Jan 2023

Power Disruptor Ayanda Sishi Part 2 | Youth and Gender Activism and BIG

Youth and Gender activist, Ayanda Sishi Wigzell speaks to Isobel Frye, Khutso Makobela and Amahle Ngwenya of SPI on Basic Income Grant in this two-part episode. In Part One Ayanda talks about the importance of Dignity in defining her activism and how poverty actively erodes this. ... Show More

26m 2s

Dec 2022

In the Balance Part 2 | Hein Marais unpacks his recent political economy of UBI

In this episode, Hein Marais, author of two critical works on the political economy of the South African transition and the stagnation of change, explains his reasoning for a universal basic income. Marais identifies the growing support of business for the idea and also says why ... Show More

24m 1s

Nov 2022

In the Balance Part 1 | Hein Marais unpacks his recent political economy of UBI

In this episode, Hein Marais, author of two critical works on the political economy of the South African transition and the stagnation of change, explains his reasoning for a universal basic income. Marais identifies the growing support of business for the idea and also says why ... Show More

36 m

May 2024

Democratic Crisis in Senegal

Senegalese President Macky Sall has postponed the country’s presidential elections originally scheduled for February 25. It's part of a series of concerning moves by Sall to extend his stay in power. The Ufahamu Africa podcast talks with experts on the topic: Bamba Ndiaye and Mic ... Show More

57m 18s

Nov 2023

South African Apartheid: An Introduction

In this crossover episode that we have done in collaboration with our sister podcast Guerrilla History, we bring on Ashley Fataar to provide a primer into Apartheid in the South African context, and where we also begin to explore some of the parallels to the apartheid that the se ... Show More

1h 7m

Oct 2023

Gillian Tett and Yanis Varoufakis: Can We Fix Capitalism?

We revisit a debate from 2021 between the former Greek finance minister, economist and author Yanis Varoufakis, and Gillian Tett, the Financial Times columnist, anthropologist, and author. The two gathered to debate: Can We Fix Capitalism? Our chair was Politico's Anne McElvoy, w ... Show More

1h 3m

Mar 2023

Abebe Aemro Selassie and Ken Opalo on Making Reforms Stick in Africa

As global economic uncertainty surges, Sub-Saharan Africa faces a host of challenges that will require effective policy responses if it is to regain the ground it lost during the pandemic. But what does it take to design and implement successful policy reforms? In this podcast, I ... Show More

39m 36s

Aug 2022

Whatever happened to Mandela’s dream for South Africa?

Gideon talks to the South African writer and political activist, Songezo Zibi, about the need to build a coalition for change to help restore some of the high hopes that accompanied the end of apartheid.Clips: SABC, The Sun More on this topic: Bain barred from UK state contracts ... Show More

27m 46s

May 2024

Élections Afrique du Sud : l’ANC, parti de Mandela, peut-il perdre la majorité ?

À l’approche des élections générales du 29 mai en Afrique du Sud, le Congrès national africain (ANC) au pouvoir depuis la fin de l’apartheid semble menacé pour la première fois de perdre sa majorité. Quels enjeux pour le parti de Nelson Mandela ? Si les sondages se confirment, à ... Show More

39 m

Aug 2021

Financial technology start-ups in Africa

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/80e6939d-d085-499d-ac9d-3ac6386b69c1 Airbnb reported strong quarterly earnings and said tourists from places with higher vaccination rates were “driving the travel recovery”, and employees are taking sensitiv ... Show More

8m 38s

Aug 2023

Why is South Africa collapsing?

South Africa once had the most abundant and cheap electricity on the continent. Now, it is experiencing power blackouts. It’s called loadshedding, the process by which the power company Eskom occasionally reduces the demand for electricity on the national grid.For many South Afri ... Show More

23m 45s

Dec 2019

Esther Duflo on Management, Growth, and Research in Action

Want to support future conversations? Visit conversationswithtyler.com/donate. Esther Duflo’s advice to students? Spend time in the field. “It's only through this exposure that you can learn how wrong most of your intuitions are and preconceptions are,” she explains. For Duflo, i ... Show More

1h 1m

Power Disruptor Ayanda Sishi Part 1 | Yo...