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Baobab Platform Podcasts

Baobab Platform Podcasts

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Baobab is the digital community for the Mastercard Foundation network. Baobab, a platform for young African leaders, helps you expand your network, collaborate with like-minded peers and mentors, share back knowledge and access resources and opportunities to help you reach your personal and professional goals. Podcasts are created by African Scholars and Alumni from the Mastercard Foundation network.

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Episodes
  • The Journey to Tomorrowland Ep 9: Building a Career in Food Safety and Quality Assurance with Naomi Fokuo
    Jun 24 2026

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    Naomi Fokuo is a Mastercard Foundation Scholar Program Alumni from McGill University. She’s passionate about food quality and safety.

    In this episode, she shared her story and what working in the food industry means to her. She shares the opportunities she sees in how this industry can be transformed in Africa and how it is immune to the invasion of AI. This is a brilliant episode that you do not want to miss.


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    40 mins
  • The Journey to Tomorrowland Ep 8: Building the first reusable menstrual pad in Nigeria with Kehinde Abereoje
    Jun 8 2026

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    Kehinde Abereoje is a Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program Alumni from the University of Cambridge. She’s passionate about sexual and reproductive health and bridging the gender gap.

    In this episode, she shared her story of starting a non-profit organisation to solve the problem of period poverty. Having developed brilliant ideas on how to execute the project, she’s a recipient of many grants (including FAST for Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program Alumni) and is working with a brilliant group of people to execute it. This episode is filled with inspiration. You don’t want to miss it.


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    49 mins
  • The Journey to Tomorrowland Ep 7: Opportunities to develop the healthcare system in Africa with Naturinda Emmanuel
    May 19 2026

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    Naturinda Emmanuel is an Alumni of the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program from the University of Toronto. He’s passionate about improving the healthcare system in Africa and helping local communities access better healthcare.

    In this episode, Naturinda narrated the healthcare challenges he witnessed growing up in Uganda and how that motivated him to pursue a career in health informatics. He further discussed the challenges in his journey, the educational empowerment that has strategically positioned him, and the immense opportunities he could see to improve the healthcare system.


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    40 mins
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