https://www.spreaker.com/show/africa-world-now-projectenEducationCopyright AfricaWorldNow Projecthttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/c83f58a527ef4e528ecb5c9712c9b18e.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/show/africa-world-now-projectSun, 09 Aug 2026 07:30:36 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectAfricaWorldNow Projectfeeds@spreaker.comAfrica World Now Project is a multimedia educational project that produces knowledge about the African world through a series of methods that include: radio, podcast, publishing, film festivals, webinars, social media, etc. Africa World Now Project...falseepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-black-university-concept-w-bro-abdul-alkalimat--73699699tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2378264957Sun, 09 Aug 2026 06:36:26 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectW.E.B. Du Bois at the second annual meeting of the Niagara Movement at Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, August 19, 1906, captured an early idea of the Black University concept in his speech titled: An Address to the Country. Du Bois writes: “And when...4630falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-river-of-prophecy-constructing-a-sacred-history-of-african-americans-w-nubia-kia--72470084tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2337064361Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:59:32 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectA River of Prophecy: Constructing a Sacred History of African Americans w/ Nubia Kia by Africa World Now Project Collective5914falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-impact-of-africa-on-malcolm-x-malcolm-x-s-impact-on-africa--70138805tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2269026428Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:34:24 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectWhat we you hear next is a recent community dialogue that explored the impact of Africa on El Hajj Malik El Shabzz’s thought and practice and Malik Shabazz’s impact on Africa. What we are concerned with, specifically, with this dialogue is the...4501falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/we-are-internationalists-prexy-nesbitt-the-fight-for-african-liberation-w-martha-biondi-prexy-nesbitt--69886904tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2263006685Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:51:11 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectHistory, the writing of history, can be a messy process. Movement history, that is an exploration and examination of the forces that constitute struggle, its successes and on-going defeats adds even more complexity to understanding and the uses of...5776falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-question-of-venezuela-and-the-role-of-the-working-class--69729219tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2258484317Mon, 02 Feb 2026 02:35:40 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectWe are honored to have with us, again, The Honorable Fravia Marquez Silva, 2nd Advisor To Venezuela’s National Assembly and Spokeswomen for Cumbe International and recently launched Bring The Back Movement and Venezuela’s Charge D’Affaires to Belgium...3730falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-story-of-the-league-of-revolutionary-black-workers--68440577tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2207383315Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:38:10 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectThe struggle of the LRBW was centered on the political development of Black workers inside the development of global capitalism in the United States and within a leading sector of capitalist production in the early and mid-twentieth century, which was...4762falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fanon-the-decolonial-imperative-pt-ii--68159902tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2191235535Thu, 16 Oct 2025 03:25:24 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectThis cannot be repeated enough, as the dialectical relationship between anti-colonial praxis and the colonial logic of capital becomes ever more fascistic, we must be ever more clear on how violence is necessary to distort and make imperceptible … the...4193falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/free-frank-mcworter-freedom-seekers-new-philadelphia-w-abdul-alkalimat--68037255tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2183866871Mon, 06 Oct 2025 21:17:53 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectIt was 1839 and Frank and Lucy McWorter were getting married for the second time. The wedding was a reaffirmation of their love and a recommitment to all they’d built together. They had come to Illinois with four of their children and built a farm of...3301falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fanon-the-decolonial-imperative-pt-i--67904130tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2176865898Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:26:23 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectColonial violence and colonial discourse are at the heart of Western modernity. They are constituent features of Western European modern ontology, knowledge production and distribution, and sociopolitical thought and economic practice codified in the...3310falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/abolition-labor-the-palestine-question--67880000tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2175931689Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:56:45 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectAbolition, Labor & the Palestine Question by Africa World Now Project Collective2842falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pt-ii-patrice-lumumba-s-pan-africanism-w-the-kenyan-organic-intellectuals-network--66958300tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2128947960Sat, 12 Jul 2025 17:46:53 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectThis year represents an important historical conjuncture that has very important implications for our contemporary moment of crisis, yet extremely instructive in how we can move toward a different future. It is the 100th year recognition of the...5824falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pt-i-on-the-praxis-of-malik-el-shabazz-revolutionary-kenya-w-the-kenyan-organic-intellectual-network--66633155tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2116290360Thu, 19 Jun 2025 18:18:25 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectThis year represents an important historical conjuncture that has very important implications for our contemporary moment of crisis, yet extremely instructive of how we can move toward a different future. It is the 100th year recognition of the birth...6369falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/resistance-resilience-in-washington-dc-a-conversation-w-maurice-jackson-josh-myers--66517495tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2111749197Wed, 11 Jun 2025 22:27:35 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectWriting in ‘How music defines D.C.’s history of ‘resistance and resilience,’ according to historian Maurice Jackson’, Josh Myers, building on the thought of Fred Moten, opens with this: “the history of Blackness in D.C. is a testament to the fact that...3208falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/southern-worker-action-summit-2025--66486704tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2110654428Tue, 10 Jun 2025 04:15:00 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectSouthern Worker Action Summit 2025 by Africa World Now Project Collective1602falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dismantling-the-master-s-clock-on-race-space-time-w-rasheedah-phillips--66321211tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2104046115Thu, 29 May 2025 01:26:12 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectNotions of time and space are fundamental to orienting one’s place in various experiences. Mapping time/understanding temporality allows us to coordinate ourselves on the map of human geography [shout out to John Henrik Clarke]. But what happens...3558falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/on-frantz-fanon-w-lou-turner--66191375tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2099807922Wed, 21 May 2025 19:44:09 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectFrantz Fanon wrote, you know the famous, often quoted but less applied dictate: “Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.” What if we are to intentionally engage this thought by asking, are we...5609falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/freedom-summer-fascist-winter-w-felicia-denaud-josh-myers--65510588tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2075064296Thu, 10 Apr 2025 04:09:20 +0000AfricaWorldNow Project“Every colonial nation carries the seeds of fascist temptation in its Bosom … There is no doubt in the minds of those who have lived through it that colonialism is one variety of fascism.” Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized With the...5908falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/reflections-on-autonomy-direct-democracy-marronage-w-modibo-kadalie-pt-ii--64022960tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2021442437Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectWhat you will hear next is Pt II of a four (4) part series where we explore, autobiographically, the origins of Modibo Kadalie’s perspectives on direct democracy, autonomy, Black radical labor history, and Pan Africanism. Pt. II builds upon the...3548falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/reflections-on-autonomy-direct-democracy-marronage-w-modibo-kadalie-pt-iii--64024810tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2021445729Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectWhat you will hear next is Pt III of a four (4) part series where we explore, autobiographically, the origins of Modibo Kadalie’s perspectives on direct democracy, autonomy, Black radical labor history, and Pan Africanism. Pt. I + II builds upon the...3550falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/reflections-on-autonomy-direct-democracy-marronage-w-modibo-kadalie-pt-i--63740692tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2011860291Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectThe idea of democracy and its attendant operative mechanism, democratic citizenship, specifically the right to belong, is often lauded as a gift of Greco-Roman sociopolitical thought and Western European and American cultural contributions to a...3644falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/kamau-rashid-on-jacob-h-carruthers-an-restoration-of-an-african-worldview--62833562tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1962466475Wed, 20 Nov 2024 03:38:16 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectIn the introduction of his recently published, Jacob H Carruthers and the Restoration of An African Worldview: Finding Our Way through the Desert, Kamau Rashid [2024] posits that: “One of the central concerns evident in the scholarship of Jacob H....5606falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/land-food-freedom-w-georie-bryant--62017491tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1918952417Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:38:34 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectThe collectively generative nature inherent in the interdependent relationship between technology, the communal means of production and distribution and innovative physical and creative intellectual work is distracted and co/opted by the need to...5669falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/adiff-dc-aug-2-2024-on-latino-media-collective-wpfw--61153333tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1904042696Mon, 26 Aug 2024 04:00:23 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectADIFF DC Aug. 2, 2024 on Latino Media Collective @ WPFW ADIFF DC 2024 film NEGRITA is featured on WPFW'S Latino Media Collective. Guests include Magdalena Albizu the director and producer of NEGRITA and Eddie Bailey producer and editor of NEGRITA...2982falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/adiff-dc-aug-1-2024-on-umustlearn-wpfw--61153332tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1904040335Mon, 26 Aug 2024 03:52:39 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectADIFF DC Aug. 1, 2024 on #UMustLearn @ WPFW ADIFF DC 2024 film ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE? is featured on WPFW'S We The People guest Maximina Juson the director of ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE? ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE?--Throughout American history, the Electoral...1240umustlearnfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/adiff-dc-jul-31-2024-on-we-the-people-wpfw--61153334tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1904037443Mon, 26 Aug 2024 03:44:28 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectADIFF DC Jul. 31, 2024 on We The People @ WPFW ADIFF DC 2024 film THE WALL STREET BOY, KIPKEMBOI is featured on WPFW'S We The People. Guests include Charles Uwagbai the director of THE WALL STREET BOY, KIPKEMBOI and Diarah N'Dow Spech Co-Founder and...2927falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/adiff-dc-jul-30-2024-on-voices-with-vision-wpfw--61153335tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1904033723Mon, 26 Aug 2024 03:33:37 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectADIFF DC Jul. 30, 2024 on Voices with Vision @ WPFW ADIFF DC 2024 film CLAUDE MCKAY: HARLEM TO MARSEILLE is featured on WPFW'S Voices with Vision. Guests include Matthieu Verdeil the director of CLAUDE MCKAY: HARLEM TO MARSEILLE and Diarah N'Dow...2060falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/echoes-of-festac-77-w-bro-abdul-alkalimat--60953695tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1891854297Thu, 08 Aug 2024 04:03:49 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectThe use of forum, colloquium, and festivals to center African/a intellectual creative cultural production flows rhythmically alongside the long tradition of Pan-African tendencies. This historical continuity and our duty to move within its legacy is...3857falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-political-praxis-of-jamil-abdullah-al-amin--60794034tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1880019645Wed, 24 Jul 2024 21:21:57 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectOn August 31, 1967, several thousand delegates gathered at the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago for the opening rally of the National Conference for New Politics (NCNP) convention. This event was an ambitious attempt to develop a broad coalition of over...6526falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-sociopolitical-thought-of-general-baker-drum-the-league-of-revolutionary-black-workers--60615216tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1864186221Sat, 06 Jul 2024 01:39:42 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectToday, we will listen to General Baker from a 2010 talk he gave at the U.S. Social Forum held in Detroit where he maps the history of struggle in Detroit, the formation of radical workers movements, and the legacies of the League of Revolutionary...4339falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-time-of-the-black-radical-tradition--60425257tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1733502132Tue, 18 Jun 2024 15:48:40 +0000AfricaWorldNow Projectre/posting from our archive ... from 7+ years ago. a lot to grasp here!3435falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-role-of-historical-consciousness-global-student-movements-w-mukasa-dada-obi-egbuna-jr--60300657tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1839896841Thu, 06 Jun 2024 14:58:08 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectThis discussion features Mukasa Dada and Obi Egbuna Jr. We focus on contemporary struggles of youth and student movements, globally. With a focus on the ongoing fight for Black liberation and the need for solidarity across different oppressed groups....4799falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/race-revolution-in-cuba-an-afro-cuban-working-class-perspective-w-pedro-perez-sarduy--59561247tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1803937503Fri, 19 Apr 2024 22:46:59 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectBlack working-class contributions to the Cuban revolution are immense, yet somehow often neglected in discourses around revolutionary Cuba. The long history of African resistance and cultural contributions to Cuban society, which has been...5212falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/thinking-through-clr-james-w-matthew-quest-pt-iii--59025593tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1772880831Tue, 12 Mar 2024 21:41:39 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectMatthew Quest in CLR James and George Padmore: Hidden Disputes in The Black Radical Tradition, examines the collaboration between James and George Padmore since their partnership within the International African Service Bureau in the 1930s. Despite...4722falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/thinking-through-clr-james-w-matthew-quest-pt-ii--59011251tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1772163453Tue, 12 Mar 2024 02:29:44 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectAccording to Renault in Toward a Counter-Genealogy of Race: On CLR James, it is argued that James always stressed the fundamental importance of the notion of class struggle, and closely followed developments in revolutionary working-class struggles in...3046falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/thinking-through-clr-james-w-matthew-quest-pt-i--58974701tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1769360478Fri, 08 Mar 2024 20:12:28 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectIn an article for Insurgent Notes, Matthew Quest asks, What Type of Historian Was CLR James? CLR James, native of Trinidad, was a historian with a speculative philosophy of history. He brought these methods to his narrative of Haiti in The Black...3343falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pt-iii-applying-malcolm-x--58193688tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1707619368Thu, 04 Jan 2024 01:33:19 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectImage: Fran Beal Thank you for tapping into Reflections on Malcolm X through the … 1990 Malcolm X: Radical Tradition and a Legacy of Struggle conference … this is the final installment, Pt. III – Applying Malcolm In this series, Africa World Now...5761falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pt-ii-black-workers-el-hajj-malik-el-shabazz--58193115tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1707564117Wed, 03 Jan 2024 23:41:40 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectThank you for tapping into Reflections on Malcolm X through the … 1990 Malcolm X: Radical Tradition and a Legacy of Struggle conference … this is Pt. II - Black Workers & Malcolm X In this series, Africa World Now Project is sharing some of the...3373falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pt-i-contextualizing-el-hajj-malik-el-shabazz--58191483tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1707460770Wed, 03 Jan 2024 20:48:35 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectIn November 1990 [1-4], more than 3,000 people from 25 countries attended the Malcolm X: Radical Tradition and a Legacy of Struggle conference held in New York City. More than 100 speakers led 24 sessions that deeply explored, contextualized, and...6754falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/awnp-tribute-dr-john-henrik-clarke-cornel-west-the-politics-of-assimilation-v-nationalism--58167238tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1705354347Mon, 01 Jan 2024 19:50:09 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectForm the archives [2017]! Enjoy.3260falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pt-iii-terrains-of-struggle-continuities-in-freedom-dreams-a-radio-documentary--58041549tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1692946488Mon, 18 Dec 2023 01:03:49 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectPt. III - Poetics of Revolution: Autonomy, Land, Visions of Freedom & the Kurdish Freedom struggle [a discussion of 1979 struggle] Thank you for listening to Terrains of Struggle: continuities in freedom dreams [a mini radio documentary] that was...3972falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pt-ii-terrains-of-struggle-continuities-in-freedom-dreams-a-radio-documentary--58041555tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1692944502Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:59:25 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectPt. II - A luta continua, vitória é certa: Conceptions of Autonomy, the Black Panthers & Zapatista Check out Pt. III. Thank you for listening to Terrains of Struggle: continuities in freedom dreams [a mini radio documentary] that was designed to...7201falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pt-i-terrains-of-struggle-continuities-in-freedom-dreams-a-radio-documentary--58041550tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1692941913Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:54:16 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectPart I - Radical Considerations & Revolutionary Possibilities: Towards a Black University in the 21st century Check out Pt. II. Thank you for listening to Terrains of Struggle: continuities in freedom dreams [a mini radio documentary] that was...3596falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/black-study-as-a-critique-of-knowledge-power-w-josh-myers--57933504tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1684031970Wed, 06 Dec 2023 22:02:15 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectKamau Rashid writing in Jacob H. Carruthers and the African-Centered Discourse on Knowledge, Worldview, and Power posits that “whether we are interrogating the conceptual imperatives of the state or capital, the mandates of school curriculum, or even...6801falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/meditations-on-struggle-organizing-w-frank-chapman--57536527tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1654498752Wed, 