Panel 54 Podcast
Panel 54 Podcast
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Panel 54 - Global perspective through an African Lens.
From Cape Town to Cairo, Lagos to Lamu — 54 nations, one continent, countless perspectives.
Welcome to Panel 54 — a global perspective through an African lens. This is the podcast where we unpack power, policy, people, and the paradoxes that define our time. It’s not punditry — it’s perspective. Not a briefing — a reframing. And it starts right here.
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The podcast focuses on themes of power, policy, geopolitical dynamics, and societal challenges within the African context, with episodes like 'The War Is Ours, But the Blueprint Isn’t' exploring Africa's role in global security, and discussions on media trust crises addressing the modern journalism landscape.
Panel 54 is where Africa tells its own story. From Lagos to Lamu, Cape Town to Cairo, hosts Waweru Njoroge (Kenya) and Ndu Okoh (Kenya/Nigeria) explore the people, power, and politics shaping the continent. Each episode delivers sharp, evidence-first conversations with leaders, activists, athletes, and cultural voices. From sports and identity to security, media, new foreign influence, youth movements, sovereignty, and Africa’s place in a multipolar world, Panel 54 offers a global perspective through an African lens.
What happens when climate change becomes a hidden driver of conflict and war across Africa?
In this episode, Waweru Njoroge and Ndu Okoh speak with Ferdinand Omondi, Communications and Story Manager for Anglophone Africa at Greenpeace Africa and an investigative journalist covering environmental and resource issues across the continent from BBC, KTN, NTV, on how drought, land degradation, and water scarcity are fuelling instability from Kenya and the Horn of Africa to the Sahel and West Africa.
From pastoral conflicts in northern Kenya to displacement crises in Sudan, the conversation explores how environmental and climate stress is becoming an unseen security threat.
Tensions over water resources, including the dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Nile and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, illustrate how climate pressure and infrastructure projects can escalate into geopolitical confrontation.
Omondi also warns that weak governance and corruption are enabling destructive extraction while communities bear the costs. As global demand surges for cobalt, lithium, and other critical minerals, Africa faces the risks of a new scramble driven by external powers, including China’s expanding role in destructive mining and infrastructure across the continent.
A hard-hitting conversation on climate security, resource politics, foreign influence, and Africa’s fight to control its future.
Panel 54 — A global perspective through an African lens. Lagos to Lamu. Cape Town to Cairo.
This is Panel 54, a global perspective through an African lens.
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🎙 Recorded in Nairobi, Kenya
🎧 Produced by Commex Africa and E & C Talent
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