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…
As society gets more complicated, more diverse and less cohesive, dialogue becomes centrally important. Dele OlojedeFounder & Host, Africa In the World
The festival brought an agenda deeply concerned with enhancing ways of living on the continent, structuring access to existing and new kinds of innovation, fostering problem-solving, and emboldening broad political will that affects societal change. Willem de Vries The Africa…
In a profound exploration of belonging and identity, Abdulrazak Gurnah, the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, reflects on the complex emotions that tether one to their homeland, even amidst the dislocation of exile. During the Africa In the World…
South African-born musician and composer, Neo Muyanga finds the harmonics that connect hearts and minds at the Africa In the World festival. At the upcoming 2023 event, he will be storytelling through two new compositions, Thina the people and Train,…
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…
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…
Muhammadu Sansui II, Emir of Kanu in Nigeria Both a modern African leader and a traditional leader of Nigeria’s most populous and poorest region, the Emir gives a frank presentation on the realities of Africa’s present and near-future challenges. In…
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…