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TED Radio Hour

Tuesday, 12:00- 1:00pm
NPR/TED Staff
Guy Raz

An idea is the one gift that you can hang onto even after you've given it away. Welcome to TED Radio Hour – a journey through fascinating ideas: astonishing inventions, fresh approaches to old problems, new ways to think and create.

Based on Talks given by riveting speakers on the world-renowned TED stage, each show is centered on a common theme – such as the source of happiness, crowd-sourcing innovation, power shifts, or inexplicable connections – and injects soundscapes and conversations that bring these ideas to life.

TED Radio Hour is a co-production of NPR and TED.

About TED

TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown into a global platform for identifying and spreading those world-changing ideas. The annual TED Conference and TEDGlobal Conferences invite the world's leading thinkers and doers to speak for up to 18 minutes. Their talks are then made available, free, at TED.com and through TED distribution partners.

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11:28 am
Fri June 29, 2012

Africa: The Next Chapter

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In this episode, TED speakers explore the present and future of Africa.
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"We had to unveil an Africa that wasn't that well known to ... a number of audiences." -- Emeka Okafor

There are many stereotypes about Africa: that it's a place of conflict, of disease, war and famine. Or that it's a single place rather than a continent of 54 distinct countries. We'll engage with thinkers and doers who are constructing new realities for their respective countries — and for the African continent a whole.

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10:08 am
Fri June 29, 2012

Can We Build A Better Understanding Of Africa?

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"We talk about African governments like they've been dropped from Mars, you know? They come from us." — Ory Okolloh
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"The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story." — Chimamanda Adichie
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"African agriculture today is among, or is, the most under-capitalized in the world. Only 7 percent of arable land in Africa is irrigated, compared to 40 percent in Asia." — Eleni Gabre-Madhin
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"We had to unveil an Africa that wasn't that well known to ... a number of audiences." — Emeka Okafor
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Fri June 29, 2012

How Can Education Improve African Leadership?

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"I was now a member of a generation that owed a responsibility to a future generation." — Patrick Awuah
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Part 2 of TED Radio Hour episode Africa: The Next Chapter. Watch Patrick Awuah's full talk, On Educating Leaders, at TED.com.

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10:08 am
Fri June 29, 2012

Is Foreign Aid Harming Africa?

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"Most of the rich countries are attracted to Africa's poverty rather than its wealth. And in the process they end up subsidizing our failures, rather than rewarding our accomplishments." — Andrew Mwenda
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Part 3 of TED Radio Hour episode Africa: The Next Chapter. You can watch Andrew Mwenda's full Ted Talk, A New Look At Africa, at TED.com.

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