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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 ProjectThe Life & Legacy of Carter G Woodson w/ Dr. Greg Carr
Note: 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…
Africa World Now ProjectThe Afterlive[s] of Marielle Franco…Black Womxn’s Resistance in Brazil
Data 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…
Africa World Now ProjectThinking thru Black Geographies Food Memories Of Resistance & Land w/ Ashanté M. Reese
Place 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…
Africa World Now ProjectA Conversation w/ Veteran Activist & Political Theorist Omali Yeshitela
In, Amilcar Cabral and the Theory of the National Liberation Struggle, Professor Nzongola-Ntalaja writes that: “Amilcar Cabral’s contribution to understanding…
Africa World Now ProjectKwame Ture as Existential Radical
To unpack the complexities of Africana resistance, particularly its most “radical” elements—whether expressed through collective or/and individual activities…
Africa World Now ProjectMaurice Bishop Speaks
On 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…
Africa World Now ProjectNgũgĩ wa Thiong’o: Memory, Translation & Recovery
The ghosts of Hegel, Hume, Locke, and other so-called enlightenment thinkers, are not ghosts at all. The limiting racialized reasoning; the logics of racial…
Africa World Now ProjectReflections on the Legacy and Potentialities of C.L.R. James
Writing in Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, CLR James argues that: “the cruelties of property and privilege are always…
Africa World Now ProjectThe Long Movement for Freedom in Haiti
In 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…
Africa World Now ProjectThe Praxis of John Coltrane through Alice Coltrane
To understand the music of John Coltrane you must understand the long genealogy of the genre of African Diasporic cultural expression—called Black (or…
Africa World Now ProjectCritically Reading Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
Robin 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…
Africa World Now ProjectOf 1619 w/ Josh Myers
Over 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…
Africa World Now ProjectAfrican Rhythms: A Workshop on Cultural Continuity & the Future of Jazz
Descriptors such as jungle music, negro music, jazz...African American Classical Music. Black Classical Music. Spirit Music...and African Rhythms...have been…
Africa World Now ProjectAfrican Wisdom(s), Light & Consciousness Formation with Dr. Edward Bruce Bynum
How 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…
Africa World Now ProjectThe Price of Racial Reconciliation
In 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…
Africa World Now ProjectAfricana Womanhood, Spirituality, and African World Resistance w/ Dr. Iyelli Ichile
Dr. Ichile in her article titled, Black Magic Woman: Towards a Theory of Africana Women's Resistance suggest that when properly contextualized, the role of…
Africa World Now ProjectOn the Sudan uprisings with Sudanese activist/scholar Nisrin Elamin
Note: 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…
Africa World Now ProjectDecolonizing AfricanStudies & Citizenship w/ Dr. Robtel Neajai Pailey
Writing 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…
Africa World Now ProjectContours Continuities And Evolutions In Africana Radical Thought w/ Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Today, Africa World Now Project collectives' Tasneem Siddiqui and Keisha-Khan Perry sit down with Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and explore the contours…
Africa World Now ProjectA Blue(s)(Note) for Sterling Brown: Josh Myers meditates on the legacy Sterling A. Brown
Sterling A. Brown work amplifies and materialize the nature of the aesthetic connections that find continuity in contemporary black life. Brown opens, Southern…
Africa World Now ProjectBlack Women Against The Land Grab The Fight For Racial Justice In Brazil With Dr. Keisha Khan Perry
We begin our program today with an update on current activities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Mwiza Munthali, Africa World Now Project executive…
Africa World Now ProjectThe Sovereignty of the Black Imagination (w/ @imixwhatilike crew)
Dr. 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…
Africa World Now ProjectIfa's Ancient Future With Kọ́lá Abímbọ́lá
Writing in his 2006 work titled, Yoruba Culture: A Philosophical Account, Dr. Kola Abimbola argues that Yoruba sociopolitical religious practices—( Òrìṣa…
Africa World Now ProjectThe HBCU: Current Crisis and Future Trajectories. Moving beyond struggle.