01 Nov 2023 21:54:06 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectWe are in conversation with Frank Chapman, organizer & movement architect. The anchoring poles in this conversation revolve around the formation of National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression, movement intellectuals and their...5724falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/frank-chapman-on-palestine--57536547tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1650056349Thu, 26 Oct 2023 17:55:16 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectClip from recent conversation .... full conversation coming soon!758falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-black-worker-the-strike-the-uaw--57536541tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1628665953Fri, 29 Sep 2023 17:31:36 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectIn, The Revolutionary Answer to the Negro Problem in the U.S., James posit that it is Black workers and the Black working-class that was central and unique in the fight against capitalism. Specifically, James outlined the following: We say, number...4556falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/professor-hakim-adi-on-the-attacks-on-black-history-in-the-u-k-globally--57536543tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1615848324Thu, 14 Sep 2023 01:23:09 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectSupport Now ...: ****https://www.historymatters.online/save-mres-campaign**** Walter Rodney once wrote in African History in the Service of the Black Liberation, that “African history must be seen as very intimately linked to the contemporary...5191falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-life-of-madie-hall-xuma-w-professor-wanda-a-hendricks--57536529tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1581178991Wed, 02 Aug 2023 21:08:34 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectDr. Hendricks writes in The Life of Madie Hall Xuma: Black Women’s Global Activism During Jim Crow & Apartheid that “when the Society for the Study of Afro-American History in Winston Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, issued a call in June...5465falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ben-fletcher-the-iww-w-peter-cole--57536535tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1575238789Wed, 26 Jul 2023 21:01:38 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectThe IWW was born in 1905. On January 2, 1905, several dozen people identifying as “industrial unionists” met in Chicago and issued a call to form a new labor union. That June several hundred people belonging to more than 40 unions and radical...4048falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/of-hesitance-w-e-b-du-bois-josh-myers-of-black-study-w-nathalie-frederic-pierre--57536555tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1557020008Wed, 05 Jul 2023 22:08:00 +0000AfricaWorldNow Project"“We are surrounded. We who are in the academy, looking for community, like June Jordan and her students in 1969, are still surrounded. We have also made it inside the gate, but we are now cornered. This place, the university, is the destination, they...3944falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/on-sudan--57536533tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1546483690Wed, 21 Jun 2023 21:09:01 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectToday we will hear from Sudanese diasporan activists who are maintaining vital attention on the conflict which has been taking place in Sudan since April 15. The human cost of this current iteration of conflict is immeasurable from those observing...3632falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-continuities-of-african-liberation-day-w-obi-egbuna-jr--57536557tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1527396133Thu, 01 Jun 2023 03:20:15 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectDelegates at the First Conference of Independent African States, hosted by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah in Accra, in 1958, called for an “African Freedom Day” to be held on April 15 to honor those who had contributed to the anti-colonial struggle. Later in...3471falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/respond-react--57536537tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1493426893Sun, 16 Apr 2023 15:39:15 +0000AfricaWorldNow Projectthis #thinkingblackoutloud session is from 2017 ... it was a meditation on the necessity of thinking through the dialectical processes inherent in the react/respond relationship [shout out to The Fifth Dynasty] . it is our consistent call to think...973falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/militant-memory-the-walking-archive-w-sonia-vaz-borges--57536539tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1480606774Wed, 29 Mar 2023 21:17:33 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectImage: Amélia Araújo recording the works of the First National Popular Assembly of Guinea-Bissau for Rádio Libertação, in the liberated region of Madina de Boé [available: http://casacomum.org/cc/visualizador?pasta=05247.000.152] In this program,...4301falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/southern-africa-liberation-movements-w-prexy-nesbitt-pt-1-samora-machel--57536562tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1464527383Thu, 09 Mar 2023 00:11:51 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectImage: “Apartheid No.”, Faustino Pérez, 1977 [Organisation in Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America (OSPAAAL)] Reflecting on the THE IDEOLOGICAL TENDENCIES AND POLITICAL PRE-DISPOSITIONS OF THE BLACK 'LEFT' IN AND AROUND THE...3471falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/black-radicalism-mutual-comradeship-black-scare-red-scare-w-charisse-burden-stelly--57536558tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1407445363Wed, 21 Dec 2022 15:45:45 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectIn Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism: Some Theoretical Insights, Burden-Stelly [https://www.charisseburdenstelly.com/] asserts that modern U.S. racial capitalism is a racially hierarchical political economy constituting war and militarism, imperialist...3616falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/thinking-through-beyond-the-limit-s-of-catastrophe-w-bedour-alagraa--57536542tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1402204792Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:09:28 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectBedour Alagraa [https://www.bedouralagraa.com/] argues that “the word ‘catastrophe’ as an anchor for understanding our earth’s ecology has yet to account for the manner in which the catastrophic is ongoing, yet still tied to an ‘original’ detonation...4388falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/maurice-jackson-on-esther-cooper-jackson--57536571tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1381339195Sat, 12 Nov 2022 02:56:02 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectIt is without hyperbole to suggest that Esther Cooper Jackson was one of the most important organizers, thinkers, writers in the history of world broadly, the Africana world specifically for over eight (8) decades [if start with SYNC]. Her...4840falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/cedric-robinson-the-precepts-of-black-studies--57536546tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1379842813Thu, 10 Nov 2022 02:35:07 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectBlack life, that is, the range of thought and behavior of African/a peoples has been the foundation upon which the modern world was built; it, too, has been the foundation upon which the modern world centers its systems and institutions of distain …...3756falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/terrains-of-struggle-poetics-of-revolution-visions-of-freedom-the-kurdish-freedom-struggle--57536564tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1356949888Wed, 05 Oct 2022 03:01:37 +0000AfricaWorldNow Project**Note: this is a segment of a [4-hr] mini-radio documentary [titled: terrains of struggle: continuities in freedom dreams] we put together, September 2022 ... full program available via link in bio]** Land is an essential component of liberation....6282falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/evolutions-in-the-black-freedom-movement-w-ashanti-omowali-alston--57536532tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1348530943Thu, 22 Sep 2022 01:41:49 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectWriting in ‘Beyond Nationalism, But Not Without it’, Ashanti Alston frames his thoughts in the following epigraph by Audre Lorde: “…we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather...5086falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/kumina-queen-w-nyasha-laing--57536573tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1344131116Thu, 15 Sep 2022 04:31:37 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectAccording to Kamau Brathwaite, ‘Kumina is the most African of the [cultural expressions] to be found in Jamaica, with negligible European or Christian influence. Linguistics evidence cites the Kongo as a specific ethnic source for the ‘language’ and...3319falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-future-of-black-studies-w-abdul-alkalimat--57536548tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1339687615Thu, 08 Sep 2022 01:29:36 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectAs Professor Alkalimat provides a few opening thoughts to his recently published, The Future of Black Studies, he writes “The future we need is the opposite of dystopia. We need a positive future. To understand the struggles of Black people, and how...6222falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/africa-food-security-insecurity-in-an-age-of-planetary-crisis--57536563tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1335340420Thu, 01 Sep 2022 03:25:35 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectIn a 2015 article titled, Decolonizing Our minds and Our Lands: Reviving Seeds, Culture and African Strength, Gathuru Mburu writes that: “Recolonization is happening. There is a second scramble, not just in Africa, but across the global South....4778falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/cause-the-black-radical-tradition--57536567tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1330624075Wed, 24 Aug 2022 20:40:53 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectThe histories of Black working-class struggle, specifically in the South are rooted in radical methodologies that are grounded in the material conditions that are structured by the realities set in racial capitalist logic. Radical Black labor...3564falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/africa-the-university-the-politics-of-knowledge-production-w-paul-zeleza--57536549tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1292564095Thu, 23 Jun 2022 01:49:50 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectGloria Emeagwali writes in Africa and the Academy: Challenging Hegemonic Discourses on Africa, that “colonialism was a system of