My African Cliches (English)
338 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsOn the back of the bird Sankofa, this mythical bird that flies forward, head turned back, carrying in its beak an egg that symbolizes the future, this podcast takes you to every episode in the glorious history of African continent. Develop your knowledge of African history to better understand the continent today.
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The month of heroines: HEADWRAPS, AN AFRICAN EPIC ( Part1)
March 16, 2020 05:37 - 8 minutes - 11.9 MBYOUR WRAP, YOUR STYLE, YOUR IDENTITY My African cliché of the day is question to you: do you think that if a White American white lady chooses to wear a headwrap, it is cultural appropriation? Is it paying tribute? Is it respect? Is it free advert for that culture? Cultural appropriation refers to when a dominant culture appropriates the codes of a dominated culture, either the colonized peoples or the oppressed minorities. Is it respect when it’s done for fun, and money, while erasin...
SPECIAL SERIES ON GREAT LAKES WOMEN: WHAT KENYA OWES TO ITS WOMEN ....( AND MEN)
March 11, 2020 05:50 - 17 minutes - 24.2 MBMy African cliché of the day is a great African woman rights fighter: Huda Sha’arawi. She created the first Egyptian Philanthropic Society for women, in addition to being the founder and head of the Egyptian Feminist Union. When she wasn’t representing Egypt internationally at women’s conferences, she also made time to found a school for girls and implement women-run social services. She’s one of the most outspoken and unapologetic Egyptian women in recent history. Despite all her accomplish...
The month of heroines: ABENAFRICA, Deconstructing minds to survive !
March 10, 2020 03:00 - 10 minutes - 15.3 MBMy African cliche of the day is a quote from our captain, about her favorite black heroine, Harriet Tubman. What can I say after the powerful words of a woman as impressive as Harriet Tubman? NOTHING. And nothing is already much like Jacques Brel said. See you next Monday on Sankofa for our third heroine of the month of March.
The month of heroines: ABENAFRICA, Deconstructing your minds to survive !
March 10, 2020 03:00 - 10 minutes - 15.3 MBMy African cliche of the day is a quote from our captain, about her favorite black heroine, Harriet Tubman. What can I say after the powerful words of a woman as impressive as Harriet Tubman? NOTHING. And nothing is already much like Jacques Brel said. See you next Monday on Sankofa for our third heroine of the month of March.
S5 E6: The month of heroines: ABENAFRICA, decolonizing your minds!
March 10, 2020 03:00 - 10 minutes - 15.3 MBMy African cliche of the day is a quote from our captain, about her favorite black heroine, Harriet Tubman. What can I say after the powerful words of a woman as impressive as Harriet Tubman? NOTHING. And nothing is already much like Jacques Brel said. See you next Monday on Sankofa for our third heroine of the month of March.
THE MONTH OF HEROINES: ABENAFRICA, DECONSTRUCTING MINDS TO SURVIVE !
March 10, 2020 03:00 - 10 minutes - 15.3 MBMy African cliche of the day is a quote from our captain, about her favorite black heroine, Harriet Tubman. What can I say after the powerful words of a woman as impressive as Harriet Tubman? NOTHING. And nothing is already much like Jacques Brel said. See you next Monday on Sankofa for our third heroine of the month of March.
S5 E5: The month of heroines: ABENAFRICA, Proud & Afro-curious
March 09, 2020 03:00 - 10 minutes - 14.3 MBMy African cliche of the day is a duty, what I could call "the duty of curiosity", a kind of minimum service that each African and Afro-descendant must perform, to help himself, and help to to make known a counter history of Africa. Being curious about Africa, for example, is going to visit a pretty beach in Mozambique, rather than Ireland; it is trying to understand pre-colonial African spiritualities before treating them as fetishes, a term which is justly colonial…. This is why I enjoy th...
THE MONTH OF HEROINES: ABENAFRICA, BLACK, PROUD AND AFRO-CURIOUS
March 09, 2020 03:00 - 10 minutes - 14.3 MBMy African cliche of the day is a duty, what I could call "the duty of curiosity", a kind of minimum service that each African and Afro-descendant must perform, to help himself, and help to to make known a counter history of Africa. Being curious about Africa, for example, is going to visit a pretty beach in Mozambique, rather than Ireland; it is trying to understand pre-colonial African spiritualities before treating them as fetishes, a term which is justly colonial…. This is why I enjoy th...
