Curious and expansive Learning Africa is a podcast for anyone who wants to understand the continent beyond the headlines. Each episode explores the stories, people, and forces shaping Africa today, from political upheaval and economic transformation to culture, history, and the ideas driving the next generation. Hosted by Amadou Dieng, it's a space to ask honest questions, sit with complexity, and come away knowing Africa a little better than before.
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Signup to Generate a PitchCurious and expansive Learning Africa is a podcast for anyone who wants to understand the continent beyond the headlines. Each episode explores the stories, people, and forces shaping Africa today, from political upheaval and economic transformation to culture, history, and the ideas driving the next generation.
Learning Africa is hosted by Amadou Dieng. The show has published 16 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "CAF Said Nothing, And FIFA's $20B World Cup Plan Died Anyway" (5 August 2026, 18 minutes), "M-PESA: The App That Became a Country's - Kenya- Bank" (29 July 2026, 18 minutes), and "MADIBA: The man behind the icon, on Mandela Day" (15 July 2026, 14 minutes).
Learning Africa publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 17 minutes across 16 episodes.
Booking probability for Learning Africa is 27%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Learning Africa requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Learning Africa's contact route on record: public web form.
Amadou Dieng hosts Learning Africa, a news podcast with 16 episodes published.
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Learning Africa
Send us Fan Mail When FIFA asked its 211 members to approve a $20 billion plan to sell a stake in the World Cup, UEFA voted 55-0 to boycott. CONCACAF revolted. Asia's confederation joined them. A senior FIFA adviser...
Episode #15
Send us Fan Mail Before 2007, sending money across Kenya meant a bus ride and a stranger you had to trust. Then a loan-repayment pilot got hijacked by its own users, and became M-Pesa, the mobile money system that now...
Episode #13
Send us Fan Mail Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in a cell barely eight feet long. He refused an early release that would have required him to say something he didn't mean. He walked out of prison in 1990 and immediately...
Episode #12
Send us Fan Mail Sixteen of France's 26 players trace to Africa. So does the pipeline colonialism built to get them there — and what it still costs the continent. Support the show Enjoyed this one? Got a take? A...
Learning Africa
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Support the show</p><p>Enjoyed this one? Got a take? A correction? A story I should know about? Come find me on Instagram @dieng_amadu or @afrovoices and tell me what you think. What landed...
Learning Africa
Send us Fan Mail Support the show Enjoyed this one? Got a take? A correction? A story I should know about? Come find me on Instagram @dieng_amadu or @afrovoices and tell me what you think. What landed, what missed, what...
Episode #10
Send us Fan Mail In 2019, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed stood in Oslo and accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. He'd ended a twenty-year war with Eritrea, freed thousands of political prisoners, and made his country...
Episode #10
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>In 2019, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed stood in Oslo and accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. He'd ended a twenty-year war with Eritrea, freed thousands of political prisoners, and made his...
Episode #9
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>African Americans and Africans share the most important origin story in the modern world. They also have a relationship that is complicated, sometimes warm, sometimes cold, and almost never...
Episode #8
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p> When xenophobic violence escalated across South Africa this May, African governments did something that should not have been necessary: they sent planes. Ghana chartered a flight. Mozambique...
Episode #7
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Cameroon 1990. Senegal 2002. Ghana 2010. Morocco 2022. Four times Africa was close enough to believe. Four times it wasn't enough. Now ten teams head to North America. This is the story of what...
Episode #6
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>In 1884, fourteen European powers met in Berlin and divided Africa among themselves. Not a single African voice was in the room. Today, China controls the mines, Russia is selling security to...
Episode #5
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Sixty years ago, the world said Africa wasn't ready to govern itself. Africans decided not to wait for permission. In this Africa Day special, we mark what has actually been built since: the...
Episode #4
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>At a summit in Nairobi last week, Emmanuel Macron called himself a Pan-Africanist. The outrage was immediate — and fair. But the more interesting question is the one underneath it: what is...
Episode #3
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Africa has not held the UN Secretary-General position in twenty years. Macky Sall wants to change that. But his path to the world's top diplomatic job runs through a fractured African Union...
Episode #2
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p> What do you do when the government you elected stops being worth defending? That's the question millions of people across West Africa have been living with for the past five years, and in...
Episode #1
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Support the show</p><p>Enjoyed this one? Got a take? A correction? A story I should know about? Come find me on Instagram @dieng_amadu or @afrovoices and tell me what you think. What landed...
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