The festival brought an agenda deeply concerned with enhancing ways of living on the continent, structuring access to existing and new kinds of innovation, fostering problem-solving, and emboldening broad political will that affects societal change. Willem de Vries The Africa…
In a profound exploration of belonging and identity, Abdulrazak Gurnah, the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, reflects on the complex emotions that tether one to their homeland, even amidst the dislocation of exile. During the Africa In the World…
South African-born musician and composer, Neo Muyanga finds the harmonics that connect hearts and minds at the Africa In the World festival. At the upcoming 2023 event, he will be storytelling through two new compositions, Thina the people and Train,…
Muhammadu Sansui II, Emir of Kanu in Nigeria Both a modern African leader and a traditional leader of Nigeria’s most populous and poorest region, the Emir gives a frank presentation on the realities of Africa’s present and near-future challenges. In…
Panellist, Alan Storey gives us a metaphor that can hold us In the weeks before the 2019 Africa In the World festival, devastating riots and attacks fuelled by xenophobia broke out across communities in Johannesburg, South Africa. A panel moderated…
THE TALKManthan is proud to bring an eminent citizen of the world to deliver its 300th Talk. It is a deserving subject by a hugely eminent person. This Talk draws on Dele’s 38 years wandering the world and writing about…