Antimicrobial resistance is often framed as a technical problem for scientists and policymakers. But the truth is far simpler — and far more unsettling: the choices made in clinics, pharmacies, farms, and homes every day are helping to decide whether life-saving medicines will still work in the future.

In this episode, we unpack why AMR isn’t just a laboratory or hospital issue, but a shared societal challenge. Drawing on expert insight and real-world experience, the conversation explores how misuse of antibiotics, gaps in regulation, weak infection prevention, and limited public awareness are accelerating resistance — especially in settings where access and oversight collide.

Crucially, the episode also looks forward. From community awareness and responsible prescribing to hygiene, sanitation, and people-centred primary health care, it examines what practical action can look like — not in theory, but in everyday life.

Because when antibiotics fail, it won’t just be health systems that feel it. It will be all of us.

My guest is Dr Ali Ahmed Yahaya, Team Leader of the Antimicrobial Resistance Unit at the World Health Organization African Regional Office.

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Africa has the talent to power the world’s most advanced AI systems — so why is so much of that talent building elsewhere?

In this episode, we sit down with a postdoctoral researcher at a US Department of Energy national laboratory working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. He breaks down what supercomputers actually do, why they matter for science and society, and how African researchers are already shaping global AI — often without the infrastructure to do so at home.

From childhood curiosity and mentorship in Nigeria to working with AI, IoT, and citizen science to improve food security, this conversation explores how local knowledge, not just massive computing power, can drive innovation. We unpack Africa’s strengths in human capital, the challenges of outdated curricula and weak systems, and what it will really take to tackle brain drain, reform education, and build technology ecosystems that work locally and compete globally.

This is a wide-ranging discussion on AI in Africa, supercomputing, education reform, agriculture, health systems, and the urgent need to create environments where African talent can thrive — at home.