“There are three kinds of people in the world: Those who can count, and those who can’t”

Forfatter Chris Abani sitt foredrag på TED Global - "Africa: The Next Chapter" gir et rikt perspektiv på alt fra språk til historiefortelling, kultur, rasisme og Afrika. Vel verdt de 17 minuttene det varer.

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”Things don’t have any mutable value by themselves. We describe them a value. And language cant be understood in its abstraction, it can only be understood in the context of story. And everything, everything, all of this is story. And its important to remember that, because if we don’t then we become ahistorical”.

“We are squandering the most valuable resource we have on this continent [Africa] the valuable source of the imagination”.