

Shes a Kenyan on Ted Talk..inspirational.....Watu Wangu mko wapi

@karlcarlysle462 5 жыл бұрын

She is very correct. All life began in Africa but being part Yemeni means she may have been raised with part of thevArab perspective but I suspect that she is most influenced by Kenyan/African culture. She is bright andcwise and I applaud her

@mahnoor647 8 жыл бұрын

Excellent Talk This is what people should hear not what is potryed on the media Very well said !!

@angelo7217 7 жыл бұрын

Mahnoor Qadir so aaaaall the media is going out of its way to portray africa badly. That's dishonest and disrespects the children eating grass to survive.

@the8thchurch461 5 жыл бұрын

@@angelo7217 The Western media is very mischievous in its misrepresentation of other countries, especially Africa. What they forget though is what Nelson Mandela said of this type of shading others. He said to treat other people badly is to insult your own humanity. What Westerners need to confront is their own incompetence in colonizing Africa and FAILING to actually develop it enough to bring it up to standard. I would say it says more about them than it says about Africa that they failed it during their occupation of it.

@purpleskittles861 6 жыл бұрын

People don't believe my siblings are African and are related to me because they are light skinned

@ckmedia9517 5 жыл бұрын

This is great! A whole new perspective on the African narrative.

@farihahrashidi9360 6 жыл бұрын

she is young and bright! although im not an african, but i really love this talk. this is an eye opener to start see things in clearer views.. man, put down your stereotypes lenses ay. if anyone knows her social media, do mention here thanks

@kabamfatu6654 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, this is amazing

@Ancient_Chronicler 3 жыл бұрын

We play that song "Do They Know it's Christmas in Africa",during the holiday season at the store I work at.

@yojoyl.3469 4 ай бұрын

´The only dark about Africa, is your ignorance!‘ Go girl, love you my melanin. That was so powerful.

@michaeljames3966 6 жыл бұрын

You are such a Brilliant young girl..

@ericjeter2223 4 жыл бұрын

God Bless you,, my Sister,

@simonmuriithi3378 6 жыл бұрын

Great talk Magda, I totally agree with everything you said. AFRICA IS THE WORLD'S BEST KEPT SECRET.

@Oc4ever12 6 жыл бұрын

exactly

@derek8564 5 жыл бұрын

It should be with all the aid money we send there.

@the8thchurch461 5 жыл бұрын

@@derek8564 And what about Africa's vast resources which the West wishes were theirs?

@derek8564 5 жыл бұрын

@@the8thchurch461 it's not the west's resources. We both know that. I'd be more weary of the Chinese at this point to be honest with you

@Killinemkid 4 жыл бұрын

Remember that there are 2 Africas. 1 for the incredibly wealthy and one for the rest. All of the West African Diaspora is African. We did not leave by choice.

@davruck1 2 жыл бұрын

You did not leave by choice because it was not an accident that they f-Ed up west African countries the worst.

@johnyscash6878 4 жыл бұрын

What a smart little kid ❤️ T.I.N.A - This Is New Africa

@yvonnemusimbi2014 7 жыл бұрын

Great

@sattasana7753 4 жыл бұрын

You tell it , darling!

@edwardsrubyg 5 жыл бұрын

Home Love Laughter Scrumptious Food Vibrant Colour Original Style & The African Sunshine Kiss 😘 ☀️Well Said 👏🏾 Thank you ☺️

@keronsmith1352 6 жыл бұрын

Y peoples talking africa dat the Don't know about i like how this young girl spoken Africa don't have one colour we the peoples of colours thank for leting the world knows

@onlyeverydaysa5029 4 жыл бұрын

This is key.👍🏾

@bossman9569 5 жыл бұрын

Well done👍👍👏😆

@thomaskearney6385 Жыл бұрын

Well said my friend

@rudraom9 5 жыл бұрын

Because I am in India

@moo_idle6568 6 жыл бұрын

We have the same name !!

