Podcast
The AIAC Podcast
Episodes — page 5
- Vaccines for All!
How do we make sure that the COVID-19 vaccine is a public good and that we all, regardless of where we are in the world, have access to it. For the first AIAC Talk show of 2021, we…
- Dezemba
Wrapping up 2020, we decided to make our last AIAC Talk show of the year festive. So, we will host a rotating cast of guests that appeared on the show this first season. (The show’…
- The Ethiopian Model
This week on AIAC Talk, we discuss how Ethiopia helps us make sense of and work through questions about the nature of the African state: whether development as an emancipatory goal…
- The G.O.A.T.
In Argentina, a country where issues of race and class are not far from the surface, someone who comes from the Buenos Aires slums is known scornfully as “El Negrito.” As the write…
- Bling Politricks
After the high drama of the US election and a week off from AIAC Talk to collect ourselves, we're back to discuss hip hop and its relationship to politics. Today's episode looks a…
- Coming To America?
Today, America heads to the polls in what is being billed as its most important election in recent memory. For good reason, as it presents the chance to vote out of office Donald T…
- #EndSARS
In October, protests erupted in Nigeria calling for the government to #EndSARS. The Special Anti-Robbery Squad was a federal policing unit established in 1992 to respond to a wave…
- The Emptiness of Anti-Corruption Politics
Corruption is a serious problem—but is anti-corruption a serious politics? Guests Benjamin Fogel, Wangui Kimari, Sabatho Nyamsenda, and Elisa Greco discuss with hosts Will Shoki an…
- Decolonizing African Literature
What if you survey African literature professors to find out which works and writers are most regularly taught? Literary scholars Bhakti Shringarpure and Lily Saint sought to find…
- The Global Rise of the Right Wing
What ideas influence the new right and how is it spreading around the world, including in Africa? This week on AIAC Talk we have Chelsea Stieber, a scholar of French and Francophon…
- Malawi elections and feminist justice
In this week's episode we talk to Michelle Chikaonda, a Malawian essayist, who wrote recently about the elections in Malawi for Africa Is a Country, and Jimmy Kainja, a media schol…
- Nkrumah's Legacy
On March 6, 1957, Nkrumah, the newly elected Prime Minister of Ghana, declared, “the independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa…
- On Biko—His life, his legacy
September 12th marked the anniversary of the day that Biko, arguably the most exciting leader of his time, was murdered by apartheid police in 1977. Biko’s ideas have continued to…
- The State of African Football
We talk football on today's weekly livestream show, featuring Algerian football writer, Maher Mezahi, South African sports journalist Njabulo Ngidi and academic Martha Saveedra, lo…
- The Crisis in Mali
Africa Is a Country founder Sean Jacobs and Staff Writer William Shoki discuss the crisis in Mali with invited guests Madina Thiam, Gregory Mann and Cherif Ag Mohamed Ibrahim. For…
- Race and International Relations
Africa Is a Country founder Sean Jacobs and Staff Writer William Shoki discuss Race and International Relations with scholars Samar Al-Bulushi and Oumar Ba.
- Filmmaking in South Africa
Join us as we discuss the topics that everyone is talking about (or should be talking about). We speak with guest, award-winning filmmaker Dylan Valley, whose latest VR 360 project…
- Nigerian Politics
Join us for a journey through Nigerian politics with Dr. Sa'eed Husaini.
- Decolonizing Economics
Will Shoki (Staff Writer) and Sean Jacobs are joined by Dr. Grieve Chelwa and they discuss decolonizing the economics curriculum, amongst other things.
- Kenyan Politics
Politics in Kenya with Dr. Wangui Kimari from our pilot season of AIAC Talk.
