#15 - Magatte Wade: Unleashing Africa's Potential

Win-Win with Liv Boeree

Magatte is an entrepreneur on a mission: to unleash the potential of Africa. She’s a well known speaker, author and researcher who has written extensively about economic structures in the developing world, and the urgent need to create fairer regulatory environments to give everyone on earth access to the power of markets. She is also the founder of various Senegalese companies including Adina drinks, Tiossan and SkinisSkin, and an advisor to various institutions including the Charter Cities Institute Chapters 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:20 - African poverty, and her personal story 00:22:01 - Over-Regulation and Corruption 00:27:42 - What is Ubuntu? 00:32:17 - Kritarchy vs centralized structures 00:37:20 - Why Socialism was bad for Africa 00:42:57 - Flavours of Capitalism 00:49:35 - Thoughts on Foreign Aid 01:02:48 - Special Economic Zones 01:10:21 - What Rules Should a Startup City Have 01:15:50 - Common Law vs Civil Law 01:28:16 - How people can get involved Links ♾️ Her website - https://www.magattewade.com/ ♾️ Heart of a Cheetah Book - https://www.magattewade.com/book ♾️ Givedirectly - https://www.givedirectly.org ♾️ Against Malaria Foundation - https://www.againstmalaria.com/ ♾️ Noah Smith - Futurism is Afro-Futurism - https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/all-futurism-is-afrofuturism ♾️ It’s Not About Whiteness It’s About Wealth Book https://www.amazon.com › Its-Not-About-Whiteness-... ♾️ Kritarchy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kritarchy ♾️ Conscious capitalism - https://www.consciouscapitalism.org/ ♾️ Startup/Charter cities - https://chartercitiesinstitute.org/ ♾️ Prospera - https://www.prospera.co Credits ♾️ Hosted by Liv Boeree ♾️ Produced & Edited by Raymond Wei ♾️ Audio Mix by Keir Schmidt The Win-Win Podcast: Poker champion Liv Boeree takes to the interview chair to tease apart the complexities of one of the most fundamental parts of human nature: competition. Liv is joined by top philosophers, gamers, artists, technologists, CEOs, scientists, athletes and more to understand how competition manifests in their world, and how to change seemingly win-lose games into Win-Wins. Watch the previous episode with Boyan Slat of the Ocean Cleanup here: https://youtu.be/QEYbLN-LC5k