I dont consider myself a journalist. Nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Aliko dangote is widely known to be the wealthiest man in africa. So is that a title you are proud to have . Or is that one where you get so many people calling you for money that you wish you were not the wealthiest man in africa . Aliko first of all, thank you very much, david. It is great to be here and seeing you today. Well, you know, when they call you the wealthiest person in africa, it comes with a lot of baggage. Of course, there are so many demands. People come up with so many different demands. But it is good because i like to give back to the society. David so right now, you are involved in many philanthropic endeavors. Lets go through some of them before we go to how you made all of this money. Recently, you
David people would not recognize me if my tie was fixed. Leave it this way. All right. David i do not consider myself a journalist. Nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of an interviewer where though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Aliko dangote is known to be the wealthiest man in africa. Is that a title you are proud to have or one where you get people calling you for money, you wish you were not the wealthiest man in africa . Aliko first of all, thank you very much. It is great to be here. When they call me the wealthiest person in africa, it comes with a lot of baggage. There are a lot of demands. People come up with different demands. It is good because i like to give back to the society. David you are involved in many philanthropic endeavors in africa and elsewhere. Lets go through some of them before you actually made all of this money. Recently, you had
Of todays lecture, to encourage you to pretend as if you are in church and to move in, scoot in , if you would, to give folks who are, not necessarily late arriving, but people who are fashionably on time room to sit. I should say that this answers an ageold question for me. Which is, if there is anything that can depress the turnout for a lecture sponsored or cosponsored by the center of president ial history, i think we have the answer. Which is no. It was raining cats and dogs a few minutes ago. And i wondered, will there be people there . And sure enough, here you are. I tip my cap to all of you, you are in for a treat this evening. Thanks again for coming. My name is andy graybill. I am the director of the Clement Center for southwest studies. I would like to thank the many people who helped make this evening possible. Starting with our friends for whom we are cosponsoring tonights event. Thanks to jeff, who directs the cph. Especially bono spitz, who along for those people who ha
A new speculation surrounds the sudden death of president peregrine season and as mexicos score on a virus death toll hits 15000 we visit an i. C. U. Where doctors are working hard to save lives. Thank you for joining us just 24 hours after george floyd was laid to rest his brother has testified before a congressional hearing the committee is looking at racial inequality and Police Violence in the United States colonus floyd called his brothers death a modern day lynching in broad daylight and politicians to stop the pain costs are reports from washington. Illinois cloyd travel directly from his brothers funeral in houston to the u. S. Capitol george call for help and he was ignored please listen to the crowd ill make it to you now to the cause of our family and the calls ringing out the streets across the world people of all backgrounds genders and race have come together to demand change House Democrats have proposed sweeping legislation to Reform Police departments in the wake of Ge
Figures and dozens are feared dead and many more are missing as flood sweep away files and of holmes in southeast china. Thank you very much for joining us the World Health Organization has warned that covert 1000 infections are accelerating in parts of africa raising concerns about how developing nations will cope with the pandemic w. H. O. Say 75 percent of the continents 2000 confirmed cases 200000 that is confirmed cases had been recorded in 10 countries a quarter of those are in south africa or with the western cape region including cape town the hardest hit the u. N. Agency says a lack of testing case remains a big problem across africa well joining us now is dr michelle yahoos emerging. Operations manager for the weald Health Organization in africa is via skype from brazzaville in congo thank you very much for being with us miss a ow the number of covered 1000 cases in africa are now over 200000 this acceleration in cases is it something that you would have dissipated and what f