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Ghana: When Drugs Don't Heal
2011-10-10, Issue 551
The counterfeit medicine business is a big business in Ghana. Experts say only 60 per cent of anti-malarial medicines in the country are genuine; the remaining...
Ghana: Sex for Grades
2011-10-10, Issue 551
This documentary investigates the alleged sexual exploitation of female students in some of Ghana’s schools, especially the tertiary institutions. In this piece...
Ghana: Change agents
2011-10-10, Issue 551
Every graduate in Ghana is mandated to do a year’s national service. The programme coordinated by the National Service Secretariat was introduced 30 years a...
Ghana: Discrimination and people who live with Albinism
2011-10-10, Issue 551
There is enormous discrimination against people who live with Albinism in Ghana. Perception about the condition has assumed a superstitious twist, with suggestion...
Libya: War on Libya exposed
2011-10-10, Issue 551
Freedom Now! host Dedon Kamathi interviews Mahdi Nazemroaya, one of the last independent journalists in Tripoli, and former Rep. Cynthia McKinney, about Nazemroaya's findings regarding the fabricated claims that led to the US war on Libya....
Global: Africa Today - listen online
2011-10-10, Issue 551
Africa Today speaks with Robin Fryday the producer of the film 'The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement' and talks with Eddie Daniels on contemporary South Africa. Eddie Daniels was imprisoned on Robben Island for many ye...
Trouble on the Land: Dan Rather Reports
2011-09-26, Issue 549
Dan Rather devotes his program, 'Dan Rather Reports on HD Net' on Tuesday 27 September to exploring the complex issues involved with modern-day land appropriation in developing countries. The program profiles Oakland Institute's ground breaking work ...
Ghana: Exploring lives in Sodom and Gomorrah slum
2011-09-26, Issue 549
Discover the ins and outs of Sodom and Gomorrah slum in this documentary. Close to 80,000 people live in Sodom and Gomorrah, a slum on the edge of the pollut...
Ghana: Political Promises
2011-09-26, Issue 549
Political Promises reveals how promises given the electorate end up unfulfilled. It is a special documentary on Obom, a village a few miles away from the ...
Ghana: Woes of the Borstal Child
2011-09-26, Issue 549
Woes of the Borstal Child delves into the poor conditions in which children are held in Ghana’s remand homes for children. Hundreds of the children under th...
Africa: The impacts of climate change in Africa
2008-11-28, Issue 408
Climate change is a global phenomenon that affects different populations around the world in different ways. In South Africa, for example, there are situations caused by global warming, as in the rest of the African continent. Siziwe Khanyile, member...
Women majority in parliament
Rwandan women come out on top in parliamentary elections
Contact FM
2008-11-13, Issue 406
This programme looks at the significance of the recent Rwandan elections which made history as women gained a majority in parliament - what do ordinary Rwandan women think of and expect from this success and what inspiration or message for the rest o...
Ubud 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.