Hi, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily. I'm Elise Hugh. You're about to hear from Adiola Fayune, who is hilarious. She's a journalist and satirist who made her name by calling out corrupt African leaders. In her TED 2020 talk, she makes the continent come alive for us, challenges stereotypes about Africa and its 54 countries,

and presses the case that talent from the continent should stay there to make it better.

What's up, people? First of all, I cannot believe I'm on TED Talk. This is a big deal,

because right now everybody in my village is watching

this. And so, of course, my bride price just went up. My name is Adela Fayeón. I'm from Nigeria.

I live in the U.S. I'm a journalist or a comedian or a satirist. Anything you want me to be,

really. I'm every woman. It's all in me.

I host a YouTube show called Keeping a Real with Adiola. Now, this show is a gentle,

respectful, and very blunt way of calling out corrupt African leaders. I basically keep

real with them, especially when they mess up, which is a lot of times.

If any African official is watching me, by the way, I'm not talking about you, sir. I'm talking

about your colleagues, yes. I do this because Africa has everything it needs to be great. You know,

I grew up believing that Africa as a continent is a giant.

We've got skills, intellectuals, natural resources more than any other continent.

Africa supplies 31% of the words gold, manganese and uranium, 57% of the words diamonds diamonds, and 13% of the world's oil. We have no reason

to depend on aid or borrowing money from China of the World Bank. But without good leaders,

we're like an eagle that has no idea it could fly, let alone sore.

Africa is like a sleeping giant.

Now, the truth is, I'm trying to wake up this giant,

and that's why I ate the dirty laundry of those in charge of the giant,

politicians, religious leaders, with huge respect, of course, because more than anything else, African leaders love to

be respected.

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