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Foresight Africa Podcast
Foresight Africa Podcast
The Brookings Institution

Foresight Africa podcast celebrates the dynamism and optimism across Africa and explores strategies for broadening the benefits of growth to all people... more

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Episodes

Shifting the narrative on AI in Africa

Artificial intelligence’s acceleration has increased the need for data regulation and privacy protections globally. Chinasa Okolo joins host Landry Signé... more

24 Jul 2024 · 24 minutes
A fairer credit rating system for African countries could save billions

Subjectivity and bias in credit ratings cost African countries up to $24 billion in interest and over $46 billion... more

10 Jul 2024 · 44 minutes
Expanding digital entrepreneurship in Africa

Africa has a growing problem: a large population of youth and working-age people with limited employment opportunities. She Leads Africa... more

26 Jun 2024 · 30 minutes
African policymakers have the tools to make Africa globally competitive

Policymakers have the tools to make Africa globally competitive as a continent. With an increasingly young and underemployed population, there... more

12 Jun 2024 · 30 minutes
New trends in Africa-Asia economic relations

Africa’s relationship with Asia has changed dramatically over the last few decades. From little economic integration in the early 1990s... more

29 May 2024 · 30 minutes
Measuring African perspectives on democracy and governance

Africa experienced a wave of democratic unrest from 2020-23, with seven countries—Mali, Chad, Guinea, Sudan, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Gabon—falling... more

15 May 2024 · 38 minutes
What African countries risk if they don’t accelerate their digital transformation

African countries lag behind G20 nations in their digital infrastructure and risk falling behind in their economic development and exacerbating... more

01 May 2024 · 33 minutes
Africa’s opportunities for change and transformation

Aloysius Uche Ordu, director of the Africa Growth Initiative (AGI) at Brookings, and Landry Signé, AGI senior fellow, discuss the... more

01 May 2024 · 32 minutes
Conserving biodiversity from Angola’s water tower to Botswana’s Okavango Delta

Kerllen Costa, Angola country director of National Geographic’s Okavango Wilderness Project, tells the story of the flora and fauna of... more

30 Aug 2023 · 42 minutes
Is gold mining part of the solution to climate change?

John Mulligan, climate change lead at the World Gold Council, talks with host Aloysius Ordu about the Council’s role in... more

22 Aug 2023 · 40 minutes
Foresight Africa Podcast
Shifting the narrative on AI in Africa
Foresight Africa Podcast