When Africans say “Africa is the future”, it is not just words & fantasy, rather a destiny manifested thru the will and determination of everyday people determined to seek opportunity where government & leaders have failed.  From films, to music,to fashion, to finance, to architecture, to picking up the pieces from war & giving hope for the future to child soldiers & survivors of rape, to creating a future for an automobile industry with the made in Africa label, to a clean energy environmentally conscious Africa; Africans are in the forefront & are gaining recognition for a new Africa that is blazing trails & making its mark on what Africa’s future will be!  Below are some shining examples of this movement of forward thinking Africans, using the entrepreneurial spirit as the catalyst to lift up the continent from centuries of darkness & despair.

William Kamkwamba Helps African Poverty With A Homemade Windmill

Nigeria’s Nollywood produces more films than U.S.A

http://www.uis.unesco.org/ev.php?ID=7650_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC

Jelani Aliyu -Nigerian car designer- featured as GM’s Next
“We must never underestimate the power of the human determination & the human imagination : Nothing is Impossible!”

Africa’s Fashion Industry rises to a multi-billion dollar industry

DAVID ADJAYE -Ghanaian architect designing globally & attaining global recognition
A starchitect-in-the-making brings his love of light–and a social conscience–to London, Moscow, and the National Mall in D.C. Let’s say we gathered the world’s top architects and played a game of “Which of these is not like the others?” David Adjaye, one of the newest members of that club, would stand out. Because at 43 years old, he is so young. Architecture today is an old man’s field. It is not like literature or film or technology, where twenty- and thirty-somethings regularly burst into the elite. You do your time. You build a few small things, then bigger ones. If you’re lucky, when everyone else is ready for AARP membership, you reach the top of the field and stay there until you die. And then there is Adjaye, who has earned praise for designing Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art as well as homes for celebrities such as Ewan McGregor and artists such as Jake Chapman. This fall, his Moscow School of Management complex will open on the outskirts of the Russian capital. And this past spring, he won the most prestigious commission of his career, beating out the likes of Henry Cobb (age 83), Norman Foster (74), Moshe Safdie (71), and Elizabeth Diller (just 55), to design the $500 million National Museum of African-American History and Culture, in Washington, D.C.
Adjaye has eschewed a signature style. “What’s the point of building if you’re just doing the same thing over and over again?” he says. “That would kill me.” His buildings combine modernist lines with radically divergent inspirations — the Moscow School re-interprets Russia’s traditional onion domes, while his D.C. museum will echo a Yoruba sculpture. And more than any other top-tier architect, he has sought variety in his projects. “I’m totally into architecture for all strata of society,” he says. “High design should not just be for rich people.”
http://www.fastcompany.com/design/2009/featured-story-david-adjaye?partner=mod

Kimmie Weeks: Liberia’s young hero

Kwaku Akyeampong from Ghana known as the ‘Barack Obama of Project and Earned Value Management

Blk Jks- Showing the world that Africans Rock

Blitz the Ambassador bringing responsibility & consciousness from Ghana to a worldwide audience in the name of hip-hop

Nneka, one of the only young female African musicians gaining global recognition while calling for Africa to wake up , stand up & Rise!

Africa is the Future, Africa Stand Up!