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This is a podcast exploring the economy, innovation, and the stories shaping Africa. Join candid conversations with analysts, startup entrepreneurs, and government officials as we dive into topics like market trends, policy shifts, and the future of business. Beyond economics, we venture into personal passions—discussing running, personal growth, and the connections that drive us.

Épisodes

  1. 06/10/2025

    Part 2: Mapping the African Infrastructure Investment with Ope Onibokun

    In the second part of our conversation with Ope Onibokun, we discuss the investment strategy of the UAE is in Africa and how the continent should mobilize funds for its own energy investment.

    53 min

  2. 01/10/2025

    Mapping the African Infrastructure Landscape with Ope Onibokun

    In the first of two conversations with Ope, we discuss the African infrastructure landscape from ports, digital to financing of these infrastructures.

    35 min

  3. 05/05/2025

    EP 9: EMANCIPATORY DEVELOPMENT FOR AFRICA: Ideas From Prof. Grieve Chelwa

    Africa’s slow development is rooted in colonial extraction, crippling debt, and growth-stifling austerity. How can the continent take back agency, move forward and achieve long-term growth? I speak with Prof. Grieve Chelwa of the Africa Institute.

    57 min
  4. EP 8: AFRICA'S FOOD SYSTEM: Tim Wise - How African agriculture failed the population

    07/04/2025

    EP 8: AFRICA'S FOOD SYSTEM: Tim Wise - How African agriculture failed the population

    In conversation with Tim A Wise, the author of Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food on the capture of African agriculture by corporations to market seeds and fertilizer at the expense of small scale farmers for decades with no tangible result. Africa still has the largest uncultivated arable land and tens of millions of people perpetually in need of food aid.

    57 min

  5. 03/04/2025

    EP 7: EXTRA : Friends That Run: Felicia Byrne

    Conversation with Felicia Byrne who is training for the Warsaw marathon, her second after completing Chicago in 2023 to celebrate her 40th birthday.

    29 min

  6. 16/01/2025

    EP 6: Ethiopia Floats Its Currency: What to Expect with Getachew T. Alemu

    (THIS IS A RE-POST) Ethiopia announced adopting a market rate foreign exchange regime, a prerequisite for an IMF program as the country rolled further into economic crisis. Ethiopia’s economy has been hit hard by a full blown out war in the Northern Tigray region as well as other global shocks including the war in Ukraine and environmental catastrophes. The Horn of African nation is still rife with conflict across the region and has struggled to meet its debt repayments, defaulting on its Eurobond payment last year.  Now, Ethiopia has agreed to economic reforms in accordance with IMF guidelines that avail a $3.4 billion program over the next four years. The two key objectives of the program are to float the currency and increase domestic revenue mobiliization. For a country with less than a months worth of FX reserves, it had run out of options.  Now, the question on everyone’s mind is what will be the impact of the devaluation on inflation. We have some ideas but only time will tell.  In this first episode of the Africa News Update, I speak with Getachew T. Alemu

    34 min
  7. EP 1: AFRICAN E-COMMERCE: Wasoko - How to build Africa's fastest growing company from a paradise island with Daniel Yu

    06/09/2022

    EP 1: AFRICAN E-COMMERCE: Wasoko - How to build Africa's fastest growing company from a paradise island with Daniel Yu

    Wasoko, Africa's fastest growing company is an e-commerce player that tries to connect mama pop shops to the retail supply chain. It has vertically integrated along the value chain for efficiency and dependability. The company raised $120 million earlier this year valuing it at over $600 million.

    48 min
  8. EP 2: AFRICA GAMING: Qene Games: Can games replace coffee as Ethiopia's top export with Dawit Abraham

    06/09/2022

    EP 2: AFRICA GAMING: Qene Games: Can games replace coffee as Ethiopia's top export with Dawit Abraham

    The last in the three-part series conversation in the gaming space is with the spokesperson of the Pan African Gaming Group, a coalition of 10 companies that came together to further grow the industry in Africa in part by opening up markets in their respective regions and as a collective. Dawit is also a game developer based out of Ethiopia with some successful games including Kukulu

    29 min
  9. EP 3: AFRICAN GAMING: Mekan Games - How to make a world class game from Nairobi with Evans Kiragu

    06/09/2022

    EP 3: AFRICAN GAMING: Mekan Games - How to make a world class game from Nairobi with Evans Kiragu

    Evans Kiragu and his team at MEKAN games finally landed a chart topping game with the President. An overnight success takes at least 8 years of hard work and Evans tells us about his journey and how much they made from this one game. Also, what's in store for the game developers on the continent.

    46 min
  10. EP:4 AFRICAN GAMING: Carry1st - How to build for the next billion gamers with Cordel Robbin-Coker

    06/09/2022

    EP:4 AFRICAN GAMING: Carry1st - How to build for the next billion gamers with Cordel Robbin-Coker

    African mobile-gaming publisher Carry1st is raising $20 million in funding led by U.S. private equity firm Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Google and rapper Nas earlier this year. Now, they have seen revenues grow multiple fold and a game published through Carry1st's cohort, the President, made it to the top of the charts. So, what is next for the mobile gaming space in Africa.

    55 min
  11. EP 5: AFRICAN E-COMMERCE: Copia - How to deliver goods where no roads go with Tracey Turner

    06/09/2022

    EP 5: AFRICAN E-COMMERCE: Copia - How to deliver goods where no roads go with Tracey Turner

    Copia Global is a Kenyan based e-commerce platform that primarily serves the rural market. It takes orders via mobile phones and delivers them to small shops that operate as a distribution center. The company raised $50 million in its latest round and is in the process of raising further funds for expansion into West Africa as well as introducing new fintech product lines.

    51 min
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À propos

This is a podcast exploring the economy, innovation, and the stories shaping Africa. Join candid conversations with analysts, startup entrepreneurs, and government officials as we dive into topics like market trends, policy shifts, and the future of business. Beyond economics, we venture into personal passions—discussing running, personal growth, and the connections that drive us.

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  • Création
    Samuel Gebre
  • Années d’activité
    2022 - 2025
  • Épisodes
    11
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