Bridging the Diaspora Divide - Teresa H. Clarke at TEDxEuston

www.tedxeuston.com Teresa H. Clarke is the CEO of Africa.com, a company she founded in 2010 after resigning from her position as a managing director in the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs & Co. Africa.com is the fastest growing Africa related website, with over five million page views per month from visitors throughout the world. Africa.com showcases carefully selected news, travel and lifestyle information and is playing a key role in shaping how the world sees Africa.
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[@richiexp2]

As an African there is nothing I want more than for Africa to unite with the Diaspora, it's time for the African to unite with its sixth region the Diaspora.

[@amonduul2154]

Why should this bes I mean indians also do not reunite with euro indians (gypsies, romani) They even do not want to identfy with lower cast. If an indian immigrant in Eastern Europe would be mistaken for a romani, he would immediately leave the country

[@leroypatrick6731]

@@amonduul2154 That is India. Africans have an inescapable tie to the continent that each other and the world, though sometimes nefariously, has never let us forget. No matter how elite we feel across the globe. In your reference I can identify the treatment of the African Indians and the way they have been pit at the bottom of the wrungs of India's caste. Neglecting the fact that many Indians themselves have a bloodline to our continent 😂. Respect and communal development are facets of unity that breed positive multipliers that are vastly better than those of division. The very division that lent to almost every other continent's countries the materials for capital development all the way down to labour.

[@ZedRN]

Actually, Indian diaspora are some of the most active at engaging with their homeland, after Chinese diaspora! You have a point in that some Indians who have been in the diaspora for several generations tend to identify more with their second or later homes than India, but we do not need entire populations to engage in order to have a successful diaspora engagement- There are enough African diaspora who want to engage, but we lack the kind of support and direction that successful Indian and Chinese diaspora have from their govts an policy makers- to make this happen...some countries like Ghana, Senegal for example are trying and have attracted a number of African Americans "back home!" The AU has created a structure to engage African diaspora but the implementation doesn't seem as successful, at least not as yet...

[@oririmusic]

My wife was born in California with her family originally from Ohio and Kentucky. We talk about it everyday, We cannot wait to have her family come breath the original African air! That day is coming!

[@fivefivevirgo4055]

She is so right about that divide and conquer thing.

[@takasimba7881]

fivefivevirgo haha ever so eloquently put! :D

[@jeromefox2257]

I lived with an African Family when I went to Senegal twice. I loved the experience and the family. I plan on moving to Africa to do business and get involved in Africa. I would love to find my families in Africa.

[@miminotbovered2857]

And for the Record. AFRICAN AMERICANS HAVE A CULTURE. AN AMAZING BEAUTIFUL AND FANTASTIC CULTURE!! It is culture that has brought the world Jazz, Rock, Blues, it is a culture that has taught the world about Human Rights, Respect and true meaning of Freedom. I remember being in school in the UK and learning about AA history and even my teacher said "It truly is the mark of the human spirit, to not lose hope when it seems impossible." This is AA Culture, from the impossible situation they started from they took the scraps that America had thrown them and they have built a culture that even they're enemies want to imitate. It breaks my heart when AA say they have no culture, I think in this modern day of mumblerap and Worldstar they've really forgot their worth.

[@creoleviking8433]

Now someone is telling the truth. Everyone copies us.

[@405boy4]

@@creoleviking8433 So true.. As an African-American, I love our culture and what we've built despite all the racism America tries to bring against us...✊✊

[@knuke9596]

I agree. Often we are made to feel that we don't have a culture and we are less than by non-blacks and non-American blacks. It's like we always have to revere Africa while dismissing the rich culture that we made in the U.S.A.

