# Creativity builds nations

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2019
- Speaker: Muthoni Drummer Queen
- Year: 2019
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Art, architecture and design, Music
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/muthoni_drummer_queen_creativity_builds_nations)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

In a hopeful talk followed by an empowering performance, musician and TED Fellow Muthoni Drummer Queen shares how industries like music, film and fashion provide a platform for Africans to broadcast their rich and diverse talents -- and explains how the shared experience of creativity can replace attitudes of exclusionism and othering with acceptance and self-love.

## Lectures

1. [Creativity builds nations](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/muthoni_drummer_queen_creativity_builds_nations/3b51bf4133cf), 12 min (TED's player)