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Cette semaine nous accueillons Serge Sivya, médecin et militant du mouvement lutte pour le changement, Lucha actif en RD Congo. Serge milite au sein de la Lucha depuis les premiers jours de ce mouvement en 2012. Il a été très actif dans les mobilisations pour le respect de la constitution en RDC en…

Last year, Teodoro Obiang won a 6th term in office with 97% of the vote. He has been in power since 1979, for 43 years. In Obiang’s Equatorial Guinea, there are no independent, critical media, no human rights or anti-corruption organizations, and the one opposition party is seen as being a fig leaf…

Welcome to Season 2 of Ukombozi.The Sudanese Revolution of 2018-2019 was a bubbling up of many movements all at once. As Hamid Khalahfallah,  one of our guests here, says: "It was many transitions all at once"––a political, cultural and spiritual one. And then it ended, first with another…

An interview with Thapelo Mohapi, the general secretary of Abahlali baseMjondolo, a socialist shack dwellers' movement in South Africa which organises land occupations, builds communes and campaigns against evictions and xenophobia and for public housing.

On April 17 this year, Sheila Adhiambo Lumumba, a 25-year-old non-binary lesbian, was found murdered in Karatina, Kenya. They had been was raped, strangled, stabbed several times in the neck and eyes and their legs had been broken. The Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya reported than more than half…

We interview Leo Zeiling on the life and legacy of Guyanese scholar, activist, and writer Walter Rodney. Rodney's classic "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, a great occasion to read Zeilig's "A Revolutionary for Our Time: The W…

Cette semaine nous recevons Fadel Barro, activiste et intellectuel sénégalais et ancien coordonnateur du mouvement Y’en A marre dont il est également co-fondateur. En effet, en 2011, frustré par les coupures d’électricité, Fadel crée aux côtés des rappeurs du groupe Keur Gui, Thiat et Kilifeu, ains…

Karibuni. This week, we are excited to be joined by Sabatho Nyamsenda, an African scholar, writer and thinker. Sabatho is a faculty member in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Dar es Salaam. He is involved in both scholarship and activism in matters …