administration and a process of exploitation geared towards creating capitalist relations and the economic and...4291falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-conversation-w-onuora-abuah--57536536tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1283911468Thu, 09 Jun 2022 02:36:18 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectNormally, we provide an introduction that attempts to situate or appropriately orient our conversations … however, there are those instances where the conversations have their way of orienting themselves … creating paths to push us to seek more...5187falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/reflections-on-irr50-w-colin-prescod--57536580tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1279351684Wed, 01 Jun 2022 20:29:13 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectThis year, 2022, marks the 50th anniversary of the radical transformation of the Institute of Race Relations [IRR]. On April 18, 1972, the direction and relevance of the IRR was transformed from a policy-oriented, establishment, academic institution...6467falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-battle-for-the-horn-of-africa-the-targeting-of-somalia--57536578tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1275162091Wed, 25 May 2022 20:53:12 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectCultivating a historical consciousness requires effort. Purpose. A desire to organize information in order to develop projects that intend to directly confront and heighten the contradictions that inform structural inequities, which have direct and...3541falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rhythms-of-freedom-africa-black-internationalism-w-tom-porter-revised-extended--57536565tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1253268484Tue, 19 Apr 2022 21:21:42 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectFrom a program held earlier this year ... We invite you to tap into this program that we had earlier this year which featured a public lecture-conversation with Professor Tom Porter, where we explore the rhythms of movement through a robust...7307falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dialectics-of-liberation-w-abdul-alkalimat--57536544tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1249260958Wed, 13 Apr 2022 02:48:08 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectAbdul Alkalimat opens, Dialectics of Liberation: The African Liberation Support Movement with this first-hand observation of the events that led up to and after the African Liberation Movement, he writes: “in just five years, ALSC [African Liberation...5326falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/radical-histories-liberation-in-kenya-w-waringa-wahome--57536574tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1244962927Wed, 06 Apr 2022 00:02:38 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectImage: Field Marshal Muthoni wa Kirima In Mau Mau & Nationhood, the editors write: “New states are often declared in the name of peoples not yet aware of their own collective existence. Their heroically unified past and manifest joint destiny...3682falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/saul-williams-and-anisia-uzeyman-on-their-film-neptune-frost-other-things--57536545tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1233448087Wed, 16 Mar 2022 18:28:24 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectArt — in all manifestations — has purpose. And that purpose is defined by those who are able to pick it up and use it. The spiritual, intellectual, and physical energies that are put into the creation of art are a reflection of the worldview of the...3574falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/racing-the-nation-towards-a-theory-of-reproductive-racism-w-sophia-siddiqui--57536570tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1229212933Wed, 09 Mar 2022 15:49:56 +0000AfricaWorldNow Project**This program is part of a collaboration between Africa World Now Project and the Institute of Race Relations and its journal of Race & Class, based in London, where we engage in transnational dialogue that intentionally disrupts dominant...2932falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/of-black-studies-black-study-the-function-of-futurity-in-africana-studies-w-josh-myers--57536569tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1212775732Wed, 09 Feb 2022 16:36:39 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectImage: IG @artxman / Manzelb@gmail.com /#artxman African/a peoples have engaged in a particular form and function of knowledge production — active knowledge production — in, around, outside and in spite of … academia for centuries. Always together....3666falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-role-of-myth-the-continuities-in-sacred-secret-histories-w-dr-nubia-kai-tasneem-siddiqui--57536560tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1186966990Thu, 30 Dec 2021 00:15:51 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectImage: John Biggers, Band of Angels: Weaving the Seventh Word, 1992-93 According to the Dogon, “in the beginning before anything existed there was the Supreme Being, Amma. Amma existed in the form of an egg divided into four parts by four bones [the...6691falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/of-spirit-black-liberation-w-youssef-carter-tasneem-siddiqui--57536593tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1166330602Thu, 25 Nov 2021 03:29:53 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectAmadou Hampâté Bâ, quoting his teacher Tierno Bokar, suggest that “writing is one thing and knowledge is another. Writing is the photograph of knowledge but is not knowledge itself” [A. Hampâté Bâ, The Living Tradition, General History of Africa Vol....5131falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-role-continued-struggle-of-the-national-union-of-eritrean-women--57536579tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1149077788Wed, 27 Oct 2021 17:54:41 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectThe history of the geographical region now called, Eritrea is deep and rich. Eritrea has been occupied in turn by Ottoman Turks, Egyptians, Italians (from 1886 until 1941), the British until 1952 (who defeated Italy in Eritrea during the second...4081falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/movement-memory-reflections-on-labor-and-the-genealogy-of-resistance-w-saladin-muhammad-pt-ii--57536577tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1141262458Wed, 13 Oct 2021 19:23:17 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectSaladin Muhammad argues in an article titled Black Workers for Justice, Twenty-year of Struggle, in Against the Current that: “The national oppression of African Americans in the U.S. South makes Black workers in the South the most exploited section...4052falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/movement-memory-reflections-on-labor-and-the-genealogy-of-resistance-w-saladin-muhammad-pt-i--57536584tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1137589492Thu, 07 Oct 2021 12:46:17 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectAbdul Alkalimat writes on a multimedia project that explores the work of Saladin Muhamad that “our movements for social transformation have often fallen victim to the tendency to oversimplify the struggle. Moreover, there is far too little...3590falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/meditations-on-black-labor-the-white-architects-of-black-education-w-kamau-rashid--57536600tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1121372215Thu, 09 Sep 2021 03:09:24 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectLabor has changed. Its production. Its definition. Its control. But one thing that has not changed are the parameters within which labor has been defined, value extracted and dehumanized – mechanized – automated – artificially intelligeized. What...7519falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sncc-africa-black-radical-imagination--57536554tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1117037446Wed, 01 Sep 2021 17:46:59 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectThe range and scope of manifestations in the Black freedom struggle are varied yet connected by a common thread…it does not matter where you look, pick a point on the map of human geography, pick a geographical landmass or region -- the continent of...4971falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pt-2-the-role-of-black-university-in-african-a-resistance-w-josh-myers--57536587tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1094061466Mon, 26 Jul 2021 01:41:19 +0000AfricaWorldNow Project[produced and aired, 2016...note...our production gets better post 2017... : )] In a 1968 in the March edition of Negro Digest titled, the Nature and Needs of the Black University, Gerald McWorter [Abdul Alkalimat] writes…and I must quote in its...3307falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pt-1-rhodes-fees-must-fall-movement-s-the-role-and-responsibility-of-diasporic-institutions--57536575tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1094056249Mon, 26 Jul 2021 01:27:43 +0000AfricaWorldNow Project[produced and aired, 2016] We are living in a time of great challenge and opportunity. Across the African world people are challenging their historically rooted contemporary conditions. The practical work of the long tradition of African and...3355falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/black-university-black-studies--57536550tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1094032798Mon, 26 Jul 2021 00:13:06 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectOriginally produced and aired in 2016...: The great political theorist, cultural philosopher, revolutionary, C. L. R. James once said that he is black, number one, because he is against what they have done and are still doing to us; and number two,...3625falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/against-the-blockade-on-cuba--57536590tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1088062558Thu, 15 Jul 2021 15:58:02 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectImage: Female literacy volunteers return to Havana at the end of the literacy campaign in December 1961 On June 23, 2021, a total of 184 countries on voted in favor of a resolution to demand the end of the US economic blockade on Cuba, for the 29th...5117falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/uninterrupted-conversations-with-our-eegun-thinking-about-the-coltranes-w-anyabwile-love--57536582tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1060776955Wed, 02 Jun 2021 20:31:18 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectAccording to 'Trane himself, as written in the liner notes to A Love Supreme, “The music herein is presented in four parts. The first is entitled "ACKNOWLEDGEMENT", the second, "RESOLUTION", the third, "PURSUANCE", and the fourth and last part is a...5686falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/el-hajj-malik-el-shabazz-the-continuity-legacy-of-a-critical-africana-hrs-consciousness--57536576tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1051860484Thu, 20 May 2021 03:36:52 