Podcast
Unlocking Africa
Episodes — page 2
- Building Kenya’s Luxury Hospitality Industry, Nairobi’s Creative Economy, and the Future of Tourism with Shamim Ehsani
Episode 222 with Shamim Ehsani, Co Founder of Tribe Hotels Group, a hospitality and lifestyle company redefining modern African luxury through the integration of culture, art, and…
- Building High Performance Teams, Drone Delivery Systems, and Healthcare Logistics with Juliet Oshagbemi
Episode 221 with Juliet Oshagbemi, Chief People and Culture Officer Africa at Zipline, a global leader in drone delivery, healthcare logistics and supply chain innovation. Zipline…
- Africa’s Payments Problem Is Not What You Think – Inside Mobile Money Infrastructure with Nikolai Barnwell
Episode 220 with Nikolai Barnwell, CEO of pawaPay, a leading pan African payments company building the financial rails that connect mobile money wallets across the continent and to…
- How School Meals Can Transform Africa’s Economy: Agriculture, Jobs and Growth with Mehrdad Ehsani
Episode 219 with Mehrdad Ehsani, Vice President for Africa at The Rockefeller Foundation, a global institution working at the intersection of food systems, economic development, an…
- How Crypto and Regulation Are Reshaping Africa’s Financial System: Payments, Remittances and Digital Assets with Ayotunde Alabi
Episode 218 with Ayotunde Alabi, CEO of Luno Nigeria, one of Africa’s leading cryptocurrency platforms. Ayotunde brings over a decade of experience across finance and technology, w…
- How Africa Can Own AI: From Talent to Infrastructure to Global Competitiveness with Amadou Daffe
Episode 217 of the Unlocking Africa Podcast with Amadou Daffe, CEO and Co founder of Gebeya, a leading pan African technology company building talent ecosystems, digital marketplac…
- How Precision Medicine and Genomics Could Transform Healthcare in Africa with Derrick Akpalu
Episode 216 with Derrick Edem Akpalu, Co Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Revna Biosciences, a biotechnology company advancing precision medicine, genomics, and molecular dia…
- How Africa Can Build a Stronger Agribusiness Economy: Patient Capital, Food Security & Investment with Luc-Etienne Dandrieu
Episode 215 with Luc-Etienne Dandrieu, General Manager of AlphaSeeds, a philanthropic investment company supporting sustainable agribusiness SMEs across Africa. In this episode we…
- The Trade That Kills Silently: Falsified Medicines and Pharmaceutical Crime in Africa with Foulo Basse
Episode 214 with Foulo Basse, President and Chief Executive of The Brazzaville Foundation, an organisation leading Africa’s battle against falsified medicines, counterfeit drugs, a…
- Building Sustainable Manufacturing in Africa: Bamboo, Sanitation and Circular Supply Chains with Sander de Klerk
Episode 213 with Sander de Klerk, CEO and Founder of The Good Roll, a fast growing ecosystem reshaping the global paper industry through circular production, ethical sourcing, and…
- How Africa Can Become a Global Remote Work Hub: AI, Employer of Record & The Future of Work with Nicolas Goldstein
Episode 212 with Nicolas Goldstein, HR Tech entrepreneur and Co Founder of Breedj, an artificial intelligence powered talent marketplace transforming global hiring in Africa. With…
- How Diaspora Capital Can Unlock Africa’s Next Generation of Scalable Businesses with Kanessa Muluneh
Episode 211 with with Kanessa Muluneh, serial entrepreneur, investor, and founder of Nyle Investment Group, a diaspora focused investment firm connecting global capital with high i…
- Building Profitable IT Infrastructure for Global Remote Work From Africa with Francis Osifo
Episode 210 with Francis Osifo, Co Founder and CEO of Rayda, a global IT asset lifecycle management platform supporting remote and distributed teams in over 170 countries. As remo…
- Bridging Africa’s $100 Billion Trade Finance Gap Through Agribusiness Exports with Dara Adekunle
Episode 209 with Dara Adekunle, Managing Partner and CEO of FARMTIES Capital, an investment firm financing export oriented African agribusinesses and strengthening Africa’s role in…
- Financial Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, and How to Build Markets That Work in Africa with Carl Manlan
Episode 208 with Carl Manlan, a development practitioner and global thought leader working at the intersection of financial inclusion, policy, entrepreneurship, and social impact a…
- Africa’s $2 Trillion Instant Payment Boom and What It Means for Trade and Economic Growth with Sabine Mensah
Episode 207 with Sabine Mensah, Deputy CEO of AfricaNenda Foundation and co author of the State of Inclusive Instant Payment Systems in Africa 2025 report, one of the most comprehe…
- Unlocking Diaspora Wealth: How Housing Investment Is Driving African Development with Robert Hornsby and Franck Tcheukado
Episode 206 with Robert Hornsby and Franck Tcheukado, Co Founder and Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Operating Officer of Jobomax Homes, a West African real estate developer foc…
- How Carnegie Mellon University Africa Is Building the Next Generation of African Tech and Engineering Leaders with Conrad Tucker
Episode 205 with Conrad Tucker, Director of Carnegie Mellon University Africa, the only United States research university with a full time teaching and research presence on the Afr…
- The Economic Importance of the African Diaspora Reclaiming Native Language and Identity with Andrew Osayemi
Episode 204 with Andrew Osayemi, Founder of YapTime and co creator of Meet the Adebanjos, the hit British Nigerian sitcom now streaming on Netflix. Andrew Osayemi is a diaspora ent…
- Building Africa’s Global Cultural Influence and Creative Economy Through Film with Stella Nse Okuzu
Episode 203 with Stella Nse Okuzu who is the Director and CEO of the Royal African Society, one of the UK’s oldest and most influential Africa focused institutions, dedicated to pr…
