i know some of you think that you're going to be rock stars i'm a rockstar engineer i'm a rockstar professor i'm a managing director i'm a journalist superstar journalist you are a superstar nothing and two africa is a superstar economy you will never be respected as an african until the african continent has done well as a continent and thank you so very much there's no people there's no leader in africa right now who's the caliber of gaddafi or caliber of kamikuroma we have running around as leaders intellectually i mean no one becky was almost there but not really kamehameha ben bella what are you calling kulama say we as ghanaians are prepared to surrender our sovereignty in pato in total in pursuit of african unity the independence of ghana is meaningless unless it is linked to the independence of the rest of the african continent ben bella what did he say let us die a little so that rhodesia can be free let us die a little so that south africa can be free these were visionaries so what i'm emphasizing is that their vision was way ahead of his time you know there was a big debate between kruma and nieri in 63. krum would say guys let's move very quickly and unite in the one block if you get used to being a president you will notice linguist office let's move quickly before you become too comfortable in your little palace as a president and you are saying no no no let's do it break by brick gradually slowly and then we'll get there and you really want the debate but guess what we lost the african [Music] integration because everyone now wants to be president they will never give up kuma gaddafi were ready to surrender individual presidency for the collective african presidency so yes they made their own mistakes but the vision of integration was there what we need are african leaders who understand that there's more to be gained by coming together than that which is lost traditional knowledge systems you know we will address that matter if we start with ourselves before we engage china before we engage the russians before engage the americans we will say we want a space program what we know about species africans what are our views about space what are our values what does ubuntu say what is our knowledge system or indigenous knowledge system when you are proactive when you start with thyself know thy self you'll be able to address that matter and actually leverage your own wisdom our problem is that we don't study with ourselves we start with china we start with india we start with america and europe we never say i'm an african what is my belief system i'm an african what do i know about space i'm an african what are my views about space what is the history in my continent in terms of understanding space so very important point you are raising and in my framework we'll solve it because we'll start with ourselves our history our culture our you know as africans sometimes we undervalue ourselves we think we can learn from singapore from malaysia from china we can also learn from ourselves ubuntu i am because we are we are because i am a person is a person because of other people they don't have it in china they don't have it in america not in japan but we have it collective success is more important than individual success i am because we are we are because i am lots of wisdom even when we devise and build our intelligent systems we must input ubuntu into our algorithms the americans can do it because they don't know what ubuntu is so when we do the programming with professor marwala we're going to be programming ubuntu into computers 4d 4d excellent 4d those 4ds are great let's use them and empower ourselves one thing i like from china by the way you know what he said i hope you are listening because of nuclear weapons because of the satellite program we are very confident we are bowling out of control because we have nuclear weapons they give us confidence we are rock stars because we have satellites you must understand this and you know what the americans are saying we must stop the spreading of nuclear weapons we must denuclearize do you know what happened in this country south africa i hope you know this we are moving towards 1990 the buas south african racist regime was working towards creating a nuclear weapon a nuclear bomb they were very close and when mandela and they were coming from prison they quickly destroyed the technology and gave it to israel they were comfortable with the racist south african regime only nuclear weapons but not comfortable with an african brother having nuclear weapons i hope you know that so i'm emphasizing that our brothers teach us a lot economic power also is linked to military power it gives you confidence i'm not pushing for nuclear weapons i'm pushing for satellite technology but you must understand that when you have a satellite when you have two bombs one settled two bombs the basis of deng shopping's revolution was strength it gives you confidence that no you know what uh if it comes to nuclear weapons uh we look at each other it's called mutually assured destruction when the africans have nuclear weapons no one will take us for granted because they look back no one will mess around the chinese because they've got nuclear weapons the russians have nuclear weapons the french do have them israel does have them so when you are powerful militarily you are respected but i'm emphasizing four days four days are important and i know that's what you you've spoken about them several times that's why i'm smiling you are very consistent mr fuji same culture china yes that's a good point india same culture yes the americans can you say the same they came from all over so it's a problem but not too big a problem remember the borders artificial borders do you know there are more swazi people in south africa than in swaziland is it is what in what's called the new name now there are more swarners in south africa than in bosquana so these borders are meaningless why swaziland is what why botswana yes there is a promoter but also the borders are artificial we can manage our cultural differences we can work together you know it's not impossible the germans and the french fought two wars the french hate the germans the british don't like germans but they're in the eu together with those businesses running away but what i'm saying is don't over emphasize these cultural differences others have been able to manage them and our borders are not out of our choice anyway they were created by the berlin conference in 1884. so yes there are challenges around cultural differences they are not impossible they can be managed and mitigated current exchanges there's always a benefit in terms of economies of scale if we add an african currency one currency surely we'll be able to extract better value if we're doing the deal with the rmb or the chinese currency as opposed to nigeria doing it rwanda zimbabwe so numbers make a difference one of the major lesson from china is a lot of people 1.
3 billion chinese working together economies of scale so whatever it is there's always a benefit in terms of economic skill look when i emphasize that we don't buy that reduce i'm overstating my case what i'm simply saying is that if there's going to be a bilateral deal between south africa and china it must be within the context of the african agenda we're doing this in south africa in keeping with agenda 2063 we're doing this as algeria because of that decision at the au we're doing this thing is zimbabwe because that's what commerce is about that's what the statute position is in other words when we relate bilaterally it must be informed by what is good for the region what is good for the continent the continent must be the starting point uh the au is weak yes but fix it i'm not glorifying the au i'm glorifying continental integration i told you kruma lost junior if groomer had won if gaddafi had won will be in a different space this creature called the au is a compromised arrangement it's a dysfunctional entity because kuruma lost but however let's start with the au the cfta the african framework and fix what is wrong with it but also we need leadership that's why i was very harsh on the african leader without leadership there will be no au but fix it don't abandon it technology has potential for abuse this is the thing about technology by the way any technology is a edged sword if you're not careful these dictators in africa will be using satellite technology to monitor you and crush you when you go on demonstration oppress you steal your votes during elections yes technology plus values is what would drive our continents technology on its own is not the answer it could be the problem it could be the issue social media can be anti-social the internet is supposed to connect us but it can also divide us there are trolls on the internet there's cyber security and insecurity so point taken that's why we need to start with the values start with what we want as africans so that our satellites will be used for development for economic development not to spy on citizens or to destroy them or to oppress them but the danger is there africa diaspora very important that's why i'm emphasizing pan-african buy-in can you imagine all those african-american scientists the african astronauts if they are also part of our agenda the caribbeans the africans in brazil in argentina beyond 1. 3 billion on the continent can you much the imagine the expertise the cash from oprah winfrey from michael if they were conscious michael jordan who's conscious obama who's conscious not these bankrupt ones we have they scope for buy-in and ownership if we work together as africans across the globe and the diaspora uh can give us an opportunity by the way i believe we can even move faster than china i said china was able to move 400 million people from poverty over 30 years can you imagine our strength now there's the ict revolution there's the fourth industrial revolution economies are globally connected if we get our act together as africans probably we could actually move faster in terms of profit alleviation than china because when they did it from 1958 1970 1978 to now these things were not there the internet was not there social media wasn't there right now all you need is a good brand and a computer and you can build an empire so i want us to learn from china china was poor like us china is now a rockstar economy it can be done let us learn from them and work with them to become superstars india technology transfer very important we don't want to assemble for example here we in south africa assemble mercedes-benz we assemble you know ford we assemble bm we don't want that design your own car build your own car buy your own car can you imagine if we have to produce one truck in africa in a designed inpu malang called the ubuntu [Music] and then at the au we decide that every government must buy two thousand already there's a market we said 1.
