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Can art be a tool for repair? And what happens when exhibitions themselves move across borders?In this episode of Our World, Connected, host Christine Wilson dives into the relationship between art, architecture, and place — and how both disciplines are being used to challenge colonial narratives, spark dialogue, and imagine alternative futures.Christine is joined by writer, artist and curator Rosie Olang' Odhiambo, who speaks about her collaborative, cross-disciplinary practice and her recent exhibition, In Transit: Under Another Sky, which she co-curated with E.N. Mirembe. First shown in Kampala and Nairobi, and soon opening at the Africa Centre in London, the exhibition weaves together sound, image, and text to explore transience, marginal identities, and shifting geographies.We also hear from Kabage Karanja, an architect and co-founder of Nairobi's cave_bureau. Speaking from the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Kabage reflects on using caves as sites of cultural memory and of decolonial storytelling and his bold vision for architecture as a force of geological repair.Together, Rosie and Kabage explore what it means to tell stories of place, migration, and resistance — and how visual arts and architecture can both reflect and reshape the world we live in.Listen to Our World, Connected, brought to you by the British Council. Subscribe and follow for more thought-provoking discussions on culture, connection, and the power of education.Additional Resources & Links:British Council Artshttps://arts.britishcouncil.org/UK at the Venice Biennalehttps://venicebiennale.britishcouncil.org/cave_bureauhttps://www.cave.co.ke/Follow British Council Research and Insight:Newsletter – https://www.britishcouncil.org/research-insight/subscribe Twitter – https://twitter.com/InsightBritish Website - https://www.britishcouncil.org/research-insight

Episode 163 with Olu Alake, CEO of The Africa Centre, a cultural institution dedicated to celebrating and amplifying African and diaspora heritage. Since its founding in 1964, The Africa Centre has been a vibrant space for intellectual exchange, artistic expression, and community-building, evolving to meet the dynamic needs of the African diaspora in the UK and beyond.Under Olu's leadership, the Centre has expanded its reach through strategic partnerships, innovative programming, and cultural advocacy, cementing its reputation as a global hub for African excellence. From nurturing emerging artists, some of whom have gone on to win prestigious awards like the Turner Prize, to promoting entrepreneurship and thought leadership, The Africa Centre remains a crucible for creativity and transformation.In this conversation, we explore the Centre's journey, its role in reshaping narratives about Africa, and the exciting initiatives in store, from the UK-Kenya cultural season to the 104th anniversary of the Berlin Conference.What We Discuss With OluThe evolution of The Africa Centre since 1964 and its evolution in response to the changing needs of the African diaspora in the UK.How The Africa Centre balances its rich legacy with the evolving needs and engagement styles of modern audiences.The strategies The Africa Centre uses to ensure inclusivity and represent all of Africa, beyond just major countries.How The Africa Centre continues to promote intellectual and social conversations among African thinkers and changemakers today.Why the Centre has been instrumental in launching the careers of renowned African artists.Did you miss my previous episode where I discuss Inside the Business of Afrobeats: International Festivals, Culture & Global Influence? Make sure to check it out!Like this show? Please leave us a review here -- even one sentence helps!Connect with Terser:LinkedIn - Terser AdamuInstagram - unlockingafricaTwitter (X) - @TerserAdamuConnect with Olu:LinkedIn - Olu AlakeTwitter (X) - @TheAfricaCentreDo you want to do business in Africa? Explore the vast business opportunities in African markets and increase your success with ETK Group. Connect with us at www.etkgroup.co.uk or reach out via email at info@etkgroup.co.ukSubscribe to our newsletter for exclusive content, behind-the-scenes insights, and bonus material - Unlocking Africa Newsletter

For decades, US foreign aid has played a vital role in humanitarian assistance, development and global security.But last month, the US government – the world's biggest aid donor – announced a sudden 90-day freeze on foreign aid. This will have a devastating impact on communities globally who depend on it to survive. It has triggered widespread uncertainty across the global development sector.In the days following the decision, the harm was already visible. Reports show that antiretroviral drugs for HIV patients ran out, landmine clearance efforts stopped, and critical humanitarian operations were left in limbo.Although an exemption was later introduced for “life-saving humanitarian assistance”, its scope remains unclear. Many organisations are scrambling to understand the full implications of USAID's brutal shutdown.This episode examines these developments in detail. Experts formerly at USAID join us to assess what the freeze means for communities dependent on this funding and the global development sector, and what should come next.GuestsSara Pantuliano (Chief Executive, ODI Global)Elizabeth Campbell (Executive Director, ODI Global Washington and former Deputy Assistant Secretary, US State Department, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration)Sarah Charles (Former Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, USAID)Kate Almquist Knopf (Senior Advisor, Former Director of the Africa Centre for Strategic Studies, US Department of Defense, and Former Assistant Administrator for Africa, USAID)Related resourcesOut of the rubble (Insight, ODI Global)Donors In A Post-Aid World January 2025 update (Newsletter, ODI Global)What role should donors play in a post-aid world? (Think Change podcast, ODI Global)Investing in frontier economies – what can public-private collaboration achieve? (Think Change podcast, ODI Global)

Our host, Adrian Ellis speaks to Ore Disu, Director of The Institute, Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) on the mission and vision of MOWAA and how the institution is thinking about culture, museum praxis and the very idea of “The Museum” differently and within the African context.External references:MOWAA website: https://wearemowaa.org/Museum of West African Art Announces the Opening of the MOWAA Institute: https://wearemowaa.org/mowaa-institute-launch-announcement/The National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM): https://museum.ng/Igun Street: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igun_StreetBenin Bronzes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin_Bronzes Guest bio:Ore Disu has led the MOWAA Institute since January 2022 as its first Director, bringing to it more than a decade of experience in cultural programming, research, and stakeholder management for early-stage organizations. Educated at the University of Cambridge (BA in Architecture) and University College London (MSc in Urban Development Planning), she has implemented grants and contributed to the efforts of non-profit organizations including the Ford Foundation, Goethe Institute, Institute for Liberty and Democracy, Overseas Development Institute, Heinrich Böll Foundation, and the Africa Centre for Cities. From 2016 through 2019, she served in the UK's Department for International Development as Senior Research Partnerships Manager for the agency's governance and accountability program in Nigeria. She subsequently moved to a multi-national social enterprise, serving as the Government Relations and Partnerships Lead for pilot programs in Uganda, India, and Nigeria. She has been active as a consultant as the founding Executive Director of Nsibidi Institute in Lagos, Nigeria, and as an Associate of the UK-based firm The Policy Practice.

The RSA and the Africa Centre are teaming up to spotlight innovators driving social change through their cultural contributions. At the RSA in Black History Month, we'll explore how these emerging leaders are influencing global conversations and challenging traditional narratives, paving the way for a more inclusive and dynamic cultural landscape. We will discuss how to amplify the impact of African culture on the global stage and consider ways we can foster deeper connections between cultural institutions and the changemakers leading this transformation. Join us for an inspiring conversation that celebrates the power of African culture to create lasting social change. #BlackHistoryMonth Become an RSA Events sponsor: https://utm.guru/ueemb Follow RSA Events on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thersaorg/ Follow the RSA on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theRSAorg Donate to the RSA: https://thersa.co/3XPiI1k Like RSA Events on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theRSAorg/ Listen to RSA Events podcasts: https://bit.ly/35EyQYU Join our Fellowship: https://www.thersa.org/fellowship/join

The Mpox outbreak was declared a public health emergency in August 2024. Since then, more than 29,000 cases and 738 deaths have been reported across 15 Africa Union member states, according to the Africa Centre for Disease Control (Africa CDC).Despite some progress, such as the delivery of 200,000 vaccines to the DRC, challenges remain in getting the vaccines to the most affected communities. The outbreak has also evolved from a health crisis into a wider issue affecting businesses and livelihoods.Alan Kasujja speaks with BBC Africa Health Correspondent Dorcas Wangira and Monique Gieskes, Managing Director of Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC), the DRC's largest industrial palm oil producer with over 10,000 employees.

Dr. Mark Duerksen, a Strategic Communications Manager and Research Associate at The Africa Centre for Strategic Studies in Washington, DC joins John to highlight a significant escalation in disinformation campaigns throughout Africa, with Russia emerging as a central instigator.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Director of the Africa Centre for Security and Intelligence, Paul Boateng says Ghanaians should expect more brandishing of weapons in the run-up to the 2024 elections. Supporters of the NDC who went to the office of flag-bearer John Mahama for a clean-up exercise brandished machetes and debris.

In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews discusses the "end" of Black Employment Month aka Black History Month, King Charles' unapologetically White speech during a recent state visit to Kenya, what is and isn't authentic reparatory justice, and the ongoing White psychosis of the British royal family. - In this week's guest interview, Kehinde Andrews talks with Nels Abbey. They discuss amongst many tings, his formative years in foster care and boarding school and his working years from asset banker to media exec. They also discuss, topical news including the current UK's most diverse yet most far-right government in history, Nel's new book out next year The Hip Hop MBA uses hip hop as a model for how we think about economics. his new event Uppity a monthly forum for discussing Black issues in Black communities with the first event The Trial of Dominique Samuels happening earlier this week at The Africa Centre.  - Nels Abbey is a former asset management banker turned public intellectual, medical executive, broadcaster, satirist, author of "Think Like A White Man: A Satirical Guide to Conquering the World . . . While Black" (2019) and The Hip Hop MBA: Lessons in Cut-Throat Capitalism from Rap's Moguls (out spring 2024) and most recently founder of "Uppity: An Intellectual Playground For The Refined & The Boujee." - Guest: @nelsabbey (IG + T) Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) @kehinde_andrews (T) Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso - King Charles stops short of apology for ‘abhorrent' colonial violence in Kenyahttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/31/king-charles-stops-short-of-apology-for-british-colonial-violence-kenya Nels Abbey's Guardian Column https://www.theguardian.com/profile/nelson-abbey Boarding Schools: The System That Rules Britain - BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fcl1 UK to compensate Kenya's Mau Mau torture victims https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/uk-compensate-kenya-mau-mau-torture ‘Black face of white supremacy'' https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/features-news/2023/11/02/black-face-of-white-supremacy/ Canongate scoops banker-turned-writer Abbey's hip hop business 'bible'https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/canongate-scoops-banker-turned-writer-abbeys-hip-hop-business-bible The Hip-Hop MBA: What the Empires, Moguls, and Business of Rap Can Teach the World https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60741847-the-hip-hop-mba Uppity: An Intellectual Playground For The Refined & The Boujeehttps://www.instagram.com/uppityhq/ Why It's Okay to Change (I Did After Doing Psychedelics) https://medium.com/@dominiquetsamuels/how-psychedelics-changed-and-destroyed-my-life-768f10b7640d - THE PSYCHOSIS OF WHITENESS: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World Buy the Book:https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316675/the-psychosis-of-whiteness-by-andrews-kehinde/9780241437476

