Utajua Hujui

Corruption. Eternal Glory. And a Golden Cup. Let’s talk about the World Cup, and FIFA, for a while Digressions: Modern Family, R Kelly, Bill Cosby, Arab Money, SOURCES https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/World_Cup https://www.fifa.com/news/more-than-half-the-world-watched-record-breaking-2018-world-cup https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/070915/how-does-fifa-make-money.asp https...

Unsterilized Needles. Concentration Camps. And Arsenic. Put them together and what have you got? The Sleeping Sickness Experiments in Tanzania in the early 20th Century and a WHOLE BUNCH of racism. Digressions include MK Ultra, Inflatable Tube Men, Dexter’s Lab, and PEAK coloniser energy S/O to Cartoon Network for letting me use some Dexter Audio :) (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42wR9udgl...

Part II is here! And this time, Americans are involved.  Digressions include : We Are the World (For Haiti), Teenage Boys, the Scramble for Africa and Fence Sitting  Sources   Amy Goodman, Westenley Alcenat, Juan González, Gerald Horne, Kim Ives, Debt, Coups & Colonialism in Haiti: France & U.S. Urged to Pay Reparations for Destroying Nation (2021)  Bob Corbett, Review...

What happened to Haiti? And was it inevitable? Join Aileen and Kariithi as they discuss who fucked with Haiti, and how they benefitted while Haitians suffered unequivocally. Digressions include: Mike Posner, Sauti Sol and Hades Sources Amy Goodman, Westenley Alcenat, Juan González, Gerald Horne, Kim Ives, Debt, Coups & Colonialism in Haiti: France & U.S. Urged to Pay Reparations for Destro...

Today, we learn about the women who inspired the Dora Mijale in Marvel’s Black Panther (2018) and the stars of The Woman King (2022); the Ahosi of Dahomey. Wives of the Leopard. Sources @alokvmenon, https://www.instagram.com/p/CLAW4W4BmWy/ Ana Lucia Araujo, Dahomey , Portugal and Bahia: King Adandozan and the Atlantic Slave Trade , Slavery & Abolition (2012) Ana Lucia Araujo, The Woman King So...

What are men for? No seriously, we're asking, what are men for? Join Aileen, as she talks with the NairoBEERns Podcast (Kiru and Cris) and Anneliese on some things love, most things men, and all things relationships If you'd prefer to watch this podcast, you can watch us here: You can find NairoBEERns here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAXr6AS1E9VGjXc3B4_Y1IQ

What are men for? No seriously, we're asking, what are men for? Join Aileen, as she talks with the NairoBEERns Podcast (Kiru and Cris) and Anneliese on some things love, most things men, and all things relationships If you'd prefer to watch this podcast, you can watch us here: You can find NairoBEERns here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAXr6AS1E9VGjXc3B4_Y1IQ

Join Kariithi and Aileen as they reflect on the Queen’s death, how Africa is perceived by the West and whether or not Africans do better with a monarchial/authoritarian form of government. Digressions include Chicken as Currency, The Little Mermaid, New Girl, BDE, The African Union Anthem and the 2022 Presidential Election Sources (to fact check or correct things said on the podcast) Mehera Bonner...

What would it take for a person of colour, to support a white supremacist government? Today, we find out as we talk about South Africa’s Operation Blackwash. Digressions: Dolores Umbridge, Barack Obama Sr, and the legal thirst trap that is Thurgood Marshall. Sources Bethany Kane, 7 Cognitive Biases that make us Suck at Time Management (2020) Boston University African Studies Center, Before Aparthe...

In this episode, Aileen and her guest, Simran, discuss the climate; How we got here, who's to blame, and what we can do about it. TL;DR, We have screwed the pooch five ways from Sunday. But we still got Saturday, and we can minimise the damage. Maybe ... Digressions include wheat and supa loaf Image Credit and Explanation: NASA/GSFC. In 2015, NASA’s supercomputer model illustrated the simulation o...

Aileen is back is back to finish of this series on Population Control in Africa. And. It. Gets. BLEAK. I am talking “bribing-women-to-get-sterilized,” “inserting-IUDs-into-13-year-olds’-bodies,” “rewarding-doctors-for-contracepting/steralizing-as-many-women-as-possible,” BLEAK . Surprisingly, the digression was about the National Anthem of the Soviet Union Audio Clips: American Eagle Last Week Ton...

What do you get when you cross a human and an ape? This is what Soviet Era scientist Ilya Ivanov tried to find out, and it. gets. weird; like inseminating a woman with ape sperm weird. So, let’s talk about it! Digressions include Transhumanism and the Hunger Games! Sources A. E. Samaan, From a "Race of Masters" to a "Master Race": 1948 to 1848 (2013) Eric Michael Johnson, Scientific Ethics and Sta...

