Bill Gates on Africa
Business Daily
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4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2018
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Bill Gates speaks to Manuela Saragosa about the future of Africa and the urgent need for the world to invest in the continent's exploding youth population.
It comes as the billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft founder launches the second annual conference in New York of his Goalkeepers initiative - a network of activists from across the world who aim to ensure that their governments fulfil the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
But why is it that the number of children born per woman in Africa remains so stubbornly high? We ask Olufunke Baruwa, a gender and development practitioner in Africa's most populous nation, Nigeria. And are the attempts of wealthy outsiders to solve Africa's problems misguided? Teddy Ruge, an outspoken Ugandan activist and entrepreneur, tells us it's time to let a new generation of Africans take over the controls.
Producer: Laurence Knight
(Picture: Bill and Melinda Gates introduce the 2018 Goalkeepers event at the Lincoln Center on in New York; Credit: Ludovic Marin/AFP)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Business Daily. I'm Manuel Zaragoza. |
| 0:05.4 | Coming up, Bill Gates on the future of Africa. |
| 0:08.7 | If we don't invest for this huge youth generation, then you're going to see instability. |
| 0:15.4 | And it's hard to say will that mean war, famine. |
| 0:18.9 | But these investments really are the leading indicator of how stable Africa will be. |
| 0:24.7 | Africa is set to see a huge surge in its numbers of young people. |
| 0:28.8 | But will they drag the continent down or lift it up? |
| 0:32.3 | And what say should foreign aid organizations have in this anyway? |
| 0:35.8 | That's coming up here in Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:41.5 | The UN General Assembly has been meeting in New York this week, |
| 0:49.8 | but perhaps a more lively event has been taking place on the fringes. |
| 0:54.8 | Thank you. perhaps a more lively event has been taking place on the fringes. Wake up! |
| 0:59.0 | Goalkeepers, please welcome our host, Bill and Melinda Gates. |
| 1:05.6 | That's the goalkeepers conference in New York. |
| 1:08.3 | Nothing to do with football or soccer. |
| 1:10.6 | The goalkeepers are a network of |
| 1:12.4 | activists from across the world. They're working with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, |
| 1:17.1 | the world's largest philanthropic organisation, to make sure governments implement the 17 |
| 1:22.1 | sustainable development goals agreed by the UN in 2015. The goals include targets such as poverty reduction, education and gender equality. |
| 1:33.3 | Bill Gates, the billionaire founder of Microsoft, is leading the charge. His message, well, decades of |
| 1:39.1 | stunning progress in the fight against poverty and disease may be on the verge of stalling. And it's all because more babies are being born |
| 1:46.2 | in the places where it's hardest |
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