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectImage: Original artwork by @ultravivre There are many attempts to explore and examine who Malcolm X, El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, was and is. there are books, documentaries [focused on his life and his assassination], movies, songs, poems, etc. They...5476falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/black-palestine-w-ajamu-amiri-dillahunt-jr-tasneem-siddiqui--57536598tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1050345196Mon, 17 May 2021 17:02:01 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectImage: Malcolm X in 1964, w/ leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Dr. Ahmad Shukeiri. What we are witnessing, in this global moment, is not unprecedented, it is European modernity coming apart at its seams. The loosely tied myths that...6716falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ayiti-the-peoples-movement-w-velina-elysee-charlier--57536585tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1050017698Mon, 17 May 2021 02:12:42 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectAyiti, in the Black radical imagination, is more than an idea. It is the material representation of African/a freedom. It is the exemplar of the promises, failures & potentialities of African/a liberation. It is the colonial knot that the...3611falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hakim-adi-w-josh-myers-on-pan-africanism-a-history--57536594tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1038493789Wed, 28 Apr 2021 15:26:17 +0000AfricaWorldNow Project[originally produced & aired May 2018] What is meant by the term “Pan-Africanism?” What do we – can we - make of “pan Africanism”? There have been various attempts by scholars, activist, artist, musicians, to develop a clear definition of Pan...3541falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/we-rise-for-our-land-kurt-otabenga-orderson--57536552tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1026292699Fri, 09 Apr 2021 23:10:08 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectThe question of land as a fundamental aspect of African/a liberation movements is an often-neglected point of inquiry. Nevertheless, it is indeed, ever-present. Promisingly, there has been an uptick of more folk who are paying attention to the...6337falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rhythms-vibrations-african-a-cultural-production-w-oddisee--57536592tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1015807327Thu, 25 Mar 2021 01:21:14 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectI normally provide a textured, multi-leveled, quite frankly intentionally thick introduction to our programs. But today, we present a conversation I recently had with Amir Mohamed el Khalifa [aka Oddisee], as the conversation is textured,...4700falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/danhome-dahomey-vodun-w-filmmaker-onuora-anthony-abuah--57536599tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1015539526Wed, 24 Mar 2021 17:03:52 +0000AfricaWorldNow Project[Originally produced and aired in 2019] Vodun, Voodoo, racialization into Black Magic as currently understood is a distorted figment of a Western imagination. Voodoo is narrated as a sensationalized ‘pop-culture’ caricature of voudon, which is an...3601falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/embodied-resistance-the-science-continuities-of-african-a-fighting-arts-w-kamau-rashid--57536589tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/993001471Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:45:58 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectThe notion, assumption, and/or idea that the various peoples who were enslaved during the periods and processes of the solidification of the racial global economy that claims our ancestors were deprived of culture, strips of all associations with...5141falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/afrofuturism-the-freedom-principle--57536601tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/986996305Tue, 16 Feb 2021 20:59:53 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectToday, we will listen to a thinking session I had with students where we engaged ideas around an argument I presented that suggested: Afrofuturism is an ancient idea that expresses itself as an African/a freedom principle. It is an articulation of a...4398falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/thinking-about-black-internationalism-through-pauulu-s-diaspora-w-quito-swan--57536612tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/961173913Thu, 07 Jan 2021 19:09:22 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectImage: Pauulu Kamarakafego As we have explored in previous programs, in fact, as we have attempted to unpack in every program, Black internationalism is an intentional disruption; a radical intervention in the global terms of order [nod to Cedric...5001falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-deep-exploration-of-maroons-w-dr-nubia-kai--57536581tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/951836992Mon, 21 Dec 2020 19:08:32 +0000AfricaWorldNow Project[Program produced and aired 2016] Image: Frontispiece to Walker’s Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble….1829 Maroon derives from Spanish cimarrón. Cimarrón originally referred to domestic cattle that had taken to the hills in...3282falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/robert-sobukwe-steve-biko-the-formation-of-the-black-consciousness-movement--57536603tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/942061288Sat, 05 Dec 2020 19:37:09 +0000AfricaWorldNow Project[Program produced & aired in 2017] While there have been many explorations of the histories and figures in the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, little attention is paid to the role that Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe played as a leading thinker...3521falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-form-and-function-of-islam-the-black-radical-tradition-rudolph-bilal-ware-tasneem-siddiqui--57536615tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/898520269Thu, 24 Sep 2020 01:03:41 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectReligion or one’s spiritual practice are the center of one’s understanding of themselves in relation to the world within which they live. It is indeed the essence of who are. And for better or worse contextualizes and informs our identity. The...6713falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hip-hop-as-critical-pan-african-consciousness-pt-2--57536568tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/897055906Mon, 21 Sep 2020 17:17:13 +0000AfricaWorldNow Project[Note: This program was produced and aired in 2016] Image: Acclaimed Kenyan street artist & muralist, Wise 2 [https://www.singulart.com/en/artist/wise-two-5599] Today, we will listen to Pt. 2 of a two-part series titled: Hip Hop as Critical (Pan...3405falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/thinking-w-ella-baker-w-zach-norris-executive-director-ella-baker-center-for-human-rights--57536591tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/886630651Thu, 03 Sep 2020 02:54:25 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectImage: Ella Baker at the November 1974 Puerto Rican Independence Solidarity Rally Attempts to distort, rewrite, dilute, misdirect, and misguide the impact of our radical scholars, radical thinkers, activist, artist, and advocates are carefully...4723falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-sociopolitical-philosophy-of-dr-kwame-nkrumah-w-dr-kofi-kissi-dompere--57536551tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/884542081Sun, 30 Aug 2020 14:41:28 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectNote: This program was produced and aired in 2017. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first prime minister and president after declaring their independence on March 6, 1957…founding member of the Organization of African Unity, wrote in the preface of the 1969...3659falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/current-conditions-in-ethiopia-w-ayantu-ayana--57536595tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/868193173Sat, 01 Aug 2020 01:14:09 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectPhoto: Col. John Charles Robinson of Chicago In Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, Robin DG Kelley writes that “most black people believed there was an order higher than the Constitution. Throughout the Africana experience in the...3750falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/african-indigenous-knowledge-for-restoration-resilience-w-wangui-wa-kamonji-tasneem-siddiqui--57536610tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/859811335Fri, 17 Jul 2020 16:31:54 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectWangũi wa Kamonji in her article, Women in Kenya rebuild resilience amidst an eco-cultural crisis, published in February of this year, a few weeks before the current global pandemic takes its cripplingly hold, writes that: “in the global North, it has...4896falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pan-africanism-black-lives-matter--57536609tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/851053765Thu, 02 Jul 2020 19:15:18 +0000AfricaWorldNow Project[Image: Claudia Jones Paul Robeson Amy A Garvey with friends in London England, Source: Source Pan African News Wire] W.E.B. Du Bois (1933) in, Pan-Africa and new racial philosophy, presents his early articulations of Pan Africanism as “the...4476falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/maroons-w-haile-gerima-akinyele-umjoa-the-black-church-w-torin-alexander--57536618tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/841297081Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:19:19 +0000AfricaWorldNow Project[Note: Produced and aired in 2017] For more than four centuries, the communities formed by such escaped enslaved peoples dotted the fringes of plantations in the Americas, from Brazil to southeastern United States, from Peru to the American...3534falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/in-memoriam-materializing-race-w-charles-w-mills--57536561tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/838333642Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:32:59 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectWe are currently living in an age where poverty and disease are big business. In a world where race and class continues to produce and reproduce ways of interacting. This process has found ways to attach itself to our very construction of...3291falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/praxis-of-decolonization-the-reclamation-of-land-dignity-w-yousuf-al-bulushi-charo-mina-rojas--57536566tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/837966319Thu, 11 Jun 2020 02:43:04 +0000AfricaWorldNow Project[Note: Produced and aired in 2017] In the Wretched of the Earth, Fanon writes: “Decolonization never goes unnoticed […] it infuses a new rhythm, specific to a new generation of men, with a new language and a new humanity...” (Fanon 