Koffi Kouakou
Guest
Longtime colleague of Michael Brown featured in the North-South dialogue on Africa, China, critical minerals, demographics, and Africa's future.
Episodes
Episode 900:21:03
Africa's Demographic Surge: Youth, Technology, and the Race Between Transformation and Instability
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.
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Critical Minerals and the New Resource Competition: Africa's Leverage or Another Extraction Cycle?
A 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.
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North-South Conversation on Africa and Its Future
A North-South dialogue on Africa's future, outside assumptions, China, and the limits of single-story narratives.
Michael 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.
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