AfricanOptimist - how we thrive against great odds

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What does it take to survive and thrive in Africa?This and other questions are answered weekly as we dive into the worlds of dynamic doers and thinkers who are changing the future of the continent. Join Sanja Gohre in conversation with a wide range of people as they share their journeys of triumphs and tribulations, tips and tricks, analysis and insight, and most of all their inspiration on how and why they survive and thrive. For the back story of all guests, transcripts and show notes, visit www.africanoptimist.co.za, where you can also sign up for the AfricanOptimist newsletter.The AfricanOptimist podcast is proudly hosted by Afripods, the world's Nr 1 podcast for African stories.
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Latest episodes of the podcast AfricanOptimist - how we thrive against great odds

#14 Lita Miti-Qamata - How African Entrepreneurs & Creatives Can Protect Their Ideas and Commercialise Them 04/08/2025
#13 Claudia Castellanos - How you dust off an old family recipe and build it into a super hot brand 18/07/2025
#12 Dr Thebe Ikalafeng - 'The African who travelled from his small town in Kimberley, to the top of Kilimanjaro, to the rest of the continent.' 05/12/2024
#11 Sarah Dusek - on becoming an entrepreneur who thinks BIG, and a VC who helps African women think BIGGER 04/09/2024
#10 Gus Le Breton - On influencing EU law, the challenges of processing wild-harvested fruit, the future power of baobab harvesters and the need for 'courage, my son' 18/06/2024
#9 Joséphine Katumba - The rise (and importance) of the Intrapreneur, jumping on rocket ships without a reserved seat and 'weighing and paying' as a retail model of the future 02/05/2024
#8 Adam Welz - why 'climate change' should be renamed 'climate breakdown', how humans have disrupted 11,000 years of relative stability, how nature is reacting to this and why we should care 05/04/2024
#7 Sithuli Mbeje - on mobile abattoirs, bringing processing closer to home and doing what needs to be done 15/03/2024
#6 Erica de Greef - on Vogue Business' accolade as one of 100 global fashion 'disruptors', using African fashion as a decolonial tool, re-imagining western 1960s dresses and Africa's 'folded' fashion 03/03/2024
#5 Hamza Chaham - what it takes to get AI powered tools into the hands of smallholder farmers 18/02/2024
#4 GG Alcock - how the informal economy can disrupt the formal economy, how humans are not dots and slashes and how we are incentivised to be successful not brave 04/02/2024
#3 Sipamandla Manqele - exploring African wholefoods, being seen as a 'fallen soldier', about African and global banquet tables and connecting conscious consumers with small-scale producers 17/01/2024
#2 Jesse Naidoo - about the most exciting time of his life, bringing an engineer's approach to waste, thoughts on Shared Value vs Shareholder Value 17/01/2024
#1 Efosa Ojomo - about the 'Prosperity Paradox', Disruptive & Market-Creating Innovations and Why Capital has to be patient in Africa 14/01/2024
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