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The Many Futures of Africa
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TK Pooe & Koffi M. Kouakou | The TK Show
In this episode, TK speaks to Foresight and Scenario Planning Strategist Koffi M. Kouakou. They discuss Koffi’s upbringing in Côte d'Ivoire, how he became interested in scenario planning, food security in Africa, China’s success with central planning, the need for African countries to free themselves from the yoke of colonialism, the various revolutionary movements happening across Africa, the phenomenon of resource nationalism, and why Africa struggles to produce a better class of political elites.
TK Pooe (PhD) is a senior lecturer at the Witwatersrand School of Governance; his main fields of research are Public Policy themes such as Local Economic Development, Law and Development, Scenario Planning and Thinking, and Failure Analysis. Over the last ten years, he has lectured and consulted for various institutions like the North-West University’s Government Studies Programme, the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Gordon Institute of Business Science (University of Pretoria) and the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute. Before joining academia, he worked in various government institutions as a Public Policy research consultant.
Koffi M. Kouakou is a Foresight and Scenario Planning Strategist and a sessional lecturer at the Tayarisha Research Group at the Wits School of Governance, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is also a senior research fellow at the Centre for Africa China Studies at the University of Johannesburg; managing director of Stratnum Futures, a scenario planning, foresight, strategy advisory firm based in Pretoria; and a director of the South Africa Node of the Millennium Programme, based in Washington, D.C. He is also an alumnus of the Oxford University Said Business School Scenarios Programme and the Global Business Network Developing and Using Scenarios (DUS).
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