ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
At TROUBLEMAKERS, we explore how to rebel in an age when a few elite have so much control. We speak with inspiring people from all walks of life across the planet on the tools they use to subvert and seize power for the transformation of our world. TROUBLEMAKERS is a place to learn from each other about how to make change. This podcast is a transcontinental operation brought to you by Beautiful Trouble, MOVE the Global Social Movement Centre, MS TCDC, and Global Platforms.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 9 days
Average audio length:
31 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
82 episodes
since June 15, 2023
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
A candid conversation on what activism really means, the risk it carries, and why the “troublemaker” label needs rethinking. Ancel and Anne Maua of Africans Rising reflect on care, cost, and the long game of change.
Guest: Anne Maua, who leads campaign and advocacy at Africans Rising.
Three takea…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Reggae artist and human rights defender Maiko Zulu, known as Comrade Father, on five presidents, Pan-Africanism, and why he refuses to let a funder own his conscience. A sharp, hopeful conversation about resistance, music, and the next generation.
Guest: Maiko Zulu (Comrade Father), Zambian reggae…
On The Feminist Utopia, feminist Qate Mongi shares what the word really means to her and what a more balanced world could look like. A conversation about equality, leadership, and why feminism isn’t about replacing one energy with another.
Guest: Qate Mongi, feminist.
Three takeaways
Feminism …
Strategic communications expert Brian Roberts on how activists can get their message right: verify before you share, match the message to the audience, and break dense policy into language people actually understand. Hosted by Monicah Kamandau, they talk about misinformation, AI, and knowing your r…
Paul Musyimi on what social movements really are, why peaceful organizing wins, and how activists keep each other safe when the work gets dangerous. With Malemi, Paul talks about the principle "Seek Safety in Support Networks": when activists are threatened, national and international networks can …
Youth activist Nancy Siatwiko on why young Zambians are done waiting for permission to lead. Host Malemi talks with her about locked-out candidates, young women in politics, and using social media to organize.
Guest: Nancy Siatwiko, Movement Manager for Youth for Parliament and the first female st…
Ep 55: Youth, Power & Political Spaces with Tilvas Ngosa
Recorded at the Global Platform studio in Zambia, this episode asks why youth political participation across Africa stays so low, and what it takes to change that. Host Malemi talks with activist Tilvas Ngosa about systemic barriers, you…
Politicians pass laws, but culture shapes belief, and belief shapes everything else. In this episode, Thompson Luzendi sits with Sefu Sanni to unpack the battle of ideas: how culture becomes the real terrain of power, and how the creative arts can move people where speeches and laws cannot.
About …
What does an ideal world look like? Given Kapolyo answers without hesitation: one where inequality does not exist, and leadership is not a male sport. In this Smoke Signals, she lays out her feminist utopia, then grounds it in the everyday realities that prove the fight is far from over. It doubles…
What makes someone walk to the utility company with a placard instead of posting complaints online? Nalishebo Sinyama has been answering that since 2019, when a load shedding protest in her Lusaka suburb turned her into an organizer overnight. She sits with Given Kapolyo to trace her path from a gr…
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