Today, we bring to you a recent wide-ranging conversation exploring the HBCUs as a response to and product of coloniality, sovereignty of the black…
Africa World Now ProjectThinking about Sudan w/ Alsarah (Alsarah & the Nubatones)
In order to understand the current sociopolitical conditions and deep Africana radical cultural influences moving in Sudan today, the long historical…
Africa World Now ProjectThe African Unconscious: Roots of Ancient Mysticism and Modern Psychology w/ Dr. Edward B. Bynum
The relationship between spirituality, science, language, the political, the transference and production of culture presents a rich terrain to understanding…
Africa World Now ProjectSilvia Federici & Reenchanting the World: Feminism & the Politics of the Commons
The relationship between the rise of capitalism, the exploitation of labor and natural resources, the control of productive forces are important components of…
Africa World Now ProjectBlack Farmers: Food, Land & Resistance Pt. 2
According 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…
Africa World Now ProjectAyiti/Hayiti
"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…
Africa World Now ProjectBlack Farmers: Land, Food, & Resistance Pt. 1
In 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…
Africa World Now ProjectAll African Peoples Conference Dec 1958-2018
Today's program covered: The 60th Anniversary of the 1958 All-African People’s Conference | Held: December 5-8, 2018 | Institute of Africa Studies | University…
Africa World Now ProjectTheorizing Fanon: Latin America and the Pitfalls of National Consciousness w/ James Early
“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…
Africa World Now ProjectCollective Courage: A History of Africana Cooperative Thought and Practice
The histories of cooperative practice and ownership of Africana communities have a long history, particularly when we account for an Africana human agency in…
Africa World Now ProjectLoaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment w/ Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
According to Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz in an article titled, Settler Colonialism and the Second Amendment in Monthly Review, which is adapted from her recently…
Africa World Now Project(re)Thinking Reconstruction w/ Dr. Greg Carr
Reconstruction, 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…
Africa World Now ProjectRandy Weston & The African Rhythm
In 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…
Africa World Now ProjectThinking with Samir Amin_1931-2018
Samir Amin wrote in 2016 that: “Partial awareness emerges from particular struggles, for example, from the struggles of peasants or women for the defense of…
Africa World Now ProjectHip Hop In Africa: Prophets of the City and Dustyfoot Philosophers w/ Msia Kibona Clark
Hip 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…
Africa World Now ProjectLife and Work of Sylvia Wynter w/ Paget Henry
Amie 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…
Africa World Now ProjectThe Praxis of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
Today, 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…
Africa World Now ProjectChe Guevara on radical humanism & third world solidarity
The control of information…the foundation of knowledge formation…is a crucial tool of oppression. The manufactured ignorance of the masses has been utilized to…
Africa World Now ProjectThinking w/ Steve Bantu Biko & Chris Hani on a South African Future
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…
Africa World Now ProjectMeditations on the African Diaspora with Dr. Joseph Harris
According 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…
Africa World Now Projectexamining the continuities of antiblack violence in Brazil & the U.S w/ Dr. Christen Smith
For Enrique Dussel: “Modernity dawned in 1492 and with it the myth of a special kind of sacrificial violence which eventually eclipsed whatever was…
Africa World Now ProjectMarielle Franco, Afro Brazil & What's Next? w/ Dr. Keisha-Khan Perry & Dr. Vera Benedito
On 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…
Africa World Now ProjectDecolonization, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, & Beyond
Today…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…
Africa World Now ProjectSelf Naming As Resistance: Reflections on the Land and Freedom Army(Mau Mau)
The 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…
Africa World Now ProjectExploring conditions in South Africa
The dominant narrative presented on the ANC, the struggle against South African Apartheid, the conditions and systems implemented when the ANC became the…
Africa World Now ProjectThe Africa In W. E. B. Du Bois Praxis
“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…
Africa World Now ProjectAWNP RaDio Tribute to Hugh Masekela
According 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…
Africa World Now ProjectSettlerColonialism w/ Gerald Horne
To understand, analysis, or critique the conditions within which the African world lives without centering the role of settler colonialism as a function of…
Africa World Now ProjectThe Anti Black Roots of U.S. Immigration Policy
The 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…
Africa World Now Project#BlackCritique
This 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…
Africa World Now ProjectRacial Capitalism
The conceptual and practical use of racial capitalism by many young activists who were shocked and ignited by their exposure to the events that spurred…
Africa World Now Projectorganic nature of Africana sociopolitical thought w/ Tom Porter [& Amiri Baraka]
Program originally produced and aired: 2016 In his poem “Countries want independence, nations want liberation, and the people, the people want revolution”…
Africa World Now ProjectPt. 2 - Conversation With Fred Moten & Race Class and Social Movements
In 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…
Africa World Now ProjectFred Moten, the Undercommons & 21st Century Resistance
Black radicalism [consequently] cannot be understood within the particular context of its genesis. It is not a variant of Western radicalism whose proponents…