Did you know that there was once a Negro Bible, that excluded most of the Old Testament and any mention of freedom and liberation? Or that Zambia had a space program in the 1960s? In this episode, Aileen walks you through these incredible facts of history! Imagine, there are no digressions! Blog Post: https://the-inbetweeners.blogspot.com/2018/04/tribalism-not-just-african-problem.html Sources The...

Join Aileen and a GUEST, as they talk about conspiracy theories, population control, and perhaps the worst IUD in human history – the Dalkon Shield. Surprisingly, there are no digressions (huh, who even knew these were possible) Sources Adeolu Oluwaseyi Oyekan, Conspiracy theories and pandemic management in Africa: critical reflections on contexts, contradictions and challenges (2021) Anna C. “Ins...

In Part 2 of the Female Heroines of Africa, Aileen talks about Mekatilili wa Menza and Dona Beatriz of the Congo Digressions include Dear White People, the Protestant Reformation and Shrek Image Credits: Mekatilili – Google Arts & Culture Donna Beatriz – Wikipedia Sources: Alexander Ives Bortolot, Women Leaders in African History: Dona Beatriz , Kongo Prophet (2003) Benjamin Hendrickx & Te...

Join Aileen as she discusses two incredible women from African History! Empress Taytu of Ethiopia and Sarauniya Amina of Zazzau! Digressions include Disco, Drug Laws and Netflix #justiceforsheila Shout Outs @TravellingWakili – for all your vacay needs! The NairoBEERns Podcast #10 : New Drug Laws!! SIM Registration!! Political Intolerance!! Sources Adam Holland, An ethical analysis of UK drug polic...

Today, I learned that silence is music, Ouija boards can determine guilt, and Britain, literally, can’t repatriate the cultural property it has stolen. Digressions include epistemology, Marvel’s Black Panther, Red Bull and the Holocaust Sources Aaron Gonsher, A Visit to John Cage’s 639-Year Organ Composition: Examining the expanse of time at one of the world’s slowest performances (2019) Aja Roman...

Is Jesus unique amongst the beliefs of the Ancient World? More to the point, must Jesus be unique in order to believe in what he said? Digressions include Zoroastrianism and the Council of Nicea. Sources Earl Doherty, Higher Critical Review of Robert M Prices’ ‘Deconstructing Jesus’ , (2001) Gloria Nziba Pindi and Antonio Tomas De La Garza, “The Colonial Jesus” Deconstructing White Christianity (2...

Today I learned that this podcast doesn’t have to be a depressing inquest into colonialism! Yaaay! Instead, today we will learn about penile spikes on cats, what happens when you fall asleep in church, and that time the South African Government dealt MDMA. Note that I did have a cold while recording, sooooo I’m sorry for the nose pulling Digressions Include: Assassination Attempts, Scruffing, and...

We all know that something is wrong with our education, but today we learn that it was designed to be that way. Digressions Include Fluffling (Google It), How sucky the English Language is, and a whole bunch of “woooosaaahhhs” Our Sponsor : DataVerse Machine Learning Course! Sign up for classes here: https://forms.gle/hagQVST8AcL6ymzaA Sources Anirban Mitra, The Infamous Macaulay Speech That Never...

Welcome back to another Mathogothanio session! We're we chat nonsense, and hope it makes some sense. In this episode, Kariithi has, in the grand tradition of coups in Africa - couped me out of my own podcast! Digressions include Kim Kardashian, Marvel vs DCEU and so much more! Thank you to Kariithi for hosting and to Sam Kimita for audio engineering. Could not have down this episode without them :...

Is violence the natural order of the state? If so, are massacres and state-sponsored atrocities inevitable? Join Aileen as she attempts to answer these questions while discussing one of the most referenced human rights abuses in Kenyan history: the Wagalla Massacre.  Digressions include Prince William, Thanos and the MCU TW: Rape, Torture and Assault. Sources: Abdi Latif Dahir, Kenya’s Wagall...

HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone! For the first episode of the year, I figured we'll do something light. Today, let’s talk about arson, schools and teenagers. Digressions include colonialism and just how much high school SUCKS!

Mathogothanio (n.): Chatting Shit, Talking about Everything and Nothing, Causing a general disturbance.  Welcome, to the first Mathogothanio Session with Aileen and a special guest host! S/O to Sami Kimita for helping me edit the audio, and for Kariithi Ngari for agreeing to host!

Join me this week as we continue learning about how the French created, sustained and eventually deposed, Africa’s first emperor; Jean-Bedel Bokassa. Sources: Amnesty International (Newsletter) (1987) Brian Titley, Dark Age: The Political Odyssey of Emperor Bokossa (1997) Jeremy Leudi, The Vietnamese daughters of an African emperor (2018) Jonathan C.R., Bokassa’s bloody past relived in steamy Afri...