Hafsat Abiola-Costello
Why do African economies struggle?
Hafsat Abiola speaks about her vision for a fairer economic world order. Despite it being forty years since it achieved independence, countries like Nigeria are still struggling…
Recorded: 14 May 2007
Mohau Pheko
What is the importance of women in agriculture?
Mohau Pheko (and daughter) outline the vital role women play in African food production. Around 75% of those employed in the sector are women. But despite being traditional custodians…
Recorded: 10 September 2006
Tewolde Egziabher
How can Africa’s food crisis be solved?
Tewolde Egziabher notes that globalization and Africa’s colonial legacy brought with them a taste for non-traditional, imported foods. The current trade agreements that allow…
Recorded: 22 May 2006
Johan Galtung
How can internal ethnic conflicts best be addressed?
Professor Galtung draws attention to the political stresses that can arise when the ambitions of a national or ethnic group clash with those of the state. He mentions the Basque…
Recorded: 8 June 2005
Nelson Mandela
Can we make poverty history?
In this short clip, produced by the 2005 Make Poverty History campaign, Nelson Mandela reminds us that it is up to all of us to continue…
Recorded: 1 May 2005
Jeffrey Sachs
What is ‘The Millennium Villages Project’?
The Millennium Villages Project, run by The Earth Institute at Columbia University, is a bottom-up approach to lifting villages in the…
Recorded: 1 March 2005
Wangari Maathai
Why does sustainable development matter?
Professor Maathai says that in awarding her the Peace Prize in 2004 the Nobel Committee ‘has challenged global society to think in a more holistic way.’ Here, Professor…
Recorded: 17 December 2004
Wangari Maathai
Can Africa look after itself?
Professor Maathai explains how colonial administrators in Africa saw local culture as a hindrance to ‘progress.’ As a result, Africa’s cultural roots were systematically…
Recorded: 17 December 2004
Wangari Maathai
How can Africa develop successfully?
In clip two (see “Empowering Africa”), Wangari Maathai talked about empowerment through culture. Here, she talks about empowering Africa through democracy. She speaks…
Recorded: 17 December 2004
Desmond Tutu
How can people have faith in adversity? (Part One)
In this unusually informal recording, presented here in two parts, Archbishop Desmond Tutu reflects on the hardship and injustice endured in South Africa under apartheid. He speaks…
Recorded: 7 December 2004
Desmond Tutu
How can people have faith in adversity? (Part Two)
In this unusually informal recording, presented here in two parts, Archbishop Tutu reflects on the hardship and injustice endured in South Africa under apartheid. He speaks about…
Recorded: 7 December 2004
Aubrey Meyer
What is the fair way to deal with climate change?
In researching policy ideas to combat climate change during the 1990s, Meyer realized that global emissions could only be reduced to a safe level within a controlled international…
Recorded: 11 November 2004
Kai Brand-Jacobsen
Is it possible to develop alternatives to the current economic system?
In the first clip (see “Roots of Violence”) Kai talked about how the current global economic system has created what the Nobel Peace Institute has referred to as a system…
Recorded: 4 November 2004
Lynne Franks
What is the role of women in the 21st Century?
Lynne Franks discusses the role of women in society and in the workplace. Women, she says, often have to adapt to a masculine work environment. The result is that many leave their…
Recorded: 2 October 2004
Ela Gandhi
What can Gandhi teach us about sustainability?
Ela Gandhi talks about her grandfather’s transformation from lawyer to civil rights leader. She tells the story of Mahatma Gandhi’s visit to the Mariannhill Monastery…
Recorded: 10 July 2004
Ela Gandhi
What role does religion have today?
Ela Gandhi talks about the fundamental role religions play in strengthening moral values in modern society. She then speaks about living one’s chosen religion while at the…
Recorded: 10 July 2004
Mary Evelyn Tucker
Can Religion Save the Planet?
Professor Tucker talks about the role religions can play in addressing the ecological problems of our time. Although all major religious traditions predate our modern awareness…
Recorded: 10 July 2004
Don Beck
How do we change political ideologies?
Widely recognized as one of the chief architects of South Africa’s post-apartheid democracy, Dr. Don Beck talks about how nations transition through different political ideologies.…
Recorded: 19 May 2004
Jane Goodall
What can we learn from Africa?
Speaking at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, September 2002, Dr. Goodall talks about the effects commercial logging in Africa has on the environment…
Recorded: 1 September 2002
Jane Goodall
Case Study: The TACARE Project
Primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall talks about TACARE – a pilot project she set up in Tanzania to…
Recorded: 1 September 2002
