Are
you a misfit? Great, you’ll fit right in!
Emeka
Okafor challenges TEDxEuston to change the world.
At
TEDxEuston in 2013, leading African blogger and entrepreneur Emeka Okafor urged
Africans to challenge the status quo. In his TEDxEuston talk
entitled, ‘The Crazy Ones’ Emeka – creator of Timbuktu
Chronicles and Africa
Unchained alluded to the 1997 Apple “Think Differently” advertising
campaign, and reminded us that it is often the ‘misfits’ and the crazy ones who
are the people that change the world.
Emeka
Okafor shared with the audience how as director of TED Global in Arusha,
Tanzania in 2007, he noticed how everyone at that event had a new and unique
way of thinking for Africa. They all shared ‘the DNA of getting
things done’, he said. And he encouraged the TEDxEuston audience to
do the same.
Emeka
claims that the people who start tinkering are often the ones who soon develop
the prototypes. In ‘The Crazy Ones’ talk, at TEDxEuston’s Ripple
Effect-themed conference, Emeka alluded to one young boy who displayed at Maker Faire
Africa his own creation of taking discarded syringes and
created excavator toys. Here’s more about this young inventor’s
story here:
Emeka
encourages us all to be part of the ‘problem-solving society’. He
says that there needs to be a space, an environment where like-minded
innovators, doers and problem-solvers can come together and encourage one
another.
We
at TEDxEuston couldn’t agree more. So we want to encourage you to do
two things:
1) Listen
to Emeka’s full talk here
You’ll
be sure to find like-minded creators, innovators and problem-solvers who are
determined to birth solutions, develop clear visions and create new concepts
which can only harness the strength and potency of Africa. In short – at
TEDxEuston Salon you’ll most likely find the crazy ones, the misfits, the ones
who are likely to change the world – for better!
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