Africa Tech Radio

From Instagram removing encrypted DMs to YouTube testing AI music tools and Meta building AI agents, here’s everything happening on your favourite social media platforms.

Tune in to Cruise Control with Mide Daniel on Africa Tech Radio.

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When girls are given access, support, and the confidence to dream, the impact extends beyond individuals to families, communities, and society as a whole.

In this Women’s Month conversation around the Give to Gain theme, Girl Child Advocate Layo Atiba shares insights on empowering the girl child, breaking barriers, and building a stronger future.

Tune in to listen to the full conversation on www.africatechradio.com

Partnerships across borders is important for progress!

 

In this special episode with Gautier Mignot, EU Ambassador to Nigeria & ECOWAS speaks to the contributions the EU is making in Nigeria and West Africa to engender technological advancement.

 

One opportunity given to a woman can uplift an entire network.

In this Women’s Month conversation around the International Women’s Day theme, United Nations Speaker/Women and Youth Affairs Specialist, Dr. Shaleen Das, spoke about why investing in women goes beyond empowerment, it creates ripple effects across families, communities, and systems.

We also explored the barriers women still face today, and what happens when they are excluded from key spaces.

Listen to the full conversation on www.africatechradio.com

In this special episode, Ujjwal Singh, Co-Founder & COO, InCash, speak about Fintech in Nigeria and the products InCash is making a play for.

Sustainable clean energy investments in Africa is achievable!

In this special episode with Habiba Ali, Founder & CEO, SOSAI Renewable Energies, we reference Nigeria’s journey into clean energy and the needed investments to uplift Nigerians from energy poverty.

NEW EPISODE OUT!!!

From Nigeria to the UK and the US, there seems to be a total dearth of courageous, morally upright leadership. Ekene asks: Where are the "servant leaders"? 

Have we reached a point where leadership is only about holding onto power for power's sake?

As we move closer home, Ayisha addresses the tragic killing of Oghenemine Ogidi by police in Delta State. 

We explore the "culture of violence" that permeates policing not just in Nigeria, but across the globe, and ask the difficult question: Why are some humans seemingly immune to the most basic universal values?

LINK(S):
1) https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYSTK0QSHoO/?igsh=MTBoaHpkNXpqcWt1ZA==

2) https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-local-elections-england-scotland-wales-2026-starmer-12593360

3) https://punchng.com/us-iran-war-fg-earns-n5tn-oil-windfall-amid-rising-fuel-hardship

4) https://www.instagram.com/p/DXpoVeOE5sk/?igsh=Z3FzZGJ3MGxmbDFq

 

GUEST:
Chuka Ihonor is an Architect, the Principal of Ci Studio, furniture and product designers based in London, and founder of 9H Media who organize 9H DesignTalk; Lagos’s foremost architecture/art/design conversations. 

He is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Open House Lagos.

Duration: ~54 minutes 
Produced by: Africa Tech Radio
Listen on: Podbean | Spotify | Apple Podcasts
Hosts: Ekene Ezeji and Ayisha Osori

From one of SA’s major regulator failing its own AI test, to Startup Funding in Q1 2026 compared to 2025 and then a look into what Apple’s incoming CEO has to offer, Tony takes us into the biggest tech stories of the past week on the continent.

Special Episode Out Now!

 

Will everything in your relationship fall into place if you love each other?

Can you build love? Does love last a lifetime?

Shireen and Luisa, guest hosts on this special episode lead the conversation on love.

 

Tell us what you think about this week’s episode of “What's on Your Mind Podcast” and share your love experiences with us in the comments.

Replays are available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, & other podcast platforms!

 

Links:

https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/feminism-made-in-china/

Guest Hosts:
a) Shireen Noor: a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and licensed couple’s therapist in private practice in Hertfordshire and London. Shireen’s clinical and academic interests include trauma, culture, migration, identity, and decolonising psychoanalysis, with a particular focus on South Asian experiences of mental health.

b) Luisa Bloom: is a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst with 15 years of clinical experience. Before training in psychotherapy, she worked in the entertainment industry on non-fiction and factual films, which informs her narrative sensibility and attention to life stories. As a psychoanalyst she specializes in relational work, helping individuals and couples reflect on and work through interpersonal difficulties, and—when possible—transform entrenched patterns. 

Duration: ~51 minutes
Produced by: Africa Tech Radio
Listen on: Podbean | Spotify | Apple Podcasts |
Hosts: Ekene Ezeji and Ayisha Osori

Is the future of AI in Design?

 

The world of Design got a boost this year when Open AI took in Apple’s legendary Chief Design Officer, Jonny Ive.

 

In this special session designers discuss the design trends that shaped 2025. 

 

Host and Designer; Chima Ifeji chats with Product and Creative Interface Designer; Emisho Victor and Brand & Type Designer; Amarachi Nwauwa in this ALL Designer episode.