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Continuing on from last week, Adebayo Adeleke explains how podcasting has helped share Africa’s supply chain stories, the impact of the expanded trade on the continent and advice on how businesses can adapt to rising fuel costs.
By Koketso Mamabolo
How has podcasting helped you share your message?
It has really helped me share my message, especially on non-supply chain and non-leadership topics. The more I understand the supply chain, the more I understand life. Because I believe the supply chain is life and, at the same time, the more I can actually dissect issues, looking at them from different perspectives and I can learn so much from. I think some of my conversations I’ve had on my podcast, and the conversations I will be having in the future, suggest that Africa is going through its own form of a renaissance in this particular time, and a lot of people are actually sharing their thoughts about it. These lifelong lessons - and how you can deal with different situations - that's what makes sense. I believe that if one or two people's lives are changed by the podcast, I think the podcast definitely has its purpose.
What impact will the African Continental Free Trade Agreement have on supply chains?
The African Continental Free Trade Agreement is initially going to expose the weakness within African supply chains. A lot of gaps within African supply chains will be identified. As I've said many times, trade and supply chains are two sides of a coin so you cannot have one without the other. The trade will not happen between countries without supply chains being in order; without the ports being in line with other ports; without different roads flowing into others; without intermodal forms of transportation; without establishing demand signals across the African countries; without having different trade routes; different ship routes; different supply routes establishing different trains. All these things have to happen.
