"My mission came from seeing first hand in my travels how economic activity declines in perfect step with moving away from large urban centres with sufficient infrastructure, and seeing the economic stagnation that would follow.More than one billion people today do not have direct access to paved roads or even runways. This fundamentally affects the lives they live, without access to the basic things you and I take for granted, like medical supplies.”Spencer Horne is the founder of Cloudline,...

Yvonne Manzi Makolo, CEO and Managing Director of Rwanda Air discusses with Veda Sunassee the changes flyers will experience, the opportunities for innovation and how smaller airlines can drop protectiveness and embrace collaboration to recover from this crisis.

Ebele Okobi, lives in London, UK. Born in San Francisco to Nigerian parents, she is Facebook’s Public Policy Director for Africa, the Middle East and Turkey. In this episode she sheds light on the foundations of racism in the US and why she knows that until we 'explode' this foundation, we will not see proper change or progress. She also offers advice on how to get more education, how to take effective personal positive action and challenges us to 'shake the table' to bring about more equity ...

"If nobody sees me, do I still exist?" Veda Sunassee talks to one of the most famous faces in Kenyan and African media, Julie Gichuru, about identity. Born to a muslim Kashimiri father and a Catholic Kikuyu mother, studied law and is an enterpreneur in the entertainment industry and who lists herself as a "mother, a wife, a change agent, a child of God and an afro-optimist' as her many identities, Ms Julie Gichuru is perfectly placed to help unpack this nuanced and multi layered thing called ...

Lerato Mbele, presenter of Africa Business on BBC World, candidly shares about the role of media in this crisis – “It is not a matter of luck but of integrity in the face of danger.” She also invites us into the world of reporting and gives us a sneak peak into the upcoming episodes on the BBC showing how the media, News and reporting are changing. She shares her story and shows us a humble person who argues that compassion and empathy have to be brought back to the human experience.

Our first episode is with James Mworia, one of the most accomplished and remarkable young leaders in Africa. James was born and raised in Kenya and is the CEO of Centum Investment, a role he has occupied for the last 12 year. James is also a Tutu Fellow and the current Chancellor of Machakos University. In 2011, only three years after becoming CEO of Centum Investment, the largest publicly traded company in East Africa, he won the Africa Young Business Leader of the Year award.In this episode...

Ken Njoroge, the co-founder and Co-CEO of Cellulant, a one-stop payment platform in Africa changing how customers pay and get paid all from a single connected payment platform. Cellulant’s mission is to build a world-class business led by entrepreneurial, value-driven people; for Africa, by Africans, in Africa. Ken is a serial entrepreneur. In 1998, he co-founded 3Mice Interactive Media which grew from a two-man team to a leading web development firm in East Africa and in 2000, 3Mice was acqu...

Adama Sanneh, based in Milan, Italy, speaks to Veda Sunassee on his existence in a country two weeks ahead of most countries in the curve of the pandemic. He shares his insights and reflections on how he could have lead his team differently. As Italy starts to enter Stage 2, the stage following lock down quarantine, Adama offers thoughts on his thinking of how we move forward and how we need to think even more differently from what we believe will be the 'new normal'.As co-Founder and CEO of ...