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Can Africa's example help in Ukraine and Gaza?

Season 2, Ep. 29

Many wars have been waged on African soil. But it also means that Africans have something to say about conflict resolution. At a moment in time, where conflict seems to be all around us, Limitless Africa wanted to highlight three approaches to peace. 


Souleymane Bachir Diagne is one of the foremost scholars of Islamic and African philosophy and a professor at Columbia University in New York


Joseph Nkurunziza is a medical doctor and CEO of Never Again Rwanda, a peace-building NGO which works in 22 out of the 30 districts of the country.


Former refugee Victor Ochen supports local communities still affected by war with his organisation AYINET, the African Youth Initiative Network.



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