A student-driven platform championing African development. Hosted by @cas_soas #SOASADF19
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We’re building a team to help advance the conversation on Nigeria’s place in the World.
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Here, Azamati - who has 0% vision - was racially abused, violently removed from the Oxford Union Chambers and subsequently found guilty at disciplinary process with his membership suspended. oxforduniversityafricasociet…
An injury to one is an injury to all. We stand with Azamati to protest the unjust and gross misconduct of the @OxfordUnion.We will not be silent. We will not turn a blind eye. We will be seen. We will be heard. @BBCNews @guardian @TheOxStu #oxfordunionexclusion #unfairOxfordUnion
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The cost of corruption comes in bodies, like the body of the mother who cannot access maternal services- Amina J Mohammed. A WORD! #SOASADF19
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They used to tell us as children you could take a hovercraft on Lake Chad to England because it was so big. Today, due to climate change, you could barely take a canoe across it. - @AminaJMohammed #SOASADF19
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“If African governments are not investing in developing and building capacity, then we will still be having these same conversations about these same problems years from now” - Carol Ibe #SOASADF19
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“More food is lost in the fields of Africa, post harvest, than the world food programme provides as food aid” - Amir Abdulla on the need to invest in small holder farmers (both men and women) #SOASADF19
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“Never play a game at all, whatever the stakes are, if you do not know the rules of the game” - Chef Kabui on unequal power relations that always put African countries at a disadvantage #SOASADF19
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“Nigeria’s tertiary education system is not preparing us adequately to compete globally” - Carol Ibe #SOASADF19
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“The #ArewaMeToo movement deserves a huge credit,” says Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, @AminaJMohammed, at #SOASADF19. This is for you @Ice131Queen, @fatousky, @FakhuusHashim, and all the voices of conscience standing up to violence against women and children. 🙏
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“More food is lost in Africa than we produce as aid,” says Amir Abdulla, Deputy Executive Director of the World Food Programme at the ongoing #SOASADF19.
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Had a lot fun today on a great panel talking Growing Africa at University of London’s @SOASADF #SOASADF19
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Yup.. African led strategic communication about africa’s leadership in development.. (research)! – at Manhattan, NY
"The narratives coming from the Sahel should be from us. There's no reason that we can't be the ones telling our narratives.
We don't have lesser brain or a lesser pain to tell our stories."
- @AminaJMohammed
#SOASADF19
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@AminaJMohammed braces the @SOASADF with her grace. I’m hyperventilating because I Stan very deeply #SOASADF19
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On the recent Nigerian elections, @AminaJMohammed is impressed with the progress that has been made, despite it not being perfect. She referred to the success of the “Not too young to run” campaign which resulted in the age threshold being lowered.
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@AminaJMohammed at the @SOASADF.
#SOASADF19 ending with arguably the biggest African name in Development
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A keynote speech from the Deputy Exec of the World Food Programme, @AmirMAbdulla. He has started off with remembrance of our friends and colleagues lost in the Christchurch terrorist attack and the Ethiopian Airlines crash last week. #SOASADF19
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For countries to grow and benefit from industrialisation, there is a need to ensure we have higher levels of literacy and ELECTRICITY.- Yinka (we are looking at you Nigeria👀) #SOASADF19
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On small holder farmers, the deputy executive director of the WFP says, according to extensive research carried out by his agency, if women had access to productive resources as men did, 102 million people would be lifted from poverty in Africa. @SOASADF #SOASADF19