The conversation spanned other subjectsfrom how investment in agriculture and finished product manufacturing could help Africa create jobs and keep money inside the country to how corruption could be reduced by a new generation of leaders.
At the start of the event, it was announced that Dangote, via the Aliko Dangote Foundation, will donate $20 million to help finish the last phase of the Africa Centerthe museum on Fifth Avenue at 109th Street in Harlem. The venue will now be known as the Africa Center at Aliko Dangote Hall. A $5 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the Africa Center was also announced. Ibrahim, through his Ibrahim Family Foundation, has donated $7 million to the center.
At one point, Dangote brought up the fact that he has not signed on to The Giving Pledge a group launched by Gates and Warren Buffett in which billionaires promise to give at least half of their fortune to charitable causes because as a Muslim, under Islamic law he is allowed to give away no more than one third of his wealth. Ibrahim balked at that notion and asked Muhammadu Sanusi II, the 14th Emir of Kano a religious leader in northeast Nigeria who was sitting in the audience if what Dangote said was true.
The emir explained that under Islamic law, a Muslim can give away 100% of their fortune when they are alive. But a Muslim's will cannot designate more than one third of his fortune to people outside of his family. The audience laughed as Dangote stood corrected.
The best approach toward family planning, especially in rural areas, is to improve access to healthcare and education, Gates said. "If you mess up health and education, you get more people. But if you get it right, eventually your population goes down," he said. Once people adopt family planning methods like contraceptives and population growth rates slow, other problems are easier to address, Gates added.
"Africa today has the biggest gap in what people want in family planning, and what's available to them. Melinda [Gates] is trying to close that gap, because then everything gets easiereducation, food, stability, jobs," said Gates.
Ibrahim went a step further, explaining that major social problems, like fundamentalism and violence, are byproducts of population growth outpacing job growth. "If you have two kids, you can educate them. But if you have seven to eight kids and no jobs, you have Boko Haram," said Ibrahim, making a reference to the jihadi terrorist organization in Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon.
In many rural parts of Africa, having large families is the norm. For families with farms, more children means more hands to help with farming. And because healthcare can be spotty in placeswith a small number of doctors treating a large populationit's not unusual for children to die at a young age. As people's economic status increases, women tend to have fewer children.
The conversation spanned other subjectsfrom how investment in agriculture and finished product manufacturing could help Africa create jobs and keep money inside the country to how corruption could be reduced by a new generation of leaders.
At the start of the event, it was announced that Dangote, via the Aliko Dangote Foundation, will donate $20 million to help finish the last phase of the Africa Centerthe museum on Fifth Avenue at 109th Street in Harlem. The venue will now be known as the Africa Center at Aliko Dangote Hall. A $5 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the Africa Center was also announced. Ibrahim, through his Ibrahim Family Foundation, has donated $7 million to the center.
At one point, Dangote brought up the fact that he has not signed on to The Giving Pledge a group launched by Gates and Warren Buffett in which billionaires promise to give at least half of their fortune to charitable causes because as a Muslim, under Islamic law he is allowed to give away no more than one third of his wealth. Ibrahim balked at that notion and asked Muhammadu Sanusi II, the 14th Emir of Kano a religious leader in northeast Nigeria who was sitting in the audience if what Dangote said was true.
The emir explained that under Islamic law, a Muslim can give away 100% of their fortune when they are alive. But a Muslim's will cannot designate more than one third of his fortune to people outside of his family.
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