Africa Here and NOW

By Martine Dennis

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The conversation you've always wanted to have about Africa.Combining in-depth knowledge with exclusive analysis of events and trends affecting the continent. Our team has vast experience in Africa and has an extensive network of contacts from Cape Town to Cairo and from Addis to Accra, which will help us provide fresh commentary presented with wit and style.We believe there is a growing demand for accurate, incisive information about Africa and we are dedicated to asking the questions that matter and offering, at least, some of the answers.

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Episode Date
Brian Mundubile on Zambia's Disputed Election 2026
Aug 16, 2026
Who Killed MKO Abiola And Why?
Jul 01, 2026
Could Ghana's Finance Minister CASSIEL ATO FORSON Become Leader?
Jun 16, 2026
Africa At World Cup 2026
Jun 11, 2026
They Tried to Ban Black Women's Hair - It Backfired Spectacularly
May 29, 2026
The Man Who Bet His Own Money On Nigeria's Skies
May 07, 2026
The Airline Boss Terrified of Flying:
Apr 23, 2026
How Women Succeed in Aviation
Apr 10, 2026
Dangote Refinery Won't Reduce Price of Fuel But No Return to Subsidies
Mar 27, 2026
The BATTLE for 1.4 BILLION airline Passengers
Mar 24, 2026
Why African Airlines Fail - The Challenges and Opportunities with IATA VP
Mar 19, 2026
Can ECOWAS manage the West African Security Crisis?
Mar 14, 2026
Botswana's Diamond Dilemma: Bogolo Kenewende on De Beers and the Race for Critical Minerals
Mar 05, 2026
"Stop Importing Inflation" The AFC's Samaila Zubairu on Africa's Plans to Ban Raw Exports,
Feb 26, 2026
Ghana: The Kingdom of Gold, British Looting and the Ashanti Golden Stool
Feb 17, 2026
WARNING: The Next Pandemic is Coming - Africa CDC Chief on 32% Budget Theft and Survival
Feb 02, 2026
The Ethiopian Blueprint: CEO Mesfin Tasew on $12.5B New Airport and Why Other African Airlines Fail
Jan 19, 2026
Africa's Defiant Rebels: Bobi Wine, Dele Farotimi, Peter Obi, Dora Siliya
Dec 08, 2025
Zambia's MINING POLLUTION - Artist Stary Mwaba
Nov 24, 2025
The Wood Kitchen: DRIVING Africa's FOOD REVOLUTION
Nov 10, 2025
Young, Urban, Digitally Connected - Africa's Youth DEMAND Change
Oct 27, 2025
Zambian Bank CEO SONNY ZULU on TARIFFS, Job Creation, Leadership and His Biggest Mistake
Oct 13, 2025
Fmr Zambian Minister REVEALS "Slept My Way to the Top" Smears: Sexism, Graft and The Price of Power
Sep 29, 2025
Africa is REALLY flourishing but measures happiness differently to the rest of the world
Sep 16, 2025
Zambia's President Denies Witchcraft and Being Part of a Secret Society
Sep 01, 2025
Africa's Angry Millennials
Jun 30, 2025
South Africa's Karoo Meets Chelsea's Flower Show
Jun 19, 2025
Nigeria's President-in-Waiting? PETER OBI
Jun 15, 2025
Does Africa Need Democracy?
Jun 09, 2025
The South African Diplomat Expelled by the U.S
May 30, 2025
Burkina Faso's Ibrahim Traore: What's True? What's False?
May 13, 2025
Gaza, Should Africans Care?
Apr 29, 2025
Uganda's Bobi Wine: Fighting for Democracy
Apr 13, 2025
What REALLY happened to Mugabe and could it happen again?
Apr 04, 2025
Trump's Golden Opportunity to Africa with Thebe Ikalafeng
Mar 20, 2025
Muhammad Ali's Boxing Grandson Carrying the Family Legacy
Mar 14, 2025
When Soldiers Came for My Grandpa, Haile Selassie
Mar 03, 2025
