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A podcast about African social movements and the worlds they are trying to create. Hosted by Fred Bauma, a social movement activist from the Democratic Republic of Congo; and Jason Stearns, an academic and writer based at Simon Fraser University.

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  • 17 - Interview with Nic Cheeseman on Democracy
    Mon, 02 Oct 2023
  • 16 - Interview avec Aliou Sane sur Y'en a marre et la lutter au Senegal
    Mon, 25 Sep 2023
  • 15 - La solidarité internationale avec Serge Sivya

    Cette semaine nous accueillons Serge Sivya, médecin et militant du mouvement lutte pour le changement, Lucha actif en RD Congo. Serge milite au sein de la Lucha depuis les premiers jours de ce mouvement en 2012. Il a été très actif dans les mobilisations pour le respect de la constitution en RDC entre 2015 et 2018. Il a pour cela plusieurs fois été arrêté. Au sein de la Lucha, Serge est actif notamment dans la cellule de Luchologie où il a longtemps contribué à la formation et l’initiation des militants. Serge est aussi membre de African coaching network, un réseau qui forme des mouvements et militants à travers le continent. 

    L’année passée, Serge et sa camarade Rebecca Kabugho ont pris part au premier programme d’échange entre mouvements sociaux organisé par le réseau Afrikki. Ils ont passé trois mois à Atlanta aux États-Unis avec Project South, une organisation qui travaille avec des communautés locales, ancrée surtout dans la diaspora Afro-Américaine dans le sud des USA, en vue d'une transformation personnelle et sociale.

    Aujourd’hui avec Serge, nous re-visiterons  ce programme et nous parlerons en général de la solidarité internationale, ce que les mouvements du continent peuvent apprendre de la diaspora africaine, et les différents défis auxquels les mouvements sont confrontés aujourd'hui.

    Sun, 30 Jul 2023
  • 14 - Interview Tutu Alicante

    Last year, Teodoro Obiang won a 6th term in office with 97% of the vote. He has been in power since 1979, for 43 years. In Obiang’s Equatorial Guinea, there are no independent, critical media, no human rights or anti-corruption organizations, and the one opposition party is seen as being a fig leaf for the dictatorship. 

    It is difficult to fully grasp the control the government has over society without examining the role of the oil industry. Equatorial Guinea is one of the largest oil producing countries in Africa; the black gold makes up 90% of its exports and gives it an average income similar to that of Brazil or Serbia. And yet, its infant mortality rate is closer to that of Liberia and Mali, much poorer countries. 26% of children do not get the nutrition they need. 

    To discuss the situation in EG and the potential for change, we are joined by Tutu Alicante, the executive director of EG Justice. He has lived in exile since the age of 19, based now in the United States. His organization fights for democracy and against the human rights abuses of the Obiang regime.

     

    Tue, 04 Jul 2023
  • 13 - Interview Nisrin Elamin and Hamid Khalafallah

    Welcome to Season 2 of Ukombozi.

    The Sudanese Revolution of 2018-2019 was a bubbling up of many movements all at once. As Hamid Khalahfallah,  one of our guests here, says: "It was many transitions all at once"––a political, cultural and spiritual one. And then it ended, first with another coup in 2021, and now with brutal fighting between two parts of the regime. 

    Here we discuss the conflict, but in  also the place of social movements in Sudanese society. One of the reasons we are where we are today is because of the enormous inequalities that Sudanese society faces––since independence in 1956 and before, the country has been ruled by a narrow elite from the Nile Valley, excluding the peripheries and lower classes. Social movements inside and outside of Khartoum have been mobilizing against this.

    We have with us two fantastic Sudanese activists and scholars to discuss this. Hamid Khalafallah is a program officer for the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance; he spoke with us in his personal capacity. He has been active with various civil resistance groups in Sudan, promoting democracy and advocating for human rights.  Nisrin Elamin is assistant professor of anthropology and African studies at the University of Toronto. She studies rural movements and resistance to Saudi and Emirati land investments in central Sudan.


    Mon, 19 Jun 2023
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