Hi, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily, I'm Elise Hu, you're about to hear from Adeola Fabián, who is hilarious. She's a journalist and satirist who made her name by calling out corrupt African leaders in her Ted 20-20 talk. She makes the continent come alive for US challenges, stereotypes about Africa and its 54 countries and presses the case that talent from the continent should stay there to make it better.

What's up, people, first of all, I cannot believe I'm on TED talk. This is a big deal because right now everybody in my village is watching this. And so, of course, my bride price just went up. My name is I do a lot for you. I'm from Nigeria. I live in the US. I'm a journalist or a comedian or a satirist. Anything you want me to be, really. I'm every woman. It's all in me.

I host a YouTube show called Keeping It Real with Adeola Not. This show is a gentle, respectful and very blunt way of calling out corrupt African leaders. I basically keep it real with them, especially when the mess up, which is a lot of times if if any African official is watching me. By the way, I'm not talking about you, sir. I'm talking about your colleagues.

Yes. I do this because Africa has everything it needs to be great, you know, I grew up believing that Africa as a continent is a giant. We've got skills, intellectual's natural resources more than any other continent. Africa supplies thirty one percent of the world's gold, manganese and uranium, 57 percent of the world's diamonds and 13 percent of the world's oil. We have no reason to depend on aid or borrowing money from China of the World Bank. But without good leaders, we're like an eagle that has no idea it could fly, let alone South Africa is like a sleeping giant.

Now, the truth is, I'm trying to wake up this giant and that's why I did the dirty laundry of those in charge of the giant politicians, religious leaders. With huge respect, of course, because more than anything else, African leaders love to be respected. So I give it to them in doses on my show.

I know for them, I call them my uncles, my aunties, my fathers and the Lord. And then I insult them for insulting our intelligence.

And it's because we are tired of the hypocrisy and false promises. For example, the Nigerian president vowed to end medical tourism by fixing our dilapidated hospitals and building us new ones. But what did he do? He spent three months receiving treatment in London in twenty seventeen. We were without a president for three months. We were president for three months. So then it becomes my job to call out the president. With respect, of course, I said, Mr.

President, it's your girl and I will hire you till you have no shame. I forgot to add, sir. Sir, you have no shame at Barellan. You have no fear of God. Thirty five thousand Nigerian doctors are presently working in the US, the UK and Canada doing amazing things because in Nigeria they are no well paid. And then how do they have the necessary equipment to do the job of being a doctor? And this is happening in many African countries.

We have the capacity to fly, but sadly, a lot of African talent is flying straight out of Africa to other continents. For example, one Nigerian doctor operated on an unborn baby in Texas and not an Indian doctor discovered the neurological effects of concussions on athletes. And many countries have African athletes winning the gold medal for them. The interesting thing is we're waiting for God to fix Africa. Like for is not worth it for gold. I mean, just look at the president of Burundi.

He's jailing journalists and opposition members, but he declared a national day of prayer so that people could pray for God to fix the country.

And I'm like, shouldn't he be fixing the country? Oh, no, no, no, no, no. We want God to fix it. Do you see what I have to deal with? I'm telling you, Thunder is getting ready to heat this politician someday. We are better than this. I want our leaders to start taking responsibility and stop putting everything on God. God has given us everything we need. Let's use it. But here's the thing.

My favorite part of what I do is train Africans doing amazing work, ordinary people touching lives like Kenyan woman Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for standing up for human rights and planting a million trees. Also, a Zimbabwean woman doctor I trained who was married off at the age of 14 in exchange for a cow. Yet this woman thought herself to read and write and she ended up on Oprah's show off. I want to be on Oprah someday so that this woman has built schools for thousands of children in Zimbabwe.

Also, popular British architect David Adjaye has designed spectacular buildings around the world. And he's Ghanaian in times and in so we know that it has to be the gunya and all of lies. Witchey eight. They give him the inspiration to design. Oh, maybe it's the agenda of price because no one is better anyway. But that is what, given the inspiration to become the great man that is today. And while I have your attention, I have one more thing to say.

So please move closer. Okay, that's good. That's good. Don't get too close. That's good.

I don't like the way some of you portray Africa even not all of you. Just some of you. You especially. First of all, it's not a country. It's a continent. I do not know. Paul from Uganda. I don't know Rebecca from Zimbabwe. Nigeria, it's. Far from Zimbabwe, as New York is from France, and it's not a bunch of naked people in need of Western charity, you have it all wrong. Lions are not roaming our streets.

And I could go on, but you already know what I'm talking about.

So when I try to do my job trying to wake up the sleeping giant Africa so she could take her rightful place on the world's arena, you can do your best to please listen more listening to your African friends without a preconceived notion of what you think that they are going to say. Read African books.

Oh, my God, watch African movies, or at the very least learn some of the names of our fifty four beautiful countries. That's right. Fifty four babies. Five, four. All right, y'all. It's been real. And I'm keeping it right up in here until next time I see all this out. PR ex.