Podcast Episode 3: A  Conversation with Dr. Peter Alegi on Football and Politics

Ufahamu Africa

Date: January 21, 2017

Summary:

This episode, the podcast commemorates the 60th anniversary of the African World Cup of Nations (AFCONS). Dr. Peter Alegi chats with Ufahamu Africa about football, politics, and more.

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Podcast Episode 31: Part 1 of a Chat with the Founders of Mawazo, a Researcher Start-Up in Nairobi

Ufahamu Africa

Date: October 14, 2017

Summary:

Dr. Rose Mutiso and Rachel Strohm,  co-founders of the Mawazo Institute, a start-up non-profit research institute in Nairobi, Kenya, join this episode to discuss their decision behind Mawazo and the structural challenges African women researchers have faced.

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Podcast Episode 32: A Conversation with Amy Halliday on Contemporary African Art

Ufahamu Africa

Date: October 21, 2017

Summary:

A conversation with Amy Halliday, director of the Hampshire Gallery at Hampshire College, about "5 Takes on African Art."

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Podcast Episode 33: A Conversation with Kiara Hill on African Art, Black Womanhood, Knowledge  Production, and More.

Ufahamu Africa

Date: October 28, 2017

Summary:

A chat with Kiara Hill, one of the curators of "5 Takes on African Art."

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Podcast Episode 37: A Conversation with Dr. George Karekwaivanane on the Struggle for Power in Zimbabwe

Ufahamu Africa

Date: November 25, 2017

Summary:

Conversation with Dr. Karekwaivanane, lecturer in African Studies at the University of  Edinburgh, about political power in Zimbabwe.

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Podcast Episode 38: A Conversation with Cajetan Iheka on the Enviornment in African Literature

Ufahamu Africa

Date: January 16, 2018

Summary:

Ufahamu Africa talks with Cajetan Iheka about his book, Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature. His book touches upon the representations of the environment in African literature and the implications of these depictions for questions of resistance and agency.

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Podcast Episode 4: A Conversation with Lina Benabdallah on China and Africa

Ufahamu Africa

Date: January 28, 2017

Summary:

A Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Florida, Lina Benabdallah, talks about China and Africa relations. Her studies focus on Chinese investment in human resource development in Africa.

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Podcast Episode 40: A Conversation with Abou Bamba on Françafrique, the Ivorian Miracle, and More.

Ufahamu Africa

Date: February 13, 2018

Summary:

A historian Abou Bamba discusses this episode of his book, African Miracle African Mirage, which incorporates political, economic, and historical thinking on developmental practices that shaped the Ivory Coast today.

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