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Are Businesses in Africa Leaving Money on the Table by Ignoring Working Parents? with Soledad Sanchez Canamares
Jun 22, 2026
36m 50s
The Grandmothers Helping Solve Africa's Mental Health Crisis with Esther Tumbare
Jun 15, 2026
47m 44s
Can Financing Unlock Africa's EV Revolution Faster Than Technology? with Nena Sanderson
Jun 8, 2026
44m 15s
The Battle for Africa's Financial Rails: Stablecoins, Regulators, Cross Border Payments and Trade with Mimi Kufuor
Jun 1, 2026
52m 44s
The Untapped Trillion Dollar Opportunity in Africa’s Diaspora Economy with Nicholas Bassey
May 25, 2026
45m 27s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/22/26 | Are Businesses in Africa Leaving Money on the Table by Ignoring Working Parents? with Soledad Sanchez Canamares | Episode 230 with Soledad Sanchez Canamares, Family Friendly Workplace Policy Specialist at UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa, where she works with businesses, governments, and development partners to advance workplace policies that improve employee wellbeing, talent retention, workforce productivity, and long term business performance. As organisations across Africa and around the world face growing talent shortages, rising employee turnover, and changing workforce expectations, family frie... | 36m 50s | ||||||
| 6/15/26 | The Grandmothers Helping Solve Africa's Mental Health Crisis with Esther Tumbare | Episode 229 with Esther Tumbare, Chief Executive Officer of Friendship Bench, a pioneering Zimbabwean organisation transforming access to mental healthcare through community based solutions that have reached hundreds of thousands of people and expanded across multiple countries. Esther leads Friendship Bench's efforts to scale one of Africa's most recognised healthcare innovations while working closely with governments, public health systems, and community health workers to make mental healt... | 47m 44s | ||||||
| 6/8/26 | Can Financing Unlock Africa's EV Revolution Faster Than Technology? with Nena Sanderson✨ | electric vehiclesfinancing+4 | Nena Sanderson | M-KOPA | — | financingelectric vehicles+5 | — | 44m 15s | |
| 6/1/26 | The Battle for Africa's Financial Rails: Stablecoins, Regulators, Cross Border Payments and Trade with Mimi Kufuor✨ | stablecoinsregulators+4 | Mimi Kufour | KoinKoinChamber of Digital Assets and Blockchain Innovation | Ghana | stablecoinscross border payments+5 | — | 52m 44s | |
| 5/25/26 | The Untapped Trillion Dollar Opportunity in Africa’s Diaspora Economy with Nicholas Bassey✨ | diaspora investmententrepreneurship+3 | Nicholas Bassey | African Diaspora Network | Africa | diaspora economyinvestment+5 | — | 45m 27s | |
| 5/18/26 | Why Hiring and Paying Employees in Africa Is Harder Than Most Companies Expect with Ernestine Van Rappard✨ | hiring in Africapayroll management+3 | Ernestine Van Rappard | WorkpayY Combinator | KenyaAfrica | hiringpayroll+5 | — | 36m 22s | |
| 5/11/26 | The Future of Ecommerce in Africa and Why Speed and Reliability Is Everything with Dima Rasnovsky✨ | ecommercequick commerce+3 | Dima Rasnovsky | Glovo | Africa | ecommerceGlovo+5 | — | 39m 17s | |
| 5/4/26 | The Nigerian Entrepreneur Building Africa’s Sports Economy Through Boxing, Events and Entertainment with Ezekiel Adamu✨ | sports economyentrepreneurship+4 | Ezekiel Adamu | Balmoral Group | NigeriaLagos+1 | sports economyEzekiel Adamu+5 | — | 27m 22s | |
| 4/27/26 | Building Kenya’s Luxury Hospitality Industry, Nairobi’s Creative Economy, and the Future of Tourism with Shamim Ehsani✨ | luxury hospitalitycreative economy+3 | Shamim Ehsani | Tribe Hotels Group | NairobiKilifi+1 | luxury hospitalityNairobi+5 | — | 30m 02s | |
| 4/20/26 | Building High Performance Teams, Drone Delivery Systems, and Healthcare Logistics with Juliet Oshagbemi✨ | high performance teamsdrone delivery systems+3 | Juliet Oshagbemi | Zipline | GhanaRwanda+3 | drone deliveryhealthcare logistics+3 | — | 27m 57s | |
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| 4/13/26 | Africa’s Payments Problem Is Not What You Think – Inside Mobile Money Infrastructure with Nikolai Barnwell✨ | mobile moneypayments infrastructure+3 | Nikolai Barnwell | pawaPay88mph.ac | — | mobile moneypayments+3 | — | 39m 41s | |
| 4/6/26 | How School Meals Can Transform Africa’s Economy: Agriculture, Jobs and Growth with Mehrdad Ehsani✨ | school mealseconomic growth+3 | Mehrdad Ehsani | The Rockefeller Foundation | — | school mealsAfrica+5 | — | 39m 42s | |
| 3/30/26 | How Crypto and Regulation Are Reshaping Africa’s Financial System: Payments, Remittances and Digital Assets with Ayotunde Alabi✨ | cryptocurrencyfinancial regulation+4 | Ayotunde Alabi | Luno NigeriaSpektra+5 | NigeriaUnited Kingdom | cryptoregulation+5 | — | 44m 36s | |
| 3/23/26 | How Africa Can Own AI: From Talent to Infrastructure to Global Competitiveness with Amadou Daffe✨ | artificial intelligenceglobal competitiveness+3 | Amadou Daffe | Gebeya | Africa | AIAfrica+5 | — | 43m 04s | |
| 3/16/26 | How Precision Medicine and Genomics Could Transform Healthcare in Africa with Derrick Akpalu✨ | precision medicinegenomics+3 | Derrick Edem Akpalu | Revna Biosciences | — | precision medicinegenomics+4 | — | 48m 42s | |
