Episode #2
Can Predictions Transform Africa? Oluwaleke Fakorede
What if many things in our society, e.g., elections, were decided by what people really think and believe? What if markets could tell the truth before the results were announced? In this episode, I sat with Oluwaleke (fondly called Hashcode) Co-founder of Bayse. We break down how prediction markets actually work, why they expose incentives faster than polls, and what happens when technology collides with regulation, culture, and power in Africa. This is a discussion about: How markets predict outcomes before institutions admit them Why trust, simplicity, and redundancy decide whether systems survive What regulation gets wrong about innovation in Nigeria How stablecoins quietly underpin economic reality Why politics shapes every other problem Africa faces
