The Singapore-Africa Conversation

The Singapore-Africa Conversation

The Singapore-Africa Conversation is the official podcast of the NTU-SBF Centre for African Studies, a practice-oriented think tank that conducts research, fosters networks, and builds capacity for doing business in Africa. Established in 2014 with an endowment from private sector donors and seed funding from the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI), CAS is the only one of its kind in South-East Asia. The aim of this podcast is to try and unpack the economic transformation of Africa from an Asian point of view. http://www.ntu.edu.sg/cas cas@ntu.edu.sg

Episodes

How Singapore navigates West and Southern Africa for business

August 14, 2025 • 30 mins
Jean Ng of Enterprise Singapore has served in two of the most dynamic but vastly distinct markets of Africa. She explains why local firms need to adopt different approaches to win business in West and Southern Africa.
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Singapore seeks business opportunities in North and East Africa

July 15, 2025 • 37 mins
Singapore has identified specific sectors in North and East Africa where it believes its firms have a competitive advantage. Liane Ng and Yazeed Yusuf explain how Enterprise Singapore is assisting local firms win business in two of the fastest growing regional markets of Africa.
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Singapore fosters a private sector led engagement with Africa

June 4, 2025 • 36 mins
Trade between Singapore and Africa has grown at 10-15% annually since 2019. Singapore firms have invested over US$23.5 billion in the continent making this small but vibrant Asian financial centre the eighth largest foreign direct investor in Africa. Rahul Ghosh of Enterprise Singapore explains to Terser Adamu how this city-state is expanding its economic footprint in Africa.
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How Kenya changed the life of a NTU alumnus

December 27, 2024 • 25 mins
Nanyang Business School graduate Gabriel Teo tells Terser Adamu why he gave up his corporate life in Singapore and became a change-making educator in Kenya.
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Supercharging growth through Super App

April 24, 2024 • 27 mins
Terser Adamu speaks with Singapore based Swiss entrepreneur Raphael Dana whose super app Gozem facilitates on-demand transportation, delivery, and cashless payment solutions in Togo and Benin.
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Making manufacturing work in Africa

November 27, 2023 • 34 mins
Terser Adamu speaks with Saikat Chowdhury, Managing Director of the engineering advisory and solutions provider Nivesal. He is plugging the information gap that inhibits domestic manufacturing in Africa from taking off.
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State intervention and industrialisation of Ethiopia

January 29, 2023 • 30 mins
Dr Arkebe Oqubay has served as Senior Minister and Special Adviser to the Ethiopian Prime Minister. Under his guidance Ethiopia has carried out a carefully choreographed industrialisation programme. In this episode he tells the story of the economic transformation of Ethiopia since the end of military rule and what lessons have been learnt.
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A journey to an Africa that we want

April 29, 2022 • 32 mins
Dr Ibrahim Assane Mayaki has served as the Chief Executive Officer at the African Union Development Agency-NEPAD for more than a decade. Under his watch, the agency has become a spearhead for accelerating regional integration. In this episode he tells Nozipho Tshabalala and Amit Jain what it would take for Africa to achieve the vision of a well-integrated and prosperous continent in the next 40 years.
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The Best of 2021

December 13, 2021 • 29 mins
The NTU-SBF Centre for African Studies has been coming out with insightful articles over the years attracting following and readership all over the world. As the year comes to an end we look at the top three best read papers of 2021. Amit Jain and Nozipho Tshabalala ask Patrick Maluki to explain why the banking sector in Kenya is so formidable and get to grips with what the future holds for cryptocurrency and the creative industry ...
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Climate finance opportunities in Africa

October 27, 2021 • 33 mins
Africa contributes less than 4% to the global greenhouse gas emissions but is a continent worst impacted by climate change. The African Development Bank has promised to mobilise US$25bn billion in climate finance over the next three years. This is not going nearly enough for Africa to counter the risk of droughts, floods and desertification that threatens its future. For Africa to adequately finance the challenge of climate it will...
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