{"podcast":{"title":"Borders: Conversations on Global South Capital and Geopolitics","slug":"borders-conversations-on-global-south-capital-and-geopolitics-7872364","podcast_index_feed_id":7872364,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/610105/rss","website_url":"https://vesper.vc/borders/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/4/0/0/e/400eadebb579460216c3140a3186d450/Borders_Podcast_Cover_-20260313-d105hb3s33.png","author":"Vesper","episode_count":15,"summary":"Hosted by Mr. Andrew J. Henderson, Borders is a long-form conversation series exploring how power, capital, and influence actually move across the world. Much of the modern global economy is being shaped far beyond the traditional centers of Western media attention. Across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Latin America, new markets, institutions, and power structures are quietly taking form. Each episode features a thoughtful conversation with founders, investors, policymakers, and operators working directly inside these environments; people building companies, infrastructure, financial systems, and cultural institutions in places where the future is being negotiated in real time. Rather than debate or commentary, Borders is structured as a calm, exploratory conversation. Episodes move deliberately, allowing guests to explain how markets, incentives, and societies actually function on the ground; often revealing dynamics that rarely appear in headlines. Guests range from frontier-market investors and bank executives to infrastructure developers, reform-minded policymakers, and founders building new industries across emerging regions. Each conversati…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-16T06:18:48.996211+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/borders-conversations-on-global-south-capital-and-geopolitics-7872364"},"episode":{"title":"Ep 6: Einars Garoza: Investing in East Africa Before the Crowd Arrives","slug":"ep-6-einars-garoza-investing-in-east-africa-before-the-crowd-arrives","published_at":"2026-06-12T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/borders-conversations-on-global-south-capital-and-geopolitics-7872364/ep-6-einars-garoza-investing-in-east-africa-before-the-crowd-arrives","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/borders-conversations-on-global-south-capital-and-geopolitics-7872364","url":"https://ad96190b-f614-4ba6-ac31-26ffbdc6d90b.libsyn.com/einars-garoza-investing-in-east-africa-before-the-crowd-arrives","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/ad96190b-f614-4ba6-ac31-26ffbdc6d90b/Borders_Podcast_-_Einars_Garoza_-_Revised.mp3?dest-id=5317560","summary":"Andrew Henderson sits down with entrepreneur and Conserved Safaris founder Einars Garoza to explore why East Africa is emerging as one of the world's most compelling frontier investment stories. Having relocated from Europe to Uganda before expanding into Tanzania, Einars explains why tourism, hospitality, and real estate are attracting increasing attention from global investors seeking opportunities beyond traditional markets. Using Tanzania's safari industry as a case study, Einars explains how rising tourism, demographic growth, and constrained supply are creating attractive economics for hospitality investment. They discuss the realities of acquiring land, building luxury safari camps inside national parks, navigating local business culture, and why relationships often matter more than contracts. Along the way, they examine carbon credits, infrastructure, geopolitics, Chinese, Gulf, Russian, and Western investment across East Africa, and why Tanzania remains one of the continent's most overlooked growth markets. The conversation also explores safari real estate as an emerging asset class, the economics of luxury hospitality, demographic expansion, entrepreneurship, and why frontier markets increasingly reward operators willing to build on the ground rather than invest from afar. In this episode, Andrew and Einars discuss: Why Tanzania has become one of East Africa's fastest-growing investment destinations. How safari tourism is evolving into an institutional-quality hospitality asset class. The economics behind luxury safari camps, occupancy rates, and high operating margins. Why constrained land supply inside national parks creates long-term pricing power. How carbon credits first brought Einars to East Africa before expanding into hospitality. 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