When Nina Simone sang Young, gifted and black, she might have had Ndidi Nwuneli in mind: she has a degree from Harvard and was named by Forbes as one of the 20 Youngest Power Women in Africa. Yet guiding principle seems to be; ‘Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.' On a trip to Guatemela as a student, she found herself wondering why this supposedly very poor country was ‘so much more advanced than so many African countries? Why? What is the reason?” She believed four key principles were at work in Guatemala: leadership, effectiveness, accountability and professionalism. This led to her quitting a high profile job in the US and returning to Nigeria to found a non-profit organization dedicated to breeding an “army of committed change agents”, young people, business owners and social entrepreneurs who care about making a difference. Her latest venture, which she shared with passion at the TEDxEuston 2012 is an agribusiness and agro-processing company which aims at displacing imports with locally sourced, high quality substitutes. Her talk challenges the conventional wisdom of accepting the status quo.
Watch her brilliant talk
here.