| 3/9/26 | How Africa Can Build a Stronger Agribusiness Economy: Patient Capital, Food Security & Investment with Luc-Etienne Dandrieu✨ | agribusinessfood security+3 | Luc-Etienne Dandrieu | AlphaSeeds | — | Africaagribusiness+5 | — | 27m 19s | |
| 3/2/26 | The Trade That Kills Silently: Falsified Medicines and Pharmaceutical Crime in Africa with Foulo Basse✨ | falsified medicinespharmaceutical crime+3 | Foulo Basse | The Brazzaville Foundation | — | falsified medicinescounterfeit drugs+4 | — | 48m 07s | |
| 2/23/26 | Building Sustainable Manufacturing in Africa: Bamboo, Sanitation and Circular Supply Chains with Sander de Klerk✨ | sustainable manufacturingcircular supply chains+3 | Sander de Klerk | The Good RollEY | — | sustainable manufacturingcircular economy+5 | — | 35m 44s | |
| 2/16/26 | How Africa Can Become a Global Remote Work Hub: AI, Employer of Record & The Future of Work with Nicolas Goldstein | Episode 212 with Nicolas Goldstein, HR Tech entrepreneur and Co Founder of Breedj, an artificial intelligence powered talent marketplace transforming global hiring in Africa. With over fifteen years of experience in international recruitment, outsourcing, Employer of Record services, payroll compliance, and remote workforce management, Nicola joins the Unlocking Africa Podcast to explore how Africa can position itself at the centre of the future of work. Breedj is building the infrastructure... | 35m 43s | ||||||
| 2/9/26 | How Diaspora Capital Can Unlock Africa’s Next Generation of Scalable Businesses with Kanessa Muluneh | Episode 211 with with Kanessa Muluneh, serial entrepreneur, investor, and founder of Nyle Investment Group, a diaspora focused investment firm connecting global capital with high impact opportunities across Africa. Kanessa exited her first company at 21 and has since spent over a decade building, scaling, investing in, and advising businesses across Africa’s most important growth sectors, including agriculture, manufacturing, technology, and the digital economy. In this episode of the Unlock... | 37m 47s | ||||||
| 2/2/26 | Building Profitable IT Infrastructure for Global Remote Work From Africa with Francis Osifo | Episode 210 with Francis Osifo, Co Founder and CEO of Rayda, a global IT asset lifecycle management platform supporting remote and distributed teams in over 170 countries. As remote work reshapes how companies hire globally, one critical challenge remains under discussed: how businesses actually equip, manage, and retrieve devices for employees across borders. In this episode of the Unlocking Africa Podcast, Francis Osifo explains how Rayda is solving this problem by building the infrastruct... | 42m 41s | ||||||
| 1/26/26 | Bridging Africa’s $100 Billion Trade Finance Gap Through Agribusiness Exports with Dara Adekunle | Episode 209 with Dara Adekunle, Managing Partner and CEO of FARMTIES Capital, an investment firm financing export oriented African agribusinesses and strengthening Africa’s role in global trade. Dara brings deep experience in impact investing, innovative finance, and international trade to this conversation on one of the most critical and under examined constraints to Africa’s economic growth the trade finance gap facing agricultural SMEs. In this episode, we explore why Africa’s challenge ... | 48m 10s | ||||||
| 1/19/26 | Financial Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, and How to Build Markets That Work in Africa with Carl Manlan | Episode 208 with Carl Manlan, a development practitioner and global thought leader working at the intersection of financial inclusion, policy, entrepreneurship, and social impact across Africa and emerging markets. Carl brings deep experience from senior leadership roles at Visa, where he served as Vice President of Social Impact and Sustainability for the CEMEA region, and at Ecobank Foundation, where he was Chief Operating Officer leading programmes across 33 African markets, earning ... | 44m 28s | ||||||
| 1/12/26 | Africa’s $2 Trillion Instant Payment Boom and What It Means for Trade and Economic Growth with Sabine Mensah | Episode 207 with Sabine Mensah, Deputy CEO of AfricaNenda Foundation and co author of the State of Inclusive Instant Payment Systems in Africa 2025 report, one of the most comprehensive studies on Africa’s digital payments infrastructure. The SIIPS 2025 report reveals the extraordinary scale of Africa’s instant payments transformation, with 64 billion real time payment transactions worth nearly 2 trillion dollars processed in 2024 alone. Sabine shares what this rapid growth means for Africa’... | 46m 42s | ||||||
| 1/5/26 | Unlocking Diaspora Wealth: How Housing Investment Is Driving African Development with Robert Hornsby and Franck Tcheukado | Episode 206 with Robert Hornsby and Franck Tcheukado, Co Founder and Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Operating Officer of Jobomax Homes, a West African real estate developer focused on delivering secure, high quality housing for Africans in the diaspora and on the continent. Robert brings a unique perspective as a former US Air Force veteran turned entrepreneur, while Franck brings deep operational leadership from managing construction and project delivery across multiple West African cou... | 49m 21s | ||||||
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