In this episode, I am joined by Dr Daniel Volman, the director of the African Security Research Project in Washington and a specialist on U.S. military policy towards Africa and African issues. We discuss the conflict in the Sahel and talks between the Trump’s administration and the Alliance of Sahel States military regimes.

In this week’s episode, we focus on the prospects of and challenges facing Africa’s teeming youth population. Our guest is Dr Kayode George, a Nigerian-based scholar with vast experience both nationally and internationally in the field of security, peace and conflict studies.

In this week’s episode, we focus on the politics of political party coalition in Nigeria and Nigeria’s forthcoming general election in 2027. I am joined by Dr Babayo Sule, Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies at National University of Lesotho. Babayo is the author of numerous books including Political party financing and electoral politics in Nigeria’s fourth republic.

In this week’s episode, I am joined by Dr Eric Tevoedjre, instructor at the Catholic University in Lille, France, to discuss the future of regional economic communities (REC) in Africa following the withdrawal of the Alliance of Sahel States (Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger) from ECOWAS and Rwanda from ECCAS.

In this week’s episode, I am joined by Daniel Bradlow, Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at the University of Pretoria to discuss Africa’s multilateral financial institutions-why they matter and how to save them.

Dr Ndubuisi Nwokolo, Partner and Chief Executive at Nextier SPD, a security, peace and development organisation based in Nigeria, joins me this week to discuss what is behind the recurrent ‘friendly strikes’ in Nigeria, their implications and how to address them.

Dr Jeslyn Lemke joins me in this episode to discuss the forthcoming elections in Ivory Coast where President Alassane Quattara will be seeking a controversial fourth term. Dr Lemke, a bilingual journalist and journalism professor in the Pacific Northwest in the US also provides insight into the influence of France and other foreign governments in the small Francophone West African country.

In this episode, we discuss police brutality and reforms in Nigeria and across Africa. Our guest this week is Kemi Okenyodo, Founder/Executive Director, Rule of Law & Empowerment Initiative also known as Partners West Africa Nigeria. Kemi has over 20 years experience in security, governance, criminal justice reform and NGO management in New and West Africa.

In this week’s episode, we discuss the drivers and consequences of the frequent flooding across Africa. Our guest is Professor Taibat Lawanson, Professor of Planning and Heritage at University of Liverpool and Professor of Urban Management and Governance at the University of Lagos, Nigeria.

In this week’s episode, we focus on the controversial allegation of White Farmers’ Genocide in South Africa and Trump’s granting of Refugee Status to ‘persecuted’ white farmers in South Africa. I am joined by Professor Christi van der Westhuizen, Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Cape, Cape Town.