Podcast Episodes

Reid Hoffman, tech billionaire: AI job revolution

“The change that we're going to see happen with AI does mean that there's going to be some really difficult challenges and times ahead. But the quest…

9 hours ago

Kate Kallot, AI founder: A global digital divide?

“Historically, as a region, we’ve been extracted at two levels. If you look at the AI value chain, a lot of our youth, some who have studied computer…

2 days, 9 hours ago

Maggie O’Farrell, writer: Identity is complicated

“I was born in Coleraine, then I moved to Wales and then I moved to Ireland. It's very complicated and I feel there's a strange sense if you grow up …

5 days, 9 hours ago

Aisha Musa, former leader: Can Sudan rebuild?

“I feel numb. It feels unreal to me, having been in Sudan all my life. I have never imagined that it will turn into a war field, it looks like a nigh…

1 week ago

Chaka Khan, singer: Music is a calling

“This is a calling. It's bigger than anything in your life as an individual. If you found the thing that you were put on this planet to do, and a lot…

1 week, 2 days ago

Jennifer Riria, banking chief: Financial system still excludes women

“Most of Africa is rural, and although urbanisation is taking root now, the systems that deliver financial services to women are still eluding them.”…

1 week, 5 days ago

Daniel Noboa, Ecuador President: A war on gangs

“This is a war. We will treat it as a war, and first thing that we want is the war to end. We want peace. We want a better life for our people, espec…

2 weeks ago

Fatima Bio, Sierra Leone first lady: speaking up

“The person who has always been my uncle, and whenever he comes to the house, I'm running to him. He buys me sweets, this is like my uncle. And then …

2 weeks, 2 days ago

Leopoldo Lopez, Venezuelan opposition leader: I am not bitter

“Our best reply to the regime is that they didn't make us bad people. That we remain focused on our dream of seeing a free Venezuela. I have seen oth…

2 weeks, 5 days ago

Yurii Tokar: Russia deployed Kenyans to death zone

“Russians collected all Kenyans and did everything for them to go to the front line, to go to the death zone.”

Waihiga Mwaura speaks to Yurii Tokar th…

3 weeks ago