AfricaNow! April 12, 2023 Militant Memory & The Archive, & Paul Robeson on Colonialism 

Topics and Guests: Today the show features militant memory and the archive with Sonia Vaz Borges, Ph. D.  The conversation with AfricaNow!’s moves through her work on the African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde’s (popularly known as PAIGC) struggle for liberation and militant education, paying attention to the contours of thought, the edges where questions were formed from study and work.  Dr. Sonia Vaz Borges [https://www.soniavazborges.com/] is a militant interdisciplinary historian and long-time social and political organizer.  She is currently an Assistant Professor at Drexel University, in the department of History and Africana Studies. 

She is author of Militant Education, Liberation Struggle, Consciousness: The PAIGC education in Guinea Bissau 1963-1978 and The PAIGC’s Political Education for Liberation in Guinea-Bissau, 1963–74 with the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.  She has edited Notebooks Consciousness and Black Resistance and In the Dust of Waiting.  Paths in the Neighborhoods of Estrada Militar, Santa Filomena and Encosta Nascente.  Along with filmmaker Filipa César, creative work includes a short film titled: Navigating the Pilot School (2016), and Mangrove School (2022).  She is currently working on her next project focused on The Walking Archives, the Liberation Struggle, Memory, Generation and Imaginaries.

Now we remember artist and revolutionary Paul Robeson who on April 9 would have been 125 years old.  In the short slip you will hear next, Paul Robeson discusses colonialism and African-American rights on Spotlight on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in 1960 interviewed by Ronald McKie, Eunice Gardiner, Prof. Robert Quentin, and Alan Manning (introduction). (Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puOIdh944vk, credits available at https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/spotlight-end-credits-paul-robeson)  

MUSIC ON THE SHOW: intro--“UHURU KWANZA” BY RANDY WESTON commemorating Jazz Appreciation month and Randy Weston’s birthday (April 6, 1926—September 1, 2018); break--“KURIMA” BY CHIWONISO MARAIRE; intro to Paul Robeson clip and sign-off--“MOTHERLAND” BY JIMMY DLUDLU Jazz Appreciation Month; closing--“JOHANNESBURG” BY GIL SCOTT-HERON commemorating his birthday April 1 (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011). 

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AfricaNow! Apr. 12, 2023 Militant Memory & The Archive, & Paul Robeson on Colonialism

A major new look at how Africa’s geological history, climate, geography and biology resulted in the wonderful diversity of life found there. It is also the story of how it was the crucible for the evolution most extraordinary species on Earth – Homo sapiens. 

 Africa has properties that ensure that most of human evolution could have occurred nowhere else. A greater diversity of mammal, bird and many other forms of life has forced more and more species to squeeze into narrower and narrower niches. Human complexity has evolved directly in response to this, the most complex of continents. On offer here is an intensely personal portrait of a continent bolstered by Jonathan Kingdon's own animal senses, the same excited set of senses he was born in Africa with. Senses that look, listen, scent and grasp at the mother-continent. Not just his personal motherland but the birthplace of all humanity.

Origin Africa: Safaris in Deep Time, By Jonathan Kingdon

AfricaNow! May 31, 2023 Kumina Queen, Survivors of Genocide & Obi Egbuna, Jr. on African Liberation Day (ALD)

Topics and Guests: We begin the show today with Delphine Yandamutso and Claude Gatebuke two co-authors of the book "Survivors Uncensored: 100 + Testimonies of Resilience and Humanity."  "Survivors Uncensored" is a powerful collection of testimonies from survivors of the Rwandan genocide in 1994 as well as pre and post genocide atrocities including in the Democratic Republic of Congo and about the role of the U.S. and the West. The book offers poignant insights into their experiences and showcases stories of resilience and humanity.

Obi Egbuna, Jr. discusses the importance of liberation and Pan-Africanism in the context of African Liberation Day (ALD) (May 25) and how art can be used to transmit the message across generations.  Obi Egbuna, Jr. is a Founding Member and Executive Director of Mass Emphasis Children’s History and Theater Company (2012).  Obi Egbuna, Jr. is a journalist, African/a history teacher and playwright and is correspondent to The Herald, Zimbabwe’s national newspaper.