The month of heroines: ABENAFRICA, Proud & Afro-curious
March 09, 2020 03:00 - 10 minutes - 14.3 MBMy African cliche of the day is a duty, what I could call "the duty of curiosity", a kind of minimum service that each African and Afro-descendant must perform, to help himself, and help to to make known a counter history of Africa. Being curious about Africa, for example, is going to visit a pretty beach in Mozambique, rather than Ireland; it is trying to understand pre-colonial African spiritualities before treating them as fetishes, a term which is justly colonial…. This is why I enjoy th...
The month of heroines: ABENAFRICA, Black, Proud & Afro-curious
March 09, 2020 03:00 - 10 minutes - 14.3 MBMy African cliche of the day is a duty, what I could call "the duty of curiosity", a kind of minimum service that each African and Afro-descendant must perform, to help himself, and help to to make known a counter history of Africa. Being curious about Africa, for example, is going to visit a pretty beach in Mozambique, rather than Ireland; it is trying to understand pre-colonial African spiritualities before treating them as fetishes, a term which is justly colonial…. This is why I enjoy th...
SPECIAL SERIES: SOUTH SUDAN WOMEN'S STRUGGLES FOR EQUALITY
March 06, 2020 11:56 - 17 minutes - 23.8 MBWelcome to this special series on the struggles of women in the Great Lakes region. In this episode, the Sankofa arises in South Sudan, to listen to our 5 magnificent fighters. My African cliché of the day is a wonderful quote from the American writer Rebecca West, I quote: “I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.” Thank you to all ...
SPECIAL SERIES: Women's struggles in the Great Lakes Region
March 05, 2020 11:31 - 9 minutes - 13.8 MBWelcome to this series of special Sankofa flights, chartered by the office of the UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region. As announced before, this special series, broadcasted in parallel with your usual podcast episodes, will last the whole month of March to honor women from different countries who talk about their battles. My African cliché of the day is a terrible feeling. The one you feel when you face injustice. Imagine how women feel, when they are victims of sexual violence of ...
The Month of Heroines: ODIRI IGHAMRE..... Serving the youth to build Africa's future!
March 03, 2020 04:35 - 9 minutes - 12.9 MBIf I had to choose a quote to summarize our heroine of this day, I would choose like French resistant Lucie Aubrac, to say that The verb "To Resist" must always conjugate in the present tense" because, Odiri, this UK-born daughter of Africa, of Nigerian origin, does not spare no effort to connect ethically, Africa and its diaspora, for the benefit of both parties. Support her by supporting her different projects: - Kori Youth Charity ( www.kori.org.uk) - Daughters of Africa ( www.dau...
S5 E4: The Month of Heroines: ODIRI IGHAMRE.... Serving the youth to build Africa's future!
March 03, 2020 04:35 - 9 minutes - 12.9 MBIf I had to choose a quote to summarize our heroine of this day, I would choose like French resistant Lucie Aubrac, to say that The verb "To Resist" must always conjugate in the present tense" because, Odiri, this UK-born daughter of Africa, of Nigerian origin, does not spare no effort to connect ethically, Africa and its diaspora, for the benefit of both parties. Support her by supporting her different projects: - Kori Youth Charity ( www.kori.org.uk) - Daughters of Africa ( www.dau...
The Month of Heroines: ODIRI IGHAMRE..... Are we born African or do we become one? (Part 2)
March 03, 2020 04:35 - 9 minutes - 12.9 MBIf I had to choose a quote to summarize our heroine of this day, I would choose like French resistant Lucie Aubrac, to say that The verb "To Resist" must always conjugate in the present tense" because, Odiri, this UK-born daughter of Africa, of Nigerian origin, does not spare no effort to connect ethically, Africa and its diaspora, for the benefit of both parties. Support her by supporting her different projects: - Kori Youth Charity ( www.kori.org.uk) - Daughters of Africa ( www.dau...
The Month of Heroines: Odiri IGHAMRE....." Are we born African or do we become one?" (Part 2)
March 03, 2020 04:35 - 9 minutes - 12.9 MBIf I had to choose a quote to summarize our heroine of this day, I would choose like French resistant Lucie Aubrac, to say that The verb "To Resist" must always conjugate in the present tense" because, Odiri, this UK-born daughter of Africa, of Nigerian origin, does not spare no effort to connect ethically, Africa and its diaspora, for the benefit of both parties. Support her by supporting her different projects: - Kori Youth Charity ( www.kori.org.uk) - Daughters of Africa ( www.dau...
The Month of Heroines: ODIRI IGHAMRE.....Is one born an African or do you become one?