@nadiajama6527 5 жыл бұрын

Perfectly put Magda, love this ❤️

@thomasrodriguez6253 2 жыл бұрын

Geneticly we are all 99.9 percent the same. We all are from Africa, we all are Africans 😇

@earlphillips7847 4 жыл бұрын

Teach them, let them free their minds from mental ignorance about Africans.

@philmusunga4430 6 жыл бұрын

You go Magda tell me 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾❤️

@yellooh 4 жыл бұрын

Very "strong" title. Could more appealing worded differently.

6 жыл бұрын

excellent!!

@miracleshappen4483 7 жыл бұрын

Well done and said!

@rudraom9 5 жыл бұрын

Welcome sweetheart

@arturboras6615 5 жыл бұрын

3yes

@NegSteLucie 6 жыл бұрын

How is she "obviously not a native African?"

@philosophersbench6595 4 жыл бұрын

Congrats troll.

@crpth1 4 жыл бұрын

Neg Ste. Lucie - Admittedly that expression from her, caught me on surprise. Like there's a "rule book" that says how many generations someone must have to be "African" or anything else for that matter. Based on the rest of her statements, I believe she use it more like a figure of speech. But yes she got me a bit lost on that one. ;-)

@sabrinabaskerville 3 жыл бұрын

crpth1 literally came to the comments section to make sure I wasn’t the only one that a pause at that moment.

@thinadlamini4671 5 жыл бұрын

I'm South African and I can tell you that I can't speak Xhosa and Zulu properly that's why I tend to gravitate towards my colonizers language.

@allasoiko6999 5 жыл бұрын

Ànà àraf africa i love africa je me amor africa eu me encanto africa

@rudraom9 5 жыл бұрын

I am African

@tigress4960 5 жыл бұрын

Do you not have anything better to do than being a troll?

@rudraom9 5 жыл бұрын

Magda I am scared dear

@lf1496 4 жыл бұрын

She looks native African like a Somali or Ethiopian. She looks like a lot of African Americans. There are blacks in Yemen because Yemen was a part of the ancient Ethiopian kingdom of Axum. She is obviously of Ethiopian descent, her ancestors probably colonized Yemen or were Ethiopians or Sudanese who lived in the Middle East. So basically African.

@leilaahmed895 8 жыл бұрын

Great talk. Love it.

@antoniopantophlet8216 4 жыл бұрын

Magda Baghazal I do not agree with the end of your speach.

@felixm.c4091 7 жыл бұрын

Slightly taking pride in the wrong aspects such as economic prosperity. Girl needs to emancipate herself from European concept of "progress" and take more pride in Africa's traditional values. Rural and tribal communities, hunting and small scale agriculture etc.. That's where the wealth is at. Not building cities dammit.

@beingkltd 6 жыл бұрын

A culture is not only made from one's heritage or old traditions. I'm Kenyan and young just like her and I support her message. We can't negate any side and label one measure of prosperity befitting to value our progress. You do not use what you fully don't grasp. I can choose to use the African values and rich history upheld as a way to measure prosperity or the modern leaps we're taking. At the end of the day it is borne of our struggles and wisdom, it is still ours.

@derek8564 5 жыл бұрын

No....No small scale agriculture....Africa can't feed or properly look after its own medically without outside help for over 50 years....Figure that our first ok?

@tigress4960 5 жыл бұрын

What traditional values are going to put Africa in the 21st century? The world is advancing and you want us to go backwards because we are African? Africa is communicating with advanced countries and needs to keep up. If you knew what is going on in Africa you would know that these small time farmers are having a hard time because Africa has not improved it's methods of maintaining the trade and are now calling on White farmers to help them precisely because these old traditional methods do not work. I do not know how old you are but wake up and smell the coffee.

