{"id":3153,"date":"2020-05-17T05:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T05:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chartercitiesinstitute.org\/?p=3153"},"modified":"2022-06-01T20:41:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T20:41:40","slug":"charter-cities-podcast-episode-4-mwiya-musokotwane-on-nkwashi-and-the-future-of-an-intercontinental-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chartercitiesinstitute.org\/podcast\/charter-cities-podcast-episode-4-mwiya-musokotwane-on-nkwashi-and-the-future-of-an-intercontinental-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Charter Cities Podcast Episode 4: Mwiya Musokotwane on Nkwashi and the future of an intercontinental Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
Nkwashi is a private charter city that is currently being built in Zambia to house around 100,000 residents on completion. Our guest on the show today is Mwiya Musokotwane, the co-founder and CEO of Thebe Investment Management, a Zambian private investment firm that is the developer of Nkwashi. He is here to talk about this project and the challenges and aspirations involved specifically, as well as those more broadly positioned in an African context. We look at questions of what it means to create a private city, getting an economy started and the key factors that need to be addressed for Africa’s economic future. Mwiya gives us some insight into the timeline of building Nkwashi and why building a charter city takes longer in developing economies. We discuss financing and the ways that the project has been laid out to pay for itself over the next ten or so years. The conversational so covers skills development, talent attraction and culture building and we look at how cities and companies both do this as well as the clear differences. Mwiya makes a strong argument for the role of institutions and networks in establishing the overarching culture of a city, something that he has very certain aspirations about for Nkwashi. The conversation also covers the focus on technology as Nkwashi’s main industry and attraction, and we unpack the mercantile model that is planned. Listeners can look forward to hearing about a future city, some great perspectives on African economies and the challenges that face a project of this size. Mwiya also explains what he admires about Singapore and the lessons he has learned from their example, so tune in to hear all this and more! Links from today’s episode can be found below the transcript.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n