The Professor Entrepreneur: Mo Ibrahim, Jack Ma, and the Nigerian NYSC Hustler
In Nigeria, a common narrative persists: those excelling in academics are destined for the lecture hall, not the boardroom. The "first-class mind" is often seen as ill-equipped for the cutthroat world of business.
But is this perception accurate? Today, I want to challenge this stereotype, drawing…
136. Mo Ibrahim on Good Governance in Africa
This Kickback episode features Mo Ibrahim, who joins Liz David-Barrett to share his transition from entrepreneurship to philanthropy, by establishing the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to promote good governance and leadership in Africa.
Mo shares the primary mechanisms to achieving the Foundations goals, …
14 Africa's Future and Global Reform | Dr Mo Ibrahim on Leadership
In this exclusive episode, I am in conversation with Dr. Mo Ibrahim – renowned philanthropist, businessman, and founder of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.
We explore his remarkable journey from building a telecoms empire to championing good governance across Africa. Dr. Ibrahim also shares his bold vie…
The CIA plot to kill the Congolese prime minister
Stuart Reid is author of The Lumumba Plot, a rip-roaring read about the CIA plan to assassinate the newly independent Congo’s charismatic prime minister Patrice Lumumba in 1960.
Stuart is a Senior Fellow for History and Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has written for many pu…
GOPHERS: HEARTBREAKING week for Minnesota Gophers!
Tough week for the Minnesota Gophers basketball squad with a buzzer beating loss to the Wisconsin Badgers and a 10-point loss on the road at Illinois. The Gophers are now on a 3-game losing streak and the depth issue appears to be rearing its ugly head. How good can the 2025-2026 Minnesota Gophers …
HEARTBREAKING week for Minnesota Gophers!
Tough week for the Minnesota Gophers basketball squad with a buzzer beating loss to the Wisconsin Badgers and a 10-point loss on the road at Illinois. The Gophers are now on a 3-game losing streak and the depth issue appears to be rearing its ugly head. How good can the 2025-2026 Minnesota Gophers …
Emergency Response Rooms: Sudan's humanitarian lifeline
Since the war in Sudan began in 2023, grassroots, volunteer-led mutual aid groups – the Emergency Rooms (ERRs) – have delivered vital humanitarian assistance and played a key role in safeguarding civilian life across the country in the face of the devastating conflict. The work of the ERRs is grou…
Health Care Workers Under Siege
Israel and Lebanon are meeting in Washington in their highest-level direct talks in more than 40 years. But the gaps of disagreement are wide, and any progress could be dashed by the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah, which says it won't abide by any agreement in the meeting. For the Lebanese people gr…
Episode 184 - Reinventing Brands Globally at Africa Online, Kodak, & Celtel: The Making of Tito Alai | Part 2
Part 1 of my conversation with Tito Alai ended just as he was leaving Unilever and joining Africa Online.
Part 2 begins at that exact inflection point.
After almost a decade in one of the world’s most sophisticated consumer-goods organizations, Tito deliberately moved into a young African interne…
Sudan Is Not a Footnote — The War the World Keeps Looking Away From
Fourteen million people displaced. Two out of every five people facing hunger. The largest humanitarian catastrophe on Earth — and barely a headline.
In this episode, Dr. Crystallee Crain turns toward the war the world keeps looking away from: the civil war in Sudan, now grinding through its fourth…
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