Tidiani (Jeff) Tall
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Umar Tall (great-great grandfather) |
Tidiani Tall (born May 25, 1969), commonly known as Jeff Tall, is a West African business leader, public speaker, entrepreneur, and the author of Fixing Africa: Once and for All.
Early life, family, and education
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Tall is the great-great grandson of West African Emperor
Tall grew up in
In 1985, Tall was enrolled at
Tall holds a Masters in Economics & Management from the French Institute of Petroleum in Paris, France and a Masters in Engineering in applied mathematics from Ecole Polytechnique also in Paris, France.[citation needed]
Career
In 1994, Tall was hired to join the Analyst program in the Fixed Income division at Morgan Stanley in London as 1 of 10 high potential graduates from across Europe. After 18 months at Morgan Stanley, driven by a desire to "contribute to his native home of Mali through entrepreneurial endeavours", Tall returned to Mali to create and run a road transport company. Timbuktu Trading & Transport ("3T") became the first trucking company in Mali that met international standards in safety and employment practices.[1]
Subsequent to running 3T for three years, Tall moved on to found a
In January 2001, Tall began another extended foray into professional services, first by joining
Tall has worked with international organizations including
Currently, Tall is the CEO of Lidera Green Power, a renewable energy independent power producer (IPP) in Madagascar.[4][5]
Fixing Africa: Once and for all
Fixing Africa: Once and for all is a 2009 book focused on "improving Africa and moving it forward from the hardships that have plagued the continent's past." A child of Pan-Africanism, the premise surrounds a conglomeration of Africa's 54 countries currently represented into 3 "Super Federations" by the year 2030.[citation needed]
Tall believes the hope for change lies within and must be "led by the youth and enabled by [effective use of] information technology."[6]
Inspiration
Tall's inspiration for Fixing Africa came from the "hypocrisy" of the 2007-2010 50th anniversary independence celebrations held in many African nations. Multimillion-dollar celebrations were occurring in spite of what Tall saw as decades of lost progress and a population largely living in misery and humiliation. His goal was to "inform a new generation of Africans and set high expectations within them to ensure that, with the ascension of a new breed of leaders might Africa's people be delivered out of
Key messages
Summarized, Fixing Africa is based on three key ideals:
- All 54 African countries are struggling. The denial must end so the recovery can start.
- Individually African men and women have shown that they can perform at a global level in any field, anytime and anywhere.
- New ideas and bold actions are required to translate individual achievements into collective progress.[6]
Alternative viewpoints
Martin Meredith,[11] historian and journalist, provides a controversial Western viewpoint on fifty years of African independence, and the many failures that have accompanied it, in the book The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence.[12]
Personal life
Tall currently travels the world but splits the majority of his time between Paris, France, and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.[citation needed]
Works
- Tall, Tidiani (2009). Fixing Africa: Once and for All. Self-published.
References
- ^ a b c DOTconnectAfrica
- ^ "Home". African Leadership Network. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
- ^ "We are the ones we have been waiting for". Africa 2.0. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
- ^ Tidiani Jeff Tall at Green Energy Africa Summit
- ^ Tall, Tidiani (21 July 2022). "Fuelling Africa's green transition". Energy Voice. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
- ^ a b "Welcome to Fixing Africa". www.fixingafrica.com. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
- ^ THE MONFORT PLAN
- ^ "Dambisa Moyo". Dambisa Moyo. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
- OCLC 436838606.
- ^ "Books". Dambisa Moyo. Retrieved 2018-11-13.
- ^ "Author Martin Meredith and 'The Fate of Africa'". NPR.org. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
- OCLC 908768066.