The Open Africa Podcast

The Open Africa Podcast

Hosted by Furo and Laolu and Nosa · Open Africa Podcast

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29Podcast AuthorityScore out of 100 · How it is scored
96
Episodes
32
Transcribed
57
Ratings
Daily
Cadence
2019
First episode

About The Open Africa Podcast

On this podcast 'Laolu, Furo, and Nosa talk about technology, startups, and issues across the African banking and technology ecosystems. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher
Open Africa Podcast
Category
technology
Language
en
Explicit
No
First episode
2 Oct 2019
Latest episode
1 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

32 of 96 episodes have a transcript.

  1. 1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

    TechCabal is hosting Moonshot

  2. 19 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Uber leaves Nigeria

  3. 7 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Paystack acquires Allawee

Inside a recent episode

TechCabal is hosting Moonshot

Published 1 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] I'm really interested in people thinking about how we apply this meaningfully to education or to healthcare. I was in a round table with the Gates Foundation and a few people, and they were talking about, look, if you're going to do extension services for farmers, how are they going to engage with the material that you have? So you have all this data about how to make your plot of maize yield more value. But those people are not typing into cloud and asking, like most farmers across the country, are not typing into cloud and asking it how to maximize their yields. But if you can do a phone line that's connected to an IVR system, that's connected to a language-translated system, that will take the information that's on Claude or Gemini or wherever it is about how to improve your yields and give it to them in Pigeon English or in Yoruba, then you can see real changes in output. […]

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Who has been a guest on The Open Africa Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

  • Tomiwa Aladekomo
  • Guy Futi
  • Nnanna
  • Seun Lanlege

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
5 ratings
Spotify
4.9 / 5
52 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 29 / 100

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Quality
24
Social presence
0
YouTube
0
Engagement
85

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Who hosts The Open Africa Podcast?

Furo and Laolu and Nosa host the show. Published by Open Africa Podcast.

How often do new episodes come out?

The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.

Does The Open Africa Podcast take guests?

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