Rebecca Sibanda addresses xenophobia in new In My 20s podcast

Afro-optimism, or more specifically, the African growth mindset is a greater sense of optimism that, despite challenges such as electricity and water that the continent faces, is in stark contrast to a growing Western degrowth mindset of pessimism about the future, and Africa.

“We can talk about AI all we want to, but the foundations of AI are about how you can harness the power of digital to transform the continent in the way we want it to transform.”.

In the latest In My 20s podcast, constitutional law researcher Rebecca Sibanda takes on xenophobia and looks at African history, migration and what it’s like to be a foreigner living in another African country.

In the 30th episode of the In My 20s podcast, features journalist and law and gender master’s student Karabo Mafolo tackles the ever-growing gender-based violence crisis in South Africa and touches on what it feels like to be a woman living South Africa today.