realistic or deluded? akinwumi adesina, welcome to hardtalk. it s good to see you, stephen. it s great to have you here. you need the world to believe in a bright african future. how is that going right now? it s going pretty well. if you take a look at the african economic outlook we had from the african development bank, the gdp growth rate, gdp growth rates last year was 3.1%. this year, it s 3.7%. and next year, it s going to be 4.3%. now, why that is important is that that is well above the global average. you still have ten out of the 20 fastest growing economies in the world being in africa. yeah, it s not quite as good as it sounds because you have fast rising populations across africa. yes, but when you have a lot of global shocks like we have, increasing real interest rates, and you have also a lot of geopolitical risks, you have a lot of inflation all around the world, africa still has its head above the water. yeah, i agree with you that in terms of the population
Tavis please welcome at pbs. Org. Back to this program. Please welcome wole soyinka back to the program. He is now a president a professor in residence, and he is the author of a new text, of africa. Thank you very much. Tavis you were tired of this nonsense that africans are inferior in a variety of ways. Are we beyond that . I think it is an exaggeration to say that is why i wrote it. And number of reasons. It was to express my astonishment. It was totally mine blowing. I just mention that as one of the in ciliary one of the ancillary. I find a lot of crises tend to generate from east to west and cristian and islam. And there are what i call the invisible religions. Lessons to teach the world. Tavis how do this to stand in their version religions play themselves out . Yes, a very good question. Look at somalia. Look at more tanya. And more tanya look at another country. We would have thought africa is immune. In many ways, african religions, the world views, the perceptions have mana
Back to this program. Please welcome wole soyinka back to the program. He is now a president a professor in residence, and he is the author of a new text, of africa. Thank you very much. Tavis you were tired of this nonsense that africans are inferior in a variety of ways. Are we beyond that . I think it is an exaggeration to say that is why i wrote it. And number of reasons. It was to express my astonishment. It was totally mine blowing. I just mention that as one of the in ciliary one of the ancillary. I find a lot of crises tend to generate from east to west and cristian and islam. And there are what i call the invisible religions. Lessons to teach the world. Tavis how do this to stand in their version religions play themselves out . Yes, a very good question. Look at somalia. Look at more tanya. And more tanya look at another country. We would have thought africa is immune. In many ways, african religions, the world views, the perceptions have managed. The extremism in parts of the
48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. Booktv. Org. The 78th annual anisfieldwolf book awards that recognized books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures is next on booktv. This is about an hour, 40 minutes. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. Good evening. You know, i love coming to cleveland for this annual event. I look forward to it, i enjoy every minute of it. , and it just grows and grouse. Thank you for your loyalty grows. Thank you for your loyalty, thank you for your support, and thank you for all your enthusiasm. Give it up to yourselves for being such a great audience. Ms. [applause] you know, every time i think about this prize, i think a poet, a poet in the 1930s who happened to be a white woman endows one of the first, certainly, if not the first prizes in celebration of what today we would call excellence and diversity. I mean, what an
Then finally, when i was 25, i took my fathers name. Cspan where did you get the name skippy . Guest from the time i was born the day i was born, my uncle raymond called me skipper, and then it became skippy. We were piedmonts on the river piedmont, West Virginia, is on the Potomac River, two hours west of washington, so theres a whole marine mentality there, and so i became the skipper. Cspan before we go back and talk about the past, what are you doing now . Guest im the chairman of afroamerican studies at harvard and a professor of english. Cspan and how long have you been doing that . Guest this is the beginning of my fourth year. Cspan you write to your daughters in the beginning and you suggest that, eventually, after going through all the different names, they may get back someday to calling people of africanamerican descent or whatever colored. Do you really think so . Guest yeah, it could well be. I mean, Stranger Things have happened. You see, most people dont realize that we