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/Zimbabwe) 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.
Can African states dismantle meth networks and successfully prosecute those behind them?
In this episode of Panel 54, Waweru Njoroge speaks with Femi Babafemi, Director of Media and Advocacy at Nigeria’s NDLEA, and Kennedy Echesa Lubengu, an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya.
Femi examines Nigeria’s recurring meth laboratories, foreign specialists, precursor chemicals, illicit finance and the intelligence-led operations targeting the networks behind production.
Kennedy explores the legal battle after an arrest, including evidence handling, asset recovery, corruption, cross-border investigations and the weaknesses that allow major cases to collapse in court.
The conversation also examines cooperation with the United States through intelligence sharing, joint operations, digital investigations and training for African investigators, prosecutors and judicial officers.
A sharp discussion on meth production in Africa, organised crime, drug prosecutions, illicit finance, international cartels and US-Africa security cooperation. 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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