@christinechapotokamoo2367 2 жыл бұрын

We are just fine.. we mix traditional values with the modern society just like everyone else.. be it china, US, France etc.. if we stuck to our traditional ways alone, we would go extinct

@amstonebrandingagency1106 7 жыл бұрын

THANK U

@mupenzirobzy6643 5 жыл бұрын

Africa is rich, those whites so called europeans are poor, i have visited most countries but compared to african countries, most people are very poor, the riches are owned by few people in these so called developed countries,

@acajudi100 6 жыл бұрын

54 countries. I love my USA.🇺🇸💕❤️

@frankkalenga1779 5 жыл бұрын

acajudi100 stay there neanderthal

@elvistesham6263 4 жыл бұрын

Wat I want here bitxch

@albertogutierrez9734 4 жыл бұрын

@@elvistesham6263 Native to the Americas, garifuna ancestors, and Spanish, I love America. The rest are just haters.

@superflyrico 5 жыл бұрын

Brilliant talk except the very end, Melanin and the Afrikan are one, you can be Afrikan without ever visiting the continent, but being born there does not automatically qualify you as Afrikan, Europeans in South Afrika are NOT Afrikan because when they visit their ancestral lands of Europe people accept them automatically as “whites”

@ergoodnews 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@rahmad4137 4 жыл бұрын

lots of pure African people are white, as in Algeria

@danielod9811 4 жыл бұрын

Not only are there white south africans but also dutch in Sa and Rhodesia. Also many asians in sub sahara. As for north Africa there arabs moors phonecian French carthoginians and finally burbers and moors and italians.

@albertogutierrez9734 4 жыл бұрын

Then, by your logic, the Nigoni and bantu don't belong in South Africa. They are not natives; it is the Khoisan. By the way, The Cape was settled by the Dutch. There was no one for 175 years. Until Bantu arrived, the Khoisan were slaughtered by them. Then, the Dutch met the Bantu, when they came to the South from West African. You don't know nothing about Africa.

@AfricaNetworks-dq4co Жыл бұрын

Kokrookoo! Adeakyeoo!

@rudraom9 5 жыл бұрын

Welcome sweetheart my planet

@malcolmjules6445 6 жыл бұрын

Another African cheerleader, they are raising them young now.

@musakam 6 жыл бұрын

There is no such race called Arab race, it's an European concept to confuse you. You are of the Africoid race with it's different diversity and phenotypes. I have been to yemen, and the so-called Arab who migrated from Asia to joined the original Africoids PEOPLE from that country do not consider you to be Arab like them. The reason why you or your parent want to be consider Arab stuck is because of ISLAM or due to RELIGIOUS matter, eg, related to mohammed the prophet who i believe look more like you than them.

@seanwhitehall4652 5 жыл бұрын

Life expectancy 10 years below the rest of the world seems a tad dreary.

@danielemorandi2814 6 жыл бұрын

So..what about stop sending foreign aid to Africa?_

@NegSteLucie 6 жыл бұрын

daniele one How about stop stealing African resources?

@danielemorandi2814 6 жыл бұрын

Neg Ste. Lucie what I ment in my comment is that since this girk says Africa isn't poor why should we send them foreign aid . I pay € 35.000 in taxes every year and I think like 2% of that has to go to countries who this girl claims aren't poor...

@themobileentrepreneur 6 жыл бұрын

Congratulation! She rightly said the only thing dark about African is your ignorance and she was right. Africa is first of all not a country, secondly there are poor and rich people in every country in the world. Per capita income of Germany (35,954.21EUR) and that of UK (34,205.29EUR). So you are paying more tax than in income per capita. What Job is that?. If you are not making about 100,000 EUR a year, you can't pay such tax. Tell me your job and I will tell you how much you earn. I am a Pharmacist and I don't pay such tax. I meet lairs like you every day online

@namdrea 5 жыл бұрын

You’re right we don’t need foreign aid it just puts us in more debt anyway.

@sandybeaches3950 5 жыл бұрын

@@danielemorandi2814 Europe and the U.S. are taking more from Africa than they give to Africa. Countries that are predominately white, are taking more from non white countries than they shell out. So called white countries would not survive without the exploitation of predominantly non white countries.