1961:2) However,...3753falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/land-as-a-fundamental-component-in-black-liberation-w-willie-jamaal-wright-tasneem-siddiqui--57536619tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/837957265Thu, 11 Jun 2020 02:20:00 +0000AfricaWorldNow Project[Note: This program was produced and aired in 2017] The question of land as a fundamental aspect of Africana liberation movements is an often-neglected point of inquiry when exploring the long genealogy of Africana thought and behavior—radical or...3667falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/postmodern-diversions-of-black-rebellion--57536617tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/834871465Fri, 05 Jun 2020 20:54:06 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectWe are witnessing a period that is trending towards unprecedented, but it is not without genealogy or tradition. Those who seek to counter this rebellion promote narratives with increased use of violence that tries to narrow the righteous rage to...4614falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/reflections-on-africa-s-deep-impact-on-diasporic-cultural-production-w-bro-ah--57536572tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/831870178Sun, 31 May 2020 22:44:24 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectNote: This conversation with Brother Ah was the first program produced for AWNP Radio. It aired as the inaugural program in 2016. Brother has joined the ancestors today (May 31 2020). We will need to hear him speak with us on a higher frequency. He...4252falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/relationship-s-interaction-s-the-practice-of-love-for-black-family-stability--57536630tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/824008222Tue, 19 May 2020 20:30:53 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectImage: ODO NNYEW FIE KWAN, "Love never loses its way home" Kahlil Gibran, writing in the 1921, The Prophet presents us with a serious meditation on love: Gibran writes: “Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses...4968falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/gerald-horne-on-william-patterson-the-globalization-of-the-freedom-struggle-libya--57536583tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/813703612Tue, 05 May 2020 00:31:23 +0000AfricaWorldNow Project[Originally produced in 2017] William Patterson, a leader of the Communist Party USA, was an eminent civil rights attorney who spearheaded defense of the Scottsboro Nine, Black youth in Alabama framed on phony rape charges in 1932. Patterson was a...3686falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/we-are-worth-fighting-for-w-josh-myers--57536620tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/813627751Mon, 04 May 2020 22:04:32 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectI would like to be clear at the outset: the question of the survival of black colleges and universities is actually a very problematic inquiry… It highlights the internalization of racialized ideological propensities, as this question is debated...3486falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/thinking-through-w-organic-black-radical-intellectuals-w-mutulu-olugbala-m-1-dead-prez--57536623tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/806182093Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:45:22 +0000AfricaWorldNow Project[Note: This program was produced & recorded in 2017] Needless to say, most of you are extremely aware that we are indeed living in a moment that implores each and every one of us to have a clear, resolute, and radical perspective of one’s own...3555falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/amilcar-cabral-the-21st-century-w-james-early--57536588tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/794770639Thu, 09 Apr 2020 19:13:07 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectNote: This program originally aired in 2016, we were just starting! ______________________________________ Amilcar Cabral…one of the African world’s foremost intellectual—theoreticians is also one of the most marginalized in the study of the African...3689falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/thinking-with-steve-biko-about-south-african-w-andile-mngxitama--57536596tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/793103920Tue, 07 Apr 2020 16:15:41 +0000AfricaWorldNow Project[Note: Program originally aired in August 2016] In a speech delivered in 1971 in Cape Town, South Africa, Steve Bantu Biko proclaimed that the: “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” This time-less...3349falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-life-legacy-of-carter-g-woodson-w-dr-greg-carr--57536607tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/790358806Sat, 04 Apr 2020 00:15:33 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectNote: This version is an update to the version aired on Feb. 26 2020. Dr. Greg Carr engaged in this discussion at the Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago on January 31, 2020....6656falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-afterlive-s-of-marielle-franco-black-womxn-s-resistance-in-brazil--57536606tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/779330272Fri, 20 Mar 2020 00:33:32 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectData shows that, one (1) in five (5) of Rio de Janerio’s inhabitants reside in one of its more than 1,000 favelas. It is in these spaces where inequality and human potential is molded, identity is created, resistance is formulated. After the...3844falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/thinking-thru-black-geographies-food-memories-of-resistance-land-w-ashante-m-reese--57536635tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/776774752Mon, 16 Mar 2020 00:24:54 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectPlace as understood in Africana deep thought and practice, is both material and nonmaterial. The seed of humanity’s ability to evolve is rooted in the practices that are intent to create a balance between this fact. Imbalance, conscious and...3503falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-conversation-w-veteran-activist-political-theorist-omali-yeshitela--57536586tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/752404912Thu, 30 Jan 2020 23:10:10 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectIn, Amilcar Cabral and the Theory of the National Liberation Struggle, Professor Nzongola-Ntalaja writes that: “Amilcar Cabral’s contribution to understanding the success and failures of liberation movements, resides in his demonstration that national...3782falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/kwame-ture-as-existential-radical--57536597tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/740500642Thu, 09 Jan 2020 03:17:36 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectTo unpack the complexities of Africana resistance, particularly its most “radical” elements—whether expressed through collective or/and individual activities and thought, it is vital to identify and map the traditions that inform and challenge their...3575falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/maurice-bishop-speaks--57536624tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/727750633Sat, 14 Dec 2019 13:56:26 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectOn October 12, 1983, Maurice Bishop, prime minster of Grenada and one of the founding leaders of the New Jewel Movement, was placed under house arrest at the orders of Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard (Maurice Bishop Speaks, xii-xiii). On October...3641falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ngugi-wa-thiong-o-memory-translation-recovery--57536621tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/714353896Mon, 18 Nov 2019 00:18:02 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectThe ghosts of Hegel, Hume, Locke, and other so-called enlightenment thinkers, are not ghosts at all. The limiting racialized reasoning; the logics of racial capitalism they espoused are in fact material and nonmaterial at the same time. We are...3541falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/reflections-on-the-legacy-and-potentialities-of-c-l-r-james--57536611tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/706593091Fri, 01 Nov 2019 21:44:18 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectWriting in Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, CLR James argues that: “the cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating...3728falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-long-movement-for-freedom-in-haiti--57536627tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/705914758Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:42:44 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectIn a November 1797 Letter to the French Directory, Toussaint L’Ouverture writes a warning to the French and its allies in Haiti of any attempts to (re)institute slavery in Saint Domingue: “Do [the forces of reaction] think that men who have been able...3601falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-praxis-of-john-coltrane-through-alice-coltrane--57536632tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/687390742Fri, 27 Sep 2019 00:43:33 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectTo understand the music of John Coltrane you must understand the long genealogy of the genre of African Diasporic cultural expression—called Black (or American) Classical Music or jazz as it is often labeled particularly, as it moves back and forth on...3660falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/critically-reading-cedric-robinson-s-black-marxism-the-making-of-the-black-radical-tradition--57536604tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/683496638Thu, 19 Sep 2019 19:10:06 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectRobin D.G. Kelley argues that Cedric Robinson’s book is “a critique of Western Marxism and its failure to understand the conditions and movements of Black people in Africa and the Diaspora.” Kelley goes on to suggest that Robinson not only exposes...3747falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/of-1619-w-josh-myers--57536608tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/672945692Thu, 29 Aug 2019 21:05:46 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectOver the past few weeks there has been a low-humming buzz on dominant media platforms around the release of New York Times Magazine 1619 Project. The lead author, investigative journalist, Nikole Hannah-Jones writes that: “The 1619 Project is a...3690falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/african-rhythms-a-workshop-on-cultural-continuity-the-future-of-jazz--57536602tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/669517313Thu, 22 Aug 2019 16:55:34 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectDescriptors such as jungle music, negro music, jazz...African American Classical Music. Black Classical Music. Spirit Music...and African Rhythms...have been attached to the vibrational human expressions, that once organized into various rhythms,...3702falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/african-wisdom-s-light-consciousness-formation-with-dr-edward-bruce-bynum--57536605tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/669513023Thu, 