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Africa World Now Project
Africa 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 is, in essence, a multimedia open-access 'classroom' that provides actionable information that explores continuities and discontinuities in the history, culture, and politics of the entire African world. AWNP does this by engaging in organic…
Episodes
Africa World Now ProjectBlack Power Praxis: Theory, Practice, and Activist Intellectuals in Detroit’s Black Power Movement w/ Matt Birkhold
Matt Birkhold approaches his contribution to the study of working-class intellectual praxis with important questions that seek to identify, map, and access a…
Africa World Now ProjectBlack Studies & the conjuncture w Josh Myers
What does it mean, in this moment – echoes of and the culmination of moments before, to teach, learn, share, and evolve within increasingly violent conditions…
Africa World Now Projectthe Black University concept w/ Bro. Abdul Alkalimat
W.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…
Africa World Now ProjectA River of Prophecy: Constructing a Sacred History of African Americans w/ Nubia Kia
A River of Prophecy: Constructing a Sacred History of African Americans w/ Nubia Kia by Africa World Now Project Collective
Africa World Now Projectthe impact of africa on malcolm x & malcolm x’s impact on africa
What 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…
Africa World Now ProjectWe Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt & the fight for African Liberation w/ Martha Biondi & Prexy Nesbitt
History, the writing of history, can be a messy process. Movement history, that is an exploration and examination of the forces that constitute struggle, its…
Africa World Now Projectthe question of Venezuela and the role of the working class
We are honored to have with us, again, The Honorable Fravia Marquez Silva, 2nd Advisor To Venezuela’s National Assembly and Spokeswomen for Cumbe International…
Africa World Now Projectthe story of the league of revolutionary Black workers
The 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…
Africa World Now ProjectFanon & the decolonial imperative Pt II
This cannot be repeated enough, as the dialectical relationship between anti-colonial praxis and the colonial logic of capital becomes ever more fascistic, we…
Africa World Now ProjectFree Frank McWorter Freedom Seekers & New Philadelphia w/ Abdul Alkalimat
It 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…
Africa World Now ProjectFanon & the decolonial imperative Pt. I
Colonial violence and colonial discourse are at the heart of Western modernity. They are constituent features of Western European modern ontology, knowledge…
Africa World Now ProjectAbolition, Labor & the Palestine Question
Abolition, Labor & the Palestine Question by Africa World Now Project Collective
Africa World Now ProjectPt. II Patrice Lumumba's Pan Africanism w/ the Kenyan Organic Intellectuals Network
This year represents an important historical conjuncture that has very important implications for our contemporary moment of crisis, yet extremely instructive…
Africa World Now ProjectPt. I - on the praxis of Malik El Shabazz + revolutionary Kenya w/ the Kenyan Organic Intellectual Network
This year represents an important historical conjuncture that has very important implications for our contemporary moment of crisis, yet extremely instructive…
Africa World Now Projectresistance & resilience in Washington, DC a conversation w/ Maurice Jackson & Josh Myers
Writing in ‘How music defines D.C.’s history of ‘resistance and resilience,’ according to historian Maurice Jackson’, Josh Myers, building on the thought of…
Africa World Now ProjectSouthern Worker Action Summit 2025
Southern Worker Action Summit 2025 by Africa World Now Project Collective
Africa World Now Projectdismantling the master's clock: on race, space & time w/ Rasheedah Phillips
Notions of time and space are fundamental to orienting one’s place in various experiences. Mapping time/understanding temporality allows us to coordinate…
Africa World Now ProjectOn Frantz Fanon | w/ Lou Turner
Frantz Fanon wrote, you know the famous, often quoted but less applied dictate: “Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill…
Africa World Now Projectfreedom summer | fascist winter w/ Felicia Denaud & Josh Myers
“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…
Africa World Now Projectreflections on autonomy, direct democracy & marronage w/ Modibo Kadalie Pt. II
What 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…
Africa World Now Projectreflections on autonomy, direct democracy & marronage w/ Modibo Kadalie Pt. III
What 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…
Africa World Now Projectreflections on autonomy, direct democracy & marronage w/ Modibo Kadalie Pt. I
The idea of democracy and its attendant operative mechanism, democratic citizenship, specifically the right to belong, is often lauded as a gift of Greco-Roman…
Africa World Now ProjectKamau Rashid on Jacob H. Carruthers & an restoration of an african worldview
In the introduction of his recently published, Jacob H Carruthers and the Restoration of An African Worldview: Finding Our Way through the Desert, Kamau Rashid…
Africa World Now Projectland food & freedom w/ Georie Bryant
The collectively generative nature inherent in the interdependent relationship between technology, the communal means of production and distribution and…
Africa World Now ProjectADIFF DC Aug. 2, 2024 on Latino Media Collective @ WPFW
ADIFF 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…
Africa World Now ProjectADIFF DC Aug. 1, 2024 on #UMustLearn @ WPFW
ADIFF 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…
Africa World Now ProjectADIFF DC Jul. 31, 2024 on We The People @ WPFW
ADIFF 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…
Africa World Now ProjectADIFF DC Jul. 30, 2024 on Voices with Vision @ WPFW
ADIFF 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…
Africa World Now Projectechoes of FESTAC '77 w/ Bro Abdul Alkalimat
The use of forum, colloquium, and festivals to center African/a intellectual creative cultural production flows rhythmically alongside the long tradition of…
Africa World Now Projectthe political praxis of Jamil Abdullah al-Amin
On 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…
Africa World Now Projectthe sociopolitical thought of General Baker, DRUM & The League Of Revolutionary Black Workers
Today, 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…
Africa World Now Projectthe time of the Black radical tradition
re/posting from our archive ... from 7+ years ago. a lot to grasp here!