March 02, 2020 09:28 - 9 minutes - 13.7 MBIf I had to choose a quote to summarize our heroine of this day, I would choose like French resistant Lucie Aubrac, to say that The verb "To Resist" must always conjugate in the present tense" because, Odiri, this UK-born daughter of Africa, of Nigerian origin, does not spare no effort to connect ethically, Africa and its diaspora, for the benefit of both parties. Support her by supporting her different projects: - Kori Youth Charity ( www.kori.org.uk) - Daughters of Africa ( www.dau...
The Month of Heroines: Odiri IGHAMRE....." Are we born African or do we become one?"
March 02, 2020 09:28 - 9 minutes - 13.7 MBIf I had to choose a quote to summarize our heroine of this day, I would choose like French resistant Lucie Aubrac, to say that The verb "To Resist" must always conjugate in the present tense" because, Odiri, this UK-born daughter of Africa, of Nigerian origin, does not spare no effort to connect ethically, Africa and its diaspora, for the benefit of both parties. Support her by supporting her different projects: - Kori Youth Charity ( www.kori.org.uk) - Daughters of Africa ( www.dau...
S5 E3: The Month of Heroines: ODIRI IGHAMRE....Is one born an African or do you become one?
March 02, 2020 09:28 - 9 minutes - 13.7 MBIf I had to choose a quote to summarize our heroine of this day, I would choose like French resistant Lucie Aubrac, to say that The verb "To Resist" must always conjugate in the present tense" because, Odiri, this UK-born daughter of Africa, of Nigerian origin, does not spare no effort to connect ethically, Africa and its diaspora, for the benefit of both parties. Support her by supporting her different projects: - Kori Youth Charity ( www.kori.org.uk) - Daughters of Africa ( www.dau...
The Month of Heroines: ODIRI IGHAMRE.....Are we born African or do we become one?
March 02, 2020 09:28 - 9 minutes - 13.7 MBIf I had to choose a quote to summarize our heroine of this day, I would choose like French resistant Lucie Aubrac, to say that The verb "To Resist" must always conjugate in the present tense" because, Odiri, this UK-born daughter of Africa, of Nigerian origin, does not spare no effort to connect ethically, Africa and its diaspora, for the benefit of both parties. Support her by supporting her different projects: - Kori Youth Charity ( www.kori.org.uk) - Daughters of Africa ( www.dau...
In March....it's Xmas in your podcast!
March 02, 2020 04:47 - 7 minutes - 10.8 MBLet's celebrate today's African heroins! This month, we are celebrating 4 ordinary African heroines, who fought in their own way, drawing inspiration from the past to inform the present and try to create another future for themselves and others. 4 very different profiles, but so similar in their determination and strength of character. I hope that this strength will show through these 4 interviews, to inspire all the little African girls around the world, so that they remember above all, ...
In March....it's Kwanzaa in your podcast!
March 02, 2020 04:47 - 7 minutes - 10.8 MBLet's celebrate today's African heroins! This month, we are celebrating 4 ordinary African heroines, who fought in their own way, drawing inspiration from the past to inform the present and try to create another future for themselves and others. 4 very different profiles, but so similar in their determination and strength of character. I hope that this strength will show through these 4 interviews, to inspire all the little African girls around the world, so that they remember above all, ...
Haiti, Brave Architect of the current world map!
February 24, 2020 03:00 - 9 minutes - 13.9 MBMy African cliché of the day is a symbolic reparation, of the amount of $ 1 that each American citizen and each French citizen could pay into a fund for Haiti. Some will respond promptly, that the West is already providing development assistance. Is this aid really benefiting the children of the Haiti Heroes? True reparation is what the Australian aborigines have just obtained for the destruction of their culture by the British colonists.
S5 E2: Trilogy on Africa's impact on the world: Haiti, Brave Architect of the current world map!
February 24, 2020 03:00 - 9 minutes - 13.9 MBMy African cliché of the day is a symbolic reparation, of the amount of $ 1 that each American citizen and each French citizen could pay into a fund for Haiti. Some will respond promptly, that the West is already providing development assistance. Is this aid really benefiting the children of the Haiti Heroes? True reparation is what the Australian aborigines have just obtained for the destruction of their culture by the British colonists.
Trilogy on Africa's impact on the world: Haiti, Brave Architect of the current world map!
February 24, 2020 03:00 - 9 minutes - 13.9 MBMy African cliché of the day is a symbolic reparation, of the amount of $ 1 that each American citizen and each French citizen could pay into a fund for Haiti. Some will respond promptly, that the West is already providing development assistance. Is this aid really benefiting the children of the Haiti Heroes? True reparation is what the Australian aborigines have just obtained for the destruction of their culture by the British colonists.
