Ukombozi

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 nota...

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 wi...

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 co...

An interview with Thapelo Mohapi, the general secretary of Abahlali baseMjondolo, a socialist shack dwellers' movement in South Africa which organises land occupations, builds communes and campaigns against evictions and xenophobia and for public housing.

On April 17 this year, Sheila Adhiambo Lumumba, a 25-year-old non-binary lesbian, was found murdered in Karatina, Kenya. They had been was raped, strangled, stabbed several times in the neck and eyes and their legs had been broken. The Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya reported than more than half of Kenyans who identify as gay have been assaulted in their lifetime. Meanwhile, it is almost unacce...

We interview Leo Zeiling on the life and legacy of Guyanese scholar, activist, and writer Walter Rodney. Rodney's classic "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, a great occasion to read Zeilig's "A Revolutionary for Our Time: The Walter Rodney Story," which was published this year. We talk about Rodney's legacy, his unde...

Cette semaine nous recevons Fadel Barro, activiste et intellectuel sénégalais et ancien coordonnateur du mouvement Y’en A marre dont il est également co-fondateur. En effet, en 2011, frustré par les coupures d’électricité, Fadel crée aux côtés des rappeurs du groupe Keur Gui, Thiat et Kilifeu, ainsi que d’autres activistes, le mouvement Y’en A marre. L’année suivante en 2012, le mouvement arrive à...

Karibuni. This week, we are excited to be joined by Sabatho Nyamsenda, an African scholar, writer and thinker. Sabatho is a faculty member in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Dar es Salaam. He is involved in both scholarship and activism in matters pertaining to the agrarian question, pan-Africanism, the struggles of the working people, as well as...

Karibuni. This week, we are excited to be joined by Sabatho Nyamsenda, an African scholar, writer and thinker. Sabatho is a faculty member in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Dar es Salaam. He is involved in both scholarship and activism in matters pertaining to the agrarian question, pan-Africanism, the struggles of the working people, as well as...

This week, we were joined by Nanjala Nyabola, a leading African scholar, writer and thinker. She has published two books–– Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya in 2018; and Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move in 2020. She also writes frequently for a host of prominent media outlets in Africa and abroad about the crue...

Cette fois-ci on parle de la République du Congo, le Congo-Brazzaville.  Nous accueillons aujourd'hui l'un des fondateurs du Ras-la-Bol, Martial Panucci. C'est un rappeur et un activiste qui a été contraint de fuir Brazzaville après avoir sorti son single populaire "Sassoule" en 2016. L'expérience démocratique au Congo-Brazza a commencé en 1991, en même temps qu'...

Cette interview est réalisée avec Serge Sivya, membre de la Lutte pour le changement (LUCHA), probablement le mouvement social le plus célèbre de la République démocratique du Congo. Il a été fondé le 4 janvier 2013 à Goma et a été le pionnier d'une nouvelle forme d'activisme dans le pays. À l'origine, le mouvement était formé et dirigé par des étudiants, refusait de s'enregist...

This interview is with Zachariah Mampilly, who is the Marxe Endowed Chair of International Affairs at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, CUNY. In 2012/2013, he was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.  This interview was recorded in October 2021.  In this episode, Zachariah  discusses several topics, including:  The third wave of mobilizat...

Cet entretien est réalisé avec Ndongo Samba Sylla, un économiste du développement sénégalais qui vit à Dakar, et travaille avec la fondation Rosa Luxembourg.  Cette interview a été enregistrée en octobre 2021. Il a écrit de nombreux ouvrages sur les économies, la politique et le développement de l'Afrique. Son dernier livre "Africa's last colonial currency" traite de l'imp...

 This interview is with Hajooj Kuka, who is a Sudanese activist and film-maker. Hajooj has been deeply embedded in the broad-based mobilization that is happening across Sudan since 2018. He's the dynamo behind the Sudanese Civic Lab , an independent nonprofit organization that provides spaces and opportunities for debates, training and artwork to help strengthen the revolution.  In 2014, his...