Episode 78 of 100 · 5-Minute Videos

Free Markets Can Free Africa

Economics — Contemporary World Issues · Economics · Geography · Economics — Economics & Financial Literacy · Government · Financial Literacy · Geography — World Geography · Captions

About This Video

Why is Africa poor?  Is it because of its colonial past or is it because of present-day policies? Senegalese-American entrepreneur and philanthropist Magatte Wade answers these questions, and offers a new path for a brighter, more prosperous future for the continent.

Standards Met in Ohio

  • 5.E.15Grades 5thThe availability of productive resources (i.e., entrepreneurship, human resources, capital goods and natural resources) promotes specialization that could lead to trade.
  • 6.E.15Grades 6thThe interaction of supply and demand, influenced by competition, helps to determine price in a market. This interaction also determines the quantities of outputs produced and the quantities of productive resources (entrepreneurship, human resources, natural resources and capital) used.
  • 7.E.21Grades 7thThe growth of cities and empires fostered the growth of markets. Market exchanges encouraged specialization and the transition from barter to monetary economies.
  • 9-12.EFL.4Grades 9th, 10th, 11th, 12thDifferent economic systems (traditional, market, command, and mixed) utilize different methods to allocate limited resources.
  • 9-12.WG.16Grades 9th, 10th, 11th, 12thUrbanization provides opportunities and challenges for physical and human systems in cities and their surrounding regions (e.g., development of suburbs, loss of habitat, central markets, squatter settlements on city outskirts, regional specialization in services or products, creation of ethnic enclaves).
  • CWI.9-12.11.lp.kGrades 9th, 10th, 11th, 12thIdentify human activities.
  • EFL.9-12.4Grades 9th, 10th, 11th, 12thDifferent economic systems (e.g., traditional, market, command, mixed) use different methods to allocate limited resources.
  • EFL.9-12.4.aGrades 9th, 10th, 11th, 12thCompare and contrast the different economic systems (e.g., traditional, market, command, mixed).
  • EFL.9-12.4.bGrades 9th, 10th, 11th, 12thIdentify the different economic systems (e.g., traditional, market, command, mixed).
  • EFL.9-12.4.cGrades 9th, 10th, 11th, 12thIdentify an economic system.
  • EFL.9-12.4.lp.bGrades 9th, 10th, 11th, 12thUnderstand that a mixed market includes elements of a market system and command economic system.
  • EFL.9-12.4.lp.dGrades 9th, 10th, 11th, 12thUnderstand that a market economic system uses individual choices of buyers and sellers to distribute resources through supply and demand.
  • SS.5.15Grades 5thThe availability of productive resources (e.g., entrepreneurship, human resources, capital goods and natural resources) promotes specialization that could lead to trade.
  • SS.6.15Grades 6thThe interaction of supply and demand, influenced by competition, helps to determine price in a market. This interaction also determines the quantities of outputs produced and the quantities of productive resources (e.g., entrepreneurship, human resources, natural resources, capital) used.
  • SS.7.19.lp.dGrades 7thIdentify an example of a business economic decision.
  • SS.7.21Grades 7thThe growth of cities and empires fostered the growth of markets. Market exchanges encouraged specialization and the transition from barter to monetary economies.
  • WG.9-12.16Grades 9th, 10th, 11th, 12thUrbanization provides opportunities and challenges for physical and human systems in cities and their surrounding regions (e.g., development of suburbs, loss of habitat, central markets, squatter settlements on city outskirts, regional specialization in services or products, creation of ethnic enclaves).