Thousands of brilliant African minds will converge at the National Theater in Accra, Ghana, for yet another intriguing conference and exchange program of TEDxAccra. The independently organized TED event provides a platform for African visionaries in various fields of endeavor to share their unique stories and perspectives on what it takes to shine like a gem in this competitive world.
This year’s program begins Tuesday 19 April with daily workshops and discussions leading to the all-day confab on Saturday, 23 April. This year’s theme is”Re-Think.” Events will be live streamed from the TedxAccra website.
First organized in 2009, TEDxAccra has convened annual gatherings in Ghana’s capital city since 2010. Past speakers have included activists, entrepreneurs, historians, scientists, explorers, technologists and artists, all sharing insights and ideas related to the Ghanaian business environment and that of the world as a whole.
Attendees for the 2016 edition will be able to get even more interactive by participating in a StoryCorps challenge. Organizers state:
We are asking you both locals and Ghanaians in diaspora to investigate into our priorities as a country by using the StoryCorps app to interview your friends and loved ones.
By sharing these stories with the TEDxAccra community, you are helping us spark a national movement to record and preserve meaningful conversations with one another that results in an ever-growing digital archive of the collective wisdom of humanity.
Here is a selection of some speakers for this year’s TEDxAccra conference:
Steven L. Reed is the first black mayor of Montgomery, Alabama. The state of Alabama…
Chef Tobias Dorzon, an ex-NFL player turned chef and restaurateur, has been selected Chef of…
Tamiah Brevard-Rodriguez welcomed her son in the passenger seat of her wife’s Maserati, then seamlessly…
An aspiring doctor, who nearly drowned after being pushed into a Louisiana lake, has indicated…
Oluwami (Wami) Dosunmu-Ogunbi is the first Black woman to get a PhD in robotics at…
A Boston man who was a beneficiary of a genetically modified kidney transplant from a…
Beverly Parks, the mother of the man suspected of lassoing a woman around the neck…
Rescue workers in South Africa successfully pulled a man from a collapsed building after being…
Basketball legend and billionaire business mogul Michael Jordan recently opened a third medical clinic in…
Authorities in Canada said they have launched an investigation after another trespasser attempted to gain…
Four-year-old Cartier McDaniel from Denver miraculously survived after his heart stopped beating for 19 hours.…
A 21-year-old engineering student, Ibukun Quadri, avoided jail time after racially abusing England striker Callum…
For the past seven years, Denise Campbell and her two daughters, Chantel and Charnel Johnson,…
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have touched down in Lagos, marking their arrival in…
Natiajah, a hairstylist, went viral after giving a free installation to a mother of four…