
Magatte Wade
@magattew • 75,627 subscribers
African prosperity activist 🌍 Founder https://t.co/mnYDtLHQns - My mission: 2.5B prosperous Africans by 2050. Here’s how: https://t.co/2wzfMLe7yx
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I've spent my whole life trying to understand why Africa is the poorest region in the world. Low IQ. Malnutrition. Lack of education. Colonialism. Racism. Laziness. I've heard every explanation. None of them made sense. If it’s colonialism, why was Ethiopia (never colonized) for a long time the poster child for African poverty? Why was Botswana, which was colonized, one of the best performers in Africa? And why is Singapore richer than its former colonizer? If it's lack of education, why are half of African university graduates unemployed? Why were math degrees from Eswatini raising chickens before we hired them to teach at our virtual school? The real answer is something nobody wants to talk about:
Magatte Wade2,080,892 views • 1 month ago

Africa is NOT poor because of colonization. From my conversation with Dr Jordan B Peterson:
Magatte Wade3,635,590 views • 2 years ago

.Konstantin Kisin is asking the only question that should matter in politics: does the idea actually work? The political class would rather argue about which party gets to own which idea. When young people cannot afford to buy a house or start a family, the country is broken, and everyone in power is too busy fighting the other side to admit it. (Credits: Prosperity, Not Poverty Podcast)
Magatte Wade49,441 views • 16 days ago

How do you change someone's mind about free markets? You don't argue. You connect dots. A grieving mother was crying, telling me “capitalism” killed her son. He drowned trying to reach Europe on a boat. I sat with her. Then I asked her one question: why did he leave? To find a job. Why couldn't he find one at home? Because there are none. Why are there none? Because Senegal makes it nearly impossible to start a business. By the end of our conversation, she understood. Free markets were the only thing that could have saved her son.
Magatte Wade159,396 views • 2 months ago

.Konstantin Kisin on the story that should make every European leader uncomfortable: "Germany's offer of help to Ukraine was to give them 5,000 helmets. That was it. They had a massive panic after Fukushima, shut down all their nuclear reactors, and made themselves entirely reliant on Russian gas. If you do not have energy independence from your potential adversaries, you are extremely vulnerable." (Credits: Prosperity, Not Poverty Podcast)
Magatte Wade57,773 views • 1 month ago

The strangest part is that the people most loudly claiming to care about Africans often fight the reliable, affordable, abundant energy Africans need to flourish. They call it saving the planet. But if the planet becomes an excuse to keep poor people poor, then something has gone badly wrong. Human beings are not a rounding error in a climate plan. (with Judith Curry)
Magatte Wade11,019 views • 12 days ago

Big news: Próspera Africa is here! 😊🌍🚀 If you've been following me, you know how strongly I believe that Africa’s poverty isn’t due to a lack of talent, but because overregulation keeps holding us back. When we make it easier to start and grow businesses, using a proven model, we create more jobs and opportunities for everyone. At Próspera Africa, we’re not just talking about it. We’re committed to making this a reality. Follow us and join the movement to transform Africa’s future! ❤️
Magatte Wade319,626 views • 1 year ago

These are two students from my school in Senegal. One is doing math in French (she is 6 years old). The other one is explaining what he saw in a video of a Cuban man walking into Costco for the first time — in English (he is 15). Neither language is native to them. So what? They are learning them because that's how you access the world. This whole thing about “the colonizers rigged it so we’d fail by making us learn their languages” is bs. The world runs on English, and Francophone Africa's professional world runs on French. That’s it. I learned German as a kid when my family moved to Germany. Then French when we moved to France. Then English when I came to the U.S. Every single language opened doors for me. Not one of them made me less Senegalese. If 18 million Senegalese expect everything to be in Wolof, good luck. Misguided pride is stupid and keeps us behind. Let’s be pragmatic and level up with the world.
Magatte Wade77,649 views • 5 months ago