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The Singapore-Africa ConversationHow a Singapore health and wellness brand entered West AfricaKaren Fong of LAC Global says the discerning Nigerian consumer is willing to pay top dollar for a trusted product.
2025-12-2324 minThe Singapore-Africa ConversationHow Singapore navigates West and Southern Africa for businessJean 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.
2025-08-1430 minThe Singapore-Africa ConversationSingapore seeks business opportunities in North and East AfricaSingapore 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.
2025-07-1537 minThe Singapore-Africa ConversationSingapore fosters a private sector led engagement with AfricaTrade 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.
2025-06-0436 minThe Singapore-Africa ConversationHow Kenya changed the life of a NTU alumnusNanyang 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.
2024-12-2725 minThe Singapore-Africa ConversationSupercharging growth through Super AppTerser 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.
2024-04-2427 minThe Singapore-Africa ConversationMaking manufacturing work in AfricaTerser 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.
2023-11-2734 min
The Singapore-Africa ConversationState intervention and industrialisation of EthiopiaDr 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.
2023-01-3030 minThe Singapore-Africa ConversationA journey to an Africa that we wantDr 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.
2022-04-2932 minThe Singapore-Africa ConversationThe Best of 2021The 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 in Africa as they discuss these topics with Rafiq Raji and Ronak Gopaldas. Three researchers in three different parts of the continent talking about three...
2021-12-1429 minThe Singapore-Africa ConversationClimate finance opportunities in AfricaAfrica 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 need attract private sector capital. As world leaders gather in Glasgow, UK for the UN climate change summit (COP26) we speak to Gareth Phillips, Manager of the Climate and Environment...
2021-10-2733 min