In this week’s episode, Dr Salah Ben Hammou, postdoctoral research associate at the Edward P. Djerejia Center for the Middle East at Rice University’s Baker Institute of Public Policy, joins me to discuss the recent coup in Madagascar coming off the back of a youth-led protest.
In this week’s episode, I am joined by Nana Abu, tax specialist and Senior Manager at KPMG, Nigeria to discuss Nigeria’s controversial tax reforms of 2025.
In this episode, I am joined by Thomas P. Sheehy, principal at Quinella Global Operations and former Staff Director of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the U.D. House of Representatives, to discuss President Trump’s ‘minerals for peace’ deal in DRC.
In this week’s episode, I am joined by Professor Noah Echa Atta, Professor of African Economic History and Development and currently visiting Professor at the National of Lesotho, and Olawale Yemisi, a lecturer and PhD candidate at the University of Ibadan. Our topic focuses on the targeted xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in Ghana.
In this episode, I am joined by Dr Jacob Mundy, associate professor in peace and conflict studies, Colgate University, to discuss the United States arms sales to Morocco and President Trump’s recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara.
In this episode, Kenyan-based international relations and expert, Vincent Okangi, joins me in discussing the constitutional change in Togo that is seen as a step towards consolidating Faure Gnassingbe’s position in power.
In this week’s episode, Nigerian-based public affairs and political commentator and analyst, Jaye Gaskia, joins me in discussing the controversial labelling or Nigeria’s major political parties, APC and PDP, as terrorist organisations by a Canadian court.
In this week’s episode, I am joined by Dr Oladotun Awosusi, research fellow at University of Arkansas, to discuss the flurry of immigration policies under Trump 2:0 and their implications for Africa.
In our 100th episode, we discuss the increasing sale of arms to Nigeria by the Trump’s administration, a departure from the Obama administration. We look at the implications of the arms sale on Nigeria’s heavily militarized response to insurgency and insecurity. Our guest is retired Brigadier General Saleh Bala, President at White Ink Consult, a private defence and security research, strategic communication and training consultancy based in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja.
In this episode, I am joined by Dr Daniel Volman, the director of the African Security Research Project in Washington and a specialist on U.S. military policy towards Africa and African issues. We discuss the conflict in the Sahel and talks between the Trump’s administration and the Alliance of Sahel States military regimes.
In this week’s episode, we focus on the prospects of and challenges facing Africa’s teeming youth population. Our guest is Dr Kayode George, a Nigerian-based scholar with vast experience both nationally and internationally in the field of security, peace and conflict studies.
In this week’s episode, we focus on the politics of political party coalition in Nigeria and Nigeria’s forthcoming general election in 2027. I am joined by Dr Babayo Sule, Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies at National University of Lesotho. Babayo is the author of numerous books including Political party financing and electoral politics in Nigeria’s fourth republic.
In this week’s episode, I am joined by Dr Eric Tevoedjre, instructor at the Catholic University in Lille, France, to discuss the future of regional economic communities (REC) in Africa following the withdrawal of the Alliance of Sahel States (Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger) from ECOWAS and Rwanda from ECCAS.
In this week’s episode, I am joined by Daniel Bradlow, Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at the University of Pretoria to discuss Africa’s multilateral financial institutions-why they matter and how to save them.
Dr Ndubuisi Nwokolo, Partner and Chief Executive at Nextier SPD, a security, peace and development organisation based in Nigeria, joins me this week to discuss what is behind the recurrent ‘friendly strikes’ in Nigeria, their implications and how to address them.
Dr Jeslyn Lemke joins me in this episode to discuss the forthcoming elections in Ivory Coast where President Alassane Quattara will be seeking a controversial fourth term. Dr Lemke, a bilingual journalist and journalism professor in the Pacific Northwest in the US also provides insight into the influence of France and other foreign governments in the small Francophone West African country.
In this episode, we discuss police brutality and reforms in Nigeria and across Africa. Our guest this week is Kemi Okenyodo, Founder/Executive Director, Rule of Law & Empowerment Initiative also known as Partners West Africa Nigeria. Kemi has over 20 years experience in security, governance, criminal justice reform and NGO management in New and West Africa.
In this week’s episode, we discuss the drivers and consequences of the frequent flooding across Africa. Our guest is Professor Taibat Lawanson, Professor of Planning and Heritage at University of Liverpool and Professor of Urban Management and Governance at the University of Lagos, Nigeria.
In this week’s episode, we focus on the controversial allegation of White Farmers’ Genocide in South Africa and Trump’s granting of Refugee Status to ‘persecuted’ white farmers in South Africa. I am joined by Professor Christi van der Westhuizen, Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Cape, Cape Town.
In this week’s episode, we focus on the forthcoming elections in Cameroon. Cameroonians are set to go to the polls in October to choose their president. President Paul Biya has been the President since 1982. But at 92 years of age, sooner or later, he would have to make way for a successor. Who will replace Biya? And will this election mark the dawn of a new democracy in the Central African State? To unpack these questions, I am joined by Dr Jude Mutah, Adjunct Professor at San Diego State University and Programne Officer, Africa, National Endowment for Democracy.