[@keeganmoonshine7183]

@@405boy4 ✊🏾✊🏾

[@tvs9978]

@@creoleviking8433 that is not a good thing. You're teaching the world to walk around with sagging trousers, and curse at each other and call each other niggas. Your culture is toxic

[@nyimabakare9412]

This was an awesome 21 minutes. For the positive commentators - thank you. For the negative commentators, you just proved everything she said. Why do people hate Africa, I'll never understand! I'll get to the continent one day and I'll continue to build relationships and learn more about our culture from my people who have come from the continent to the states. Shout out to South America and the Caribbean too... We have to come together... It's been 6000 years of being our own enemy, and for what? Why? Because we speak different languages and have different customs and are descendent from different parts of the continent? Where would Africa be if there was unity? Just think about that and get out your mind that being African is a problem because it's not. Can we agree upon one thing? I think so! It's Pan Africanism... Red, Black & Green. I'm so proud and I would not trade being who I am for a billion dollars and please believe that I am 100% serious! I am not religious at all, I don't care about any potential mixture after we were stolen and placed in America; I just love Africa. I love being Black. There are many who feel this way... you don't have to wear a Dashiki or change your name, just understand that had certain events not occurred in history, you most likely would be on the continent. And if you are truly not descendent from Africa, power to whoever you are, embrace that and love it 100%. Anyone in Texas or nearby looking to network locally and travel to continent, inbox me. Peace to all.

[@dawnhawkins9699]

Renaissence Leek great comment, sister! i wish you nothing but success in your journey to Africa.

[@richardmorah2349]

Hello Nyima, I love your mindset and will like to meet you. If you don't mind.

[@thinadlamini4671]

💖

[@wiseteacher3599]

I'm live in Texas. I have interest in visiting the continent.

[@taq1238]

Pan-Africanism = Unity. 🖤♥️💛💚 We will lead the way.

[@TommyStrategic]

I was blessed to visit the continent some years ago: Ghana, West Africa, specifically. It was early on clear that (1) I had no real idea about the cultural diversity of the continental, and (2) though I am of African descent, there were big cultural differences. That said, I was surprised at how much Ghanaians (Akan, Ewe, and Ga, in my case) spoke like, conversed like, dressed like, dressed their hair like people I knew! I had an instant bond with a few friends, and realized that we as a people shared essentially the same worldview. When I came home, I could see echoes of Africa everywhere! #BridgingtheDiasporaDivide

[@megisholla5644]

African Americans or all those Africans in the Diaspora should know that they are welcome in any part of the African continent!

[@Twinklestar132]

I'll be in Ghana in 2 months!!!!!!!! much love from Trinidad & Tobago 😘 💕

[@johngreen8891]

That is a wonderful notion, however in many instances Africans that have come to the U.S. seem not to desire to identify with African Americans. Yet in other situations I've had the opportunity to becomes friends with brothers and sisters from Africa. Lastly, I've also seen Nigerian business and organizational women, that have formed their 'own' non profit community and cultural organizations here in the U.S., which for the most part they have 'excluded' African American women and men. This is not good and must change for the better.

[@nyimabakare9412]

Thank you.

[@Omega1st]

No need to be offended by people like Green Greener when you don't even know who you are talking to. He could be a White troll

[@ricoarrington436]

Omega1st it's because he think we all supposed to worship Europeans and when he find someone that don't it messes his mind up lmao

[@birdmannewsbirdmannews6995]

There is nothing like success that brings us together

[@syedmaricar9946]

Long live Africa build your own bridges not walls

[@tsmalls249]

This is one of the best talks I have heard of Africa.

[@triciaglorianabaye]

Madiba is ours. “Because there are so many ways that world is divided let us come together and bridge the diaspora divide “

[@shynot6741]

Well spoken. It's time we all unite. Stop living for self.

[@rodneyboone7652]

Awesome teacher !!!

[@jbbras8881]

"Mana" Teresa H. Clarke you're perfectly right. Thank you so much for this inspiring message you brought to us. We really need to do a deep reflection on how we have been destroying ourselves. I know it's quite hard among ourselves to see Africans and the African descendants in other parts of the world as one body only. But we can change this scenario. I believe that making more this kind of awareness among our people will surely bring an unimaginable results in the very near future...let's believe...let's take action.

[@chriswestajene1093]

I luv her speech so well,time to rise up and unite together and work together to make Africa great again. Thanks Teresa.

[@pauloskidane2819]

This woman is wonderful❤️ I wished the people in the audience payed more attention to her words

[@malcolmbarnes8865]

Bridge the Diaspora Divide. #africanentrepreneurs

[@chakiraadam5608]

Thank you so much may God bless you 👏👏👏👸🏽

[@christyjohnson6595]

Thank you! I am from Louisiana and these "Creoles" are on that "we are different " foolishness too. 🙄

[@337Brian]

@Christy Johnson i'm from Louisiana as well and i can attest to your comment..

