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Hello, I'm Alex Armstrong here for GB News at the ARC conference with the Queen Consort of the Warrior Kingdom, Her Majesty indeed. Thank you so much for joining me, Your Majesty. It's a real pleasure. It's a real pleasure. I'd like to start the interview off by asking about Western perceptions of Africa and how you're challenging them. Okay. Well, the Western perception of Africa is one that is unfortunately quite biased in the negative direction. There's Africa that is dependent, Africa that's fraudulent, Africa that needs help. And Elevate Africa, well, we founded Elevate Africa to begin to challenge that narrative to say, you know, Africa isn't a problem and Africa doesn't not not have solutions. Africa actually has solutions. What we need to begin to do is to change that narrative and to prefer the solutions that Africa has for Africans, by Africans. Connect to those solutions across our borders and through to our diaspora as well and to back it with funding. Absolutely. It's an incredible program. I've been speaking to your team as well, and it's absolutely incredible what you're doing. You're bringing together people from technology, agriculture. How is that changing narratives? How is that pushing forward parts of Africa that have never been seen or spoken about in this way before? I believe we came with seven of our 22 fellows who are from 17 different parts of Africa across numerous sectors, like you said, from health care to tech to education to policy development and one thing that, and this is our second cohort, so I can I can testify from the first cohort, one of the many testimonies that have come out is that they can trust each other more and it's slowly building unity amongst Africans, which has never, well, which has always been a challenge. I think the unity discourse has been something that we've been talking about since 1963, actually. African leaders came together and they said, oh, we must unite and we must begin to work together and however many years down the line, that's still a problem. And it's been a problem because Africans, or there hasn't been any opportunity to really cross-pollinate, and one of the things that Elevate Africa provides is platforms like the Fellowship to invite Africans across the continent and even outside of the continent to say, hey, let's come together. Let's learn together. Let's learn about leadership development. Let's learn about how we can transform our narratives and let's do it as a cohort. Let's do it together. Let's discover one another and let's discover the continent. And I think that what that has, the singular thing that I believe that that has brought from us is the ability to trust one another again. Here's what most people don't realize. Your personal data isn't just floating around. It's being bought and sold every single day by data brokers. 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Unfortunately, they've been through many things from rape to domestic violence and domestic abuse, which is normalized. And they are still the breadwinners of their homes. In our in our land, seven out of ten women are the breadwinners of their homes. And they have at least eight dependents that are underneath them, married or not. Right. So these are and we work with women from ages 18 to about 35. So they're generally, you know, young, so to speak. And but what we realized and I started I started this program called Establish Her. And this was about three years ago. And we started with just training because we said, OK, well, how do we get the society? How do we get the community? How do we get the kingdom to be better? Right. Let's go for the women because they're the smartest. They're the smartest investment. When you train a woman, you train a community, you empower a community. And so we started with just training the women and we gave them skills, business development skills. But we found in our metrics that they weren't really changing as much, you know, that the output wasn't as much as the input that was going into them. And then I felt, you know what? I've been through this road. Let's add the inner. Let's add the therapy. Let's add the inner healing. Let's add working from the women from within. And what we've seen in our last two cohorts is an astronomical change. I've seen women turn around the communities, women who we didn't even have to give them funding. They began with their businesses to see how they could outsource, you know, their own funding to develop their communities, to develop and to begin to give back just from becoming the women that they knew that they were inside. And just with the support that we had to give them incredible. It really, really is. And you're really making inroads into so many parts of Africa. You get support from multiple NGOs and governments as well to help you achieve that goal. What would a good result for you look like, let's say, in 2030? What would be your goal? What would be your dream? How would you love to see Africa in the future? I would I would I would like to see a more collaborative Africa, a more dignified Africa, an Africa that comes to the stage as an equal partner. So with a handshake, as opposed to a handout in 2030, that would I mean, 2030 is not far from now, but it's a very ambitious goal. But I believe that with narrative transform for systems change, with the goal of changing systems, we could get there slowly, but surely. And of course, you're here today at our conference. Why is it important to be at conferences like this? Because I know that the art conference is about Western civilization. But I know that if you're not at the table, then you will be on the menu. It was very important that Africa came and was on the table and began to engage in these conversations about the preservation of Western civilization because nations need nations to thrive. We can't thrive in isolation. And so we're here to participate in that conversation. As Nigeria, of course, we have so many Nigerians here in the United Kingdom and across London. What would your message to them be? My message to them would be continue to shine brightly. But even as you are shining, remember that you need to invest back home. We need not just your resources. We need your resourcefulness to build Africa as a whole. Your Majesty, thank you so much for joining me today here at GB News. We really appreciate your time. Thank you so much.