Podcasts

As Nissan boosts its manufacturing capacity in Ghana, its managing director for Africa talks to us about the prospects for the automotive market in Africa.

Barnaby Fletcher, associate director at Control Risks, joins us to discuss the risks and opportunities for Africa in 2022.

MainOne CEO and founder Funke Opeke talks to African Business about the data centre market in Africa and the future of the firm after its $320m takeover by NASDAQ-listed Equinix. 

Shalini Soopramanien fills us in on the US International Development Finance Corporation's vaccine funding for Gavi, and its climate and gender equality agendas for Africa.

Digital Africa executive director Stéphan Eloise-Gras talks about the potential of Francophone tech and France’s €130m plan to support startups

This week we talk about the economic and political implications of the coup in mining hub Guinea that removed President Alpha Condé, we review the success of the NBA's Basketball Africa League in Rwanda, and take a look at the booming fintech unicorns of West Africa.

Dr Chitiyo talks us through the recent political and economic history of Zimbabwe and the outlook for the country's investment environment.

Kevin Kariuki, Vice-President for Power, Energy, Climate and Green Growth at the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), joins us to discuss the ways in which the AfDB is supporting Africa's energy transition.

We talk about South Africa's proposed deal to sell a 51% stake in South African Airways to a private consortium, the implications on the tech industry of Nigeria's surprise Twitter ban, and ask how Ethiopia will deal with the developing famine in Tigray.