S5 E1: Trilogy on Africa's impact on the world: How did Africans re-humanize Europe?
February 10, 2020 03:30 - 8 minutes - 11.5 MBMy African cliche of the day is a word, a myth, which is called “The West”. If hearing this word did not make you blink during this episode, it is because you consider this word as the name of a precise geographical space, which represents a more progressive part of the world. And the evil is so deep, that it would take a kind of collective purging to make people, , aware that the West does not designate the same part of the world, depending on whether one is in Japan, in Pakistan or Cape To...
Trilogy on Africa's impact on the world: How did Africans re-humanize Europe?
February 10, 2020 03:30 - 8 minutes - 11.5 MBMy African cliche of the day is a word, a myth, which is called “The West”. If hearing this word did not make you blink during this episode, it is because you consider this word as the name of a precise geographical space, which represents a more progressive part of the world. And the evil is so deep, that it would take a kind of collective purging to make people, , aware that the West does not designate the same part of the world, depending on whether one is in Japan, in Pakistan or Cape To...
How did Africans re-humanize Europe?
February 10, 2020 03:30 - 8 minutes - 11.5 MBMy African cliche of the day is a word, a myth, which is called “The West”. If hearing this word did not make you blink during this episode, it is because you consider this word as the name of a precise geographical space, which represents a more progressive part of the world. And the evil is so deep, that it would take a kind of collective purging to make people, , aware that the West does not designate the same part of the world, depending on whether one is in Japan, in Pakistan or Cape To...
Season 2 Episode 18
February 10, 2020 03:30 - 8 minutes - 11.5 MBHow did Africans re-humanize Europe?
You/ We are not alone!
December 23, 2019 03:30 - 8 minutes - 11.1 MBHello everyone, and welcome aboard the Sankofa for the last flight of 2019. A somewhat special flight which will reflect on the past 10 months of flying the Sankofa, going through your messages, your reflections and suggestions, your plans, in short, in this flight you are in the spotlight! To all of you, May the new year bring you peace and confidence in yourself, in ourselves, because, as you just heard in all the messages, YOU ARE NOT ALONE, WE ARE NOT ALONE, IN YOUR LOVE FOR AFRICA.
You/ We are not alone.....searching for Africa's stolen dignity!
December 23, 2019 03:30 - 8 minutes - 11.1 MBHello everyone, and welcome aboard the Sankofa for the last flight of 2019. A somewhat special flight which will reflect on the past 10 months of flying the Sankofa, going through your messages, your reflections and suggestions, your plans, in short, in this flight you are in the spotlight! To all of you, May the new year bring you peace and confidence in yourself, in ourselves, because, as you just heard in all the messages, YOU ARE NOT ALONE, WE ARE NOT ALONE, IN YOUR LOVE FOR AFRICA.
S4 E17: You/ We are not alone.... searching for Africa's stolen dignity!
December 23, 2019 03:30 - 8 minutes - 11.1 MBHello everyone, and welcome aboard the Sankofa for the last flight of 2019. A somewhat special flight which will reflect on the past 10 months of flying the Sankofa, going through your messages, your reflections and suggestions, your plans, in short, in this flight you are in the spotlight! To all of you, May the new year bring you peace and confidence in yourself, in ourselves, because, as you just heard in all the messages, YOU ARE NOT ALONE, WE ARE NOT ALONE, IN YOUR LOVE FOR AFRICA.
Thiaroye 1944: More than a colonial massacre... an impossible mourning!
December 16, 2019 03:00 - 7 minutes - 10.2 MB01 December 1944. We are a few kilometers away from Dakar. The surrounding villages are encircled. It is 5.30 in the morning in a French military camp. Tanks are put in place. Horses too. And finally, a group of armed soldiers is getting ready. Looks like a firing squad. A first burst leaves. Then another one... totally disarmed soldiers fall by tens, by the hundreds even. This is not a Ridley Scott movie. No, it is the story of a group of soldiers, Senegalese skirmishers who had just re...
Thiaroye 1944: More than a colonial massacre, an impossible mourning.
December 16, 2019 03:00 - 7 minutes - 10.2 MB01 December 1944. We are a few kilometers away from Dakar. The surrounding villages are encircled. It is 5.30 in the morning in a French military camp. Tanks are put in place. Horses too. And finally, a group of armed soldiers is getting ready. Looks like a firing squad. A first burst leaves. Then another one... totally disarmed soldiers fall by tens, by the hundreds even. This is not a Ridley Scott movie. No, it is the story of a group of soldiers, Senegalese skirmishers who had just re...