Ready to talk money? Personal finance, savings, pensions and retirement to living a soft life? Check out our recent chat with Selina Flavius from Black Girl Finance as part of our #PensionEngagementSeason series with Scottish Widows.Also, lookout for our next episode in the series where we'll be joined with a Scottish Widows pension expert. *Join us at our live show on 19 November at The Africa Centre we'll bring you an education yet fun-packed event featuring engaging conversations around finance and young people: https://bit.ly/3Fw4rNq If you're looking for support, advice and resources on pensions and retirement, head to the Scottish Widows website: https://www.scottishwidows.co.uk/retirement.html.PLANTMADE: Click here https://bit.ly/44oLLJy and use discount code, “90SBBY15”, which enables customers to receive 15%* off their first order. Information around the specific products received can be found on the information cards provided in the package or on our website.The podcast is powered by JBL - Click here - https://bit.ly/3taoGgJ and use code 90SBABY for 15% off all JBL products.Hello Fresh: "AD" Click here https://bit.ly/3EkmqFJ to enjoy an exclusive offer of 60% off your first box, along with a 25% discount for the following two months. Alternatively, you can use my code 2023BABY This special offer is available for new customers as well as those who cancelled their subscription twelve months ago or more. AVA ESTELL: Click here http://bit.ly/40zFutt and use discount code, “90SBABY20”, which enables customers to receive 20%* off their order.PO Box 5038 HORNCHURCH RM12 9JXJoin this channel Membership to get access to perks - https://bit.ly/3nNTY6XSubscribe to our clips channel - https://bit.ly/3hgMclUFollow us on socials: https://www.instagram.com/fredsantana/ https://www.instagram.com/temialchemy/ https://www.instagram.com/vpinthecut/ https://www.instagram.com/90sbabyshow/Thanks for watching! #90sBabyShow #PodcastThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5636230/advertisement

Clifford Allan Redin Savory (born 15 September 1935 in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) educated in South Africa (University of Natal, BS in Zoology and Botany) pursued an early career as a research biologist and game ranger in the British Colonial Service of what was then Northern Rhodesia (today Zambia) and later as a farmer and game rancher in Zimbabwe.“The Wild Life of Allan Savory”C.J. HadleyReprinted from the Fall issue of Range Magazine, 1999"Throughout that," says Savory, "there was constantly just one theme-poor land means poor people, social upheaval, political unrest. We farmers and ranchers have destroyed more civilizations than armies have done. Armies change civilizations. We farmers and ranchers destroy them, they never rise again. And I've been obsessed with this problem of why this is happening, why it's happened for 10-15,000 years, and why we've never been able to stop it.”Allan Savory's memoir reveals his involvement in preparing for guerrilla warfare through the British Colonial Service in the Northern Rhodesian Game Department. He learned local bush skills and animal tracking techniques that could be adapted for military use. Initially, his recommendations for military training were rejected, but his ideas gained traction when the elite all-white Special Air Service (SAS) incorporated his tracking and bush craft courses for counter-insurgency purposes.During the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965, Savory was a Captain in the Territorial Army. He quietly opposed this move. He proposed forming a Guerrilla Anti-terrorist Unit (GATU) to infiltrate and eliminate African nationalist insurgent groups, but internal disputes led to the unit's disbandment. Instead, the Tracker Combat Unit (TCU) was created, focusing on tracking and targeting insurgents.In 1970, Savory was elected to the Rhodesian Parliament, representing Matobo constituency. He later reformed the Rhodesia Party, aiming to secure the future of white Europeans in Rhodesia through strong government and economic superiority. However, his party supported racial segregation, and his controversial statements led to his removal from leadership.In 1977, Savory led the National Unifying Force (NUF) against Ian Smith's policies, but the party didn't win any seats. Savory opposed the Internal Settlement under Bishop Abel Muzorewa and, due to conflicts with the government, left Rhodesia in 1979 for self-imposed exile to focus on his scientific work.After leaving Zimbabwe, Allan Savory introduced holistic planned grazing to reverse desertification in grasslands. He co-founded the Center for Holistic Management in 1984, later forming the Savory Institute in 2009. He also established the Africa Centre for Holistic Management in Zimbabwe in 1992, aimed at training holistic land management techniques.Four principlesSavory stated four key principles of Holistic Management® planned grazing, which he intended to take advantage of the symbiotic relationship between large herds of grazing animals and the grasslands that support themNature functions as a holistic community with a mutualistic relationship between people, animals and the land. If you remove or change the behavior of any keystone species like the large grazing herds, you have an unexpected and wide-ranging negative impact on other areas of the environment.It is absolutely crucial that any agricultural planning system must be flexible enough to adapt to nature's complexity, since all environments are different and have constantly changing local conditions.Animal husbandry using domestic species can be used as a substitute for lost keystone species. Thus when managed properly in a way that mimics nature, agriculture can heal the land and even benefit wildlife, while at the same time benefiting people.Time and timing is the most important factor when planning land use. Not only is it crucial to understand how long to use the land for agriculture and how long to rest, it is equally important to understand exactly when and where the land is ready for that use and rest.In his TED talk “How to fight desertification and reverse climate change” in February of 2013 Savory shares the story of when he was a biologist in Africa in the 1950s tasked with improving the landscape for national parks. After reviewing evidence at the time, he comes to the conclusion that they must reduce the number elephants in an effort to help the land maintain stability. The government had a team of experts to evaluate his research, and they agreed. Savory says “Over the following years, we shot 40,000 elephants to try to stop the damage. And it got worse, not better. Loving elephants as I do, that was the saddest and greatest blunder of my life, and I will carry that to my grave.” Since then, he's determined to devoting his life to finding solutions. His system for livestock management mimicking nature works like this… Greatly increase the number of cattle, sheep, or goats confined on a fenced off piece of land for a short period of time. The animals will eat the grass, then pee, poop, and smash the remaining grass into the ground. At that time, they're moved to another paddock to repeat the cycle. This stores carbon and breaks down methane. In nature, large herds of animals are pushed out of an area due to predation. But with intensive rotational grazing, this is done manually using physical barriers.Still, Criticism of Allan savory stems from the methane gasses produced by the cattle needed for his regeneration efforts. As well as the claims cattle are still the problem and should be reduced, not increased. Sounds like the critics missed the part about getting rid of the elephants not working… Allan Savory and his wife Jody Butterfield live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is currently 87 years oldSource 1, Source 2, Source 3, Source 4Image Credit: menub.earth

Soldiers in the West African country of Niger announced a coup on national TV last week, saying they had dissolved the constitution, suspended all institutions and closed all borders. The coup was widely condemned, including by France, the UN and West African regional body ECOWAS. Niger was seen as the last solid ally of the West in the Sahel region. It's also a country seen as vital to U.S. counter-terrorism efforts in Africa. There are concerns that the security situation in Niger and across the Sahel could deteriorate further. President Bazoum's government has been a partner to European countries trying to stop the flow of migrants across the Mediterranean Sea, agreeing to take back hundreds of migrants from detention centres in Libya. He has also cracked down on human traffickers in what had been a key transit point between other countries in West Africa and those further north. On the programme this week, we look at why Niger matters and how the coup could be making a troubled region even more fragile. Why did the presidential guards turn on the man they were hired to protect? How did France squander its historic advantage in a Francophone country? Will this coup make the citizens of Niger safer — or are the only winners the armed groups who roam the Sahel? Could the crisis in Niger spread into a wider regional conflict? Shaun Ley is joined by: Paul Melly, consulting fellow at the Africa programme at Chatham house Idayat Hassan, senior associate for the Africa program of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies and director of the Centre for Democracy and Development Ebenezer Obadare, senior fellow of African studies at the Council on Foreign Relations Also featuring: Rama Yade, director of the Africa Centre at the Atlantic Council Chris Ogunmondede, editor of the pan-African international affairs publication The Republic Photo: Supporters of General Abdourahamane Tchiani rally in Niamey, Niger - 30 Jul 2023. Credit: ISSIFOU DJIBO/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock Produced by Max Horberry and Ellen Otzen

02.08.23 Join Aneeq Ur Rehman and Tariq Bajwa for Wednesday's show from 4-6pm where we will be discussing: “Terrorism” and Miracles Terrorism   Terrorism is a global threat that is affecting numerous countries across continents, Africa being one of them. The number of refugee camps scattered around the continent have become a source of recruitment for terror groups in Africa. Has this led to Africa becoming a breeding ground for terrorism? Miracles The concept of miracles in religion is one that divides believers and non-believers. At the outset, it is worth noting that none of the scriptures of Judaism, Christianity and Islam use the word ‘miracle' (or equivalent). Instead, all three use words that mean ‘wonder', ‘power ‘or, very often, ‘sign' to describe those events that are known to be miraculous. Join us as we discuss the significance of miracles and try to comprehend the true understanding of religious miracles. Guests Daniel Eizenga Ph.D - Research Fellow at Africa Centre for Strategic Studies Harun Maruf- Voice of America's Somali's Senior Editor Producers : Anam Mahmood and Aneeq Ur Rehman

02.08.23 Join Aneeq Ur Rehman and Tariq Bajwa for Wednesday's show from 4-6pm where we will be discussing: “Terrorism” and Miracles Terrorism   Terrorism is a global threat that is affecting numerous countries across continents, Africa being one of them. The number of refugee camps scattered around the continent have become a source of recruitment for terror groups in Africa. Has this led to Africa becoming a breeding ground for terrorism? Miracles The concept of miracles in religion is one that divides believers and non-believers. At the outset, it is worth noting that none of the scriptures of Judaism, Christianity and Islam use the word ‘miracle' (or equivalent). Instead, all three use words that mean ‘wonder', ‘power ‘or, very often, ‘sign' to describe those events that are known to be miraculous. Join us as we discuss the significance of miracles and try to comprehend the true understanding of religious miracles. Guests Daniel Eizenga Ph.D - Research Fellow at Africa Centre for Strategic Studies Harun Maruf- Voice of America's Somali's Senior Editor Producers : Anam Mahmood and Aneeq Ur Rehman

Curator Najlaa El-Ageli explores how Colonel Muammar Gaddafi colonised Libya's character and identity from the 1960s to its post-Arab Spring present, and how contemporary artists play with the totalitarian props he used to perform and enact control. During the 20th century, Libya became the main stage for much social change across the ‘Middle East' and North Africa, including anti-colonial resistance. Armed with his Third International Theory, and strong words against Western imperialism, the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi truly sought total power, control, and mass surveillance of his public - to become King of his own ‘United States of Africa'. Still today, ten years after the Arab Spring and Gaddafi's death, the legacy of the leader and his dictatorship continues to shape national identities. Najlaa El-Ageli, curator of Totalitarian Props, points out his signature sunglasses, headgear, and use of the colour green, contrasting the leader's ‘performance' - or pantomime - with lived experiences of his authoritarian regime. Beyond Libya, we look to the British colonisation of Egypt, and the ideals embodied by solidarity movements like pan-Africanism and pan-Arabism. Through the work of Tewa Barnosa, El-Ageli's details the role of humour in social coping - and what it was like to curate an exhibition with the younger artist, creating an exhibition which spans generations and diasporas. Totalitarian Props runs at The Africa Centre in London until 19 July 2023, as part of Shubbak Festival 2023. WITH: Najlaa El-Ageli, architect, curator, and founder of Noon Arts. Projects. She is the co-curator of Totalitarian Props. ART: ‘Silent Protests, Tewa Barnosa (2023)'. PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Follow EMPIRE LINES on Twitter: twitter.com/jelsofron/status/1306563558063271936 And Instagram: instagram.com/empirelinespodcast Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: patreon.com/empirelines

How do we address climate change, reduce poverty, and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet? Climate change is one of the defining issues of our time, and no country is immune.On this episode of The Development Podcast, we hone in on voices across Africa about the experience of climate change and how it intersects with poverty, and we hear from Richard Damania, World Bank's Chief Economist for Sustainable Development in Washington, DC. Tune in as we speak with Cathy Kamamu, a farmer from Kenya, Professor Denis Aheto, Director of the Centre for Coastal Management in the Africa Centre of Excellence in Coastal Resilience, Roselyn Fosuah Adjei, Director of Climate Change for the Ghana Forestry Commission, and Richard Damania, Chief Economist for Sustainable Development at the World Bank. Tell us what you think of our podcast here >>>. We would love to hear from you! Featured VoicesRichard Damania, Chief Economist for Sustainable Development, World BankRoselyn Fosuah Adjei, Director of Climate Change for the Ghana Forestry CommissionProfessor Denis Aheto, Director, Centre for Coastal Management, Africa Centre of Excellence in Coastal ResilienceCathy Kamanu, farmer from KenyaTimestamps[00:00] Welcome and introduction of the topic[01:56] Visions from Kenya: Everyday effects of climate change on a farmer[05:45] Data overview on the relationship between climate change and poverty[07:21] Visions from Ghana: The impact of climate change for coastal communities[10:08] Ghana: World Bank's Country Climate and Development Report[11:55] Deforestation in Ghana: How to protect the natural landscape of countries?[15:19] Addressing both climate change and poverty[19:01] Detox Development: Repurposing environmentally harmful subsidies[20:37] Hope (and concerns) on the horizon[22:33] Closure and thanks for tuning in!ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT PODCASTThis international development podcast brings together the data, research—and solutions—that can pave the way to a sustainable future. Through conversations focused on revealing the latest data, the best research, and cutting-edge solutions, let us introduce you to the folks working to make the world a better place. Listen and subscribe for free on your favorite platform. And rate our show! ;) Tell us what you think of our podcast here >>>. We would love to hear from you! ABOUT THE WORLD BANK GROUPThe World Bank Group is one of the world's largest sources of funding and knowledge for low-income countries. Its five institutions share a commitment to reducing poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development.

