Change Africa Podcast

Biola Alabi is a Nigerian media and investment executive, general partner at Atika Ventures, an early-stage VC, and the deputy chair of the Lagos Angel Network. Biola recounts her journey from a public health education to a career in media, drawing parallels between the foundational elements of both fields that are often thought to be dissimilar. We explore her work in Sesame Street and how the re...

Teddy Totimeh is a Ghanaian pediatric neurosurgeon and writer. Teddy reflects on his unconventional journey to becoming one of only 20 Ghana-based neurosurgeons, the challenges of his profession in a developing country, and the state and requirements for the transformation of the Ghanaian health care sector. His versatile interests, ability to seek inspiration from all aspects of life and reflecti...

In this special live episode hosted on TwitterSpaces, we spoke to Bright Simons, a Ghanaian public policy advocate, President of mPedigree, a mobile telephony platform and Vice-President of Imani Africa, a think tank. Our discussion centred around the role of government and policy in Ghana and Africa and the controversial Ghanaian e-levy as a showcase for policy formation.  Bright backgrounds the...

Nana Kofi Kusi-Boadum is a Ghanaian rapper, pharmacist and researcher known by the moniker KooKusi.  Kusi-Boadum narrates how his multidisciplinary interests led him to pursue a wide range of seemingly unconnected interests ranging from pharmacology, addiction research, rap to photography. Although he had no specific career goals, he would eventually tie all his different interests together to pur...

Banasco Nuhu Seidu and Ousman Umar are brothers and Cofounders of NASCO Feeding Minds, a nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing African immigration problems and changing the direction of humanitarian aid towards enriching the minds of Africans. Oumar describes how a lack of opportunities, education, and perceived perspectives combined with the narrative of a comfortable and easy life in Euro...

Environmental sustainability and community development are some of the main goals Joshua Amponsem set out to achieve when he founded the Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO). In this episode, he talks about the journey so far as a climate activist and GAYO’s dedication towards curbing the impact of climate change at a micro level in Sub-Saharan Africa. Progress has been recorded in disaster risk...

Welcome to Season 2 of the Change Africa Podcast! We kick-off this brand new season on a creative note, featuring Ghanaian writer and storyteller Akotowaa Ofori. She has been described as a weaver of words in many forms including; fiction, non-fiction and spoken-word poetry. In this episode, she shared with Host Isaac Kojo Yedonu Aboah her background and unique experiences in the literary world, h...

Michael Lawal is the CEO Of sendit.money, a social impact business focused on solving the pain of financial exclusion for Africans. Michael joins the Change Africa Podcast to discuss his entrepreneurial journey, philosophy on Africa's developmental lag, colonial programming, and overcoming fear. He tells his story of what inspired him to pursue this startup and the hurdles of being the renegade pr...

Dr Olumide R. Oyefeso and Afam Oyema are passionate about maternal and infant mortality in Africa. Afam, inspired by his father's dream to ensure Nigeria and Africa get quality healthcare access, co-founded GEANCO. Afam earned his bachelor's degree from Harvard University and his law degree from Stanford Law School. Yet, he turned down lucrative corporate law offers to help his father realize a lo...

Amadou Gallo Fall is the President of the Basketball Africa League, the premier men's basketball league on the continent. He has been at the helm of the game's transformation and acceleration in Africa for more than two decades notably as the founder of Sports for Education, Economic Development, an organization maximizing the impact of sports for social change and economic empowerment, and VP for...

Amini Kajunju is the Executive Director of the International University of Grand Bassam (a private university in La Cote D'Ivoire ) Foundation. Amini was the first African President and CEO of the Africa-America Institute (AAI) - the oldest non-profit organization of its kind in the US - where she initiated and directed the programs in higher education and skills training, including the Future Lea...

Adisa Amanor-Wilks is the founder and CEO of Abjel Communications, a social enterprise communications agency focused on Africa, and a former journalist of 18 years’ experience working in the public, private and charity sectors across continents. As the first Ghanaian on the podcast, Kojo and Adisa challenge the ideas of the known Ghanaian hospitality into a rabbit hole of tracing our counter-persp...

Lucy Nshuti Mbabazi leads Advocacy and Partnership for the UN's Better Than Cash Alliance in Africa and was previously AVP at Ecobank and Country Manager at Visa Rwanda. In this podcast, we explore Lucy's personal journey transitioning from Uganda to Rwanda after the genocide. After having been disconnected from her country and the continent after high school, Lucy tells an emotional story of how...

Viola Llewellyn is the CEO OF Ovamba Solutions Inc, an award-winning African “TradeTech” company that creates culturally attuned technologies to serve formal and informal African SMEs in the trade & commodities sectors. Ovamba’s solutions combine innovative Sharia compliant structures with eCommerce, logistics services, and technology to drive financial inclusion and promote growth. Our conver...

Charles Moyela is the Board Chairman of Junior Achievement Africa, one of the leading education-focused non-profits with programs across 16 countries. He is an accomplished, civic-minded award-winning communication specialist with a passion for telling authentic African stories. Our winding conversation on this episode delves into everything from the vibrations of Lagos and its role as the economi...

Elizabeth Bintliff is the CEO and Head of School of the Global Village Project. Elizabeth has more than a decade’s experience in scaling international development organizations in education, poverty and hunger alleviation. She takes us on a personal journey of her life, her love of arts, sensational stories about her father and grandmothers, and many exciting stories she’s never told. Support this...

Carl Manlan is the Chief Operating Officer of the Ecobank Foundation. Carl joins us on the Change Africa Podcast to discuss the African informal economy, rethinking the theoretical last mile, and approaches to solving the major challenges of the continent. Carl explores how we can rekindle young people’s belief in the continent by taking us into his personal journey and that of his family. Kojo an...

Change Africa Podcast is a weekly long-form conversational style dialogue with inspiring changemakers who are leading Africa's transformation. We seek to inspire, educate and transform young African leaders, specifically millennials, who see themselves standing in the shoes of change leaders we bring to our podcast. New episode every Wednesday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...