Ukombozi

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 entre 2015 et 2018. Il a pour cela plusieurs fois été arrêté. Au sein de la Lucha, Serge est actif notamment dans la cellule de Luchologie où il a longtemps contribué à la formation et l’initiati...

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 for the dictatorship. It is difficult to fully grasp the control the government has over society without examining the role of the oil industry. Equatorial Guinea is one of the largest oil pro...

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 coup in 2021, and now with brutal fighting between two parts of the regime. Here we discuss the conflict, but in also the place of social movements in Sudanese society. One of the reasons we ...

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 of Kenyans who identify as gay have been assaulted in their lifetime. Meanwhile, it is almost unacceptable to speak out in favor of LGTBQ rights as a mainstream politician in much of Africa. In Ken...

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 Walter Rodney Story," which was published this year.We talk about Rodney's legacy, his understanding of race, his approach to international solidarity, and his theory of how Africa's fate has been tethered to capitalist deve...

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, ainsi que d’autres activistes, le mouvement Y’en A marre. L’année suivante en 2012, le mouvement arrive à mobiliser des milliers des sénégalais contre la candidature jugée inconstitutionnelle de Abdoula...

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 pertaining to the agrarian question, pan-Africanism, the struggles of the working people, as well as political-economic relations between Tanzania and the industrialized countries. This intervi...

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 pertaining to the agrarian question, pan-Africanism, the struggles of the working people, as well as political-economic relations between Tanzania and the industrialized countries. This intervi...

This week, we were joined by Nanjala Nyabola, a leading African scholar, writer and thinker. She has published two books––Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya in 2018; and Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move in 2020. She also writes frequently for a host of prominent media outlets in Africa and abroad about the cruelty of western migration policies; the failings of African leaders; the dynamism of youth on the A...

Cette fois-ci on parle de la République du Congo, le Congo-Brazzaville. Nous accueillons aujourd'hui l'un des fondateurs du Ras-la-Bol, Martial Panucci. C'est un rappeur et un activiste qui a été contraint de fuir Brazzaville après avoir sorti son single populaire "Sassoule" en 2016.L'expérience démocratique au Congo-Brazza a commencé en 1991, en même temps qu'une vague d'autres expériences similaires qui ont commencé à balayer le continent africain à cette époque. Un dictateur militair...

Cette interview est réalisée avec Serge Sivya, membre de la Lutte pour le changement (LUCHA), probablement le mouvement social le plus célèbre de la République démocratique du Congo. Il a été fondé le 4 janvier 2013 à Goma et a été le pionnier d'une nouvelle forme d'activisme dans le pays. À l'origine, le mouvement était formé et dirigé par des étudiants, refusait de s'enregistrer en tant qu'ONG, évitait les hiérarchies formelles et n'acceptait pas les financements des donateurs. Désireux de ...

This interview is with Hajooj Kuka, who is a Sudanese activist and film-maker. Hajooj has been deeply embedded in the broad-based mobilization that is happening across Sudan since 2018. He's the dynamo behind the Sudanese Civic Lab, an independent nonprofit organization that provides spaces and opportunities for debates, training and artwork to help strengthen the revolution. In 2014, his documentary Beats Of The Antonov about war in the Blue Nile and Nuba mountain regions won the ...

Cet entretien est réalisé avec Ndongo Samba Sylla, un économiste du développement sénégalais qui vit à Dakar, et travaille avec la fondation Rosa Luxembourg. Cette interview a été enregistrée en octobre 2021.Il a écrit de nombreux ouvrages sur les économies, la politique et le développement de l'Afrique. Son dernier livre "Africa's last colonial currency" traite de l'impact du CFA sur les économies ouest-africaines. Il soutient que l'utilisation du CFA piège l'Afrique dans l'impérialism...

This interview is with Zachariah Mampilly, who is the Marxe Endowed Chair of International Affairs at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, CUNY. In 2012/2013, he was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This interview was recorded in October 2021. In this episode, Zachariah discusses several topics, including: The third wave of mobilization and protest in Africa Why we seeing a constant change of political lea...