22 Aug 2019 16:45:32 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectHow do we see?...before you become perplexed at such a simple question...the answer is more complex than we usually give time to consider… If you thought and said, with our eyes! Then you are fractionally correct. And I mean fractionally…because the...3541falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-price-of-racial-reconciliation--57536613tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/655047665Tue, 23 Jul 2019 02:42:01 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectIn The Price of Racial Reconciliation, Dr. Ronald Walters writes “the power of history is not only its description of events, but also its relation to the identity of those who shape it, and those “who suffer from such shaping. As such, “history”...3646falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/africana-womanhood-spirituality-and-african-world-resistance-w-dr-iyelli-ichile--57536614tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/654971666Mon, 22 Jul 2019 22:51:54 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectDr. Ichile in her article titled, Black Magic Woman: Towards a Theory of Africana Women's Resistance suggest that when properly contextualized, the role of enslaved African women in history was multiple, but two primary roles are prevalent, they were...3155falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/on-the-sudan-uprisings-with-sudanese-activist-scholar-nisrin-elamin--57536637tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/614601267Thu, 02 May 2019 12:28:13 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectNote: this program is from 2019! We leave it here for context of the current situation. In a Washington Post article titled, Recent protests in Sudan are much more than bread riots, Nisrin Elamin and Zachariah Mampilly, writes “On Dec. 19 2018, the...3423falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/decolonizing-africanstudies-citizenship-w-dr-robtel-neajai-pailey--57536640tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/612207603Sat, 27 Apr 2019 13:50:01 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectWriting in Where is the ‘African’ in African Studies, on African Arguments, Robtel Pailey asserts that “the extent to which the ‘African’ in African Studies is concealed or revealed depends entirely on the politics of the knowledge producer, the ethos...3524falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/contours-continuities-and-evolutions-in-africana-radical-thought-w-keeanga-yamahtta-taylor--57536633tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/607953288Thu, 18 Apr 2019 17:27:31 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectToday, Africa World Now Project collectives' Tasneem Siddiqui and Keisha-Khan Perry sit down with Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and explore the contours, continuities, and evolutions in Africana radical sociopolitical thought. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor...4478falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-blue-s-note-for-sterling-brown-josh-myers-meditates-on-the-legacy-sterling-a-brown--57536646tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/607949388Thu, 18 Apr 2019 17:17:49 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectSterling A. Brown work amplifies and materialize the nature of the aesthetic connections that find continuity in contemporary black life. Brown opens, Southern Road with an epigraph of an old negro spiritual: ‘O de ole sheep dey knows de road,...3632falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/black-women-against-the-land-grab-the-fight-for-racial-justice-in-brazil-with-dr-keisha-khan-perry--57536628tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/600492618Wed, 03 Apr 2019 19:53:38 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectWe begin our program today with an update on current activities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Mwiza Munthali, Africa World Now Project executive producer, human rights activist, and international journalist recently caught up with Kambale...3753falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-sovereignty-of-the-black-imagination-w-imixwhatilike-crew--57536650tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/597300015Thu, 28 Mar 2019 15:19:08 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectDr. Todd Steven Burroughs asserts that, fantasy can be a form of social protest, but fantasy can also be a form of mental conquest. The imagination of the black mind has produced some the most advanced conceptualizations of justice, freedom,...3541falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ifa-s-ancient-future-with-kola-abimbola--57536629tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/576870504Sun, 17 Feb 2019 17:40:14 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectWriting in his 2006 work titled, Yoruba Culture: A Philosophical Account, Dr. Kola Abimbola argues that Yoruba sociopolitical religious practices—( Òrìṣa tradition and culture) were expanded and intensified throughout the Americas due to the...3526falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-hbcu-current-crisis-and-future-trajectories-moving-beyond-struggle--57536641tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/575361474Thu, 14 Feb 2019 17:31:46 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectToday, we bring to you a recent wide-ranging conversation exploring the HBCUs as a response to and product of coloniality, sovereignty of the black imagination, the philosophical roots of Black Thought/Black Study, and the impetus of evolving black...3898falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/thinking-about-sudan-w-alsarah-alsarah-the-nubatones--57536648tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/571700499Thu, 07 Feb 2019 18:31:23 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectIn order to understand the current sociopolitical conditions and deep Africana radical cultural influences moving in Sudan today, the long historical genealogy, the evolutions in physical geography, and the migration and interaction patterns of...3509falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-african-unconscious-roots-of-ancient-mysticism-and-modern-psychology-w-dr-edward-b-bynum--57536644tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/569240805Sun, 03 Feb 2019 01:48:13 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectThe relationship between spirituality, science, language, the political, the transference and production of culture presents a rich terrain to understanding the relationship between liberation, humanity & justice. At this point in human...3821falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/silvia-federici-reenchanting-the-world-feminism-the-politics-of-the-commons--57536651tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/564111732Thu, 24 Jan 2019 21:55:01 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectThe relationship between the rise of capitalism, the exploitation of labor and natural resources, the control of productive forces are important components of interests when attempting to understand the imposition of the negatively constructed...3737falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/black-farmers-food-land-resistance-pt-2--57536655tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/554186247Fri, 04 Jan 2019 22:04:32 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectAccording to the article, Reform or Transformation? The Pivotal Role of Food Justice in the U.S. Food Movement, the global food price crisis of 2008 ushered in record levels of hunger for the world’s poor at a time of record global harvests as well as...2908falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ayiti-hayiti--57536654tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/548236287Fri, 21 Dec 2018 14:10:58 +0000AfricaWorldNow Project"It could have easily been called 'Afro-American Fight Song'. My solo in it is a deeply concentrated one. I can't play right unless I'm thinking about prejudice and hate and persecutions, and how unfair it is. There's a sadness and cries in it, but...3723falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/black-farmers-land-food-resistance-pt-1--57536649tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/547001508Tue, 18 Dec 2018 22:59:50 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectIn the last speech you heard, was of Thomas Sankara. In it he asserts that: “Our country produces enough food to feed us all. In fact, we can produce more than enough. But because of the lack of organization. We still need to beg for food aid....3482falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/all-african-peoples-conference-dec-1958-2018--57536616tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/542370342Mon, 10 Dec 2018 05:36:17 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectToday's program covered: The 60th Anniversary of the 1958 All-African People’s Conference | Held: December 5-8, 2018 | Institute of Africa Studies | University of Ghana The histories of Pan African activity are often incomplete, not because we do...4111falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/theorizing-fanon-latin-america-and-the-pitfalls-of-national-consciousness-w-james-early--57536657tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/534574410Fri, 23 Nov 2018 23:26:05 +0000AfricaWorldNow Project“History teaches us clearly that the battle against colonialism does not run straight away along the lines of nationalism. For a very long time the native devotes his energies to ending certain definite abuses: forced labour, corporal punishment,...3691falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/collective-courage-a-history-of-africana-cooperative-thought-and-practice--57536659tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/523443087Thu, 01 Nov 2018 22:04:26 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectThe histories of cooperative practice and ownership of Africana communities have a long history, particularly when we account for an Africana human agency in the face of hyper-exploitation and hyper-extractive logics and practice of racial capitalism....3829falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/loaded-a-disarming-history-of-the-second-amendment-w-roxanne-dunbar-ortiz--57536643tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/511248018Mon, 08 Oct 2018 14:04:21 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectAccording to Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz in an article titled, Settler Colonialism and the Second Amendment in Monthly Review, which is adapted from her recently published book, Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment, Professor Dunbar-Ortiz...3803falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/re-thinking-reconstruction-w-dr-greg-carr--57536631tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/501878544Wed, 19 Sep 2018 00:09:28 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectReconstruction, the period so named after the U.S. Civil War, is a period that in its totality is a clear articulation of the lasting implications of settler colonialism. Take the