Limitless Africa

Africa has the youngest population in the world, 70% are under the age of 30. For this episode of Limitless Africa, we’re talking to Generation Z - that’s young people born between 1997 and 2012 - and we’re asking them what they want for Africa.Elisa Jamal is 25 and from Mozambique. She campaigns against violence against women. Hadidjatou Nene Sandou Yaya is a 25-year-old climate activist from Togo.23-year-old Jeremiah Thoronka from Sierra Leone founded a clean energy startup. They are all Young African Leaders in the Mandela Washington Fellowship program.

Victor Ochen grew up in a refugee camp in Northern Uganda in the 1980s and 1990s at the height of the Ugandan civil war, one of Africa's longest conflicts. He talks about the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza and how Africa's example can help resolve these issues.

For this episode, we asked three African foodies about the dish that reminds them of home.Chef Binta is the founder of Fulani Kitchen Foundation. She is the winner of the Basque Culinary World Prize.Chef Helt Araujo runs the Flor Do Duke restaurant in Luanda, Angola. He’s part of the research project Ovina Yetu which catalogues Angolan ingredients.Food entrepreneur Yasmine Fofana is a culinary food blogger (Afrofoodie) and founded Abidjan Restaurant Week.

We're re-releasing this interview with the Zimbabwean author Novuyo Rosa Tschuma as part of the launch of Limitless Conversations. In these Limitless Conversations, we discuss on social media the things that matter to you. We’ll be hosting a Twitter Space discussion on African literature this Sunday, December 15th, at 7 PM CAT / 5 PM GMT. Book enthusiasts and literary advocates please come and join in. Tell us about your favourite books of the year!And please listen to this interview with Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, an award-winning Zimbabwean novelist we first released on Limitless Africa at the beginning of this year. Tschuma's debut novel House of Stone is set during the Gukahurundi massacres that took place immediately after Zimbabwean independence and remain shrouded in secrecy. Her second novel Digging Stars also received glowing reviews. It deals with an equally uncomfortable history. She charts the similarities between the reserves allocated to native Americans in the US and those allocated to indigenous people in South Africa and Zimbabwe.This is a must listen for anyone interested in African fiction, interested in reading it of course but also interested in how it is produced. Novuyo gives us a peek behind the scenes of some of the most prestigious writing institutions in the US, telling us what it's like to be a young African woman professor there. She talks about the situation in Zimbabwe and what it's like to come back home with your partner when you are queer.

Maya Horgan Famodu is a American-Nigerian venture capitalist. She talks about being a third-culture kid, what it takes to raise a $50-million fund, and what she looks for when she invests in African start-ups.

Across Africa, young entrepreneurs are making their dreams happen in challenging circumstances. Here three very different young Africans explain how they made their first million.Maya Horgan Famodu is an American-Nigerian venture capitalist, originally from Minnesota in the US. She has a VC firm called Ingressive Capital. Her latest fund is worth $50m. She’s invested in some of the biggest startups in Africa.Moulaye Tabouré is the Malian CEO and founder of ANKA, an online sales platform for African fashion and crafts based in Cote d’Ivoire. The company has raised $6.2 million in its series A funding although it has since announced it is closing its marketplace. Mountaga Keita is a Guinean-born inventor and successful businessman. He studied at Harvard University and worked in America. He came back to Guinea to launch his portable ultrasound machine.