Judd Devermont and Nicole Wilett from “49,” a new podcast from the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), join us this week to offer Africa policy recommendations for the Biden administration and to share their process of fitting hundreds of pages of historical research into five-minute podcast segments. Judd Devermont is the Director of the Africa Program at CSIS and was recently asked to serve as a Special Advisor for Africa Strategy to the White House. Nicole Wilett is chief of staff at the Open Society Foundations. Together, they co-host 49, a podcast examining the past, present, and future of U.S. policy towards sub-Saharan Africa.

In the news wrap, Kim and Rachel talk about Joe Biden’s Summit for Democracy.

Books, Links, & Articles

• Association of Diplomatic Studies and Training
• Into Africa, hosted by Judd Devermont
• These Are Not Gentle People by Andrew Harding
• Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
• The Good American by Robert D. Kaplan
• “When Africans Speak Out, Are Their Governments Listening?”