[@beautifullife8580]

When we finally learn to love and accept ourselves as a beautiful proud people, then we can come together for great and positive change

[@rudolphunderwood8041]

Would love to link up with my brothers and sisters in Africa.

[@markanthonyad9760]

Thanks Teresa. I think the time has come. And evil will triumph when good people do nothing. It's time to write our story and change our destiny because the narrative will glorify the hunter until the lion learns how to write his story. More love

[@tshumalamz8614]

All I want to see is Africa unite in my time

[@angrybritches1854]

[@collinsosasedorisiagbon5016]

Thank you very much, may God give you wisdom

[@Hebrewsistah7]

Indeed! Let's bridge the Diaspora Divide!

[@lisagibuu498]

As a FIRST NATIONS i understand this !!!!! Nations divided

[@callme_burbu5976]

This is so important!

[@meronamanuel477]

Great presentation and analysis! It is informative and fun!

[@Ohquesarah]

Her humor is so awesome 😂

[@tamahlhazelwood7320]

An eloquent plea for Pan-Africanism with a focus on Afro- international economics. Sister Clarke has the right idea. My preponderant question becomes...On what basis do we start? Global nepotism? Debasement of semitism? Mass extraction from IMF influence? We do have a SHARED experience, a common foe. Perhaps we can stand as one unified people under the umbrella for united colonial liberation. Either way, the time has longed passed. We need to get started!

[@KimberlyKToure]

Thanks for this amazing talk.🙏🏿

[@bygrace9503]

This post is so Old.... my view on this subject has changed. I believe we now need to listen to each other, and understand each other’s view point. Life is very short, it’s better to live as one race together rather than divided. Blessings!

[@lavertnero2505]

I love this, thank you!

[@loveeritreapeaceeritrea9847]

ALL AFRICAN WE need to do coming reality make Africa great. First we need respect each other whatever we are GO AFRICA

[@trr7128]

What a brilliant presentation! And one has to see through::consciousness, trust, and mostly action may be the main points that are needed. But first, humbly recognising the existing ignorance and fear.may help to trigger the need for prompt actions Despite difficulties, I believe that everything is feasible! The rest may just history: progressive synergy, and the absence of the divide may occur.

[@honeywater37]

Bridging the African Diaspora Divide...we don’t have to be carbon copies of each or even have a single language, culture, religion, etc. to unite. We are one. Focus on our commonality and use our differences to make us stronger. “Where I am weak, you make me strong”, we have to be that for one another. We can, we will do this!!

[@ottogreenjr.7857]

Thankful

[@lawill3559]

We’re scattered because the Most High did us that way!!!!! Scattered to the four corners of earth 🌍

[@lawill3559]

So and very soon, we will be united yet again

[@angrybritches1854]

The Most High allowed Jesus to be crucified too. How'd that story end?

[@dolphins3291]

So outstanding....

[@addosolar537]

I think it is okay for us to be different. We do not all have to agree or be friends. What we do need to do is understand when we are supposed to work together.

[@mrsekeremor]

July/21/2019 is the day I'm watching this for the 1st time. Why was this video suppressed for so long?

[@nelliejones1812]

May 23 2020 I found this video and believe me I forwarded to everyone I know.😊❤🖤🖤🖤🖤

[@UwaifoFavour-f2e]

2024 here 😂

[@mupenzirobzy6643]

Sister first join us in our struggle of getting our land back, then we will know that we are together

[@jihanqsw]

We Are The Aboriginals Of All Lands.... So She Is Absolutely Right.... We Are All Of Those People. Colonialism Is What Divided Us All.

[@TKO67]

Good information. creating trade among ourselves is key

[@angrybritches1854]

Exactly. The West became powerful, by creating their own goods and services, exporting as much as they could and importing only what was necessary. African leaders giving away gold and diamonds for pennies on the dollar, makes me want to bash my head against a brick wall.

[@missymaisie7761]

Africa should be made safe for people in the diaspora to live there.

