Meeting of Minds

About Meeting of Minds

Meeting of Minds is the Leading Exporter of African Narratives.As a digital publishing company, we produce slow news and solutions journalism. As a cross-platform brand, we connect African women from the Diaspora to the Continent. We create new media experiences that centres cultural competency and racial literacy. Through high quality content and partnership brokering, we aim to disrupt traditional markets, challenge the status quo and buck conventional storytelling.Our podcasts strike at the heart of the matter, each episode inspiring candid conversations with intellectuals and cultural change-makers, spotlighting the voices that matter. Our audio content gives listeners the space to dive into topics, ranging from politics and business to contemporary art and Black feminism at your own pace - as we shift paradigms and encourage radical thinking and sustainable solutions.

Publisher

Uchechi

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Feb 2021

Latest episode

13 Nov 2021

Latest episodes

21 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Nov 2021

   #AfricaInFocus Is Nigeria ready for the eNaira?

   On 25th October 2021, Nigeria became the first African nation to launch a digital currency- the eNaira. At the official unveiling in Abuja, President Buhari said the eNaira could boost Nigeria’s gross domestic product by up to $29 billion over the next decade. The central bank will issue the digital currency directly to users, hoping to promote financial inclusion, facilitate diaspora remittances, foster cross border trade, among other advantages. The launch comes nine months after the ...

2. 

   19 Oct 2021

   #AfricaInFocus In Conversation with Captain Thokozile Muwamba: The First Zambian Female Fighter Pilot

   The Zambian Air Force is the air operations division of the Zambian Defence Forces. It was founded in 1968, four years after Zambia's political independence from Britain. In its fifty-three years of existence, it has had 11 commanders-in-chief, all of whom have been men. But Zambia is trying to change this by encouraging more Zambian women to join different areas of the Defence Forces. In 2017, these efforts materialised when it was announced that the Air Force had appointed its first female ...

3. 

   8 Oct 2021

   #RealReads In Conversation with 'Hairvolution' Authors Saskia Calliste and Zainab Raghdo

   Hairvolution is an ode to Black Hair and heritage, launched on World Afro Day, 15 September 2021 by the authors Saskia Calliste and Zainab Raghdo. Our Business editor maxine Harrison had the pleasure of both reading the book and sitting down with Saskia and Zainab, to find out what inspired them to write it, and their new journey as Black female published authors in this time when the fight for social justice and the promotion of Black culture is resurging. You can read the arti...