{"id":19102,"date":"2011-02-17T16:50:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T23:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tested-neuron.flywheelsites.com\/?p=19102"},"modified":"2015-08-21T15:11:03","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T21:11:03","slug":"afroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unreasonablegroup.com\/articles\/afroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Games Inspiring The Next Generation Of African Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/27264181\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em>On an otherwise reasonable evening, more than 1,000 people packed an auditorium in Boulder, Colorado, for the culmination of the 2011\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/unreasonableinstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Unreasonable Institute<\/a>. They came to see <a href=\"https:\/\/wary-sunlight.flywheelsites.com\/category\/program\/institute\/2011_institute\/\" target=\"_blank\">27 ventures<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0present their solutions to some of the world\u2019s greatest challenges.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unreasonableinstitute.org\/profile\/agithukushongwe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anne Githuku-Shongwe<\/a>, Founder and CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/unreasonableinstitute.org\/profile\/agithukushongwe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Afroes Transformational Games<\/a>, shares her vision of ending poverty in Africa in her lifetime and how her venture is set out to inspire the next generation of leaders in Africa to eradicate big problems like poverty.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"left\"><p>Imagine if every young person decided to step up and end poverty in Africa.\u00a0<span id=\"tweetquote\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=http:\/\/ow.ly\/JhSle&amp;via=unreasonable&amp;text=&quot;Imagine if every young person decided to step up and end poverty in Africa.&quot;@anneshongwe\">Tweet This Quote<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Afroes Transformational Games develops\u00a0innovative digital media solutions \u2013 like mobile games \u2013 to respond to social issues &amp; build mindsets of possibility in the over 20 million youth in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch this 2011 Unreasonable Institute Fellow whose South African startup is creating innovative digital solutions as a means for inspiring the next generation of leaders in Africa to solve big problems like poverty. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1537,1495,1538,1500,1554,1490,431],"tags":[326,556,1624,1627,586,1564,288,1626,228,367,449,359,355,1625],"class_list":["post-19102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-africa","category-education-tags","category-institute","category-2011_institute","category-mobile","category-poverty-tags","category-talks","tag-africa","tag-education","tag-games","tag-innovative-solution","tag-institute","tag-institute-11","tag-mobile","tag-next-generation-leadership","tag-poverty","tag-south-africa","tag-talk","tag-tech","tag-vid","tag-youth","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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