[@jcezeilo]

I know that this video is from 2014 but it is very relevant today in April 2020. As we watch Europe and North America struggle with the COVID-19 Pandemic, we see a country first mentality taking hold. I don't blame any country that is trying to save their people. However, this view will leave many African countries facing a much reduced or even eliminated financial aid platform. This means that African countries will have to manage their economies without charitable contributions from outside the continent. It also means that everything we do moving forward has NO strings attached from the UK or the US. We must now make policy decisions that focus on benefiting the country and not some foreign entity that gave us the funding. Teresa Clarke is exactly correct!

[@Atupas]

(This AA is really the true daughter of her father.) That's adage in Africa. I hope she is working with Dr Arikana Qua, the former AU Chairperson.

[@pottery68]

Theresa, your overall message is powerful but I have to correct you on the definition of the SA coloured people, of whom I am one. We may be marginalised in so many ways but we are a people with rich culture who have not been acknowledged even today. Please come to my house and I will sit with you amongst my friends so you can experience our rich culture.

[@angrybritches1854]

I will come to your house.

[@HB-md8ly]

excellent x

[@pilpauk6168]

This lady hit where it's most painful! Yes the African diaspora is divided. I am, myself African. You ask a fellow countryman how you should start your life to be less dependent. The response? They usually ask you why you are rushing! Terrible response! You have no time to waste in North America or Europe. Every minute you waste will inflict you a damage worth 1000 dollars or more. I am sure that many people in this audience occupy, six years later, the highest positions in their career either in Africa or in international institutions/companies. My question is: They listened, did they hear anything? Six years later, nothing the situation is not better. Yeah, the African diaspora should wake up right now!

[@angrybritches1854]

Ghana's Year of Return brought in billions of dollars into their economy. It's a start. I honestly do believe the African diaspora are key in Africa healing, but African countries should have united by now. At least Ghana, Nigeria, Botswana, Gambia, Rwanda, & Ethiopia. The West would be terrified.

[@briancasa1054]

There is a lot of many to be made in Africa n Africans would rather welcome there brother m sisters back home to teach them new things!!

[@missymaisie7761]

Long may the African continent survive, but in a good and honest way.

[@RRHenry85]

the next african/black leader that promotes her ideas will go out like all the others that came before. see Thomas Sankara

[@Twinklestar132]

you're right. it's a threat to them

[@obafemiajibola4755]

“It’e better to die a hero than live ling enough to see yourself become the villain.”

[@thebridge5483]

DIAR that's why if you hear the message we all need to put our voices together and push for it. It's easy to take out one sankara but harder to take out 500 million sankara

[@thembinkosisithole2053]

It will be something worth dying for.

[@nkrumahsfootstepz2.0bibini36]

@@thebridge5483 yep

[@Afro_Prepper]

Be wary of the "other" who talks badly to you about your brother.

[@taq1238]

YES!!!! Especially in social media. Seeds of division are planted here by people pretending to be us.

[@syedmaricar9946]

Improve Family life. Don't imitate others.

[@chimakalu41]

9:38 that would be something a United Africa representation African Union at the United Nations Representing Africa on the world stage.

[@elamac5628]

It's happening in the USA with the category of Hispanic

[@prometheus200]

For me it’s not about the ownership of property but a collective identity assimilation. Tht crip pr blood in south central LA is banging for the same reason as a tht street gangster in Pretoria. We have the same pain and need the same gain, so let’s come to the table and see how we can secure this gain with utmost dignity and understanding

[@pearlmatlhodi4094]

Coloured people do have a culture

[@thinadlamini4671]

They are the most marginalized groups of people in South Africa which is sickening.

[@tahliah6691]

Coloured people!?

[@lf1496]

@@thinadlamini4671 colored people?

[@angrybritches1854]

@@tahliah6691 It's a South African thing.

[@angrybritches1854]

@@tahliah6691 It's a South African thing.

[@Sorenzo]

There's a Japanese joke about life boats as well... I forgot most of them, but the captain tells the Germans "It is the rule that you must go to the life boats."

[@tamaduni]

Africa s GDP will be 30 trillion USD ...in 2050 ....Africa has some of the oldest civilizations in the world ...we are not going anywhere

[@chimakalu41]

4:00 lol She has finished us in Nigeria

[@TeshaleBlack]

Let's get to know each other

[@BaldwinBlue989]

But I agree with her.

