The Future of Africa and Empty Lots
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Will Africa fulfill its remarkable promise in the next several decades? Is a land tax the best kind of tax? Would it solve our housing crisis? All that and more on this episode of After Hours.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | Audio Collective. |
| 0:04.0 | Hey listener, a quick favor. |
| 0:09.0 | We are conducting an audience survey and we'd be really grateful if you could take just a few minutes to respond. |
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| 0:21.0 | That's survey. |
| 0:22.1 | PRX.org |
| 0:23.4 | slash after hours I'm Felix I'm me here it's great to be |
| 0:42.0 | back with you Felix. Yeah and of course |
| 0:44.8 | Thanksgiving is around the corner. Are you ready? Turkey and Davin everything. Yeah |
| 0:49.4 | fantastic. So besides thinking about the holiday, do you have topics for us? |
| 0:55.0 | Well, I confess I've been thinking a lot about Africa. |
| 0:58.0 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:00.0 | There are just some remarkable developments, and we've never really had the opportunity to |
| 1:03.9 | think hard about Africa and so I thought it would be great but it would be even |
| 1:07.4 | better if we had someone who actually knew what they were talking about. |
| 1:10.9 | Yes, generally a good idea. And in fact we do. So we are |
| 1:15.4 | joined today by one of our wonderful colleagues, Carrie Elkins, who's both a |
| 1:20.8 | professor of history and African American studies and at the business school and just somebody who really thinks hard about the continent and about business and just about everything that we want to hear about. |
| 1:32.0 | So Carrie, it's really great to have you here. So, Carrie, it's really great to have you here. |
| 1:34.1 | Thank you so much Meher. |
| 1:35.2 | It's just great to be here and opportunity to talk with my friends and colleagues about Africa. |
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