Nelson Mandela, he was an inspirational person.
He really wanted to heal the nation
and improve the lives of everybody there.
He was phenomenal.
That's why I'm really honored
to have an opportunity to give
the Nelson Mandela Lecture.
I’m excited, I see great potential.
I see a lot of great things going on in Africa.
Over the last decade the malaria deaths have been cut in half.
The last wild case of polio in Africa was almost two years ago.
And HIV—a lot of people are on treatment today.
Africa is incredibly young and
is going to have huge population growth,
doubling in population between now and 2050.
The great thing about youth is
that they look at things in a new way.
They can be brought into government and come up with new solutions.
In the same way that I could see that
microprocessors with a little bit of software
would lead to a personal computing revolution.
These young people in Africa can look at all the sectors,
look at how agriculture is done,
look at the services, look at health.
If we can enable them
with good health, nutrition, and education
then the optimistic
possibilities for Africa will become the reality.