Leaders and representatives from various African countries are traveling to Eastern Europe in an effort to broker peace between Ukraine and Russia – and provide an Africa-led boost to the world's economy. Roger Hearing is joined by ambassador Rama Yade from the Atlantic Council's Africa Centre to discuss the visit. Foxconn, one of the biggest electronics manufacturers in the world, makes more than half of Apple's products as well as goods for Amazon, Dell and Sony amongst others. But how is the Taiwan-based giant coping amid increasing US-China tensions? The company's CEO Young Liu speaks to the BBC's Karishma Vaswani. With the Fed holding US interest rates this week, and inflation apparently back within manageable limits, now America's labour market is coming under scrutiny. (Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) greets South African President Cyril Ramaphosa (L). Archive image. Source Getty Images)

WELCOME BACK TO SEASON 9 of The GWA PODCAST! This week, we interview one of the most influential and groundbreaking artists alive, SONIA BOYCE! Born and raised in London, where she still lives today, Boyce has been taking the art world by storm since the 1980s when she and other trailblazing artists – such as Lubaina Himid and Claudette Johnston – emerged collectively onto the art scene as the Black Arts Movement. Putting images of women and their stories centre stage, they exhibited in shows such as Five Black Women in 1983 at the Africa Centre, Thin Black Line at the ICA in 1985, and The Other Story at the Hayward in 1989.  Since then, Boyce's indefatigable practice – spanning drawing, printmaking, photography, installation, video and sound – has constantly evolved, focusing on collaboration, often with an emphasis on improvisation as she works with other artists to create immersive installation environments. Taking on a broader ethos of "collage" and what it means today – both literally and metaphorically – Boyce's practice has brought together a multitude of people, places and perspectives to provoke invaluable conversations about the world we live in today. Often involving sound pieces, when I find myself amongst one of Boyce's works, it becomes easy to lose oneself inside this very special, unusual but gripping world.  Since 2014 Boyce has been a professor of Black Art and Design, at the University of Arts London. In 2016, she was made a Royal Academician, in 2019 received an OBE for her services to art, and of course in 2022 became the winner of the Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale, which she won for Feeling her Way – an immersive exhibition filled with bejewelled wallpaper and improvisatory song by women musicians – which is currently on view at Turner Contemporary in Margate before travelling to Leeds and later the Yale Centre for British Art.  https://turnercontemporary.org/bio/sonia-boyce/ https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sonia-boyce-obe-794  https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/mar/19/hylas-nymphs-manchester-art-gallery-sonia-boyce-interview  https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/sonia-boyce-ra-magazine-venice-biennale  https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/arts/design/sonia-boyce-venice-biennale.html https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001f0q7/imagine-2022-sonia-boyce-finding-her-voice  Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Research assistant: Viva Ruggi Sound editing by Mikaela Carmichael  Artwork by @thisisaliceskinner Music by Ben Wetherfield https://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/ -- THIS EPISODE IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY OCULA: https://ocula.com/

Harsha Walia, author of Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism, joins Erica to talk about the closure of Roxham Road, The Third Safe Country Agreement (TSCA), how they relate to global migration patterns and what is fuelling these patterns. Erica's article on the the acting director of the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)Jamaican migrant workers in Ontario pen open letter likening conditions to 'systematic slavery'Email us: badandbpod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this special episode sponsored by Lumens, Dan meets three extraordinary emerging talents in the field of design: London's Tola Ojuolape chats about her explorations of various cultures that went into her lauded design for the Africa Centre; Paris's Julien Sebban of Uchronia describes his mission to create ultra-colorful, radical interiors and furniture; and New York's Jacqueline Sullivan explains her new downtown gallery that proudly blurs the lines between collectible design and the decorative arts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Clement speaks to Eldred De Klerk, a Senior policing and social conflict specialist at Africa Centre for Security and IntelligenceSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest: Eldred De Klerk | Senior policing and Social conflict specialist at Africa Centre for Security and Intelligence Praxis The year 2023 could see a looming court battle between the DA and the national government to compel the state to devolve the powers of police to provincial governments. Policing expert Eldred De Klerk joins Africa to consider the shared responsibilities of the Minster and the National Commissioner, the structure of the 'national, provincial and local policing mix'  and the enforcement on the ground. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clarence speaks to Western Cape Premier Alan Winde and Eldred De Klerk Senior Policing expert Africa Centre for Security & Intelligence Praxis.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This Summer the United States updated its foreign policy for Africa when it shifted the focus from competing with China to improving governance and bolstering trade ties with the region. Now, three months later, the State Department's top diplomat for Africa, Assistant Secretary of State Molly Phee, joins Eric & Cobus for an in-depth discussion on the new strategy and how it's being received by stakeholders across the continent.Also, three prominent African scholars were invited to submit questions on any topic to the Assistant Secretary:Dr. Tobi Oshodi, lecturer in the department of political science at Lagos State University: @tobioshodiDr. Dr Folashadé Soulé, senior research associate at the Global Economic Governance program (Blavatnik School of Government) at Oxford University: @folasouleDr. Bob Wekesa, acting director of the U.S.-Africa Centre at Wits University: @bobwekesaJOIN THE DISCUSSION:Twitter: @ChinaGSProject| @stadenesque | @eric_olander Facebook: www.facebook.com/ChinaAfricaProjectFOLLOW CAP IN FRENCH AND ARABIC:Français: www.projetafriquechine.com | @AfrikChineعربي: www.akhbaralsin-africia.com | @AkhbarAlSinAfrJOIN US ON PATREON!Become a CAP Patreon member and get all sorts of cool stuff, including our Week in Review report, an invitation to join monthly Zoom calls with Eric & Cobus, and even an awesome new CAP Podcast mug!www.patreon.com/chinaafricaprojectSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Clarence speaks to Eldred De Klerk senior policing & Social conflict specialist Africa Centre for Security & Intelligence Praxis.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We're celebrating fifty episodes of EMPIRE LINES, with three specials recorded offline and in the museum space – this time in the Tate Modern, in London, for their latest exhibition Surrealism Beyond Borders. Returning to EMPIRE LINES, Richard Gray joins curator Carine Harmand to explore the works of Mozambican artist, Malangatana Ngwenya. Plus, curator Keith Shiri unveils Malangatana's restored mural at the all-new Africa Centre in London. White gnashing teeth, wide eyes, and clawed hands of humans and animals dominate Malangatana's Untitled (1967). Otherwise titled How Long Will This Go On?, the overwhelming oil work is a horrifying visualisation of the violence endured by his native Mozambique, as it struggled for independence from Portugal's Estado Novo until 1975. A prominent political figure, Malangatana joined the Mozambique liberation movement FRELIMO in 1964, and was imprisoned by the Portuguese secret police. Neither a propagandist nor a 'pamphleteer', his works nevertheless embody his own politics and biography, from his artist's block after prison, to his efforts to memorialise the 'Mozambican personality'. Practicing in both colonial and post-colonial Mozambique, he straddled empire lines across Africa, contesting the notion of Europeanisation as civilisation. Set against the exhibition and sounds of Mozambique musicians, curator Carine Harmand and Richard Gray reveal the two way flows between European modernism and Africanist art, and how the artist appropriated and benefitted from surrealism's international network. Plus, film curator Keith Shiri shares his experiences with the artist at the recent reopening of the Africa Centre. Surrealism Beyond Borders runs at the Tate Modern in London until 29 August 2022. The Africa Centre in London reopened on 9 June 2022. Part of EMPIRE LINES at 50, featuring three exhibitions ahead of their final weekend. See the episode notes for links to the last tickets, and the other episodes on Althea McNish and Ingrid Pollard. PRESENTERS: Carine Harmand, Assistant Curator of International Art at Tate Modern, and of Surrealism Beyond Borders. Richard Gray, postgraduate research student at SOAS University of London. He was the co-curator of Our Sophisticated Weapon: Posters of the Mozambican Revolution at the Brunei Gallery, and formerly a 'cooperante internacionalista' (internationalist co-worker), contracted as a teacher by the Mozambican government in the late 1970s. Keith Shiri, film curator, founder, and director of Africa at the Pictures, the London African Film Festival, and the Africa Media Centre at the University of Westminster. He is the curator of the Icons of the Africa Centre Series at The Africa Centre, and is a BFI London Film Festival Programme Advisor. ART: Untitled, Malangatana Ngwenya (1967). IMAGE: 'Untitled'. SOUNDS: Adlina Tatana // Alda Ngwenya, Vasco Sambo. PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Follow EMPIRE LINES at: twitter.com/jelsofron/status/1306563558063271936 Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: patreon.com/empirelines