[@hezekiahlucy4900]

It sounds so Nigerian to enter into something only if there is something to gain. Up Nija

[@chimakalu41]

17:25 I love this lady. I would definitely take her As a wife if she was single.

[@eappea9109]

First Church Truth of God broadcast 1512-1513 April 4th, 2021 Sunday evening

[@valery4realestate]

I have experienced some negative comments from African people. There is division.

[@abiabi521]

Can someone interpret the title Madiba for me please.

[@africanandproud6792]

I am from South Africa but i don't know.

[@zalishaabdool6671]

A SOBER MESSAGE!!!...TO TO COME ALIVE!!!... AS A PEOPLE!!!>>>>>>>>> {EVERYBODY}....Using Africa As An Example!!! A Other Stories But? The... One About The Ship... Hah... Is... About Getting The Job Done!!! A Great Sense Of Humor Folds In In The Stories You Told!!!...Wonderful Wonderful Indeed!!!... You Are A Great Story Teller!!!... {THANKS FOR...THIS AMAZING!!... {AMAZING STORY...{INDEED!!!}

[@chriswatson1698]

How can modern governments, corrupt or otherwise, provide education, health care and jobs, for all their citizens when Africans persist in multiplying at the rate that they do? Get your fertility down to replacement level. The idea that population and the economy can increase perpetually, is a fairy tale.

[@chimakalu41]

15:04 This woman knows what JJC means.lol.look out o!

[@BaldwinBlue989]

Shell financed this.

[@angrybritches1854]

Her speech?

[@kevinrobinson1357]

Which Diaspora? The true one in the Western Hemisphere, or the one African emigrants call themselves?

[@bobbye.wright4424]

Kevin Robinson the descendants of enslaved africans brought to the americas in the 1500s to the 1800s

[@hephzibahbradshaw9509]

It is written in THE Bible that the poor will always be with us. POOR has many meaning. YAD HAI WAW HAI OUR CREATOR, OUR FATHER OF YISRAEL OUR SOON COMING KING YAD HAI WAW HAI AND HIS 144,000 IS THE ONLY TRUE FORCE THAT UNITES. ALL ELSE IS FALSE. HIS SON YAD HAI WAW HAI OSHEA /SALVATION TO WHOM ALL POWER IN HEAVEN AND EARTH IS GIVEN. REVELATION 21. HIS SPIRIT YAD HAI WAW HAI DIVINE SPIRIT OF LOVE. HE WHO HOVERS OVER THE WATER IS HOVERING OVER THE RIGHTEOUS. PSALM 91 YADAH, YADAH TO YAD HAI WAW HAI. THE DIVISION WILL ALWAYS BE. THOSE WHO SERVE THE ALMIGHTY YAD HAI WAW HAI. THOSE WHO SERVE THE WORLD SYSTEM.

[@victoriaz4790]

What truly unites us WE ALL HUMANS, before any other description. I see this concept being better beginning for equality and end of racism than any other. I sure wish for the day when racism will be only word in history.

[@kinglewis5216]

+Victoria K you nee to tell your people that cause thats where the problems lie let african people deal with african people issues

[@Twinklestar132]

just stop. People in the Black diaspora have many issues amongst us. we new to focus on our own issues

[@WilsonianGarveyite]

Typical european regurgitation. You don't agree until it benefits you. No thank you.

[@TheGreatOne602]

Green Greener knowledge falls deaf to the ears of an ignorant man such as yourself once you learn the truth you wouldn't make dumb statements. yes you are African and we are oppressed Hebrews in America but our 400 years is almost up then watch how many African's gonna want to be "brothers" then smh enjoy your rich land that you don't own or control smart guy.

[@Omega1st]

Green Greener, you hate the idea that African Americans would embrace Self Determination, and Unite with other Africans don't you ?

[@BaldwinBlue989]

Shell is problematic.

[@Ally6161]

I don't know she didn't refer to Obama as Kenyan American? We all appreciate that unlike her kind, #justsaying

[@tahliah6691]

True he is Kenyan American

[@tahliah6691]

Proud Seeker his country of origin is specific..... Kenya.... you are normally the same origin as your father..... which is Kenyan.....

[@angrybritches1854]

Her kind?