TEDxEuston - Paul Boateng - Only the best is good enough for Africa
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Rt. Hon Paul Boateng MP is a British Labour Party politician. He was born in Hackney, London of mixed Ghanaian and Scottish heritage. His father, Kwaku Boateng was a lawyer and cabinet minister under Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana. Following in his father's footsteps, Paul Boateng read law at the University of Bristol, beginning his career in civil righ... Read more
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- -: TEDxEuston - Paul Boateng - Only the best is good enough for Africa
February 2, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Rt. Hon Paul Boateng MP is a British Labour Party politician. He was born in Hackney, London of mixed Ghanaian and Scottish heritage. His father, Kwaku Boateng was a lawyer and cabinet minister under Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana. Following in his father's footsteps, Paul Boateng read law at the Univers...
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- -: TEDxEuston - Paula Akugizibwe - Between the lines
January 30, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Paula Akugizibwe, a writer and activist, was born in Nigeria to parents of Rwandan and Ugandan origin and grew up largely in Southern Africa. She considers herself a happy pan-African nomad. For the past few years, she has been based in Cape Town where she coordinated a regional advocacy project ...
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- -: TEDxEuston - Inside TEDxEuston
January 23, 2012 (over 12 years ago)The Story of the how it all started. TEDxEuston aims to reflect ideas and inspired thinking of a new generation of African leaders, presenting to an audience of mainly Africans committed to engaging and re-engaging in an active and meaningful manner with the continent
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- -: TEDxEuston - Kwame Kwei-Armah - Standing on shoulders of giants
January 18, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Kwame Kwei-Armah was born Ian Roberts to poor immigrants from Grenada. His father was a factory worker, and his mother worked three jobs to put her three children through private schools. They lived in a nieghbourhood dominated by skinheads and Kwei-Armah couldn't go to the subway without having ...
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- -: TEDxEuston - Lola Shoneyin - 'Boys, sex and control'
January 9, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Lola Shoneyin says that she considers herself very lucky to have a day job that she absolutely loves: teaching English and drama at a secondary school in Abuja, Nigeria. She is also Deputy Principal of the school and says she writes in her spare time then admits she really writes 'all the time'. ...
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