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Maya Horgan Famodu is a American-Nigerian venture capitalist. She talks about being a third-culture kid, what it takes to raise a $50-million fund, and what she looks for when she invests in African start-ups.
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Across Africa, young entrepreneurs are making their dreams happen in challenging circumstances. Here three very different young Africans explain how they made their first million.
Maya Horgan Famodu is an American-Nigerian venture capitalist, originally from Minnesota in the US. She has a VC firm called Ingressive Capital. Her latest fund is worth $50m. She’s invested in some of the biggest startups in Africa.
Moulaye Tabouré is the Malian CEO and founder of ANKA, an online sales platform for African fashion and crafts based in Cote d’Ivoire. The company has raised $6.2 million in its series A funding although it has since announced it is closing its marketplace.
Mountaga Keita is a Guinean-born inventor and successful businessman. He studied at Harvard University and worked in America. He came back to Guinea to launch his portable ultrasound machine.
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In 2023, journalist Stanis Bujakera was imprisoned for six months. The prosecutors were aiming for 20 years. The charge? Writing an article that suggested the country's military intelligence had been involved in an assassination.
Stanis Bujakera is one of Democratic Republic of Congo’s most popular journalists. In 2023, he was imprisoned for six months while reporting on the elections. The prosecutors were aiming for 20 years.
After his arrest, organisations fighting for press freedom, like Reporters Without Borders, (that’s RSF), and the Congo Hold-Up investigative team, worked to free him.
Journalists and intellectuals including Wole Soyinka, Leïla Slimani and Soulemayne Bachir Diagne signed petitions. And ambassadors worked behind the scenes.
There are countless other journalists in Africa who are stopped from doing their job - through intimidation, censorship and violence. In this interview we remember journalists like the Cameroonian Martinez Zogo and Sylvie Yebel. And there are others who have also died in suspicious circumstances: John Williams Ntwali in Rwanda, Ahmed Hussein-Suale in Ghana, and Thulani Maseko in Eswatini.
The work African journalists do is extremely dangerous. In this interview, Stanis talks about his day-to-day life in the notorious Makala jail. It’s a chilling reminder of the risks independent journalists take to tell the truth to power.
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Social media means that lies and fake news can spread faster, inflame tensions, and serve the interests of the powerful. So the work that African journalists do - reporting facts and telling the truth - is more important than ever.
Jeremias Langa is president of the Mozambican chapter of the press freedom association, Media Institute of Southern Africa.
Rodriguez Katsuva is the co-founder of Congo Check, the first news website in the Democratic Republic of Congo that verifies news stories and flags up fake news.
Carl Odera is an experienced Kenyan journalist who has reported from all over the continent including South Sudan.
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Extended interview with Jonathan Eig, a Pulitzer-winning author, who's written the most recent biography of Muhammad Ali. It's our chance to celebrate the 50-year anniversary of Rumble in the Jungle, the legendary fight that took place in Kinshasa, then Zaire, now the DRC where Muhammad Ali became the greatest boxer of all time.
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This year it’s the 50-year anniversary of what many say was the greatest sporting event the world has ever seen. And it happened in Africa.
Rumble in the Jungle, the boxing match between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali, was held on 30 October 1974 in Zaire, now the DRC.
Muhammad Ali’s victory cemented his legacy and showed the world he was the ultimate Greatest of All Time.
We speak to Muhammad Ali's biographer Jonathan Eig, the Pulitzer-winning author of Ali: A Life.
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For this extended episode, we ‘re featuring two guests who decided to move back to the place they consider home, Sinatou Saka and Joli Moniz. Both talk about a turning point in their lives; when they realised that it would soon be too late to start afresh. Both tell us whether they now think if it was the right professional and personal decision.
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Many diaspora Africans are choosing to return to the continent. These ‘repats’ - as they’re often known - are keen to seize new opportunities. In this episode, three repats tell us how and why they came to Africa.
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According to some surveys, over a third of women in Africa have experienced physical violence in their lifetimes. We speak to Peninah Kimiri, an expert in gender-based violence, about the rise of cyber misogyny, the increase of femicide and how all men need to step up to protect women.
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According to some surveys, over a third of women in Africa have experienced physical violence in their lifetimes. We ask three activists from Senegal, Cape Verde and Kenya: how can we stop violence against women?
Woppa Diallo is a lawyer and gender activist based in Senegal.
Natácha Magalhaes is a Cape Verdean writer who often tackles the subject of gender-based violence in her writing.
Peninah Kimiri is a Kenyan expert in gender-based violence who has worked across Africa, South East Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
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Oliver Barker-Vormawor is one of the activists behind the #FixTheCountry and #StopGalamseyNow movements as well as the #occupy-Julorbi-house protest in Ghana. Learn how to deepen and stabilise democracy on the continent.
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From the #FeesMustFall protests in South Africa to the #EndSARS movement in Nigeria, social media activism has been shown to raise awareness and bring about social change.
Claude Grunitzky talks to three activists.
Oliver Barker-Vormawor is a governance advisor and one of the founders of the #FixTheCountry movement in Ghana in 2021.
South Sudanese model Mari Malek started the social media movement #runwaystofreedom.
Abdoulaye Oumou Sow is head of communications for the FNDC movement in Guinea.
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Is African music finally getting the global recognition it deserves? And who’s going to be the next breakout star?
Abdul Abdullah is a Ghanaian American culture entrepreneur and founder of Accra’s AfroFutures Festival
Paola Ndengue is a specialist in media and the creative industries.
Mmeli Hlanze is one half of Antidote Music, a music label and artist management company based in Eswatini.
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For this episode, we’re broadcasting from the Presidential Palace of the Republic of Cabo Verde. The Limitless Africa journalists interviewed President José Maria Neves.
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Six young people from Cape Verde interview their President José Maria Neves. And they want to know what the most powerful man in the country is doing for young people like them.
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Moulaye Tabouré runs Anka, a platform for African retailers. The start up has over 7000 sellers from 47 African countries. They have buyers in over 170 countries. The company has now raised $6.2 million in its series A funding. This is a fascinating conversation about e-commerce strategies, consumer behaviour and what really drives sales.
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The fashion industry could increase the continent’s prosperity by 25 per cent. Claude Grunitzky asks how can African fashion become a global leader?
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Paul Kagame has won the last four elections in Rwanda with over 90 % of the vote. There is no powerful opposition. What does that say about democracy in the country?
For this episode of Limitless Africa, we speak to Seth Karamage, a Rwandan development economist specializing in peacebuilding and good governance. He has worked on fostering democracy in Rwanda as well as Nigeria, Kenya and Somalia. He’s a former soldier with the Rwanda Defence Forces.
This is an opportunity to ask someone who really knows the situation: Should young people bother voting in the election? And in situations where elections aren’t held or their results are not in doubt, are military or political coups ever justifiable?
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There have been nine military coups d'états in Africa since 2020. If we continue at this rate, there will be more coups in this decade than in any since the 1960s. Is this a good thing for Africa?
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Victor Ochen grew up in a refugee camp in Northern Uganda in the 1980s and 1990s at the height of the Ugandan civil war, one of Africa's longest conflicts. He has become a spokesperson for the people of Northern Uganda and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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