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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 ProjectCedric Robinson & the precepts of Black Studies
Black 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…
Africa World Now Project| terrains of struggle | poetics of revolution: visions of freedom & the Kurdish freedom struggle
**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 …
Africa World Now Projectevolutions in the Black freedom movement w/ Ashanti Omowali Alston
Writing in ‘Beyond Nationalism, But Not Without it’, Ashanti Alston frames his thoughts in the following epigraph by Audre Lorde: “…we have been taught either…
Africa World Now ProjectKumina Queen w/ Nyasha Laing
According to Kamau Brathwaite, ‘Kumina is the most African of the [cultural expressions] to be found in Jamaica, with negligible European or Christian…
Africa World Now ProjectThe Future Of Black Studies w/ Abdul Alkalimat
As 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…
Africa World Now ProjectAfrica & food security/insecurity in an age of planetary crisis
In a 2015 article titled, Decolonizing Our minds and Our Lands: Reviving Seeds, Culture and African Strength, Gathuru Mburu writes that: “Recolonization is…
Africa World Now ProjectCAUSE & the Black radical tradition
The histories of Black working-class struggle, specifically in the South are rooted in radical methodologies that are grounded in the material conditions that…
Africa World Now ProjectAfrica, the university & the politics of knowledge production w/ Paul Zeleza
Gloria Emeagwali writes in Africa and the Academy: Challenging Hegemonic Discourses on Africa, that “colonialism was a system of administration and a process…
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a conversation w/ Ọnuọra Abụah
Normally, we provide an introduction that attempts to situate or appropriately orient our conversations … however, there are those instances where the…
Africa World Now Projectreflections on IRR50 w/ Colin Prescod
This year, 2022, marks the 50th anniversary of the radical transformation of the Institute of Race Relations [IRR]. On April 18, 1972, the direction and…
Africa World Now Projectthe battle for the horn of Africa & the targeting of Somalia
Cultivating a historical consciousness requires effort. Purpose. A desire to organize information in order to develop projects that intend to directly confront…
Africa World Now Projectrhythms of freedom: Africa & Black internationalism w/ Tom Porter [revised & extended]
From 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…
Africa World Now Projectdialectics of liberation w/ Abdul Alkalimat
Abdul Alkalimat opens, Dialectics of Liberation: The African Liberation Support Movement with this first-hand observation of the events that led up to and…
Africa World Now Projectradical histories + liberation in Kenya w/ Waringa Wahome
Image: 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…
Africa World Now ProjectSaul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman on their film Neptune Frost & other things
Art — 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…
Africa World Now ProjectRacing The Nation: towards a theory of reproductive racism w/ Sophia Siddiqui
**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…
Africa World Now Projectof Black studies & Black study: the function of futurity in Africana studies w/ Josh Myers
Image: IG @artxman / Manzelb@gmail.com /#artxman African/a peoples have engaged in a particular form and function of knowledge production — active knowledge…
Africa World Now Projectthe role of myth & the continuities in sacred + secret histories w/ Dr. Nubia Kai & Tasneem Siddiqui
Image: 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…
Africa World Now Projectof spirit & Black liberation w/ Youssef Carter & Tasneem Siddiqui
Amadou 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…
Africa World Now Projectthe role & continued struggle of the National Union of Eritrean Women
The 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…
Africa World Now Projectmovement & memory: reflections on labor and the genealogy of resistance w/ Saladin Muhammad Pt. II
Saladin Muhammad argues in an article titled Black Workers for Justice, Twenty-year of Struggle, in Against the Current that: “The national oppression of…
Africa World Now Projectmovement & memory: reflections on labor and the genealogy of resistance w/ Saladin Muhammad Pt. I
Abdul Alkalimat writes on a multimedia project that explores the work of Saladin Muhamad that “our movements for social transformation have often fallen victim…
Africa World Now Projectmeditations on - black labor & ‘the white architects of black education’ w/ Kamau Rashid
Labor has changed. Its production. Its definition. Its control. But one thing that has not changed are the parameters within which labor has been defined…
Africa World Now ProjectSNCC, Africa & Black Radical Imagination
The 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…
Africa World Now ProjectPt. 2: the role Of Black university in African/a resistance w/ Josh Myers
[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…
Africa World Now ProjectPt. 1: Rhodes/Fees Must Fall Movement(s) & The Role And Responsibility of Diasporic Institutions
[produced and aired, 2016] We are living in a time of great challenge and opportunity. Across the African world people are challenging their historically…
Africa World Now ProjectBlack University & Black Studies
Originally produced and aired in 2016...: The great political theorist, cultural philosopher, revolutionary, C. L. R. James once said that he is black, number…
Africa World Now Projectagainst the blockade on Cuba
Image: 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…
Africa World Now Projectuninterrupted conversations with our eégún: thinking about the Coltranes w/ Anyabwile Love
According 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…
Africa World Now ProjectEl Hajj Malik El Shabazz: the continuity & legacy of a critical Africana HRs consciousness
