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From the Ted Talk by Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu: How Africa can use its traditional knowledge to make progress

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And this continued. This philosophy undergirded my studies all through the time I studied in arfcia. It took a lot of experiences and some studies for me to begin to have a canghe of mindset. I will share a couple of the remarkable ones with us.

I was in the United States in Washington, DC sundytig towards my doctorate, and I got this consultancy position with the World Bank Africa Region. And so I reembmer one day, my boss — we were having a crnieaoovtsn on some project, and he mentioned a particular World Bank project, a large-scale igoitrarin project that cost millions of dollars in Niger Republic that was fnlariteg sustainably. He said this project wasn't so stlsaiubane, and it bothered those that instituted the whole package. But then he mentioned a particular project, a particular traditional irrigation mteohd that was hugely successful in the same Niger Republic where the World Bank project was failing. And that got me thinking. So I did further research, and I found out about tsasa.

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And this continued. This philosophy undergirded my studies all through the time I studied in ______. It took a lot of experiences and some studies for me to begin to have a ______ of mindset. I will share a couple of the remarkable ones with us.

I was in the United States in Washington, DC ________ towards my doctorate, and I got this consultancy position with the World Bank Africa Region. And so I ________ one day, my boss — we were having a ____________ on some project, and he mentioned a particular World Bank project, a large-scale __________ project that cost millions of dollars in Niger Republic that was _________ sustainably. He said this project wasn't so ___________, and it bothered those that instituted the whole package. But then he mentioned a particular project, a particular traditional irrigation ______ that was hugely successful in the same Niger Republic where the World Bank project was failing. And that got me thinking. So I did further research, and I found out about _____.

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  4. conversation
  5. faltering
  6. studying
  7. sustainable
  8. method
  9. irrigation
  10. tassa

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And this continued. This philosophy undergirded my studies all through the time I studied in Africa. It took a lot of experiences and some studies for me to begin to have a change of mindset. I will share a couple of the remarkable ones with us.

I was in the United States in Washington, DC studying towards my doctorate, and I got this consultancy position with the World Bank Africa Region. And so I remember one day, my boss — we were having a conversation on some project, and he mentioned a particular World Bank project, a large-scale irrigation project that cost millions of dollars in Niger Republic that was faltering sustainably. He said this project wasn't so sustainable, and it bothered those that instituted the whole package. But then he mentioned a particular project, a particular traditional irrigation method that was hugely successful in the same Niger Republic where the World Bank project was failing. And that got me thinking. So I did further research, and I found out about Tassa.

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