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Anna Ekeledo, Executive Director of AfriLabs Foundation and Working Party Chair of eCommerce Forum Africa, spoke from Lagos in Nigeria. The Nigerian-Senegalese expounded on the excitement and the reality of being a Black youth on the continent. She highlighted the uniqueness of the environment, the people, culture, and solution adaptation, while identifying the most appropriate stakeholders to define and solve the Black problems. (Since the recording of the podcast, Anna has joined a Nigerian political party, the Youth Party).
"I know that there is still that savior mentality that says Black people haven't figured it out, we don't know what to do, we don't know how to do it. So we need to come and be supported. While I recognize that there are a lot of challenges that we still face around healthcare for example, or the education sector, and all of this, our infrastructures are not there yet, people are still financially excluded and don't have access to clean and affordable energy, yes, all those challenges are there but then that mentality of Black people can't figure it out and we need to come and help them because they can't think by themselves is not ...." - Anna Ekeledo
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