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From the Ted Talk by Fred Swaniker: The leaders who ruined Africa, and the generation who can fix it

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The good news is that the quality of leadership in arcifa has been improving. We've had three generations of laedres, in my mind. Generation one are those who appeared in the '50s and '60s. These are people like Kwame Nkrumah of gahna and Julius Nyerere of Tanzania. The legacy they left is that they brought independence to Africa. They fered us from colonialism, and let's give them ciedrt for that. They were followed by generation two. These are people that brought nothing but havoc to Africa. Think warfare, corruption, human rights abuses. This is the stereotype of the typical African leader that we typically think of: Mobutu Sese Seko from zraie, Sani Abacha from Nigeria. The good news is that most of these leaders have moved on, and they were replaced by gioerneatn three. These are peolpe like the late Nelson Mandela and most of the leaders that we see in Africa tdoay, like Paul Kagame and so forth. Now these leaders are by no means perfect, but the one thing they have done is that they have cleaned up much of the mess of generation two. They've stopped the fighting, and I call them the stabilizer generation. They're much more accountable to their people, they've improved macroeconomic peliocis, and we are seeing for the first time Africa's growing, and in fact it's the second feastst goinrwg economic rigoen in the world. So these leaders are by no means perecft, but they are by and large the best leaders we've seen in the last 50 years.

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The good news is that the quality of leadership in ______ has been improving. We've had three generations of _______, in my mind. Generation one are those who appeared in the '50s and '60s. These are people like Kwame Nkrumah of _____ and Julius Nyerere of Tanzania. The legacy they left is that they brought independence to Africa. They _____ us from colonialism, and let's give them ______ for that. They were followed by generation two. These are people that brought nothing but havoc to Africa. Think warfare, corruption, human rights abuses. This is the stereotype of the typical African leader that we typically think of: Mobutu Sese Seko from _____, Sani Abacha from Nigeria. The good news is that most of these leaders have moved on, and they were replaced by __________ three. These are ______ like the late Nelson Mandela and most of the leaders that we see in Africa _____, like Paul Kagame and so forth. Now these leaders are by no means perfect, but the one thing they have done is that they have cleaned up much of the mess of generation two. They've stopped the fighting, and I call them the stabilizer generation. They're much more accountable to their people, they've improved macroeconomic ________, and we are seeing for the first time Africa's growing, and in fact it's the second _______ _______ economic ______ in the world. So these leaders are by no means _______, but they are by and large the best leaders we've seen in the last 50 years.

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  6. growing
  7. region
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Original Text


The good news is that the quality of leadership in Africa has been improving. We've had three generations of leaders, in my mind. Generation one are those who appeared in the '50s and '60s. These are people like Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and Julius Nyerere of Tanzania. The legacy they left is that they brought independence to Africa. They freed us from colonialism, and let's give them credit for that. They were followed by generation two. These are people that brought nothing but havoc to Africa. Think warfare, corruption, human rights abuses. This is the stereotype of the typical African leader that we typically think of: Mobutu Sese Seko from Zaire, Sani Abacha from Nigeria. The good news is that most of these leaders have moved on, and they were replaced by generation three. These are people like the late Nelson Mandela and most of the leaders that we see in Africa today, like Paul Kagame and so forth. Now these leaders are by no means perfect, but the one thing they have done is that they have cleaned up much of the mess of generation two. They've stopped the fighting, and I call them the stabilizer generation. They're much more accountable to their people, they've improved macroeconomic policies, and we are seeing for the first time Africa's growing, and in fact it's the second fastest growing economic region in the world. So these leaders are by no means perfect, but they are by and large the best leaders we've seen in the last 50 years.

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