S4 E16: Thiaroye 1944: More than a colonial massacre... an impossible mourning!
December 16, 2019 03:00 - 7 minutes - 10.2 MB01 December 1944. We are a few kilometers away from Dakar. The surrounding villages are encircled. It is 5.30 in the morning in a French military camp. Tanks are put in place. Horses too. And finally, a group of armed soldiers is getting ready. Looks like a firing squad. A first burst leaves. Then another one... totally disarmed soldiers fall by tens, by the hundreds even. This is not a Ridley Scott movie. No, it is the story of a group of soldiers, Senegalese skirmishers who had just re...
Decolonizing African heroes' books: the glorious lives of Senegalese "Tirailleurs"
December 09, 2019 03:30 - 6 minutes - 9.49 MB"Africa has cost us heaps of gold, thousands of soldiers and streams of blood; gold we do not think to ask them. But the men and the blood, it must pay us back "these are words from Adolphe Messimy in the daily newspaper Le Matin, September 3, 1910. This French parliament member was expressing his support to the project of French army General Charles Mangin, to make Africa, the reservoir of a great "Black army" for the future, a project developed in his book The Black Force. This book, consi...
Decolonize African heroes: the glorious lives of Senegalese Tirailleurs
December 09, 2019 03:30 - 6 minutes - 9.49 MB"Africa has cost us heaps of gold, thousands of soldiers and streams of blood; gold we do not think to ask them. But the men and the blood, it must pay us back "these are words from Adolphe Messimy in the daily newspaper Le Matin, September 3, 1910. This French parliament member was expressing his support to the project of French army General Charles Mangin, to make Africa, the reservoir of a great "Black army" for the future, a project developed in his book The Black Force. This book, consi...
S4 E15: Decolonizing African heroes' books: the glorious lives of Senegalese "Tirailleurs"
December 09, 2019 03:30 - 6 minutes - 9.49 MB"Africa has cost us heaps of gold, thousands of soldiers and streams of blood; gold we do not think to ask them. But the men and the blood, it must pay us back "these are words from Adolphe Messimy in the daily newspaper Le Matin, September 3, 1910. This French parliament member was expressing his support to the project of French army General Charles Mangin, to make Africa, the reservoir of a great "Black army" for the future, a project developed in his book The Black Force. This book, consi...
S4 E14: Speak White : converging struggles from Canada to Africa
December 02, 2019 03:30 - 7 minutes - 9.65 MBMy African cliché of the day is an incredible book, titled White Negroes of America, a classic Canadian literature that draws an astonishing parallel between the situation of African Americans in the 1960s and that of French Canadians at the same time. When Pierres Vallières wrote this book in 1960 while in prison in New York, had he imagined that 60 years later, the situation of French Canadians will be significantly improved, while that of African Americans would remain unsustainable in ...
Speak White : from Canada to Africa
December 02, 2019 03:30 - 7 minutes - 9.65 MBMy African cliché of the day is an incredible book, titled White Negroes of America, a classic Canadian literature that draws an astonishing parallel between the situation of African Americans in the 1960s and that of French Canadians at the same time. When Pierres Vallières wrote this book in 1960 while in prison in New York, had he imagined that 60 years later, the situation of French Canadians will be significantly improved, while that of African Americans would remain unsustainable in ...
Speak White : converging struggles from Canada to Africa
December 02, 2019 03:30 - 7 minutes - 9.65 MBMy African cliché of the day is an incredible book, titled White Negroes of America, a classic Canadian literature that draws an astonishing parallel between the situation of African Americans in the 1960s and that of French Canadians at the same time. When Pierres Vallières wrote this book in 1960 while in prison in New York, had he imagined that 60 years later, the situation of French Canadians will be significantly improved, while that of African Americans would remain unsustainable in ...
S4 E13: Mothers of liberation in Guinea: Chat with Pioneer Dr Nantenin Camara Barry
November 25, 2019 03:30 - 8 minutes - 11.7 MBWelcome to the second part of this fascinating conversation about the mothers of independence in Guinea, a story telling by a heroine, witness and expert of African history, Mrs. Nantenin Camara Barry, who speaks in this episode of the situation of Guinean women after independence, the need to connect African younger generations to their history, a connection that materialized well in this episode, with Tabara Barry being the English voice of her grandmother, our sankofa pilot of the day.
