Africa.com Launches Six-Part Podcast Series Addressing Africa’s Most Urgent Issues

November 2, 2021

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, November 2, 2021 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- Africa.com is excited to announce they are joining forces with Standard Bank to address some of Africa’s most important challenges in a new podcast series launched this week. 

Igniting Impact is a six-episode podcast series hosted by Africa.com Chair and Executive Editor Teresa Clarke. Each episode welcomes expert guests who bring context and insight to some of the most urgent issues facing Africa today. 

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The first episode features Simon Freemantle, Senior Political Economist at Standard Bank, and Penny Byrne, Climate Research Analyst at Standard Bank. Both have a Ph.D. in Climate Science and a deep level of expertise on the environment in Africa. Simon and Penny unpack the issue of why Africa must be at the center of COP26, the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference. Penny Byrne said, “as the climate continues to change, there are more risks, and the more we know about what to expect going forward, the better prepared we can be.” 

Upcoming episodes include concise and informative discussions on the mining sector, blockchain & human rights, impact investing, agriculture, and one episode will unpack the recent Mercer report. Podcast host Teresa Clarke said, “we couldn’t be more excited to join forces with Standard Bank, and bring these discussions to listeners everywhere. The Igniting Impact series really puts the most urgent issues into perspective in a way that is accessible and easy to understand.”

To listen to this podcast visit Podcast.Africa.com. 

Listeners of the podcast series can contact Africa.com via email [[email protected]] to provide feedback and ideas for future podcasts.

Distributed by African Media Agency (AMA) on behalf of Africa.com.

About Africa.com
Africa.com is a media holding company with an extensive array of platforms that reach a global audience interested in African content and community. Africa.com’s interests include a business publisher’s ad network, content syndication, the website at www.iafrica.com, email newsletters, various social media platforms, and internet domain names ending with the “.africa.com” extension. Africa.com operates from Johannesburg, Lagos, and New York, and has a presence in Cape Town and Nairobi.

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Prime Business Africa is a business, economy and policy news platform founded in 2021 by veteran journalist and media scholar, Dr Marcel Mbamalu, after he left The Guardian as Editor.

Dr Mbamalu, who serves as Founder and Publisher, set up Prime Business Africa to deliver sharp, data-driven reporting on Nigeria’s markets, trade, investment, and governance trends for decision-makers, entrepreneurs, and policy leaders.

He also writes The Bottom Line, a backpage column for Punch Newspaper every Thursday.
Under his leadership, Prime Business Africa combines deep newsroom experience with a focus on accountability journalism, aiming to bridge information gaps between Africa’s private sector and the global economy.

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