Tech That Frees: African Innovation & Global Justice Jillian Alexander

50 million people are trapped in modern slavery today. To meet the UN's 2030 eradication goal, we would need to free 10,000 people every single day for the next decade.In the UK alone, over 23,000 potential victims were referred to authorities in 2025 a 22% increase and the highest number ever recorded. Across Africa, 7 million people live in modern slavery, with children accounting for a devastating 62% of identified victims.This is not a history lesson. It is happening right now.In this episode of Discovering Africa Through Technology, host Raziah Quallatein Mwawanga sits down with Jillian Alexander a scholar with five degrees across sociology, human rights, criminology, and law who left the boardroom for the frontlines. Starting as a volunteer walking alongside survivors, Jillian built something radically different: Unbound Organisation, a coaching-led, strengths-based, tech-enabled social enterprise designed not to rescue people, but to unlock their own power to rebuild.We explore the five pillars of the Unbound framework Unlock, Unlearn, Unfold, Uplift, and Unbound and ask: How does technology help a survivor move from trauma to autonomy?We also issue a challenge. The UK's Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner warns that criminals now use AI and digital platforms to "recruit, groom and control victims at scale." If technology is being weaponised to trap people, then technology must be part of the solution to set them free.This episode is a call to the builders: developers, business owners, policymakers, and investors. Not pity. Partnership.As Archbishop Desmond Tutu said: "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."Discovering Africa Through Technology  cutting through the noise to celebrate the visionaries building solutions from the ground up.https://www.instagram.com/discoverafrdatt/[email protected]