@benthurber5363 3 жыл бұрын

I belong to an experimental aircraft group, and we regularly get videos/pictures from random fellows in Africa who are trying to build helicopters and aircraft. Their attempts are comically awful, ludicrously unsafe, and fundamentally unworkable. Honestly, they've all had enough resources that they could have achieved something, but refused to learn even the most basic concepts from freely available information. Nor will they listen to reason and reach for low-hanging fruit by build simple, economical, and proven gliders. "Showing off" to their peers, immediately, is more valuable to them than slow growth and actualized success. And these are some of their brightest representatives who haven't left for wealthier countries. If anything, I feel sorry for those who are African and are left exasperated by their cohorts with this sort of mentality. They *know* they're capable, but it's learned helplessness.

@solomonalvarez6064 6 жыл бұрын

You is arab honey not african. I want to see my real africans speak up on this.

@beingkltd 6 жыл бұрын

And who made you a critic of people's African legitimacy? I'm going to stand up for my fellow Kenyan and tell you to stop your racial objectification. The African continent has always been a melting pot of different cultures before the era of colonization. Heck even Romans, Asians etc came to The East African coast before Christ's times and made ties through trade and intermarriage. Ethnicity is different from Heritage. She's ethically of Arab decent but is of African Heritage, Proof? Her families history and blood ties.

@kudjoeadkins-battle2502 6 жыл бұрын

King Solomon she's not an Arab! If anything Arabs look like her.

@themobileentrepreneur 6 жыл бұрын

Well you need to go back to school. That region was where the first African evolved. She is probably more African than you.

@purpleskittles861 6 жыл бұрын

She said she was Kenyan and that she had lived in several East African countries whats Arabian about that

@normanradio 4 жыл бұрын

@angelo7217 7 жыл бұрын

Ridiculously naive. This is the privileged generation. I've been all over Africa. Most of what she says is hopelessly naive.

@Asdfghjkl-us5jr 7 жыл бұрын

yeah. if africa is so great then why do so many people wanna leave?

@angelo7217 7 жыл бұрын

lili M my point exactly read my comment again.

@mutelarsorhougbe4606 6 жыл бұрын

but are you African?

@User-72430 6 жыл бұрын

You are naive

@mutelarsorhougbe4606 6 жыл бұрын

lili M shh.

@Red88Rex 8 жыл бұрын

You didn't address the lack of sexual education and female circumcision. Sorry, I can't support that.

@magdafeisal6527 8 жыл бұрын

The purpose of my talk was not to focus on all the problems the African continent has nor was it trying to cover up the problems, it was simply addressing the misrepresentation of the African continent.

@zahraabduqadir6736 8 жыл бұрын

+magda baghazal masha allah 😘😘😘

@leoricdabs3222 7 жыл бұрын

She has done more than you will ever ... shes a queen .

@gracenjeru5010 7 жыл бұрын

can white asses focus on poverty that is eating their backyard hiden from the rest of the world

@bible4truth 6 жыл бұрын

She also didn't address the abortion (baby murder) in America, prison industrial complex, racial profiling, Bill and Malinda Gates depopulation via putting sterilizing agents in "vaccines". Nor did she address the CDC whistleblower about vaccines in the USA, nor did she address the fake charities that steal all the REAL resources from Africa and keeps the country from getting market prices and riches overall. I agree that she missed soooooooo much. And, I can't support that.

@schultzdean2498 6 жыл бұрын

when i think of Africa, i think of death..

@moo_idle6568 6 жыл бұрын

and why is that?

@schultzdean2498 6 жыл бұрын

Magda Queta because of all of the dangers there...

@themobileentrepreneur 6 жыл бұрын

Congratulation and there is 1.4 billion people leaving there

@mafrica8105 6 жыл бұрын

That comment will upset a lot of people, but it’s ok to make hateful condescending comments about the African continent. It’s time people of Color stood up and said No it’s not ok.

@hibaahmed7907 5 жыл бұрын

Death is everywhere. You should try to visit africa, it's really beautiful.

@richmondmawuli9265 4 жыл бұрын

"Africa is not a country it's a continent" thank you for telling them

@johnyscash6878 4 жыл бұрын

What a smart little kid ❤️ T.I.N.A - This Is New Africa