A new documentary by Nyasha Laing, "Kumina Queen", highlights the work by Imogene “Queenie” Kennedy a contemporary priestess in post-colonial Jamaica who catapulted her African spiritual practice into renown.  The film looks at questions such as what remains of the dance between the living and the dead after centuries of erasure? As noted in the description of "Kumina Queen": “Seeking understanding, artists and practitioners navigate a mysterious spirit world that offers a pathway to freedom, healing, and transformation - to those who choose it.”  The show features a conversation Nyasha Laing had with James Pope of Africa World Now Project collective and AfricaNow!’s Executive Producer and Co-Host a few months which we aired before. The discussion focused on African spiritual knowledge through the drum, dance, and nature in Jamaica and beyond. Nyasha Laing is a documentarian, researcher, writer, and lawyer. Her previous documentary was "Punta Soul" (2008) prior to Kumina Queen in the Wild. Nyasha Laing has served as a producer for award-winning PBS films including "Tell Them We Are Rising" (2017), "All Kinfolk Ain’t Skinfolk" (2018), "Belly of the Beas"t (2020), and "Into Dust" (2021). (Information of "Kumina Queen in the Wild": www.kuminaqueen.net) "Kumina Queen" will be featured at the DC Caribbean FilmFest on June 10 at AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring MD and Nyasha Laing will be there at the post-screening discussion.  The 21st edition of the DC Caribbean FilmFest which takes place from June 8-14, 2023 in recognition of Caribbean American Heritage Month in June is presented by CAWI, CPN, ICS, AFI and Africa World Now Project. For more information visit https://afisilver.afi.com/. 

MUSIC ON THE SHOW: intro--“AFRICAN PEOPLE” BY CHRISTINE KAMAU; intro of sgment with Obi Egbuna, Jr. & sign-off--“KURIMA” BY CHIWONISO MARAIRE; intro to segment Nyasha Laing--“SUN GODDESS” commemorating Ramsey Lewis’ birthday which was on May 27; closing--“MILESTONES” BY MILES DAVIS commemorating his birthday which was on May 26.

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Originally broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM, Washington, DC. Tune into AfricaNow! live on WPFW 89.3 FM in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area or visit www.wpfwfm.org on Wednesdays from 1:00 to 2:00PM (U.S. Eastern).

AfricaNow! May 31, 2023 Kumina Queen, Survivors of Genocide & O. Egbuna, Jr. on ALD

AfricaNow! August 16, 2023 Randall Robinson on Reparations

Topic and Guest: As mentioned before WPFW’s theme during this Summer Membership is HONORING THE LOVE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD—marking the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, commemorating Black August, and honoring the late human rights and social justice activist, and a leader in the anti-apartheid movement in the U.S. Randall Robinson (as well as so many of our icons this year, including Harry Belafonte, who used his resources and celebrity to support the original 1963 march).   In that context today AfricaNow! features a recording of Randall Robinson discussing his book on reparations at the TransAfrica Forum Building on January 11, 2000.   

In the book The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks TransAfrica founder and the organization’s first president Robinson notes that “Well before the birth of our country, Europe and the eventual United States perpetuated a heinous wrong against the peoples of of Africa—and sustained and benefited from the wrong for centuries.  Europe followed the grab Africa’s people with the rape, through colonial occupation, of Africa’s material resources.  America followed slavery with more than a hundred combined years of legal racial segregation and legal racial discrimination of one variety or another. …It would behoove African Americans to remember that history forgets, first, those who forget themselves.  To do what is necessary to accomplish anything approaching psychic and economic parity…will not only require a fundamental attitude shift in American thinking but massive amount of money as well.  Before the country in general can be made to understand, African Americans themselves must come to understand that this demand is not for charity.  It is simply for what they are owed on a debt that is old but compelling obvious and valid still.” (From The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks pp. 230-231)

From the TransAfrica archives here is a recording of Randall Robinson discussing his book on reparations—The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks—at the TransAfrica Forum Building on January 11, 2000.
 
MUSIC ON THE SHOW: intro--“YOU’VE GOT TO HAVE FREEDOM” BY PHAROAH SANDERS; closing song--“REDEMPTION SONG” BY BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS.

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AfricaNow! Aug. 16, 2023 Randall Robinson On Reparations

AfricaNow! August 23, 2023 Of Hesitance: W.E.B Du Bois from Josh Myers’s Of Black Study w/ Nathalie Frédéric Pierre

Topic and Guest: As we continue to commemorate Black August, we feature a critical exploration of Chapter 1 of Dr. Joshua M. Myers’s book Of Black Study.  Chapter 1 is entitled “Of Hesitance: W.E.B. Du Bois.” This is the first of five sessions where we unpack Myers’s meditations on Black Study, a line of thinking that is calling for us to think of ways to merge the material with the nonmaterial. To call into question the very foundations of systems of thought that guide our everyday practices of being human, of being human in the rhythms of Blackness.   This is a conversation between AfricaNow!’s Executive Producer and Co-Host James Pope and Dr. Nathalie Frédéric Pierre, an Assistant Professor of History at Howard University.  

In the classroom and within her research agenda, Professor Pierre highlights the plans and processes people of African descent set into motion in order to sustain sites of autonomy across the Americas.  She is currently writing her first book, The Vessel of Independence... Must Save Itself’: Haitian State Formation, 1757 - 1815 which articulates the political thought of Haitian statesmen, who were bound to preserve antislavery and create a government suitable for emancipated citizens of African origin in a revolutionary Atlantic world still reliant on enslaved labor.  Her work has been published in The Journal of Haitian Studies, Cultural Dynamics, Remembrance: Loss, Hope, Recovery after the Earthquake in Haiti, and other forums.

