Wolfe: Africa's Sahel Region Could Become the Next Afghanistan
Josh Wolfe · Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI · Mar 4, 2025 · at 4:06
Josh Wolfe, co-founder of Lux Capital, discusses his current geopolitical focus areas and risks on The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish.
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“The Sahel and Maghreb in Africa, which is not an area that a lot of people talk about or think about, that I believe with low probability, super high magnitude import Is going to become the next Afghanistan, that that region in the Sahel, all these coups and cascades of these coups of failed states where you have Russian mercenaries, violent extremists, Chinese CCP coming in with infrastructure and influence, European colonial powers being kicked out against this backdrop of brilliant scientists and engineers and technologists that went to HBS or Stanford and worked at Meta and Google and are going back and particularly in like Ghana and Kenya and Nigeria are building businesses. So that continent is going to be a truly contested space for future and progress and for utter chaos and terrorism.”
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