Unleashing African potential from an African youth perspective: Taleni Shimhopileni at TEDxWindhoek

Taleni Shimhopileni is a 23 year old Namibian who is passionate about Africa's rising glory, formal education in the 21st Century and Leadership for and within the African continent.

Selected by Google as one of their Young and Brightest Minds in 2011, she has published poetry and article pieces, participated in community development projects, adjudicated (judged) university debate championships including the World Universities Debate Championships.

She is known as a leader amongst her peers and believes the youth of Africa, have begun and will continue the inevitable rise of Africa's true, uncompromised glory.

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