Guest: Eldred De Klerk | Senior policing and Social conflict specialist at Africa Centre for Security and Intelligence Praxis Africa is joined by Eldred De Klerk, Senior policing and social conflict specialist at Africa Centre for Security and Intelligence Praxis to talk about why only two Farlam Commission recommendations were implemented 10 years later Eldred says that the issue is that we need to do more than demand the implementation of a bunch of recommendations. Even if all of it was implemented, the South African Police Service (SAPS) would not necessarily have been any different todaySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When did you last take part in a protest? Perhaps you signed a petition; joined a debate on social media; wrote to your MP or read an impassioned poem. In this episode Lemn is joined by Shami Chakrabarti to examine how campaigners have used language to further their aims throughout the centuries. Together, they listen to inspiring voices from the British Library Sound Archive, from leaders such as Nelson Mandela to campaigners fighting for LGBTQ rights, punk musicians and suffragettes such as Christabel Pankhurst.  Described in The Times as "probably the most effective public affairs lobbyist of the past 20 years," Shami Chakrabarti is a barrister and human rights activist, as well as Member of the House of Lords and former Director of advocacy organisation Liberty. Recordings in the episode in order of appearance:  Christabel Pankhurst speaking after her release from Holloway Prison on 18th December 1908.  British Library shelfmark: 1CL0025836    An extract from Nelson Mandela's speech made in April 1964 at The Rivonia Trial. Restored and transferred by the British Library from the dictabelt originals loaned by The National Archives of South Africa and © The National Archives of South Africa.  British Library shelfmark: C985   An oral history interview recorded with Mr Kemp from Nottingham, in November 1982. Part of the Nottinghamshire Oral History Collection: Making Ends Meet Project. British Library shelfmark: UUOL066/14    Member of the Gay Liberation Front, Luchia Fitzgerald, speaks to Dr. Sarah Feinstein in 2016 as part of Manchester Pride's OUT! oral history project. Thanks to Archives+ in Manchester for this extract. © Luchia Fitzgerald and Archives+. British Library shelfmark: UAP007  The Hooters perform ‘We shall Overcome' at the Hooters' club in Birkenhead in 1965. The recording was found at Archives+, Manchester, it's part of the Stan Mason folk music archive and was digitised as part of the Unlocking our Sound Heritage (UOSH) project.  British Library shelfmark: UAP004/5 S2 C1  Barack Obama speaking to his supporters in January 2008, after losing New Hampshire's Democratic primary to Hilary Clinton. Popularly known as the ‘Yes we can' speech. © Barack Obama. British Library shelfmark: 1SS0009809  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 2018 PEN Pinter Prize acceptance speech. The recording was made at the British Library. With thanks to The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited.  British Library shelfmark: C927/1981  Labour MP Jess Phillips's address to the House of Commons in January 2019. Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.  Alice Walker reads her poem ‘First they said'. The recording was made at the Africa Centre in May 1985 and it is part of the African Centre Collection, digitised by the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project.  British Library shelfmark: C48/56  Adrienne Rich reads her poem ‘Power' at Conway Hall in June 1984 as part of the 1st International Feminist Book Fair collection. The recording was digitised by the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project.  British Library shelfmark: C154/2  Benjamin Zephaniah performing his poem ‘This policeman keeps on kicking me' at the Poetry Olympics festival, 1982. Recorded by the British Library at the Young Vic Theatre.  British Library shelfmark: C92/2 C43  ‘Black and White for Apartheid' performed by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger in December 1964. It is part of the African Writers Club collection of radio programmes recorded in the 1960s in London.  British Library shelfmark: C134/375  Extracts from the British Library event called ‘Banned Books Week: Poetry in Protest' in September 2021. Myanmarese-British poet Ko Ko Thett and Dr Choman Hardi, poet and scholar, speak to columnist Kate Maltby.  An extract from ‘Oh Bondage Up Yours', the 1977 debut single by X-Ray Spex. © BMG, X-Ray Spex/Poly Styrene, Westminster Music Ltd/TRO Essex Group.  British Library shelfmark: 1CD0198888 

BC and Anton welcome the founder of the ONE AFRICA movement, Mika Chavala, and discuss Invest Fest, the crypto country, Afropolitan, and the reopening of London's historic Africa Centre.

Africa is joined by Eldred De Klerk, Senior policing and Social conflict specialist at Africa Centre for Security and Intelligence Praxis to talk about the mass killings in Cape Town and the Western Cape See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Francesco La Camera has been the Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) since April 2019.Under Francesco's leadership the Agency has forged a series of new strategic partnerships with UN organisations including UNDP, UNFCCC and Green Climate Fund among others. A key priority of his tenure is to implement a more action-oriented approach to the Agency's work.Previously, Francesco served as Director-General of Sustainable Development, Environmental Damage, EU and International Affairs at the Italian Ministry of Environment, Land & Sea since 2014. Francesco held number of roles at the Italian Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea. As the national coordinator for climate, environment, resource efficiency and circular economy, he led the Italian delegation to UNFCCC's COP 21 to 24 and the EU Presidency at COP 20. He was responsible for the preparation and organisation of Italy's G7 Environment Presidency in 2017. He served as co-chair of the Africa Centre for Climate and Sustainable Development established in Rome in partnership with FAO and UNDP and co-chaired the Financial Platform for Climate and Sustainable Development in partnership with the Italian Development Bank Cassa Depositi e Prestiti. He has also coordinated a number of national strategies including on sustainable development, green finance and fossil fuel subsides among other things.Francesco was a lecturer of Sustainable Development at the University of Cosenza and of Environment & Land Economics at the University of Roma 3. He is a graduate of the University of Messina in Political Sciences (Economic Policy major). Further reading: IRENA World Energy Transitions Outlook https://irena.org/publications/2022/Mar/World-Energy-Transitions-Outlook-2022

Africa's top public health body has urged all those buying COVID-19 vaccines for the continent to place orders with South Africa's Aspen Pharmacare, saying the market was key to developing vaccine manufacturing on the continent. The Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention says it was doing everything it could behind the scenes to prevent a situation where Aspen closes its facility due to a lack of orders. A company executive says this was hailed as a game-changing moment for an under-vaccinated continent frustrated by sluggish Western handouts, but Aspen's COVID-19 vaccine plant now risks shutting down after receiving not a single order.

This is the second Digital single to be taken from the City Heat Mini album. Cat no RE:WARM 008 City Heat where a part of the Brit soul scene that was a convergence of many influences. US and UK soul, jazz and funk, hip hop, Caribbean sound system culture and the incredible emerging machine funk of Chicago and Detroit house. Regulars at club nights like Soul II Soul's Africa Centre sessions, Dance Wicked, The “Do's” and Norman Jay's Rare Groove workouts at the Bass Clef in Hoxton, Simon and Jo wanted to contribute music for this beautifully diverse, vibrant scene. You can preorder the full vinyl version over on the Warm Agency Bandcamp page shipping on or around 06.05.2022. https://warmagency.bandcamp.com/album/city-heat

1.4 million people died from TB-related illnesses in 2019. In this episode of Microbe Mail, we are talking about diagnostic tests for TB – the right test, for the right patient, from the right specimen type, with the right interpretation. South African TB Guidelines can be found https://www.nicd.ac.za/diseases-a-z-index/tuberculosis-general/ (here) YOUR FEEDBACK ON THIS EPISODE - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdS9B34Bd0Yi6h2EdjPxJb3hO-pb512_tFQzEyCiRFYWzUNEQ/viewform?usp=sf_link (HERE)! About our Guest: Dr Nina von Knorring is a Pathologist in Clinical Microbiology (FCPath) at the National Health Laboratory Service/University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is based at the Mycobacteriology Referral Laboratory in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, since 2019. Nina trained in Germany and UK (MRCOG, Diploma in Genitourinary Medicine). Her subsequent employment as research clinician at the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu Natal and Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute. Visit the Microbe Mail https://microbemail.captivate.fm/ (website) to sign up for updates E-mail: mail.microbe@gmail.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgaP3aUNkjrgOxR8Ei6UaEw (Microbe Mail) Instagram: https://instagram.com/https:/www.instagram.com/microbe_mail/ (Microbe_Mail) 

This is our second "ChangeMaker Snapshot" - shorter episodes featuring ABC students or alumni and the stories of how is at work through them making a difference in the lives of people in Africa.On this episode Dr. Jeremiah Pitts, Vice Chancellor of African Bible University (ABU) in Kampala, Uganda, interviews ABU alumnus, Dr. Rogers Atwebembeire. Rogers is pastor of New City Community Church in Kampala, which meets for worship in the Chapel on our campus. He is also the East Africa Regional Director of the Africa Centre for Apologetics Research (ACFAR), a ministry equipping believers in Africa for the defense of the faith, biblical discernment and cult evangelism.To find some of Rodgers' sermons and videos on the webpage of The Gospel Coalition, Africa Edition - CLICK HERE.For more information about ABC, visit our website: www.africanbiblecolleges.com.Or send us an email at podcast@africanbiblecolleges.net.If you would like to make a donation to ABC, here is the donations page of the ABC websiteThe music on the podcast is by Psalm Project Africa.Host: Tim Kay, Vice President of ABCProducer: Drew KaySupport the show (http://africanbiblecolleges.com/donate)

The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) has said the government should “immediately” apply the estimated accumulated balance of GH¢948 million in the Price Stabilization and Recovery Levy (PSRL) account to cushion petroleum consumers instead of waiting for parliament, which is currently on recess, to grant a two-month suspension of the PSRL “when there is accumulated cash to assuage the suffering of the consumers immediately”.

Precious Phiri is a training and development specialist in regenerative agricultural practices and community organizing in Zimbabwe. Her main interest lies in working with rural communities to fight and reverse poverty, desertification, loss of wildlife, and climate change and its effects. She has recently founded an organization called EarthWisdom with the knowledge of her 9 year career as a Senior Facilitator at the Africa Centre for Holistic Management (ACHM) in Zimbabwe. In this conversation we talk about how regenerative management is not only healing land but also communities in areas that are marked by the legacy of colonialism. Precious knows how to work with communities and get them to unite on the common goal of healing land, and she also talks about the importance of tackling historic backgrounds and myths mindsets that may prohibit communities from engaging in transformative actions that can change the trajectory of the lives of the people and their lands.

8:55 | Political scientist Dr. Ashley Esarey unpacks the White House's decision not to send US diplomats to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, what implications it could have on Canada, and international stability. 30:33 | Calgary-based freelance writer Marcello Di Cintio explains how he recently found himself as an advocate for decentralizing emergency response across Alberta. He took to Twitter over the weekend after his 95 year-old grandmother fell down and had to wait one hour before paramedics arrived. 45:25 | Lawyers Reakash Walters and Joshua Sealy-Harrington along with the Africa Centre's Sharif Haji discuss what the recent verdicts in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, and jury awarding $25 million in damages over deadly 2017 Charlottesville far-right rally, tell us about racism in North America.

Allan Savory is my guest on Episode 143 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Allan Savory, born in Zimbabwe and educated in South Africa (University of Natal, BS in Zoology and Botany) pursued an early career as a research biologist and game ranger in the British Colonial Service of what was then Northern Rhodesia (today Zambia) and later as a farmer and game rancher in Zimbabwe. In the 1960s he made a significant breakthrough in understanding what was causing the degradation and desertification of the world's grassland ecosystems and, as a resource management consultant, worked with numerous managers on four continents to develop sustainable solutions. He served as a Member of Parliament in the latter days of Zimbabwe's civil war and became the leader of the opposition to the ruling party headed by Ian Smith. Exiled in 1979 as a result of his opposition, he immigrated to the United States, where he continued to work with land managers through his consulting business. The growth of that business, a desire to assist many more people and the need for furthering his work led him to continue its development in the nonprofit world. In 1992 Savory and his wife, Jody Butterfield, formed a non-profit organization in Zimbabwe, the Africa Centre for Holistic Management, donating a ranch that would serve as a learning site for people all over Africa. In 2009 Savory, Butterfield, and a group of colleagues co-founded the Savory Institute in Boulder, Colorado to serve the world through an international network of entrepreneurial innovators and leaders committed to serving their regions with the highest standards of Holistic Management training and implementation support. The Africa Centre became the first of the Savory Institute's locally led and managed “hubs.” Savory's book, Holistic Management: A New Framework for Decision-Making (Island Press, 1999), describes his effort to find workable solutions ordinary people could implement to overcome many of the problems besetting communities and businesses today. In 2003, Allan Savory received Australia's International Banksia Award “for the person or organization doing the most for the environment on a global scale,” and in 2010 Savory (and the Africa Centre) received the Buckminster Fuller Institute's Challenge award for work that has “significant potential to solve humanity's most pressing problems.” A TED talk Savory gave in 2013 has received over 3.4 million views and in 2014 was voted one of the 50 most intriguing TED talks of all time. The Savory Institute is one of 11 finalists in the Virgin Earth Challenge, a $25 million initiative for the successful commercialization of ways of taking greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere and keeping them out with no countervailing impacts. https://savory.global

