BNP 013: Nigeria’s Flood Hell, AfDB’s New Dawn, Child Trafficking Horror? How Does Africa Survive This?
Send us Fan Mail A Continent UnderTest: Nigeria’s floods, worsened by climate change, kill hundreds, displace thousands. African Development Bank new chief faces funding cuts, jobless youth. Poverty ...
11 Jun 202551min
BNP 012: Is ECOWAS Running, DR Congo Rebuilding, While Terror Grows?
Send us Fan Mail King Mwanga swung at his shadow, Emperor Menelik faced drunk Italian soldiers—now rebels build banks and roads while leaders mumble in suits. Who’s really in charge? Connect with us: ...
4 Jun 20251h 4min
BNP 011: Can Democracy Thrive in Africa When 98 Million Children Can’t Read?
Send us Fan Mail As authoritarianism tightens its grip across Africa—silencing opposition leaders through arrests, abductions, and trumped-up charges—and millions of children languish without educatio...
28 Mai 202556min
BNP 010: Who's Really Winning and Losing In Africa?
Send us Fan Mail Africa's urban boom fuels glitzy smart cities like Kenya’s Konza and Nigeria’s Eko Atlantic, sidelining slum-dwellers. Meanwhile, 50 white South Africans, claiming racial persecution,...
21 Mai 202550min
BNP 009: Can Stolen Fortunes Save Africa, or Will BRICS Conflict And Dynastic Greed Doom Its Noble Dreams?
Send us Fan Mail As BRICS stumbles under the weight of rivalries and Egypt and Ethiopia clash over South Africa’s UN ambitions, Africa’s “familiocracies” tighten their grip—can the continent’s looted ...
14 Mai 202546min
BNP 008: Bananas, Bikinis, Blockades and Bullet-Dodging: Africa’s Distracted Hour?
Send us Fan Mail As SADC bickers over bananas and Ethiopia’s dating reality show shakes patriarchy, Trump torpedoes trade, eyes the Suez Canal —while Congo juggles shaky ceasefires, the Sahel bleeds, ...
7 Mai 20251h 3min
BNP 007: His Holiness Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Cardinal Tinubu and Cardinal Kasongo
Send us Fan Mail Africa Grieves ‘Friendliest’ Pope: Francis’ Legacy Shines, Trump Abandons Africa in Policy Shakeup, Kabila’s Return Sparks DR Congo Turmoil and much more in this week's episode. Con...
30 Apr 20251h 5min
BNP 006: Gabon's Coup, King Nguema's 90% Win: Africa’s Democracy's Dawn or Dictatorship's New Mask?
Send us Fan Mail Junta leader Brig. Gen. Brice Nguema’s “landslide” win in Gabon’s 2025 election, as post-2020 coups raise questions about democratic legitimacy in Africa. Tanzania’s crackdown and dec...
23 Apr 202555min