Mothers of liberation in Guinea: Chat with Pioneer Dr Nantenin Camara Barry
November 25, 2019 03:30 - 8 minutes - 11.7 MBWelcome to the second part of this fascinating conversation about the mothers of independence in Guinea, a story telling by a heroine, witness and expert of African history, Mrs. Nantenin Camara Barry, who speaks in this episode of the situation of Guinean women after independence, the need to connect African younger generations to their history, a connection that materialized well in this episode, with Tabara Barry being the English voice of her grandmother, our sankofa pilot of the day.
Life and fights of women in the newly independent Guinea: By Dr Nantenin Camara Barry
November 25, 2019 03:30 - 8 minutes - 11.7 MBWelcome to the second part of this fascinating conversation about the mothers of independence in Guinea, a story telling by a heroine, witness and expert of African history, Mrs. Nantenin Camara Barry, who speaks in this episode of the situation of Guinean women after independence, the need to connect African younger generations to their history, a connection that materialized well in this episode, with Tabara Barry being the English voice of her grandmother, our sankofa pilot of the day.
Fighting for FREEDOMS in Guinea: by pioneer Dr Nantenin Camara Barry.
November 18, 2019 03:30 - 6 minutes - 8.94 MBExpressions such as "the fathers of independence" and "One man, one vote" have become commonly used in African history. These expressions imply that only men liberated Africa from its settlers, and they relegated in anonymity, the thousands of women who fought nobly. To talk about this role of women, Sankofa is honored today to have a pioneer, a Guinean, a historian, who will pilot the next two episodes. Mrs. Barry Nantenin Camara, the first woman registered at the Polytechnic Institute of C...
S4 E12: Fighting for FREEDOMS in Guinea: by pioneer Dr Nantenin Camara Barry.
November 18, 2019 03:30 - 6 minutes - 8.94 MBExpressions such as "the fathers of independence" and "One man, one vote" have become commonly used in African history. These expressions imply that only men liberated Africa from its settlers, and they relegated in anonymity, the thousands of women who fought nobly. To talk about this role of women, Sankofa is honored today to have a pioneer, a Guinean, a historian, who will pilot the next two episodes. Mrs. Barry Nantenin Camara, the first woman registered at the Polytechnic Institute of C...
S4 E11: Decolonizing African Heroes' books: The paths to glory
November 11, 2019 04:00 - 6 minutes - 9.57 MBTaytu Betul, Dulcie September, Dedan Kemathi, Djibo Bakary, Moussa Traore, Robert Mugabe, Franz Fanon, Toussaint Louverture. The common thing between these women and men is that they are figures considered, rightly or wrongly, as occupants of the book of African Heroes. But how did they become a heroine or hero of African history? How do you get entered into this book? Through the front door or through a windy, chaotic, perverse path? or even one dug by a subtle propaganda of the masters o...
Decolonizing the book of African Heroes: The paths to glory
November 11, 2019 04:00 - 6 minutes - 9.57 MBTaytu Betul, Dulcie September, Dedan Kemathi, Djibo Bakary, Moussa Traore, Robert Mugabe, Franz Fanon, Toussaint Louverture. The common thing between these women and men is that they are figures considered, rightly or wrongly, as occupants of the book of African Heroes. But how did they become a heroine or hero of African history? How do you get entered into this book? Through the front door or through a windy, chaotic, perverse path? or even one dug by a subtle propaganda of the masters o...
Decolonizing African Heroes' books: The paths to glory
November 11, 2019 04:00 - 6 minutes - 9.57 MBTaytu Betul, Dulcie September, Dedan Kemathi, Djibo Bakary, Moussa Traore, Robert Mugabe, Franz Fanon, Toussaint Louverture. The common thing between these women and men is that they are figures considered, rightly or wrongly, as occupants of the book of African Heroes. But how did they become a heroine or hero of African history? How do you get entered into this book? Through the front door or through a windy, chaotic, perverse path? or even one dug by a subtle propaganda of the masters o...
ONESIMUS: The African Slave who introduced inoculation (vaccination) in America
November 04, 2019 04:30 - 6 minutes - 9.33 MBWhile the history of eradication of smallpox is now well known, one of the important figures in the fight against smallpox is much less known or even masked. While the history of eradication of smallpox is now well known, one of the important figures in the fight against smallpox is much less known or even masked. It’s not known if Onesimus lived long enough to see the success of this technique, since his contribution has disappeared from the history books on public health, as indeed mos...