Guest: Eldred De Klerk | Senior policing and Social conflict specialist at Africa Centre for Security and Intelligence Praxis The DA held a protest against national government Single Service Police plan which seeks to centralise policing. According to the political party, the plan would see metro policing departments absorbed into the national police service, taking away municipality's power to set its own local policing priorities. Eldred de Klerk, from Africa Centre for Security and Intelligence Praxis, unpacks while a centralised police force is not an entirely bad idea.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest: Sarah Howie | The Director at the Africa Centre for Scholarship Professor Sarah Howie, director of the Africa Centre for Scholarship at Stellenbosch University, has researched the effect that COVID has had on South African children and the contexts framed by political, cultural, economic and systemic histories and current realities.  She strongly emphasizes the necessity for drive to bring children back to school premises.  Education is a complex challenge during Covid-19 and According to Howie, in the worst-case scenario, adult literacy rates could plummet to where they were around 40 years ago. Pandemic-related closures of Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres across South Africa - some temporary and some permanent because of financial struggles -  have taken a toll on learner literacy and have caused many children to fall out of the system entirely.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Four countries in Africa have entered their fourth wave of surging COVID-19 infections. According to the Africa Centre for Disease Control, Algeria, Kenya, Somalia and Tunisia are seeing infections rise again for a fourth time since the pandemic. Less than 2-percent of the continent's population is fully vaccinated as countries continue to struggle in securing COVID-19 vaccine doses.

A global shortage of timber is causing challenges for the construction industry. David Hopkins is managing director of the Timber Trade Federation, and tells us what has caused the problem. And we hear about a shortage of garden sheds in the UK from retail analyst Kate Hardcastle. Also in the programme, the BBC's Theo Leggett reports on the growth of the British electric commercial vehicle maker Arrival. Only around 2% of people living in Africa are fully vaccinated against coronavirus, but the African Union hopes to reach 60% within a year. It has signed a deal for 400 million shots of Johnson and Johnson's vaccine, and Dr Ahmed Ogwell, deputy director of the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, discusses the challenges the continent faces in getting shots into people's arms. Barcelona's football star Lionel Messi is transferring to Paris St Germain, subject to a medical examination. Messi's biographer Guillem Balague tells us what is known about the new contract. Plus, our regular workplace commentator, Stephanie Hare, explores how best to approach giving and receiving feedback so that it is actually useful.

In this week's CER podcast, Ian Bond, our Director of Foreign Policy, speaks to Abdoul Salam Bello, Alternate Executive Director at the World Bank and non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Africa Centre, and our 2020-21 Clara Marina O'Donnell fellow, Katherine Pye about the situation in the Sahel region of Africa. Katherine recently published a CER policy brief, 'The Sahel: Europe's forever war?', which considered the escalating conflict there and Europe's involvement in it. This podcast episode expands on her paper, and she and Abdoul Salam discuss the issues driving the various conflicts and what national and global institutions can do to address them. Music by Edward Hipkins Produced by Rosie Giorgi

In this week's episode, Louisa and the Fantastic Fo speak to Innocent Mutanga, a social entrepreneur and finance professional. Innocent has been in HK for over 7 years after moving from Zimbabwe as a refugee. He shares his remarkable story of fleeing to Hong Kong, living homeless for months as a refugee, winning the right to study, and joining a global financial company before starting The Africa Centre.One of our longer episodes due to the sheer depth of the conversation, we touch on a lot of topics ranging from the impact of colonialism, to the history of Chungking Mansions and  our old friend Mr "single narrative ". The perfect episode for the long weekend, hope you enjoy listening as much as we did.--We love putting the show together for you, and we hope you love it too! If you do, a great way to help us grow is to subscribe to the show and rate/review us on your podcast app.  If you have any questions, comments or potential guests for us, you can reach us on social media or by  email:  Twitter | Instagram | EmailNotes and links from this episode:Guest Instagram: @innocent_mutanga | @africacentrehkBook Recommendation: Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeMusic Recommendation: Ndolwane Super Sounds and Oliver Mtukudzi 

The window of opportunity to stabilize global temperature rise to 1.5°C is closing fast. And yet, recent trends point to an ever-widening gap between where we are and the pathway on which we need to be in order to achieve this target.  Last week’s release of the World Energy Transitions Outlook preview from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) highlighted that gap. It also outlines global strategies towards carbon-neutrality by 2050. The report focuses not only on the end-point, but also what needs to happen now. It looks at the cost outlook for renewables, the suite of other technologies that will be needed as well, and how the transition will unfold differently in different regions of the world.  In this edition of Columbia Energy Exchange, host Jason Bordoff is joined by Francesco La Camera to discuss the Outlook report and its findings. Francesco La Camera is the Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Previously, Mr. La Camera served as Director-General of Sustainable Development, Environmental Damage, EU and International Affairs at the Italian Ministry of Environment, Land & Sea since 2014. He served as co-chair of the Africa Centre for Climate and Sustainable Development established in Rome and co-chaired the Financial Platform for Climate and Sustainable Development. He began his career as an economic analyst at the Italian Ministry of Budget and Planning.

March 17th, 2021 marks the 21st anniversary of the infamous Kanungu tragedy, in which the cult known as the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God murdered hundreds of its followers in a burning church. What have Christians in East Africa learned in the generation since this event? Both the church and the general public are still highly vulnerable, and evidence of our crisis of discernment is everywhere. This statement by Rodgers Atwebembeire, director of the Africa Centre for Apologetics Research, is a challenge to make vigilance and discipleship our legacy.

Guests 1) Eldred De Klerk | Senior policing and Social conflict specialist at Africa Centre for Security and Intelligence Praxis 2) Richard Mamabolo | Spokesperson at Popcru See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest: Eldred De Klerk | Senior policing and Social conflict specialist at Africa Centre for Security and Intelligence Praxis   A man was shot dead on Wednesday morning near Wits University. It is alleged that he died after police fired rubber bullets at Wits University’s protesting students at the Braamfontein campus. An IPID investigators have been deployed to determine if this was a police shooting. Eldred de Klerk speaks about police protocol when dispersing protestors and if it was followed in this instance.    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sorry for the issues again! Pitchblack Mixtapes is streaming every Wednesday 8PM GMT during UK lockdown at mixcloud.com/live/bengomori My shows are supported by my Patreon followers. If you want to show your love for my podcast and what I do, you can give from less than 50p per episode to support me and in return you can enjoy perks like guestlist benefits for my gigs, free downloads, exclusive mixes, exclusive previews of my tracks, bonus Pitchblack Mixtapes and extended versions of my club sets patreon.com/bengomori Pitchblack Mixtapes is an offshoot of Pitchblack Playback, the event I host where people come together to listen to albums on big immersive sound systems in the dark. Pitchblack Mixtapes started life as an IRL event where I DJed a range of emotive and trippy music to a seated audience, and it became a live stream during lockdown. Find out more about our events at www.pitchblackplayback.com Tracklist: Kid Fonque X Jonny Miller Sarhalel Featuring Toshi (Dark Reprise)  Billie Eilish & ROSALÍA - Lo Vas A Olvidar Kollektiv Turmstrasse - SPHÄRE  Suzanne Vega explains 'Tom's Diner' : 'Tom's Diner' acapella - Words & Music, BBC, 1994 Suzanne Vega- Tom's Diner  Jill Scott - Jilltro  Jill Scott - Gettin' In The Way DJ Shadow interview excerpt - Across The Line, BBC Radio Ulster, 1996  DJ Shadow - What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4)  Kanye West Feat. Mos Def, Swizz Beatz, Raekwon & Charlie Wilson - Lord Lord Lord Jazzie B on the Africa Centre, RBMA Interview Soul II Soul - Dance    Alex Albrecht - Sunshower  Ryuta Muramatsu - Select of Pattern Antoine Kogut - Oeillet Noir (Flegon Remix) Au Revoir Simone - Only You Can Make You Happy (Deradoorian Remix)   Sinead O'Brien - Strangers in Danger David Bowie - Win

Tre' has over 25 years of senior-level experience as an executive and consultant in a variety of industries on six continents and 35+ countries. He has worked directly with executives at several Fortune 1000 organizations in addition to multi-stakeholder cross-sector projects that involve government, communities, industry, and NGOs. Significant experience in food and agriculture providing advisory and operational support from farm to table. Working directly within the food supply ecosystem supporting the design and connection of farmers to distributors to Restraunteurs. Food brands and organizations include General Mills, EPIC Bars, Applegate Foods, Woods Hill, Africa Centre, Adelita, House in the Wild & Pier 4. In addition, he serves on the board of the American Grassfed Association.Tre' is the Founding Partner of nRhythm which created the Regenerative Framework. This framework takes a holistic, living systems-based approach to organizational design and management. Tre and Drea talk about how to use this framework within a hospitality context. Connect with Tre:https://www.nrhythm.co/FB & IG - @nrhythm.cohttps://www.linkedin.com/company/nrhythm/Connect with Dreawww.wearepreshift.comFB & IG - @wearepreshifthttps://www.linkedin.com/company/wearepreshift

In today's episode we continue our series on regenerative agriculture, why it is so important for soils, the environment, and all human life. Joining us for this episode is a legend is this field, Allan Savory. Allan's storied career started more than 60 years ago in a country no longer known by the same name. He was born in Rhodesia in 1935 and received his Bachelor of Science in Zoology and Botany from South Africa's University of Natal. He pursued an early career as a research biologist and game ranger in the British Colonial Service of what was then Northern Rhodesia (today Zambia) and later as a farmer and game rancher in Zimbabwe. During the 1960's, Allan made a significant breakthrough in understanding what was causing the degradation and desertification of the world's grassland ecosystems and worked with numerous managers on four continents to develop sustainable solutions. In 2003, Allan received Australia's International Banksia Award “for the person or organization doing the most for the environment on a global scale,” and in 2010 Savory (and the Africa Centre) received the Buckminster Fuller Institute's Challenge award for work that has “significant potential to solve humanity's most pressing problems.” A TED talk Savory gave in 2013 has received over 7 million views and in 2014 was voted one of the 50 most intriguing TED talks of all time. Additionally, Allan is the author of 6 books covering aspects of Holistic Management practices, and how they can be applied to restore the Earth's environment thru management of grassland ecosystems. To learn more about Mr Savory and his work please visit: Savory Institute Allan Savory TED Talk

Haul back through the spread of regenerative agriculture in recent decades, and Allan Savory is there. His global influence is hard to overstate. Here we chat about his extraordinary life, and the evolution of his insights that have proved so transformative for so many. Thinking holistically is one thing. But how do we actually manage our lives and societies holistically? And ultimately, how do we engage the institutions that we've come to so distrust, to enable regeneration at scale - in whatever our role or walk of life? Far from just in agriculture, but certainly not without it. Allan believes it's possible, and proposes how it might be done. Allan's the founder and President of The Savory Institute. He's also Chair and co-founder, with wife Jody Butterfield, of the Africa Centre for Holistic Management back home in Zimbabwe. His TED talk has now been viewed over seven million times. And his most valued award was Australia's esteemed International Banksia Award (picture on the website below) for the person doing the most for the environment on a global scale. This episode marks what would have been the 77th birthday of the bloke who introduced me to systems thinking and living 20 years ago – a man who somehow did find his way in academia, albeit in notably different ways, the late Professor Frank Fisher. I couldn't imagine a more fitting guest to mark the occasion, than Allan. We met online for this conversation on Saturday 22 November 2020. Title slide pic: Allan Savory. You'll see a terrific selection of other photos on the website (supplied) - https://www.regennarration.com/episodes/075-regenerating-civilisation Music: Faraway Castle, by Rae Howell and Sunwrae. Scotland the Brave, by Eric M. Armour - https://freemusicarchive.org/music/AS220/AS220_1992_Compilation/14_Eric_M_Armour_-_Scotland_the_Brave - Sourced from the Free Music Archive under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Get more: You can also hear a special extra to this episode with Allan - https://www.regennarration.com/episodes/075-extra-the-domino-effect The Savory Institute, including Allan's famous text and a new handbook, with courses, global network etc. - https://savory.global/ The Africa Centre for Holistic Management - https://africacentreforholisticmanagement.org/ Allan's 2020 Tony Coote Memorial Lecture for The Mulloon Institute (lecture starts 7 minutes in) - https://savory.global/tony-coote-memorial-lecture/ And you can find my conversations with some of those mentioned in our conversation (such as Terry McCosker in ep. 67 & the Henggelers in the Kimberley in ep. 25) – https://www.regennarration.com/episodes Thanks to the generous supporters of this podcast, for making it possible in 2020. If you too value what you hear, and have the capacity at this time, please consider joining them by heading to our website at https://www.regennarration.com/support. Thanks for helping to keep the show going! Get in touch any time by text or audio at https://www.regennarration.com/story And thanks for listening.

