Episode 7
Featuring Koffi Kouakou
Open source episodeMichael Brown sits down with longtime colleague Koffi Kouakou for a North-South dialogue on African realities, American assumptions, and the China factor. They challenge single-story narratives about Africa and look at what outside observers routinely miss.
Koffi Kouakou and Michael Brown discuss Africa's youth surge, technology, and the competing paths toward transformation or instability.
Michael Brown concludes a three-part North-South dialogue with longtime colleague Koffi Kouakou on African realities, American assumptions, and the China factor. They examine Africa's youth surge, technology adoption, political risk, and the race between transformation and instability.
Read episode pageSource episodeA discussion of critical minerals, Africa's bargaining power, China, and the risk of another extraction cycle.
Part two of a North-South dialogue with Koffi Kouakou examines critical minerals, China's role, Western assumptions, and whether Africa can turn resource demand into leverage rather than another extraction cycle.
Read episode pageSource episodeThe opening frame for The Unpopular View: Boomers, Gen Z, the Global South, and the realities public debate ignores.
The opening episode introduces The Unpopular View: challenging the narratives dividing Boomers, Gen Z, and the Global South. Michael Brown frames the show's focus on foreign aid, development, climate, governance, and the global realities public debate often ignores.
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