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Learning Africa
Curious and expansive Learning Africa is a podcast for anyone who wants to understand the continent beyond the headlines. Each episode explores the stories, people, and forces shaping Africa today, from political upheaval and economic transformation to culture, history, and the ideas driving the next generation. Hosted by Amadou Dieng, it's a space to ask honest questions, sit with complexity, and come away knowing Africa a little better than before.
Learning Africa
Latest Episodes
CAF Said Nothing, And FIFA's $20B World Cup Plan Died Anyway
When FIFA asked its 211 members to approve a $20 billion plan to sell a stake in the World Cup, UEFA voted 55-0 to boycott. CONCACAF revolted. Asia's confederation joined them. A senior FIFA adviser resigned in protest. CAF, the confederation r...
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M-PESA: The App That Became a Country's - Kenya- Bank
Before 2007, sending money across Kenya meant a bus ride and a stranger you had to trust. Then a loan-repayment pilot got hijacked by its own users, and became M-Pesa, the mobile money system that now moves more value in a year than Kenya's ent...
Cabo Verde: The Country the World Fell in Love With
Cape Verde just won the internet's heart at the World Cup, a nation of 530,000 that took defending champions Argentina to extra time. But the real story is what's underneath: a culture built on leaving, an economy that turned emigration i...
MADIBA: The man behind the icon, on Mandela Day
Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in a cell barely eight feet long. He refused an early release that would have required him to say something he didn't mean. He walked out of prison in 1990 and immediately set about building a country for the...
African Players in European Jerseys: a World Cup Tale
European football runs on African talent, but African clubs receive just 1.1% of global transfer income despite developing much of it. This episode traces the colonial pipeline that built modern recruiting, how FIFA's eligibility rules we...