WARNING: This podcast episode contains discussion about trauma, and also mentions complex trauma, domestic violence, sexual abuse and childhood abuse. Please be advised. Simone Saunders is a registered social worker and counsellor in Calgary, Alberta. She has been working in the field of mental health since 2016 and currently specializes in trauma. Simone has become passionate about normalizing mental health within the BIPOC community, and seeks to make mental health resources more accessible. Tag us on Instagram with your takeaways! @LoriStreator and @TheCognitiveCorner   RESOURCES: follow the Africa Centre on Instagram learn more about ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences Study)   DISCLAIMER: This podcast is not intended for diagnostic or treatment purposes, and is for educational use only. It is not to be used in place of treatment/therapy. If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health issues, please reach out to the nearest appropriate professional.

The Regional Expert Committee on Traditional Medicine for COVID-19 formed by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and the African Union Commission for Social Affairs has endorsed a protocol for phase III clinical trials of herbal medicine for COVID-19 as well as a charter and terms of reference for the establishment of a data and safety monitoring board for herbal medicine clinical trials. --- This episode is sponsored by · Afrolit Podcast: Hosted by Ekua PM, Afrolit shares the stories of multi-faceted Africans one episode at a time. https://open.spotify.com/show/2nJxiiYRyfMQlDEXXpzlZS?si=mmgODX3NQ-yfQvR0JRH-WA Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/newscast-africa/support

Senior policing and Social conflict specialist at Africa Centre for Security and Intelligence Praxis, Eldred De Klerk, speaks to Africa on Early Breakfast about the good and bad sides of the IPID Act including law enforcement agencies.  Guest: Eldred De Klerk, Senior policing and Social conflict specialist at Africa Centre for Security and Intelligence Praxis Host: Sokhu Sibiya, Editor - Africa.com Topic: IPID oversight on law enforcement See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

Do we have enough data to know what’s happening on the continent? We talk to Dr Justin Maeda from the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Ghanaian public health researcher Nana Kofi Quakyi about tracking Africa’s outbreak. Producer: Jo Casserly Picture: Volunteers wait to feed local people during the weekly feeding scheme at the Heritage Baptist Church in Melville on the 118 day of lockdown due to the Covid-19 Coronavirus, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2020. Credit: EPA/KIM LUDBROOK

In this very special episode, I enjoy an in-depth conversation with Allan Savory, originator of Holistic Management, President of the Savory Institute and Director of the Africa Centre for Holistic Management. While Allan is best known for his work on holistic planned grazing, I was especially excited to dive into the decision making framework at holistic management's core and its implications for permaculture. This is our conversation at a glance. How we start the process of managing holistically when commencing new projectsMoving from reductionist to holistic management is moving from a reactive to a proactive orientationThe process of defining what important isThe relationship between holistic management and permacultureAddressing complexity with a holistic frameworkBeyond thinking holistically to managing holisticallyThe challenge with making holistic management stickThe paradigm shifts required to manage complexityThe individual leadership to inspire and the institutional scale of holistic management we need for meaningful changeHolistic management and regenerative agriculture and businessHope for the future Dan Palmer & Allan Savory - with thanks to the Savory Institute for creating this image. Here's a link to a recent episode on how I've been practicing holistic decision making, here's an article I wrote about it (back in 2014), and below is the full transcript of our conversation (my questions italicised). How we start the process of managing holistically when commencing new projects Allan thanks so much for this conversation. I’d love to start with the deep relevance of managing holistically for permaculture designers, and in particular, how we start the process of managing holistically when commencing new projects. Where us permaculture designers regularly encounter clients who, as soon as we ask them what they'd like our help toward, bombard us with a long list of goals or objectives. "We want a pond and ducks and an orchard and a vegetable garden and a campsite and a meditation platform and and and." Could you please explain what it means to engage clients on a deeper level than the goals they present us with, how we might go about this in practice, and how important this is if we aspire to be managing holistically?    Sure, let’s see if I can help Dan. You could either start by explaining what the reductionist management of humans is and how essential it is to manage holistically.  That is what is needed if Permaculture (or any agriculture) is to be regenerative. And that is essential if civilization is to survive now facing global desertification and climate change, in which agriculture is playing as large (maybe larger) role than coal and oil.  That gets boring in today’s short attention span and people’s eyes glaze over. So the best way if there has been no training in how to manage holistically is to simply do it. Everyone just wants to be told what to do and how to do it – it is almost impossible I find to stop farmers just wanting to know what to do and to help them decide how to make those decisions, that they don’t want to hear about.  Allan just tell me what to do!  I don’t want to hear about reductionist management and how it is the single cause of almost all that ails us, including desertification and climate change! So the best way if there has been no training in how to manage holistically is to simply do it.  Think trying to explain how to ride a bike vs having a bike and just starting to ride it.  The more you explain how to ride a bike, the more confusing it gets, but a person simply riding a bike gets it in a day.  So, assume I am advising or helping you Dan the farmer.  I would simply say, Dan let’s not talk about your crops, orchard, ducks, cattle or whatever until we can both understand the context in which you are deciding what to do.  What are you managing here? I gather you Dan are making all decisions. Does anyone else make any management decisions?

The Independent Police Investigative Directorate has a new boss after Parliament’s police committee approved the nomination of Jennifer Dikeledi Ntlatseng. Ntlaseng will take up the job, replacing Robert McBride. Police Minister Bheki Cele said the process to find a suitable candidate was a long and tedious process. He said after three attempts to recruit an IPID boss, he'd finally decided on Ntlaseng.  IPID has been without a permanent boss since the departure of Robert McBride in February last year. This came after MPs refused to back any decision to renew his contract.  Topics: New IPID boss - Jennifer Dikeledi Ntlatseng Guest: Eldred De Klerk, Senior policing and Social conflict specialist at Africa Centre for Security and Intelligence Host: Africa Melane, Early Breakfast See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

This week I met with Kemoh Mansaray. He is the Lloydminster Local Immigration Partnership Coordinator, a board member and community engagement chair of the Africa Centre, past president of the Sierra Leone Association of Alberta and founding board chair of the Clareview Multicultural Centre. He is presently a member of the Black Coalition Against Racism Black-CAR recently formed due to the out cry of Black Lives Matter.  

Guest : Eldred De Klerk | Senior policing and Social conflict specialist at Africa Centre for                                             Security and Intelligence Praxis

Finding diverse voices in media can sometimes be tricky and if you're part of a minority, finding yourself can be even harder. Edmonton's Robyn Taylor decided to start a search to find writers and creators from the Black Community in her home town and elsewhere and the result is "YEG The Come Up Reading Wednesdays." The program is provided by the Africa Centre which specializes in delivering programs for the African, Caribbean and the Black community in Edmonton to seniors, women, and youth. Books suggested by Reading Wednesdays are available through the Edmonton Public Library and links are provided to other sources. The weekly emails are coordinated by Robyn Taylor and Russell spoke with her about why she's made this passion a project for her. The public is invited to sign up for the Weekly Email yegcommunity@africacentre.ca

This week we spoke to Dr Chiendu Ugwu, a lecturer and a research fellow at the Africa Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Disease (ACEGID) at Redeemer's University in Ede, Nigeria (https://acegid.org/). He has just been granted a Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund COVID-19 Emergency Award to study the immune correlates of protection to the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Nigeria (SIP-NG). We speak to him about how he designed this new project, how the results will contribute to effective vaccine design, and how better and more sustainable frameworks for international collaboration are essential to making research and opportunities more accessible to all communities. A transcription of this episode is available on our website: https://www.bluesci.co.uk/posts/podcast-023-chinedu You can find out more about Dr Ugwu's current research project (SIP-NG) here: https://www.cambridge-africa.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-africa-updates/sars-cov-2-immune-correlates-of-protection-in-nigeria-sip-ng/ And his work at Redeemer's University here: http://staff.run.edu.ng/process.php?active=myprofile&usrid=RUN%2FREG%2FSS%2FPF%2F843. To see other projects funded by the Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund COVID-19 Emergency Award: https://www.cambridge-africa.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/emergency/. The BlueSci Podcast is run by the Cambridge University Science Magazine, currently hosted by Ruby Coates and Simone Eizagirre and sponsored by Greiner Bio-One. Visit www.bluesci.co.uk to access our free magazine, and find out how to get involved. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe! We welcome your feedback and suggestions via email: podcast (at) bluesci (dot) co (dot) uk. You can also follow us on Twitter on @bluescipod.

Guest : Eldred De Klerk | Senior policing and Social conflict specialist at Africa Centre                                          for Security and Intelligence Praxis | Soldiers accused of assaulting an Alexandra man, who later succumbed to his injures, have been cleared of the charges. According to a report attached to an affidavit which was handed to the Gauteng High Court, an internal inquiry found that the soldiers cannot be held responsible for Collins Khoza's death. The report stated that Khoza was "pushed” and “klapped” and “conscious and healthy when the security forces left.” According to the South African National Defence Force's report, an internal board of inquiry has concluded its investigation into the incident on April 10 and found that neither the SANDF nor the Joburg Metro Police were at fault. This, in spite of a post mortem report stating that Khosa had died of blunt force trauma to the head. According to the SANDF report, there is no link between the injuries he sustained and the actions of the soldiers.

