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RSS FeedUbud Writers and Readers Festival - Shalini Gidoomal
2008-10-24, Issue 403
Shalini Gidoomal is a freelance journalist, writer, businesswoman and inveterate traveller, born, and currently living in Nairobi. She has worked extesively on various UK and international magazines and newspapers....
Black History Month - Interview with Horace Campbell
Contact FM
2008-08-07, Issue 392
The final interview of the Black History Month series is with Horace Campbell, professor of African American studies at Syracuse University, and author of Rasta and Resistance, from Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney, and Reclaiming Zimbabwe: The Exhaustion of the Patriarchal Model of Liberation....
'Resource Intensity, Knowledge and Development: Insights from Africa and South America'
2008-07-30, Issue 391
Are Africa and South America destined to be 'resource-rich underachievers', or can knowledge intensification change all that? 'Resource Intensity, Knowledge and Development: Insights from Africa and South America' was launched at the Cape Town Book F...
Black History Month - Interview with Dan Lyndon
Contact FM
2008-07-23, Issue 390
Black History Month is also celebrated each October in the United Kingdom, which has had a substantial black population since the 16th century. In this interview Contact FM talks to Dan Lyndon, history teacher and member of the British and Asian Stud...
Black History Month - Interview with Patricia Sluby
Contact FM
2008-07-18, Issue 389
The history of African American science is still today an area not widely known about. Contact FM take a brief plunge into this history talking with writer Patricia Sluby, author of The Inventive Spirit of African Americans: Patented Ingenuity....
Black History Month - Interview with Gabrilla Ballard
Contact FM
2008-07-03, Issue 385
In this episode Contact FM leave Chicago and go down South, where they talk with Gabrilla Ballard, singer, songwriter and activist, who tells them what it is like living in New Orleans after the massive 2005 flooding....
Information for change
2008-06-25, Issue 384
This podcast examines the promise of new media and which features extracts from the proceedings at the Information for Change workshop held recently in Cape Town, including the keynote address delivered by Firoze Manji of Fahamu....
Black History Month - Interview with Floyd Webb
Contact FM
2008-06-25, Issue 384
Taking a closer look at the origins of Black History Month, Contact FM talks to Floyd Webb, film-maker and web designer based in Chicago, about the relevance of Black History Month and his predictions for the future....
Zimbabwe: Amandla! interviews Tsvangirai
2008-06-27, Issue 384
Amandla interviewed Morgan Tsvangirai MDC president on the current impasse in Zimbabwe and on the future policies an MDC orientated government would like to see implemented. Tsvangirai sheds light on their current strategy of seeking a negotiated set...
The situation in Zimbabwe
2008-06-19, Issue 382
FAMEDEV is deeply concerned by the situation in Zimbabwe. As a result of this concern, FAMEDEV dedicated 35 minutes in their online radio to Zimbabwe and its current social, economic and political events. On this programme which was aired under our A...
Charles Taylor and the assasination of Sankara
2008-06-19, Issue 382
This radio interview addresses the question of Charles Taylor's possible involvement in the assassination of Thomas Sankara....
Anti-Immigrant Violence in South Africa
2008-05-30, Issue 376
More than 18,000 people have fled xenophobic violence around Cape Town since mobs began attacking foreigners and burning and looting their homes and businesses one week ago. Thousands more were chased out of their homes in the central Gauteng Provinc...
Haki Yetu
2008-04-09, Issue 361
Following is a video that the Kenyan media has 'censored' It is an artistic response to the situation our BELOVED thieves have put us in the song was recorded on 3rd Jan 2008. Some of the excuses by some of the media houses were that it has been over...
Arts Azimuts - International Arts Festival in Butare, Rwanda
Contact FM
2008-03-27, Issue 357
Ugandan Women Speak about Women’s Protocol
2008-03-06, Issue 351
Marren Akatsa-Bukachi,Solome Nakaweesi-Kimbugwe and Patricia Munabi Babiiha speak to Firoze Manji about the challenges of persuading Uganda to ratify the AU Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa.
