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#97 Coups in West Africa - Professor Siba Grovogui

Listen in to this important analysis of the recent coups in the West. Professor Siba Grovogui situates today's events in history

 

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Professor Grovogui is a professor of international relations theory and law at Cornell University.

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#96 The Life of Omar Blondin Diop - Florian Bobin

This episode is in honour of Omar Blondin Diop, as today marks his birthday. Listen in as we talk about this inspiring radical figure

 

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Florian Bobin is a Dakar-based researcher in history who studies liberation struggles and state violence in 1960s-1970s Senegal, author of a forthcoming biography of revolutionary philosopher Omar Blondin Dio.

 

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#95 History of the word ’woke’ and the modern war on it - Dr. Alana Lentin

In this episode, Deej and I discuss with Professor Alana Lentin the current war on "wokeism"

 

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Alana Lentin is Professor of Cultural and Social Analysis at Western Sydney University. She is a Jewish European woman who is a settler on Gadigal land (Sydney, Australia). She works on the critical theorization of race, racism and antiracism. Her latest book is Why Race Still Matters (Polity 2020) and she previously published The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a neoliberal age with Gavan Titley (Zed, 2011). She co-edits the Rowman & Littlefield ‘Challenging Migration Studies’ books series and the ‘Decolonization and Social Worlds’ series at Bristol University Press. She is an editorial board member of Ethnic and Racial Studies and Identities among other journals. Her academic and media articles as well as videos, podcasts, and teaching materials can be found at www.alanalentin.net

 

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#94 A sober analysis of Africa’s relationship with China and Russia - Zubairu Wai

We often hear that China is colonising Africa. Or that Russia's actions are imperialist in Africa. Christian and I spoke to one of my favorite thinkers, about all things Africa vis-a-vis China & Russia

 

Zubairu Wai is Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Development Studies. He is the author of Epistemologies of African Conflicts: Violence, Evolutionism, and the War in Sierra Leone (2012), which won the ATWS Toyin Falola Africa Book Award for 2013, and co-editor (with Marta Iñiguez de Heredia) of Recentering Africa in International Relations: Beyond Lack, Peripherality, and Failure (2018). His research takes up epistemological questions regarding the nature, conditions, and limits of disciplinary knowledge and practices in International Relations, Development Studies, Conflict and Security Studies, and African Studies. Specifically, he focuses on how the intersections of power and coloniality frame the discourses and political economy of knowledge, violence, conflict, development, and state formation in Africa, and the Global South more broadly. His most recent manuscript, Thinking the Colonial Library: Mudimbe, Gnosis, and the Predicament of Africanist Knowledge, which interrogates the contaminating vectors of the colonial archive and its implications for epistemic decolonisation, will be published by Routledge early next year.

 

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#93 How we lost our class analysis - Gary Wilder

Listen in as I speak to Gary Wilder on his generation of scholars and their disavowal of class analysis.

 

Gary Wilder is a Professor in the Ph.D. Program of Anthropology, with cross-appointments in History and French, at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he is also Director of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change.

Wilder’s work on the French empire, Francophone West Africa and the Caribbean, and Black Atlantic social thought is located at the intersection of historical anthropology, intellectual history, and critical theory (with special emphasis on Marxism, postcolonialism, and poststructuralism).

#92 Sex, Gender & Biology - Micah Valentine

You’d be hard-pressed to scroll through social media without seeing a discussion on gender. Listen in as I discuss with Micah Valentine.

Micah Valentine is a stem cell researcher who has an interest in Radical Black politics and labour history. 

 

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#91 What is Afropessimism? - Professor Frank Wilderson

Listen in as Deej, Christian, and I discuss AfroPessimism with Professor Frank Wilderson

 

Frank B. Wilderson III is an American writer, dramatist, filmmaker, and critic. He is a Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

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#90 The Little Known Radical History of The Gambia - Uncle Bai-Mass Taal

In this episode, I sat with my Uncle as we discussed the radical history of The Gambia and its connection to movements beyond its borders.

 

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#89 Sexuality & The Making of Race - Sita Balani

Listen in as Sita, Deej and I discuss Sita's book "Deadly and Slick:Sexual Modernity and the Making of Race"

 

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#88 Gender Troubles Today - Judith Butler

Listen in as we discuss with Judith Butler on their assessment of discussions surrounding gender today.

 

Judith Pamela Butler^[3] (born February 24, 1956) is an American philosopher and gender studies writer whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave feminism,^[4] queer theory,^[5] and literary theory.^[6] In 1993, Butler began teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, where they^[a] have served, beginning in 1998, as the Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory. They are also the Hannah Arendt Chair at the European Graduate School (EGS).^[9]

 

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