This Episode features Ntsiki Mazwai, Beadwork Artist, Poet, Musician, Producer, Author, Blogger, Social Activist, Master of Arts (Cum Laude)

Ntsiki Mazwai is an award winning South African musician, poet and author. Her blog posts on https://www.ntsikimazwai.com/blog have become very popular amongst her followers as she confronts and deals with issues that impact society. Her writings provide much needed fuel to the South African political discourse. 

In this Episode, Ntsiki talks about her mother's role in the fight against the apartheid (segregation on the basis of race) system, growing up in Soweto (Johannesburg), discovering the depth of her African-ness when she started University and the motivation behind her Master of Arts qualification. The Episode covers poetry, music, beading and everything else under the African sky including her plans to party across the African continent.

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This Episode features Dr. Ahmed Adamu (PhD), a youth development activist, and Petroleum and Development Economist.

First-ever Global Chairperson of the Commonwealth Youth Council

Africa Youth Awards Young Personality of the year, African Achievers Award Honour, Inspirational Nigerian in Those Who Inspire (Nigeria), Commonwealth Outstanding Service Award, Global Achievers Award and one of the 2016 100 most influential young Africans. 

This Episode features Dr. Ahmed Adamu (PhD), a youth development activist, and Petroleum and Development Economist.

 

This Episode features Dr. Ahmed Adamu (PhD), a youth development activist, and Petroleum and Development Economist.

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First-ever Global Chairperson of the Commonwealth Youth Council

Africa Youth Awards Young Personality of the year, African Achievers Award Honour, Inspirational Nigerian in Those Who Inspire (Nigeria), Commonwealth Outstanding Service Award, Global Achievers Award and one of the 2016 100 most influential young Africans. 

Twitter - @ahmedadamu

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Facebook - dr.ahmedadamu

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This Episode features Salimatou Fatty, CEO and Founder of the Salimatou Foundation for Education

Salimatou is an award winning activist who has received several honors. She won “African Leadership Award in September 2016, was nominated for the African Youth Award under “Advocate of the year”. Salimatou is a Barrack Obama Young African Leaders Initiative Alumni. In 2017 Africa Youth Awards named her among the 100 Most Influential Young Africans.

Twitter - @salimatoufatty

Website - www.salimatoufoundation.org

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This Episode features Landry Ndriko Mayigane

In 2016, Landry was selected as one of the 100 most influential Young Africans. He is the founder and CEO of Rwanda Youth Alliance for Climate Change.

From 2014-2016, Landry was involved in the fight against the Ebola virus disease in Guinea, where he led a team of more than 100 international health workers deployed by the African Union Commission. As operations co-ordinator for the mission, he supervised field investigations involving over 700 Ebola patients across Guinea. For his efforts, Landry received a Medal of Service to Humanity, awarded by the African Union Commission in recognition of his bravery and exemplary work during the Ebola outbreak response in West Africa.

Landry is one of the mentors for the President Obama Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) and the Queen of England’s Young leaders’ program. Currently he works for the World Health Organization where he advises the government of Mali on health security and emergencies management.

 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/landry-ndriko-mayigane-9401221a/

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On the 10th of January 2011, Tim Crothers, writing for ESPN wrote the following,

“Phiona Mutesi is the ultimate underdog. To be African is to be an underdog in the world. To be Ugandan is to be an underdog in Africa. To be from Katwe is to be an underdog in Uganda. And finally, to be female is to be an underdog in Katwe.”

The article he wrote for ESPN which later became a book titled The Queen of Katwe and ultimately a Disney Movie of the same name primarily centres around the young chess prodigy, Phiona Mutesi who goes on to win the Ugandan Women’s Junior Championship three times, and has represented Uganda at four chess Olympiads. She is also one of the first titled female players in Ugandan chess history. Rotten Tomatoes gave the movie a 93% satisfaction rating. The Oscar winning Kenya actress Lupita Nyong’o delivers a performance worthy of another Oscar and she is ably supported by the ever so impressive David Oyelowo alongside the young Ugandan actress, Madina Nalwanga. What is clear in the movie is that the force behind the success of Phiona and the other young prodigies including Benjamin, Ivan and Brian is the man they call coach. Mr. Robert Katende.

Robert introduced and developed chess programs in the slums of Kampala. He also worked with Divine Waters Ministry in partnership with Sports Outreach to drill wells in Gulu. His exemplary and innovative leadership in 15 years of service have seen him become Sports Outreach Director for Africa.

This episode is an exclusive one hour interview with the man who is changing the lives of kids in Kampala and other parts of Africa and showing that with a good support structure being African doesn’t have to  mean that one is an underdog in the world, with people like Robert by your side being Ugandan doesn’t need to mean one is an underdog in Africa, and that you can be a black African female from Katwe but with enough talent and support from people like Robert you can go on to compete against anyone in the world and find your rightful place in the universe.

A fork, a spoon and a knight 

http://www.robertkatende.org/

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This episode features Damilola Oluwatoyinbo, one of 2017's 100 Most Influential Young Africans

A dynamic speaker, insightful writer, personal transformation expert, corporate trainer and spiritual leader. Damilola has a BSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Lagos. He makes his contribution to the global economy through a Training and Development Enterprise, DreamStream. In 2009, Damilola featured as a contestant on Africa’s first oratory-based reality TV show, The Debaters, which was broadcast to 5 million people in 40 African and European Countries. In 2011, he opened Dream Academy. He has published 4 books, Just Do it, Seize the Moment, Good to go New Year’s Guide and Life Lessons from Football. He is currenty a Pastor of KINGS- Kingdom Influencers in Nations, Generations and Systems.

 To be part of Damilola's amazing journey through life, you can follow him on

Twitter - @damilolaonline

Instagram - @damioluwatoyinbo

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In the second episode we are joined by Alain Katompa who was born in the then Zaire (now DRC) before leaving to start school in South Africa. At the age of 12 he emigrated to Canada before starting his career in America. Having worked in South America and Australia he returned to the continent of his birth to lend his experience and be part of the process of rebuilding our beautiful continent.

 

In this episode Alain talks about his experiences in North America and how those experiences have prepared him for the challenges he has had to confront. This is a must-listen episode. Africa Unite!!!

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In our first episode we are joined by Ms. Evita Situma who grew up in Zimbabwe before moving to South Africa to complete her High School education.

She is of East African heritage and completed her Tertiary Education in the UK. In this episode Evita talks about her experiences of feeling like an outsider in her continent of birth and ultimately getting in touch with who she is when she moved to Europe.

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