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In a wide-ranging interview with YaleGlobal’s Nayan Chanda, Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway and former Director General of the World Health Organization discussed various challenges facing the world. She expressed guarded optimism about the climate change summit in Paris but was concerned about the growing economic inequality in the developed world and rising anti-immigrant, anti-Islamic sentiment in Europe. Brudtland was one of the intended target of Norwegian anti-Islamic fanatic Anders Behring Breivik who killed dozens of socialist youth in July 2011.

John Githongo, Kenya’s most prominent anti-corruption advocate and CEO of Inuka Kenya Trust, encourages advocating for transparency in today’s globalized world. Githongo delivered the Coca-Cola Lecture at Yale entitled “Corruption, Security, and Development: Volatile Nexus” on February 11, 2015. This video is part of the Yale Global Perspectives series. To learn more about Yale and the world, visit world.yale.edu.

Hadiza Bala Usman, founder of the #BringBackOurGirls movement, discusses her work responding to the abduction of more than 300 girls by extremists in northern Nigeria, the limited government response and what more can be done. This video is part of the Yale Global Perspectives series. To learn more about Yale and the World, visit world.yale.edu.

In an interview with YaleGlobal’s Editor –in-Chief Nayan Chanda, President of African Development Bank Donald Kaberuka talks about Africa’s growth prospects, pointing out that despite foreign coverage being focused on a small dysfunctional part, the African continent as a whole has been growing very fast and has enormous prospects.