Samuel Gebre Notes

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.

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

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.

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.

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