Trump Says America First, We Should Say Africa First
Feb 18, 2025
Zambia's Lost Football Heroes
Jan 29, 2025
Nigeria's Freedom Fighter
Jan 13, 2025
Some Lighter moments of 2024
Dec 29, 2024
Democracy Wins Again in Ghana, The Sahel's Mining Sector Overhauled, Namibia's First Female President
Dec 11, 2024
Malawi's VP Means Business in Baku, Africa's Last Colony - Western Sahara
Nov 20, 2024
Former President IAN KHAMA on Botswana's Political Shift
Nov 13, 2024
Challenges for Botswana's New President DUMA BOKO, Prospects for Peace inSudan?
Nov 06, 2024
Are Botswana's diamonds forever? Unrecognised Somaliland, Tarzan - why didn't he have African friends?
Oct 23, 2024
Will Africa Get Seats on the UN Security Council? The Politics Behind Ghana's Illegal Gold Mining, The Return of South Africa's Fallen Heroes.
Oct 02, 2024
The Horn on the Brink of War? What could Trump 2.0 mean for Africa?
Sep 18, 2024
China's Africa Summit, Djibouti's GM Mosquitos, Morocco's Gnawa Music
Sep 04, 2024
PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST...at 90
Jul 24, 2024
Ecowas’ Uncertain Future, Daddy Hope turns rapper to get Zim youth to vote, How tech is helping Sierra Leone improve its schools and how will the UK’s new Prime Minister change course on Africa?
Jul 10, 2024
Is Somalia at a turning point? How can tech and AI benefit ordinary Malawians? What does the rise of the far right in France mean for Africa and Africans? Cameroon’s insurgents splinter
Jun 26, 2024
A pivotal moment in South African politics Africa’s leaders in demand: South Korea and the G7 Sudan: 3 million lives at risk of shelling and starvation Why is MultiChoice Nigeria being forced to give customers a month free?
Jun 12, 2024
In conversation with two-time Booker Prize finalist, Chigozie Obioma
Jun 05, 2024
Ruto’s Red Carpet in DC, Nigerian journalist DAVID HUNDEYIN - why he fled Nigeria and the lamentable state of African journalism, Christianity’s African Majority and, 57 years on – reflections on Biafra
May 29, 2024
Zeinab Badawi’s African History of Africa, The Gerontocracy Running Africa, and Harry and Megan’s Eventful 3 Days in Nigeria
May 15, 2024
Aya Nakamura in France, dressed down for dressing up. Was Bobrisky in Nigeria jailed for cross dressing?
May 01, 2024
Season Two - Trailer
Apr 25, 2024
The Kora, the Cello and Violins
Mar 19, 2024
Gazans in Egypt? 'Tribalism is holding back Nigeria ', says Moghalu, The World's Most Expensive Hole in the Ground in Ghana
Mar 06, 2024
Dinner with the Mbekis
Feb 21, 2024
Coups, Conflict, Family Dinners and Donkeys
Feb 21, 2024
Donu's Kidnapping Story
Feb 15, 2024
There's more to South African/Nigerian rivalry than football
Feb 07, 2024
From Crises in ECOWAS and Zimbabwe's Opposition, to a fine example of African Leadership. Ghana limbers up for Elections and why South African/Nigerian rivalry is about more than just Football
Feb 07, 2024
Is anyone safe in Nigeria? And reparations - should Africa pay too?
Jan 24, 2024
From Trouble in the Horn to Excitement about AFCON..and some pidgin
Jan 10, 2024
Black Girl from Pyongyang
Jan 10, 2024
Can Kenya's Police sort out Haiti? And a Big Blow to the ANC
Dec 13, 2023
Showdown in Dubai and DRC's Crowded Election Starting Line
Nov 29, 2023
Liberia's Close Call and We Follow the Money
Nov 14, 2023
The King, the President and The Black Book
Oct 31, 2023