In this podcast, I discuss a wide range of issues with Stephen Grootes, ranging from the impact of COVID-19 on the world to the June 2012 ruling of the South African Constitutional Court allowing for independent candidacy in elections, the Black Lives Matter movement and the removal of colonial statues in the USA and the UK, and the poor legacy… Read More »SA FM Sunrise with Stephen Grootes – 12 June 2020
In this interview with Ashraf Garda on SA FM (South African Broadcasting Corporation), I discuss the rising wave of populism around the world and the future of politics in South Africa. I argued that while the rise of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) as a political party is impressive, the world is yet to get a firm grasp on what… Read More »SA FM View Point with Ashraf Garda – 13 Nov 2018
In this podcast, I discussed some of the key outcomes of the deliberations of Africa’s future leaders at the fourth African Leadership Academy Model African Union conference, with topics ranging from how to redesign education systems in Africa to revolutionizing Africa’s agricultural landscape. I equally stressed that Africa cannot ‘entrepreneur’ its way out of its development challenges. As much as… Read More »Channel Africa: Change Your Game – 7 April 2017
This podcast features an intimate conversation hosted by Ashraf Garda on SA FM’s Afternoon talk, ranging from my personal entrepreneurial journey to my work developing entrepreneurial leaders at African Leadership Academy and my perspective about leadership in South Africa. Ashraf asked me for a quote at the end, so I said “If you always work hard at the things that… Read More »SA FM Afternoon Talk with Ashraf Garda – 14 March 2017
In this podcast with South Africa’s Power 98.7 FM, I discussed what motivated me to establish the Model African Union in 2013, some of the outcomes of the conference series and my hopes for Africa’s future leadership through this conference. For all intents and purposes, the conference is an academic simulation of the structures at the continental level, but I… Read More »Power 98.7 FM: About the Model African Union – 14 March 2016
In this podcast, I joined the BBC World Service to discuss the State of Emergency imposed by Nigeria’s president, Goodluck Jonathan, in three northern states of the country, after weeks of violence. In the conversation, I reflected on the different times in which a similar state of emergency had been declared in the country, and how these hardly helped to… Read More »BBC Newsday – 15 May 2013