VEG's context Hey all so today I share a little bit about holistic decision making - the whole-oriented decision making practice I have adapted and evolved from Allan Savory's Holistic Management decision making framework. I've had a bunch of folk requesting more info about this lately and I'm feeling it very relevant to this historical moment when many of us are making big decisions about the shape of our lives and enterprises moving out of the first wave of coronavirus. Hope is helpful - happy to share more on this in due course if so and I'm also running a free two-hour webinar about this stuff on May 30, 2020 you can learn about here. You can find more info here and there is a series of articles a bunch of people have found helpful here. Here's our family context which I refer to along with VEG's context above. Here's an old vid where Adam and I talk about the impact of this stuff on our business (during a workshop we had Darren Doherty come and run for us): https://vimeo.com/86850657 I mention and thanks Allan Savory during the chat and share how he is currently in crisis (holistic) management mode of the African Centre for Holistic Management in Zimbabwe. Visit the website here to learn more and donate. Here's what's up for him from his facebook page: I would like to thank those of you who have donated to support Africa Centre for Holistic Management, which we deeply appreciate. Due to the pandemic crisis Jody and I have had to assume the management role of ACHM. All income has stopped, and Victoria Falls hotels lie empty. We have done the best of holistic financial planning to survive at least 18 months till income might start flowing. Priorities are to save the people managing the land and wildlife and stopping the poaching that is ramping up as hungry people try to feed their families. We are feeding staff and paying monthly what little we can in very tight plan. And as usual things happen! Last night the elephants tore up our water pipes so replan!!Because we operate under a government rated as one of the most corrupt in the world and 600% inflation of the local virtual currency, we have had to install a new donate button to stop government and banks raiding donations. Now 100% donated gets to us to save the people, wildlife and all we hold dear. If you can support please go to front page at https://www.africacentreforholisticmanagement.org and every dollar will I assure you go a long way in this broken failed economy and help a lot of wildlife and poor people. https://youtu.be/kQGy0vxeL_k Allan Savory laying out aspects of the approach

On The Business Wrap our host Mudiwa ‘MobbJustice' Gavaza gives today's top trending business and economics news. The Buffalo Index looks at what your R100 can get you. On the main topic, we talk about Covid-19 economics in our first show since the start of the lockdown. To help us navigate this topic, we talk to economist Mackson Tshehla about the governments stimulus, Petri Redelinghys, Financial Analyst at Herenya Capital Advisors and founder of Say Siyabonga which is helping small businesses to cope with the lockdown; and Dr. Bob Wekesa, Deputy Director at the The Africa Centre for the Study of the US at Wits University helps us to compare and contrast the policy responses between the US and SA. wits.journalism.co.za

Wits Radio Academy — On The Business Wrap our host Mudiwa ‘MobbJustice’ Gavaza gives today’s top trending business and economics news. The Buffalo Index looks at what your R100 can get you. On the main topic, we talk about Covid-19 economics in our first show since the start of the lockdown. To help us navigate this topic, we talk to economist Mackson Tshehla about the governments stimulus, Petri Redelinghys, Financial Analyst at Herenya Capital Advisors and founder of Say Siyabonga which is helping small businesses to cope with the lockdown; and Dr. Bob Wekesa, Deputy Director at the The Africa Centre for the Study of the US at Wits University helps us to compare and contrast the policy responses between the US and SA.

Allan Savory was born in Zimbabwe and educated in South Africa at the University of Natal, BS in Zoology and Botany. In the 1960s he made a significant breakthrough in understanding what was causing the degradation and desertification of the world’s grassland ecosystems and, as a resource management consultant, worked with numerous managers on four continents to develop sustainable solutions. In 1992 Savory and his wife, Jody Butterfield, formed a non-profit organization in Zimbabwe, the Africa Centre for Holistic Management, donating a ranch that would serve as a learning site for people all over Africa. In 2009 Savory, Butterfield, and a group of colleagues co-founded the Savory Institute in Boulder, Colorado to serve the world through an international network of entrepreneurial innovators and leaders committed to serving their regions with the highest standards of Holistic Management training and implementation support.   In 2003, Allan Savory received Australia’s International Banksia Award “for the person or organization doing the most for the environment on a global scale,” and in 2010 Savory (and the Africa Centre) received the Buckminster Fuller Institute’s Challenge award for work that has “significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems.” A TED talk Savory gave in 2013 has received over 10.8 million views and in 2014 was voted one of the 50 most intriguing TED talks of all time. The Savory Institute is one of 11 finalists in the Virgin Earth Challenge, a $25 million initiative for the successful commercialization of ways of taking greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere and keeping them out with no countervailing impacts.   Before we jump in I want to make sure everyone knows about http://NoseToTail.org where we ship 100% grass-finished beef and buffalo, and high omega-3 pork and chicken to your door. This is all raised beyond organic in Texas. Our primal ground beef with liver, heart, kidney, and spleen is flying out the door these days. Get it while you can, we only process animals every 2 weeks. There are so many nutrients in this tasty ground beef that are hard to get otherwise. You can make a custom box at http://nosetotail.org and get free shipping if it’s 20lbs or more.   You can also support this podcast and everything else I do at http://patreon.com/peakhuman I’ve been able to scrape by without taking on any advertisers or outside money for any of my ventures so far and really want to keep it that way. The Food Lies film, the Food Lies youtube channel, and all my social media is powered all by the community. I have yet to take a cent from another company. That’s http://patreon.com/peakhuman or click through http://sapien.org where you can find out about all the projects I’m working on including the heath technology. We’re still looking for doctors, healthcare providers, and health coaches to work with us. You can add yourself to the waiting list at http://sapien.org   Thanks for sharing this podcast and reviewing it on iTunes and the Apple podcast app! Really appreciate all of you and all the inspiring messages of positive health journeys! Now let’s hear some more great information from another brilliant mind, Dr. Tommy Wood.   BUY THE MEAT NosetoTail.org Support me on Patreon! http://patreon.com/peakhuman Preorder the film here: http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post   SHOW NOTES   [5:45] Livestock can help us to reverse desertification and climate change. [11:23] The specific environment in which we develop leads to our specific adaptation and change. [15:10] Humans and our technology are nowhere near complex as when we compare to nature. [21:20] The problem with all the natural resource policies in the United States. [24:40] What does it mean to develop a holistic context for management? [33:00] What is desertification? [35:10] Brittle environments have periods of humidity and periods of long dry periods.  [35:50] How to reverse desertification. [50:00] The issue of uprooting paradigm shifts. [54:28] Climate change and its denial. [1:02:05] Mainstream agriculture supported by universities and governments is the most destructive and extractive industry ever in the history of mankind. [1:03:10] Billions of hectares of grasslands and savannahs are burnt every year.  [1:08:40] Allan’s take on anti-animal activists. BUY THE MEAT NosetoTail.org Support me on Patreon! http://patreon.com/peakhuman Preorder the film here: http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post   Film site: http://FoodLies.org YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoodLies   Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg http://instagram.com/food.lies http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg

Allan Savory is the co-founder of the Savory Institute in Boulder, Colorado, which establishes a global network of entrepreneurial innovators and leaders committed to serving their regions with the highest standards of Holistic Management training and implementation support. The Africa Centre became the first of the Savory Institute's locally led and managed “hubs.”His book, Holistic Management: A New Framework for Decision-Making, describes his effort to find workable solutions ordinary people can implement to overcome many of the problems besetting communities and businesses today.He delivered this speech at the 35th Annual E.F. Schumacher Lectures on October 24th, 2015.If you would like a physical copy of this lecture or others like it, visit centerforneweconomics.org/order-pamphlets to purchase pamphlets of published works and transcripts.The Schumacher Center's applied work seeks to implement the principles described by these speakers within the context of the Berkshire hills of Massachusetts. Our work, both educational and applied, is supported by listeners like you. You can strengthen our mission by making a donation at centerforneweconomics.org/donate, or call us at (413) 528-1737 to make an appointment to visit our research library and office at 140 Jug End Road, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. 

Welcome to the Human Performance Outliers Podcast with hosts Dr. Shawn Baker and Zach Bitter. For this episode,  Bobby Gill joined the show. Bobby is a Biological Resources Engineer and the Director of Development and Communications for the Savory Institute. Bobby works to create holistic solutions that accelerate the adoption of regenerative agriculture among land managers, business, and consumers. Episode Sponsor: Butcher Box - https://butcherbox.com Promo code "HPO" at checkout for 20% off. Consider supporting us: - https://www.patreon.com/HPOpodcast or https://www.paypal.me/hpopod ***DR. SHAWN BAKER'S BOOK*** "The Carnivore Diet" Amazon and Barnes and Noble Instagram handles: @shawnbaker1967, @zachbitter, @b0bby.gill Twitter handles: @SBakerMD, @zbitter, @ultragrassfed Facebook handles: Shawn Baker, @zach.bitter, @savory.global Website URLs: https://zachbitter.com , https://shawn-baker.com, and https://www.savory.global/ YouTube: Zach (https://www.youtube.com/c/ZachBitterUltra) Shawn (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5apkKkeZQXRSDbqSalG8CQ) If you would like to set up a consult call with either Zach or Shawn, you can schedule with Zach at https://calendly.com/zbittercoaching and with Shawn at https://shawn-baker.com/consultation/. If you would like to contact the show, please send your emails to hpopodcast@gmail.com Show Specific Notes & References:  Misc. links: Allan Savory's TED talk White Oak Pastures' lifecycle analysis and associated infographics Savory's Land to Market program: https://www.savory.global/land-to-market/ EOV product from EPIC: https://epicprovisions.com/collections/bites/products/beefcranberrysrirachabites EOV product from REP Provisions: https://repprovisions.com/ Peer-reviewed papers: Stanley 2018 – This paper conducts a lifecycle assessment, including direct measure of carbon flux, on various livestock finishing systems and shows that properly-managed livestock create an ecosystem that is a net carbon sink instead of net carbon emitter. Peel 2018 - Case study analyzing vegetation and landscape function at the Africa Centre for Holistic Management in Zimbabwe. "HPG yields positive long-term effects on ecosystem services (soils and vegetation) and points to the HPG approach enhancing the sustainability of livestock and wildlife in this environment." Teague 2017 – This paper is an overarching discussion on various types of grazing management and the potential for proper (holistic) management to regenerate ecosystem function and grazingland livelihoods. It also dives into the shortcomings of most grazing research that reduces whole ecosystem complexities into individual factors. Teague 2016 – This paper determined that properly-managed grazing, if applied on 25% of our crop and grasslands, would mitigate the entire carbon footprint of North American agriculture. Rowntree 2016 – “From this data, we conclude that well-managed grazing and grass-finishing systems in environmentally appropriate settings can positively contribute to reducing the carbon footprint of beef cattle, while lowering overall atmospheric CO2 concentrations.” Peters 2016 – This study modeled human carrying capacity under ten diet scenarios. Even though carrying capacity was generally higher for diets with less meat (likely due to modeling being based of feedlot stats and the cropland needed to grow the feed), “the carrying capacity of the vegan diet was lower than two of the healthy omnivore diet scenarios.” Machmuller 2015 – “Farms accumulated C at 8.0 Mg ha−1 yr−1, increasing cation exchange and water holding capacity by 95% and 34%, respectively. Thus, within a decade of management-intensive grazing practices soil C levels returned to those of native forest soils, and likely decreased fertilizer and irrigation demands. Emerging land uses, such as management-intensive grazing, may offer a rare win–win strategy combining profitable food production with rapid improvement of soil quality and short-term climate mitigation through soil C-accumulation." Ferguson 2013 - Compared the sustainability of 18 conventional and 7 holistic, dual-purpose ranches in Mexico, finding that the ranches managing holistically had greater yield ratios, higher soil respiration, deeper topsoil, and increased earthworm presence. The authors conclude that "Holistic Management strategies are leading to greater ecological and economic sustainability." Weber 2011 – Paper discussing grazing systems utilized by pastoralist societies, the resulting desertification, and the need for these grazing systems to supplanted by more inclusive planning processes that better manage the spatio-temporal aspects of grazing. Stinner 1997 - Interviewed ranchers using Holistic Management. Ninety-five percent reported an increase in biodiversity, 80 percent reported an increase in profits, and 91 percent reported improvements in quality of life. All reported that biodiversity is now an important consideration in managing their land, whereas only 9 percent felt so prior to exposure to Holistic Management.  

