The Milepost Podcast
Thoughtful conversations on culture, creativity, spirituality and the interconnected systems that shape African life.
Each Milepost series begins with a central question and follows it across disciplines, histories and lived experience. Listen in sequence or enter through the subject that speaks to you.
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Return to Polymathy
What becomes possible when we refuse to reduce ourselves to a single discipline, identity or form of intelligence? This series explores Africa’s polymathic inheritance and the contemporary value of synthesis.
Poetic Soul of Africa
Poetry in Africa has never belonged only to the page. It lives in naming, rhythm, movement, praise, mourning, proverbs and memory. This series considers poetry as a carrier of knowledge and identity.
African Family Systems
An exploration of kinship, belonging, responsibility and the changing shape of African family life.
Organisational Culture
How do history, identity, language and cultural assumptions enter the workplace? This series examines organisations as human systems rather than purely commercial structures.
Made in Africa
Conversations about African craft, enterprise, design, ingenuity and the knowledge contained within the things we make.
Archives
Earlier Milepost conversations tracing the development of the platform’s ideas, voice and areas of inquiry.
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