Image: 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…
Africa World Now ProjectBlack & Palestine w/ Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt Jr & Tasneem Siddiqui
Image: Malcolm X in 1964, w/ leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Dr. Ahmad Shukeiri. What we are witnessing, in this global moment, is not…
Africa World Now ProjectAyiti & the peoples movement w/ Vélina Elysée Charlier
Ayiti, 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…
Africa World Now ProjectHakim Adi w/ Josh Myers on Pan Africanism: A History
[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…
Africa World Now ProjectWe Rise For Our Land & Kurt Otabenga Orderson
The question of land as a fundamental aspect of African/a liberation movements is an often-neglected point of inquiry. Nevertheless, it is indeed…
Africa World Now Projectrhythms, vibrations & African/a cultural production w/ Oddisee
I normally provide a textured, multi-leveled, quite frankly intentionally thick introduction to our programs. But today, we present a conversation I recently…
Africa World Now ProjectDanhomé [Dahomey] & Vodun w/ filmmaker Onuora Anthony Abuah
[Originally produced and aired in 2019] Vodun, Voodoo, racialization into Black Magic as currently understood is a distorted figment of a Western imagination…
Africa World Now Projectembodied resistance: the science & continuities of African/a fighting arts w/ Kamau Rashid
The notion, assumption, and/or idea that the various peoples who were enslaved during the periods and processes of the solidification of the racial global…
Africa World Now ProjectAfrofuturism & the Freedom Principle
Today, 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…
Africa World Now Projectthinking about Black internationalism through Pauulu’s diaspora w/ Quito Swan
Image: Pauulu Kamarakafego As we have explored in previous programs, in fact, as we have attempted to unpack in every program, Black internationalism is an…
Africa World Now Projecta deep exploration of maroons w/ Dr. Nubia Kai
[Program produced and aired 2016] Image: Frontispiece to Walker’s Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble….1829 Maroon derives from Spanish…
Africa World Now ProjectRobert Sobukwe, Steve Biko & the Formation of the Black Consciousness Movement
[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…
Africa World Now Projectthe Form And Function Of Islam & the Black Radical Tradition Rudolph (Bilal) Ware & Tasneem Siddiqui
Religion 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…
Africa World Now ProjectHip Hop as Critical (Pan African) Consciousness Pt. 2
[Note: This program was produced and aired in 2016] Image: Acclaimed Kenyan street artist & muralist, Wise 2…
Africa World Now ProjectThinking w/ Ella Baker w/ Zach Norris [Executive Director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights]
Image: Ella Baker at the November 1974 Puerto Rican Independence Solidarity Rally Attempts to distort, rewrite, dilute, misdirect, and misguide the impact of…
Africa World Now ProjectThe Sociopolitical Philosophy of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah w/ Dr. Kofi Kissi Dompere
Note: This program was produced and aired in 2017. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first prime minister and president after declaring their independence on March 6…
Africa World Now ProjectCurrent Conditions in Ethiopia w/ Ayantu Ayana
Photo: Col. John Charles Robinson of Chicago In Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, Robin DG Kelley writes that “most black people believed there…
Africa World Now ProjectAfrican indigenous knowledge for restoration & resilience w/ Wangũi wa Kamonji & Tasneem Siddiqui
Wangũi 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…
Africa World Now ProjectPan-Africanism & Black Lives Matter
[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…
Africa World Now ProjectMaroons w/ Haile Gerima & Akinyele Umjoa; the “Black church” w/ Torin Alexander
[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…
Africa World Now Projectin memoriam: materializing race w/ Charles W. Mills
We 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…
Africa World Now ProjectPraxis of Decolonization & the Reclamation of Land & Dignity w/ Yousuf Al-Bulushi & Charo Mina Rojas
[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…
Africa World Now ProjectLand as a Fundamental Component in Black Liberation w/ Willie Jamaal Wright & Tasneem Siddiqui
[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…
Africa World Now ProjectPostmodern Diversions Of Black Rebellion
We are witnessing a period that is trending towards unprecedented, but it is not without genealogy or tradition. Those who seek to counter this rebellion…
Africa World Now ProjectReflections on Africa’s Deep Impact on Diasporic Cultural Production w/ Bro Ah
Note: 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…
Africa World Now ProjectRelationship[s], Interaction[s] & the practice of Love for Black Family Stability
Image: 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…
Africa World Now ProjectGerald Horne on William Patterson & the Globalization of the Freedom Struggle & Libya
[Originally produced in 2017] William Patterson, a leader of the Communist Party USA, was an eminent civil rights attorney who spearheaded defense of the…
Africa World Now ProjectWe are Worth Fighting For w/ Josh Myers
I 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…
Africa World Now Projectthinking through w/ organic Black radical intellectuals w/ Mutulu Olugbala [M-1, Dead Prez]
[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…
Africa World Now ProjectAmilcar Cabral & the 21st Century w/ James Early
Note: This program originally aired in 2016, we were just starting! ______________________________________ Amilcar Cabral…one of the African world’s foremost…
Africa World Now ProjectThinking with Steve Biko & about South African w/ Andile Mngxitama
[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…