In this episode of the Jennifer Zee Plant-based and Happy Podcast, I had the amazing opportunity to chat with Jay Brave. Vegan Performer. Consultant. Entrepreneur. Empath and Activist Jay Brave is a creative entrepreneur, broadcaster and activist. His expertise is in business policy and planning, sustainable futurism and critical race theory. He creates multimedia content for his clients as well as via his social channels and websites. Jay has made community-based films in a search for ethnic identity in his remit as the project co-ordinator for the Centre for British African Caribbean Studies (CBACS) and is now head of marketing and communications for The Africa Centre.” In this episode Jay and I chat about: ➤ The ethical side of plant-based living ➤ The inspiration behind his video “Vegan SHUT UP Freestyle“ ➤ Reasons why it’s better to be plant-based ➤ Dealing with negative feedback regarding veganism ➤ How your perspective of the world changes when you go vegan ➤ Raising vegan children ➤ Vegan advocates that inspire Jay ➤ The best vegan restaurants in the world! RESOURCES: Follow Jay Brave on Instagram @jaybrave Thank-you for listening to this episode. If you like this podcast feel free to subscribe, like and comment. Until next time, stay happy, healthy & plant-based! For more plant-based inspiration, coaching and education, visit: https://jenniferzee.com/ P.S. Learn from 20 world-renowned experts with my plant-based online summit: https://plantbasedmasterysummit.com

We discuss Moses Quiquine's wonderful art that crosses time and space, and his exhibition ‘Voodoo Child: Identity, Spirituality & Fashion’ at The Africa Centre in London. See links below. Moses Quiquine: ‘Voodoo Child’, The Africa Centre, London (22/03/2019 –17/04/2019): https://www.africacentre.org.uk/blog/moses-quiquine-voodoo-child-exhibition/ Moses Quiquine: https://www.instagram.com/mosesquiquine/ Igor Kopytoff, 'The cultural biography of things: Commodization as process', in Arjun Appadurai (ed), The social life of things: commodities in cultural perspective (CUP 1986): http://ls-tlss.ucl.ac.uk/course-materials/ANTH7021_68798.pdf

In this episode we welcome guests Mr Vans & Fols of 'Off The Cuff' podcast and discuss: • If you can cheat on your partner and still be described as 'a stand up guy'? • The idea that if you're not married, you're single. • Why women don't want men that are nice • The pros and cons of the "Toxic Feminist" Slumflower • J Hus being caught with a knife and if it's easy to avoid 'that life' when you've made it • If the negative comments aimed at XXXTentacion after his murder are justified or out of order • Juneteenth: Should the abolition of slavery be celebrated • Sway asking rapper, Nick Grant to include non-Black women in his ode to Black women • If a Black person that has a non-Black partner can really be 100% pro-black/for the Black community • If Alan Sugar's Senegalese tweet is racist or not • If Jay Z & Beyonce's album, 'Everything Is Love' released over Nas' 'Nassir' album a coincidence or something more • Teyana Taylor's album K.T.S.E (Keep That Same Energy) • #StavrosSays Recommendation : World Cup Fan Zone Hosted by Okoro for watching Nigeria v Argentina (26/06/18) at The Africa Centre 66-68 Great Suffolk St, London, SE1 0BL Connect with our guests: Mr Vans is @mrvans7 on Instagram & Twitter Fols is @folsforever on Instagram & Twitter Off The Cuff are on Instagram & Twitter @OffTheCuffPod and search for the podcast 'Off The Cuff' on Apple Podcast, Soundcloud and anywhere you get your podcasts Connect with us at & send your questions & comments to: #ESNpod so we can find your comments www.esnpodcast.com www.facebook.com/ESNpodcasts www.twitter.com/ESNpodcast www.instagram.com/ESNpodcast @esnpodcast on all other social media esnpodcast@gmail.com It's important to subscribe, rate and review us on your apple products. You can do that here... www.bit.ly/esnitunes

Buchi Emecheta explored child slavery, motherhood, female independence and freedom through education in over 20 books. Born in 1944 in an Ibusa village, she lost her father aged eight, travelled to London and made a career as a writer whilst bringing up five children on her own, working by day and studying at night for a degree. Shahidha Bari talks to her son Sylvester Onwordi, to New Generation Thinker Louisa Egbunike, to publisher Margaret Busby and magazine editor Kadija George. We also hear from other writers and publishers taking part in a day long series of discussions and performances at the Centre of African Studies at SOAS, University of London, on Saturday 3rd February. They include Alastair Niven - former Director of the Africa Centre, Dr Marie Linton Umeh, writer Irenosen Okojie, Professor Akachi Ezeigbo and poet Grace Nichols. Buchi Emecheta's career took off when she turned her columns for the New Statesman about black British life into a novel In The Ditch which was published in 1972. It depicted a single black mother struggling to cope in England against a background of squalor. Two years later Allison and Busby published her book Second-Class Citizen, which focused on issues of race, poverty and gender. Now, a year after her death, the Omenala Press is re-issuing editions of her work. Producer: Robyn Read

Joining us for this special edition of STEM-Talk is Robb Wolf, who will co-host today’s show with Ken Ford, STEM-Talk’s regular co-host and chairman of the Double-Secret Selection Committee which selects all the STEM-Talk guests. Wolf is the New York Times best-selling author of “The Paleo Solution” and “Wired to Eat.” He’s also a friend of today’s guest, Alan Savory, a world-renowned ecologist who advocates for the restoration of the earth’s grasslands. “I’ve known Allan for years as a passionate advocate for restoring the health of the earth, especially grasslands. So when Ken invited me to join him and co-host the podcast with Allan, I jumped at the chance,” said Wolf, who is filling in for regular STEM-Talk co-host Dawn Kernagis. Grasslands take up a third of the earth’s land surface. And, as you will learn in today’s podcast, they are in serious trouble. Seventy percent of grasslands have been degraded by global trends ranging from deforestation to droughts to agricultural and livestock practices. As more and more of earth’s fertile land rapidly turns into deserts, Savory travels the world promoting holistic management as a way to reverse thousands of years of human-caused desertification. Savory is an ecologist, international consultant and the president of the Savory Institute, which promotes large-scale restoration of the world’s grasslands. Desertification, which Savory says is just a fancy word for land that’s turning to desert, directly affects more than 250 million people worldwide and has placed another billion people at risk, according to the United Nations. Savory was born in Southern Rhodesia, which is now the nation of Zimbabwe, and went to college in South Africa where he majored in zoology and biology. He went to work as a research biologist and game ranger in what was then known as Northern Rhodesia, but is now the nation of Zambia. Later in his career, he became a farmer and game rancher in Zimbabwe. As a game ranger in the 1960s, Allen made a significant breakthrough in understanding what was causing the degradation of the world’s grassland ecosystems and became a consultant who worked with groups on four continents to develop sustainable solutions. Most of his time as a game ranger was spent in the country’s savannas and grasslands among antelopes, elephants and lions. It was then that Allan started to notice that the healthiest grasslands were those in which large herds of wild grazers stayed bunched together and were constantly on the move because of predators that hunted in packs. It was this insight that led Savory to develop what he refers to as a “holistic management framework,” a planning process that mimics nature as a means to heal the environment. Once an opponent of livestock, he grew to believe that increasing the number of livestock on grasslands rather than fencing them off for conservation was the way to stop desertification. But when civil war broke in Rhodesia in the ‘60s, Allan ended up leading an elite military squad to fight communist guerrillas. In the latter days of the civil war, Allan became a member of Parliament and the leader of the opposition to the ruling party. He was exiled in 1979 as a result of his opposition to the ruling party and immigrated to the United States. In 1992, Savory and his wife, Jody Butterfield, formed the non-profit Africa Centre for Holistic Management and donated a ranch that serves as learning site for people all over Africa. He and Butterfield then co-founded the Savory Institute in 2009, whose mission is to promote restoration of the world’s grasslands through holistic management. The couple lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and have co-authored books together, including “Holistic Management: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment,” which came out last year. In 2003, Allen received Australia’s International Banksia Award for the person or organization doing the most for the environment on a g...

As we mark World No Tobacco Day, South Africa's tobacco control organisations have called on the Department of Health to finalise amendments to the Tobacco Products Control Act. This as the country works towards reducing tobacco consumption to less than 10% of the population. The organisations include The National Council Against Smoking, the Africa Centre for Tobacco Industry Monitoring and Policy Research and the Cancer Association of South Africa. The amended act has been in the works for more than a year. It will among other issues, force manufacturers to remove the branding on their cigarette packs and include graphic warnings. Tsepiso Makwetla spoke to Cancer Association of South Africa's Head of Health Michael Herbst and Free Market Foundation executive director Leon Louw

Many of us want to care for our bodies, our families, our community. Tré Cates of the Savory Institute challenges us to consider how our individual choices impact the whole world! Living holistically means looking at the big picture and considering how every choice---from where we choose to live, to the clothing we buy, to the food we eat---can move us closer to our life goals and help the earth at the same time.  This interview took place at the Africa Centre for Holistic Management in Zimbabwe, a Savory Institute hub. It is a learning center that encourages people from around the world to learn to work the land in a sustainable, regenerative manner. There, Tré tells story after story about the land's restoration under proper management. This episode can help us get a better handle on managing our own lives properly. As Tré explains the holistic principles of the Savory Institute, he reminds us of our own responsibility to live sustainably. The work of the Savory Institute sheds light on the importance of cooperative, respectful, holistic attitudes that can help all of us make choices that go "beyond organic" for better health and a better world! Learn more at Savory Institute. And find more show notes at westonaprice.org.

In August 2017 Kenya heads to the polls to elect the president, legislators and county representatives. Polls in Kenya have had history of violence with the worst being in 2007 where over one thousand people were killed and over three hundred thousand people were internally displaced in the country. In the August polls, President Uhuru Kenyatta is set to seek re-election against an opposition coalition led by various leaders including Raila Odinga. For this Talking Africa programme Desmond Davies speak to Ms. Gladwell Otieno, the Executive Director of Africa Centre for Open Governance (AFRICOG) to discuss the prospects of peace and the role of the civil society.

Dr. Lucy Michael and Dr. Fidele Mutwarasibo visit The Context of White Supremacy. Dr. Michael is an Admitted Racist. She's a sociology lecturer at the University of Ulster; her research focuses on race and ethnicity, minority experiences of crime and victimisation, and leadership around equality issues. Dr. Mutwarasibo was born in Rwanda and moved to Ireland in 1995. He earned a PhD in sociology, is a founding member of the Africa Centre, and a member of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. He's conducted substantial research on immigrants' rights and racism against non-white people seeking refuge in Ireland. Dr. Lucy suggested we invite Dr. Mutwarasibo on the program. We'll examine her remarks from this year's European Network Against Racism (ENAR) conference, where she emphasized that "black and black African people experience the most racism." INVEST in The COWS - http://tiny.cc/ledjb CALL IN NUMBER: 760.569.7676 CODE 564943# SKYPE: FREECONFERENCECALLHD.7676 CODE 564943# The C.O.W.S. archives: http://tiny.cc/76f6p

Til Barnighausen from the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies discusses the implications from two randomised trials published this week showing how circumcision can halve HIV transmission in heterosexual men.