The Africa Desk Live is MORE's flagship weekly broadcast: two hours of live, independent, nonpartisan conversation on the policy, governance, history, economy, and society of Africa's fifty-four nations, and of the diaspora anywhere an African heart is beating.
This is not coverage of Africa from outside it. It is a standing invitation to the continent's thinkers, organizers, and journalists to set the terms of their own story, because a country's story belongs first to the people living it.
Our Current Arc: 54 Conversations
Through 2027, the show is working country by country across the continent. Every week, one African nation gets a full hour of live air with the scholars, journalists, and organizers who know it from the inside. Fifty-four countries. No shortcuts.
When the arc closes, the desk stays open. What follows will be built around the questions rather than the borders: health, technology, music, culture, and whatever else the continent and its diaspora are working through.
The Format
Each episode runs two hours.
Hour One seats two guests, one woman and one man, for a sustained conversation on the country's politics, history, and present. In-country voices come first. Where a guest speaking from home would carry real risk, we go to the diaspora instead, and we say so on air.
Hour Two turns to the diaspora and to community development, with the people building between the continent and everywhere else Africans have made a life.
Guests are chosen for what they know, not for who they speak for. We name a guest's affiliations and past offices ourselves, on air, before the conversation starts. And we put context before commentary, because most of what goes wrong in coverage of Africa goes wrong in the first two minutes.
Our Promise to Viewers
Every episode ends the same way, and the line is not decoration. It is the standard we hold ourselves to.
"...anywhere an African heart is beating."
It means we do not treat any of the fifty-four as a footnote, and we do not treat the diaspora as an afterthought. It means we go looking for the person who knows, not the person who is easy to book. It means we tell you who our guests are and where they stand before they say a word, and when we get something wrong we say that on air too.
Currently, no honorarium is paid to any guest. Nobody buys a seat at this desk.
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