conceptualization of ‘reconstruction’ itself. This concept implies an...3602falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/randy-weston-the-african-rhythm--57536658tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/498065991Mon, 10 Sep 2018 19:57:07 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectIn Two Thousand Seasons, Ayi Kwei Armah writes: “we are not a people of yesterday. Do they ask how many single seasons we have flowed from our beginnings till now? We shall point them to the proper beginning of their counting. On a clear night when...3651falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/thinking-with-samir-amin-1931-2018--57536661tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/491475246Mon, 27 Aug 2018 19:44:28 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectSamir Amin wrote in 2016 that: “Partial awareness emerges from particular struggles, for example, from the struggles of peasants or women for the defense of human commons or the struggle for respect of popular sovereignty. The progress of the...3581falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hip-hop-in-africa-prophets-of-the-city-and-dustyfoot-philosophers-w-msia-kibona-clark--57536622tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/471613167Sat, 14 Jul 2018 14:33:18 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectHip hop, as a cultural product of Africa and African descendant peoples is a rich field of inquiry. Hip hop as a viable platform that highlights calls for social change is the life-giving breath of hip hop. Nevertheless, a viable work that dives...3682falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/life-and-work-of-sylvia-wynter-w-paget-henry--57536638tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/466304313Mon, 02 Jul 2018 14:20:03 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectAmie Césaire writes that: “at the very time when it most often mouths the word, the West has never been further from being able to live a true humanism—a humanism made to the measure of the world.” Sylvia Wynter adds clarity in that “[O]ur now...3503falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-praxis-of-el-hajj-malik-el-shabazz--57536660tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/461064891Wed, 20 Jun 2018 19:50:49 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectToday, we will take a look the legacy and contributions of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz as he expands the notions and ideas of African world history, justice, freedom, & citizenship… The collective and historical consciousness of the world in...3681falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/che-guevara-on-radical-humanism-third-world-solidarity--57536625tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/432592590Fri, 20 Apr 2018 13:43:25 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectThe control of information…the foundation of knowledge formation…is a crucial tool of oppression. The manufactured ignorance of the masses has been utilized to create a globalized order that positions one group of people against another group of...3611falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/thinking-w-steve-bantu-biko-chris-hani-on-a-south-african-future--57536662tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/432583965Fri, 20 Apr 2018 13:17:56 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectIn a speech delivered in 1971 in Cape Town, South Africa, Steve Bantu Biko proclaimed that the “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” This time-less expression is undoubtedly just as important today,...3490falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/meditations-on-the-african-diaspora-with-dr-joseph-harris--57536647tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/432578241Fri, 20 Apr 2018 13:01:04 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectAccording to Patterson and Kelley (2000) attempts to identify and make sense of the African diaspora are almost as old as the diaspora itself. Dating back at least to Juan Latino (a 16th century Spanish black professor at Granada), Ottobah Cuagano...3656falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/examining-the-continuities-of-antiblack-violence-in-brazil-the-u-s-w-dr-christen-smith--57536645tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/429416028Sat, 14 Apr 2018 00:18:18 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectFor Enrique Dussel: “Modernity dawned in 1492 and with it the myth of a special kind of sacrificial violence which eventually eclipsed whatever was non-European.” For Walter Mignolo, 1492 is the moment at which “there is a bifurcation of history”....3224falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/marielle-franco-afro-brazil-what-s-next-w-dr-keisha-khan-perry-dr-vera-benedito--57536652tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/425984319Sat, 07 Apr 2018 01:28:51 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectOn the evening of Wednesday, March 14, 2018 Marielle Franco, a city councilor for Brazil’s Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL), was killed as she was riding in a car in Rio de Janeiro. Reports suggest that a Cobalt-model car pulled up beside her and...3478falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/decolonization-ngugi-wa-thiong-o-beyond--57536656tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/412462008Mon, 12 Mar 2018 12:10:59 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectToday…we will explore the work of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o with Dr. Josh Myers, Assistant Professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (b. 1938) is one of the African world’s most prolific writers, thinkers,...3578falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/self-naming-as-resistance-reflections-on-the-land-and-freedom-army-mau-mau--57536639tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/412457718Mon, 12 Mar 2018 11:55:34 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectThe ability to make language—words extend from the page…to become alive… to dance in the mind of a reader…creating vivid pictures that map time and space…weaving multiple experiences into a common tapestry of human history is an ability that only a...3534falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/exploring-conditions-in-south-africa--57536663tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/411243210Fri, 09 Mar 2018 19:49:43 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectThe dominant narrative presented on the ANC, the struggle against South African Apartheid, the conditions and systems implemented when the ANC became the ruling party suggest that in a post-Apartheid South Africa, the people of South Africa experience...3618falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-africa-in-w-e-b-du-bois-praxis--57536668tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/403863057Fri, 23 Feb 2018 03:46:37 +0000AfricaWorldNow Project“As I face Africa, I ask myself: What is it between us that constitutes a tie that I can feel better than I can explain?” This was a question W.E.B. Du Bois asked himself in 1940 and we might imagine time and again before and after that moment. It...3600falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/awnp-radio-tribute-to-hugh-masekela--57536664tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/403851213Fri, 23 Feb 2018 03:10:08 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectAccording to Hotep Idris Galeta, the famed south African jazz-musician and educator, in his article, "The Development of Jazz in South Africa", he wrote that "South African Jazz has had many elements contributing to its evolution and development. The...3524falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/settlercolonialism-w-gerald-horne--57536671tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/397450743Sat, 10 Feb 2018 18:29:03 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectTo understand, analysis, or critique the conditions within which the African world lives without centering the role of settler colonialism as a function of racial capitalism has proven to be limited in range and scope in understanding the conditions...3791falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-anti-black-roots-of-u-s-immigration-policy--57536669tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/397385988Sat, 10 Feb 2018 15:42:15 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectThe idea and practice of maroonage is an intriguing part of the vast story of African world resistance; a story that has deep implications on the idea and practice of freedom for the 21st century; it provides alternative models of social organization...3182falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/blackcritique--57536642tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/382308257Fri, 12 Jan 2018 01:21:40 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectThis program is intent to push the boundaries of Black thought as Black Critique. What do I mean? Contextualization is an art, an art that I find an affinity with and seek to perfect. Not for a personal gratification, but to discover and map a...3606blackcritiquefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/racial-capitalism--57536670tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/382284260Fri, 12 Jan 2018 00:15:53 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectThe conceptual and practical use of racial capitalism by many young activists who were shocked and ignited by their exposure to the events that spurred Ferguson, the uprising in Baltimore, continual state violence at the hands of a hyper militarized...3709falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/organic-nature-of-africana-sociopolitical-thought-w-tom-porter-amiri-baraka--57536665tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/359957456Thu, 23 Nov 2017 17:42:30 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectProgram originally produced and aired: 2016 In his poem “Countries want independence, nations want liberation, and the people, the people want revolution”, Amiri Baraka writes: “Revolutionary Unity gained only thru struggle long sought for must be...3648falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pt-2-conversation-with-fred-moten-race-class-and-social-movements--57536667tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/333209359Fri, 14 Jul 2017 18:38:28 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectIn this episode.... we can listen to Pt. 2 of the conversation I had with Fred Moten where we explore the ideas set forth by radical thinkers ranging from anti-colonialist such as Sylvia Wynter and Aimé Césaire to scholar-activists such as W. E. B. Du...3671falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fred-moten-the-undercommons-21st-century-resistance--57536653tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/332113260Fri, 07 Jul 2017 16:13:29 +0000AfricaWorldNow ProjectBlack radicalism [consequently] cannot be understood within the particular context of its genesis. It is not a variant of Western radicalism whose proponents happen to be Black. Rather, it is a specifically African response to an oppression emergent...3612falsefull