Africa World Now Projectthe role of historical consciousness + global student movements w/ Mukasa Dada & Obi Egbuna Jr
This discussion features Mukasa Dada and Obi Egbuna Jr. We focus on contemporary struggles of youth and student movements, globally. With a focus on the…
Africa World Now Projectrace & revolution in Cuba: an Afro Cuban working class perspective w/ Pedro Pérez Sarduy
Black working-class contributions to the Cuban revolution are immense, yet somehow often neglected in discourses around revolutionary Cuba. The long history of…
Africa World Now Projectthinking through CLR James w/ Matthew Quest Pt. III
Matthew Quest in CLR James and George Padmore: Hidden Disputes in The Black Radical Tradition, examines the collaboration between James and George Padmore…
Africa World Now Projectthinking through CLR James w/ Matthew Quest Pt. II
According 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…
Africa World Now Projectthinking through CLR James w/ Matthew Quest Pt. I
In 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…
Africa World Now ProjectPt III - applying Malcolm X
Image: 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…
Africa World Now ProjectPt II - Black workers & el Hajj Malik el Shabazz
Thank 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 -…
Africa World Now ProjectPt I – contextualizing el Hajj Malik el Shabazz
In 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…
Africa World Now ProjectAWNP Tribute - Dr. John Henrik Clarke & Cornel West - the politics of assimilation v. nationalism
Form the archives [2017]! Enjoy.
Africa World Now ProjectPt III - Terrains Of Struggle Continuities In Freedom Dreams [a Radio Documentary]
Pt. III - Poetics of Revolution: Autonomy, Land, Visions of Freedom & the Kurdish Freedom struggle [a discussion of 1979 struggle] Thank you for listening to…
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Pt II - Terrains Of Struggle Continuities In Freedom Dreams [a Radio Documentary]
Pt. 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…
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Pt I - Terrains Of Struggle Continuities In Freedom Dreams [a Radio Documentary]
Part I - Radical Considerations & Revolutionary Possibilities: Towards a Black University in the 21st century Check out Pt. II. Thank you for listening to…
Africa World Now ProjectBlack Study, as a critique of knowledge & power w/ Josh Myers
Kamau Rashid writing in Jacob H. Carruthers and the African-Centered Discourse on Knowledge, Worldview, and Power posits that “whether we are interrogating the…
Africa World Now Projectmeditations on struggle & organizing w/ Frank Chapman
We are in conversation with Frank Chapman, organizer & movement architect. The anchoring poles in this conversation revolve around the formation of National…
Africa World Now ProjectFrank Chapman on Palestine
Clip from recent conversation .... full conversation coming soon!
Africa World Now Projectthe Black worker, the strike, & the UAW
In, 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…
Africa World Now ProjectProfessor Hakim Adi on the attacks on Black history in the U.K. [& Globally]
Support Now ...: ****https://www.historymatters.online/save-mres-campaign**** Walter Rodney once wrote in African History in the Service of the Black…
Africa World Now Projectthe life of Madie Hall Xuma w/ Professor Wanda A Hendricks
Dr. 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…
Africa World Now ProjectBen Fletcher + the IWW w/ Peter Cole
The 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…
Africa World Now ProjectOf Hesitance - W.E.B Du Bois [Josh Myers - Of Black Study] w/ Nathalie Frédéric Pierre
"“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…
Africa World Now Projecton Sudan
Today 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…
Africa World Now Projectthe continuities of African liberation day w/ Obi Egbuna Jr
Delegates 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…
Africa World Now Projectrespond/react
this #thinkingblackoutloud session is from 2017 ... it was a meditation on the necessity of thinking through the dialectical processes inherent in the…
Africa World Now Projectmilitant memory & the walking archive w/ Sónia Vaz Borges
Image: 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…
Africa World Now Projectsouthern Africa liberation movements w/ Prexy Nesbitt - Pt. 1 & Samora Machel
Image: “Apartheid No.”, Faustino Pérez, 1977 [Organisation in Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America (OSPAAAL)] Reflecting on the THE…
Africa World Now ProjectBlack radicalism, mutual comradeship & Black Scare/Red Scare w/ Charisse Burden-Stelly
In Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism: Some Theoretical Insights, Burden-Stelly [https://www.charisseburdenstelly.com/] asserts that modern U.S. racial capitalism…
Africa World Now Projectthinking through & beyond the limit/s of catastrophe w/ Bedour Alagraa
Bedour Alagraa [https://www.bedouralagraa.com/] argues that “the word ‘catastrophe’ as an anchor for understanding our earth’s ecology has yet to account for…
Africa World Now ProjectMaurice Jackson On Esther Cooper Jackson
It 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…