Interview with Peter Hallward
Peter Hallward
2008-02-28, Issue 349
Peter Hallward, author of Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide and the Politics of Containment, talks over the phone with Jacques Depelchin from the Ota Benga Alliance for Peace Healing and Dignity, and visiting Professor at the Centre for Afro-Oriental Studies at the Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, and Firoze Manji, founder and co-editor of Pambazuka News, about his book and the lessons of Haiti.
Interviews with women in south Kivu
2008-02-14, Issue 345
In this series of interviews, Rwanda’s Contact FM radio talks to activists in south Kivu fighting for justice for the women of Congo.
Interviews with women in north Kivu
Rwanda’s Contact FM radio talks to women in north Kivu in the forefront of fighting what has been described as “femicide” in eastern DRC.
2008-02-07, Issue 343
In this series of interviews, Rwanda’s Contact FM radio talks to women in north Kivu in the forefront of fighting what has been described as “femicide” in eastern DRC.
"Sous les volcans"
Michael Gabriel Mudimbi
2008-01-31, Issue 341
Prepared and presented by Michael Gabriel Mudimbi of Contact FM, "Sous les volcans" talks to women of the Kivus, the victims and the activists in an attempt to break the silence about what is happening to women in eastern DRC.
Kenya: Former anti-corruption czar speaks
2008-01-24, Issue 339
It was once a relatively stable African success story. Now Kenya has descended in to the sort of chaos which has often bedevilled many of its neighbours. The cause is December's disputed re-election of President Mwai Kibaki. African leaders continue ...
Post Election Violence in Kenya
2008-01-24, Issue 339
Since the December elections in Kenya an estimated 600 people have died as a result of the unrest, and another 100,000 at least have been displaced. The violence erupted after incumbent Mwai Kibaki was sworn into office in the midst of acusations th...
Flag and Future
Neema Ngwatilo Mawiyoo uses the image of the Kenya national flag to appeal for peace.
Neema Ngwatilo Mawiyoo
2008-01-11, Issue 335
Neema Ngwatilo Mawiyoo, a young writer and musician based in Nairobi,uses the image of the Kenya national flag to appeal for peace.
Uganda: Fighting for adequate livelihoods
2007-12-14, Issue 332
Women own only a small percentage of the world’s land, yet produce two-thirds of the food in developing countries. A a recent FAO-sponsored Technical Consultation on Gender, Property Rights and Livelihoods in the Era of AIDS (28-30 Nov 2007), in Rome, it was stated that women still account for 60% of all HIV infected adults living in sub-Saharan Africa....
I Stories
Gender Links
2007-11-29, Issue 330
I Stories is a series of first hand accounts of gender violence from across Southern Africa produced by Gender Links for the Sixteen Days of Activism against Gender Violence.
Tanzania and the Protocol of the Rights of Women in Africa
Usu Mallya
2007-11-22, Issue 329
Usu Mallya talks to George Njogopa about Tanzania and the Protocol of the Rights of Women in Africa.
Voudou Priestess Madame Evonne Auguste speaks to Pambazuka News
Madame Evonne Auguste
2007-10-18, Issue 324
Voudou Priestess Madame Evonne Auguste spoke to Sokari Ekine last August, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Musicians against xenophobia
2007-09-13, Issue 319
Musicians from Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe are putting xenophobia on the cultural agenda in a musical initiative to get people talking about discrimination. South Africa, especially Johannesburg, is home to thousands of foreign Africans. S...
Global: George Monbiot on the history of direct action
2007-09-13, Issue 319
This World Development Movement podcast features George Monbiot, writer, broadcaster and academic, talking about the history of direct action – particularly relevant given the recent coverage of the climate change protestors near Heathrow this summer...
Rural Women's Radio
2007-09-06, Issue 318
As part of a three-part project with FAHAMU and local partners, CMFD is working with rural women in Southern, East and West Africa to produce radio/ podcast prgrammes about women's rights, especially related to rural women....
Africa: Taxing matters
2007-08-30, Issue 317
This programme considers net outflows of financial assets from Africa, the region with the fastest growth of millionaires in the world; and how the tax burden is being pushed back on to those who can least afford to pay.
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