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2023 Festival Highlights
Read More2023 Festival Highlights‘The Lives of Wole Soyinka’
‘The Lives of Wole Soyinka’ – The Nobel Prize Laureate engages in dialogue with novelist, Okey Ndibe at the Africa In the World festival that took place in Stellenbosch, South Africa in September 2023.
How Societies Heal—A Lesson From Rwanda
We go back and revisit the wounds we have…using art as a tool or as a weapon to reconstruct what was destroyed. Hope Azeda, Rwandan Playwright
John E Deasy
You begin to build an energy that you can lift ideas out of here and actually put them into action at home. Dr. John E. Deasy, President, Bezos Family Foundation
Navyn Salem on Conquering Extreme Child Malnutrition
A wise person once told me there are many problems in this world that we can’t solve, and malnutrition isn’t one of them. Navyn Salem, Founder, Edesia Nutrition
The composer Neo Muyanga considers ‘Amazing Grace.’
I wanted to interpolate intro this piece… evidence of facts, realities, histories that have been occluded or forgotten. Neo Muyanga, Composer, Musician and Librettist
Dr. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
Dr. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, chancellor of the University of Johannesburg and former deputy president of South Africa, speaks on public education as our last, best chance. She is joined by Dr. John Deasy, president of the Bezos Foundation and former superintendent…
Advancing Human Possibility
As society gets more complicated, more diverse and less cohesive, dialogue becomes centrally important. Dele OlojedeFounder & Host, Africa In the World
The world’s civil religion, football… and the meaning of life
Journalist, author and documentarian, John Carlin is interviewed by Emir Muhammadu Sensui II As a ‘dinner provocation’ during Africa In the World 2019, writer, John Carlin tells the entertaining story of how a chance meeting with Morgan Freeman in a…
The here, the now and the road ahead
Nasir El-Rufai, Governor of Nigeria’s Kaduna state interviews iconic Rwandan economist, Donald Kaberuka In this 40-minute, panoramic conversation from Africa In the World 2019, Donald Kaberuka, former Finance Minister in Rwanda’s transformational government and former President of the African Development…
The sources of violent xenophobia in South Africa – African backlash
Panellist, Alan Storey gives us a metaphor that can hold us In the weeks before the 2019 Africa In the World festival, devastating riots and attacks fuelled by xenophobia broke out across communities in Johannesburg, South Africa. A panel moderated…