The Beauty and Growth of Africa

Chat with Muloongo Muchelemba of Ongolo: Episode 17 (2022)

African laws and culture really put humans and families first and at the center. And the world can learn from this. What we need to do is infuse technology and best practices and advertise it to the world. — Muloongo 2022.

We have a returning guest on the podcast! Muloongo was last with us in 2018, and it’s great to have her back.

She is a fierce advocate for Africa, a Pan-African thought leader who blogs about African and global issues on her platform, ONGOLO. Her mission is to change the narrative about Africa as a continent with little to offer Africans and the rest of the world. Her blog provides news, insights, and analysis on business, economy, lifestyle, people, politics, sports, and travel. She has a global audience of people with a passion for Africa. She also has a lot of career experience across sectors, including oil and gas and management consulting, and she shared what she’s learned with us.

She just moved back to London from Singapore and told us how she prefers Singapore for being safer, cleaner, and generally better to live in. A Zambian-British, she has lived in nine countries all her life, and she returned to London with the intention of building and establishing her roots. “London has more varieties of food and better suits the lifestyle of an African than Singapore,” she says. However, Ayomide acknowledged how one could hear, just walking down London streets, he has heard people speak his native Yoruba, and Muloongo attested to this.

London has changed since Muloongo was last there, mainly because stores and other structures have closed up because of the pandemic. The West is no longer the “first world”; Asia now is, she believes, as they have better governance structures and systems and are more efficient. When you live outside the West, you begin to see how the world is shifting, like how countries like India and South Africa were…