Jun 25, 2026 · 22 min · 10 segments
We sit down with Moki Makura, Executive Director of African No Filter, to discuss what Africa must build for itself in a changing global landscape. From the end of aid dependency to the rise of…
Moki MakuraGuestHost of Sustainably Speaking AfricaHostNow, we're having this conversation on the sidelines of Africa Exchange, and we're having this conversation at a time when there's very drastic changes in how the world works, if you can call it that.
Multilateralism, international cooperation.
In this particular context where we find ourselves in, what must Africa build for itself now? as old development assumptions diminish and new possibilities emerge.
You know what I find interesting? I find people say, like, what's happening now? You know, the US has stopped aid.
Now, you know, I always say the universe, if it wants you to do something, it'll tap you.
It was supposed to be a short-term intervention that was catalytic and it was supposed to graduate countries so that they eventually didn't need aid.
Aid has been around for 60 years, right? All these development actors, after two years, three years, if a program doesn't work, they can it, they stop it.
Why have they let a program go on for 60 years when they know it's not working? It's on us.
It's on us as Africans who have been receiving the funding and not actually fixed the infrastructure or come up with the plans to get ourselves self-sufficient.
like,
Now, we're having this conversation on the sidelines of Africa Exchange, and we're having this conversation at a time when there's very drastic changes in how the world works, if you can call it that.
Multilateralism, international cooperation.
In this particular context where we find ourselves in, what must Africa build for itself now? as old development assumptions diminish and new possibilities emerge.
You know what I find interesting? I find people say, like, what's happening now? You know, the US has stopped aid.
Now, you know, I always say the universe, if it wants you to do something, it'll tap you.
It was supposed to be a short-term intervention that was catalytic and it was supposed to graduate countries so that they eventually didn't need aid.
Aid has been around for 60 years, right? All these development actors, after two years, three years, if a program doesn't work, they can it, they stop it.
Why have they let a program go on for 60 years when they know it's not working? It's on us.
It's on us as Africans who have been receiving the funding and not actually fixed the infrastructure or come up with the plans to get ourselves self-sufficient.
like,
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