Hey, new abnormal listeners. This week, we're sharing something special. It's an episode from

our friends at the Tools & Weapons Podcast hosted by Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith.

Tools and Weapons features conversations with leaders in government,

business, and culture that explore the world's most critical challenges at the intersection

of technology and society. The guest is Strive, Masayiwa, a pioneer of Africa's telecoms industry

and influential global tech tycoon. He and Brad discuss Strive's work to ensure

that all 1.3 billion plus Africans get access to digital infrastructure, close the digital,

skills gap, and invest in the continent's young entrepreneurs to find innovative solutions

for healthcare and food insecurity. Okay, here comes the preview. Follow Tools and Weapons with

Brad Smith wherever you get your podcasts. One of the great things, Strive, I think about your

experience, your career is you started as an entrepreneur, you built this extraordinary company,

you've connected a continent in so many ways, but you've looked a lot more broadly as well.

And so the other thing I'd really like to talk a little bit about are what I regard as these

two great causes that you have pursued. Public health and now more recently food security.

Let me start with public health. You were, I think persuaded initially, you helped address

the AIDS crisis. You were enlisted to address the Ebola crisis. More recently, you took on this

extraordinary mission during COVID on behalf of all of the African nations to coordinate

the delivery of vaccines. What did you learn about the public health needs and ways to address

them in Africa from those experiences? When we did HIV AIDS, really I was just a young entrepreneur

whose employees were dying and leaving young children. And in our country there was no

pension systems. So I said, okay, I will educate their kids. Of course, this exploded in over the

years as we grew and became bigger. And we look back now 25 years and 250,000 children got some kind

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