TEDx and Youth Engagement: Sudan Experience, Dr. A .F. A. Dafa-Alla

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Dr. A.F.A. Dafa-Alla

City College

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Since the introduction of *TEDx to Sudan in 2011, it has gotten lots of attention and engagement from believers of the power of ideas to transform communities. Sudanese in general welcomed TEDx and interacted positively with the international stage, based on number of attendees in thousands and the number of views on YouTube in hundred of thousands and in some cases over a million, especially youth who are eager and looking for opportunities to catch up with their peers in the world. starting from TEDx@Youth@Khartoum 2011, which was led by youth, organised by youth and hosted youth speakers from both gender, and discussed youth issues in their own language, to date, Sudanese youth are the majority of participants in these events. Issues vary from family issues to Education to Democracy to personal freedom to performances and arts were exhibited in a multidisciplinary manner which was unique to them in these events. Networks of students, volunteers, activists, artists, environmentalists and many more were formed out of these events. It became evident that the platform is an appropriate one for youth engagement and development. In this paper, As a founder of this movement in Sudan, I would like to give an overview of the past events that I was involved in, explain with examples how these events could empower Sudanese Youth, and discuss embedding these events into schools and universities extra circular activities. (*TEDx = An independently organised event licensed by TED conferences LLC, in NYC).

Citation: Dafa-Alla. A. F. A.: TEDx and Youth Engagement: Sudan Experience. In Allam Ahmed(Ed.): Home-Books-Proceedings-SDC, Vol. 1, pp. 19. WASD: Brighton, United Kingdom.