That was Africa's 2015

We are joined by Richard Dowden, Director of the Royal African Society and and Yinka Adegoke, the editor of Quartz Africa, to discuss the big trends of Africa's 2015.

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Notes

Recommendations

Defining the Narrative - group exhibition at the Gallery Momo in Cape Town
Boris Lojkine's "Hope" at the IMDB
Moussa Touré's "La Prigoue" at the IMDB and Amazon
"Fortunes of Africa: A 5,000 Year History of Wealth, Greed and Endeavour" by Martin Meredith
"Im Schatten des Baobab: Tic Toc Tausendbein und andere Geschichten aus Burkina Faso" by Anne Wenkel

Main discussion

"Winner Take All: China's Race For Resources and What It Means For Us" by Dambisa Moyo
The strange case of 77 blue-collar Chinese migrants that Kenya is calling “cyber-hackers”

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The music on this podcast was kindly provided by DJ Maramza.