Myers opens, Of Black Study, with an epigraph from June Jordan, who along with Barbara Christian, Addison Gayle, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, and Toni Cade Bambara were supporting students in a struggle around the “Free University”, an attempt to realize the dream of a Black University at City College of New York.  ....
 
MUSIC ON THE SHOW: intro and on sign-off--“MAYIBUYE” BY HUGH MASEKELA; intro by James Pope--“MILLIONS OF US (Part 2)” BY BCUC—BANTU CONTINUA UHURU CONSCIOUSNESS; break--“HYMN TO FREEDOM” BY OSCAR PETERSON commemorating his birthday on August 15 (August 15, 1925—December 23, 2007);outro of interview--“FREEQUENCY” BY BLACK STAR FEAT. BLACK THOUGHT; closing song--“STRAIGHT AHEAD” BY COUNT BASIE commemorating Count Basie’s birthday on August 21 (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984).

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Originally broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM, Washington, DC. Tune into AfricaNow! live on WPFW 89.3 FM in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area or visit www.wpfwfm.org on Wednesdays from 1:00 to 2:00PM (U.S. Eastern).

AfricaNow! Aug. 23, 2023 Of Hesitance W.E.B. Du Bois from Josh Myers’s Of Black Study

AfricaNow! September 13, 2023 Hakim Adi on The Threats to Black Studies in The U.K. and Globally

Topic and Guest: September is African Heritage Month in DC and the Maryland counties of Montgomery and Prince George’s thus today the show features Hakim Adi on The Threats to Black Studies in The U.K. and Globally.   The topic is timely as we encounter increased actions such as the banning of books and school curriculums about African descendant peoples such as the recent termination of master’s by research (MRes) course in the History of Africa and the African Diaspora by the University of Chichester in the U.K.  University of Chichester also terminated Professor Hakim Adi, the founder and director of the master’s by research (MRes) course in the history of Africa and the African Diaspora.  To protest this action a campaign has been launched which is encouraging people to sign a petition to have University of Chichester reinstate the master’s by research (MRes) course in the history of Africa and the African Diaspora and Professor Hakim Adi.  More details of the petition and how to sign on are available at https://www.historymatters.online/ on the tab Save MRes Campaign.  One can also donate to the Save the MRes Defense Fund on that tab (Save MRes Campaign).

Hakim Adi is a renowned Professor of the History of Africa and the African Diaspora and is the first person of African heritage to be appointed a professor of history in Britain.  He has been shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, 2023—U.K.'s most prestigious history prize.  His publications “focus on the history of the African Diaspora in Britain, a relatively new subject for academic study and in particular on the political history of West Africans in Britain, and the influence of Communism and Pan-Africanism on anti-colonial activism”. His work demonstrates not only the important links that were established between those on the African continent and its diaspora but also that Africans and those of African descent have played a significant but often neglected role in the history of Britain.  

Professor Adi is author of numerous books such as, African and Caribbean People in Britain: a History (London: Penguin, 2022); Pan-Africanism and Communism: The Communist International, Africa and the African Diaspora 1919-1939 (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2013) … also translated in Spanish [Panafricanismo y communisimo, la Internacional Communista, Africa y la Diáspora, 1919-1930 (Havana: Ciencias Sociale, 2018)]; Pan-Africanism: A History (London: Bloomsbury, 2018); West Africans in Britain 1900-1960: Nationalism, Pan-Africanism and Communism (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1998); Pan-African History: Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora since 1787 (2003). He is active in a number of community and publicly accessible projects, which includes History Matters Initiative and journal as well as the Young Historians Project. 

MUSIC ON THE SHOW: intro--“GRAB EDUCATION” BY STEEL PULSE; break “MERCY, MERCY, MERCY” BY CANNONBALL ADDERLEY commemorating his birthday on September 15 (September 15, 1928—August 8, 1975); sign-off--“AFRICAN DANCE” BY SOUL II SOUL; closing song--“MAKING HISTORY” BY LINTON KWESI JOHNSON commemorating his birthday on August 24 (August 24, 1952— ).

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AfricaNow! Sep. 13, 2023 Hakim Adi on The Threats to Black Studies in The U.K. and Globally

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When Idi Amin, commander of the Ugandan Army, seized power in Uganda on 25 January 1971, there was hope among many Ugandans that a new beginning beckoned.

Written by Richard Reid. Narration by Dr. Nicholas B. Breyfogle. Textual and video versions of this podcast are available at https://origins.osu.edu/milestones/idi-amins-uganda-coup-1971. Video production by Katherine Weiss, Dr. Nicholas B. Breyfogle, and Laura Seeger. 

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