Episode 14: All about Africa's youth
Africa's population is set to make up 40% of the world's young people in less than three generations, according to the 2017 UN regional situation analysis report. These numbers are expected to continu...
15 Jun 202217min
Episode 13: Former Botswana president on his legacy
In part two of our exclusive interview, former Botswana president Ian Khama talks about his plan to return to his country and fight for the democracy it was under his rule. He explains to GGA SADC exe...
21 Apr 202210min
Episode 12: Former Botswana president Ian Khama on assassination attempts and the political situation in his country
Former Botswana president Ian Khama expands on plots to kill him, including three attempts to poison him, in this revealing GGA interview with GGA SADC Executive Director Chris Maroleng. Khama is also...
14 Apr 202213min
Episode 10: Policymaking without data – a rudderless ship
The factors that influence the patterns and dynamics of data in Africa are multi-layered, but some of the most important include historical forces, regional and national disparities, the relevance of ...
4 Apr 202217min
Episode 9: The Covid-19 experience could offer an impetus for the continent’s positive transformation
Despite the devastating worldwide effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, some politicians and scholars have advanced the idea that this crisis could be a transformative event in the long run. Others have r...
18 Mar 202211min
Episode 8: Gun trouble in the green city in the sun
The death rate from guns in Nairobi, Kenya, is 33 for every 100,000 people per year. Factoring in its population of 3.5 million, this means that on average, a gun death occurs once every nine hours, ...
18 Mar 202212min
Episode 7: The end of an era for liberation movements?
After defeating colonialism, white minority rule and post-colonial authoritarian governments, many of Africa’s liberation movements seem to have lost ground in the democratic era, challenged by the ha...
18 Mar 20229min
Episode 6: Africa's green wall: Between a rock and a hard place
The African Union’s Great Green Wall Initiative (GGWI) aims to create a new living world wonder, an 8,000 km tree line across the 21 countries in the Sahel region of Africa. A project this size needs ...
18 Mar 202211min
