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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S3 E8: Welcome to the First Major Black Empire: Ghana Empire!
August 21, 2019 04:30 - 6 minutes - 9.33 MBWelcome back in our series of trips to the ancient African states. Today, the flight of Sankofa lands in a territory limited to the North by the Sahara desert and to the south by the forest, between the upper Niger valley to Upper Senegal on the border with White Africa. The first major black empire to emerge in western Sudan, its hegemony lasted from the 4th to the 11th century AD. Welcome to the Ghana empire, which was very different, and much larger than today's Ghana, which Kwame Nkrum...
Welcome to the First Major Black Empire: Ghana Empire #REPLAY
August 21, 2019 04:30 - 6 minutes - 9.33 MBWelcome back in our series of trips to the ancient African states. Today, the flight of Sankofa lands in a territory limited to the North by the Sahara desert and to the south by the forest, between the upper Niger valley to Upper Senegal on the border with White Africa. The first major black empire to emerge in western Sudan, its hegemony lasted from the 4th to the 11th century AD. Welcome to the Ghana empire, which was very different, and much larger than today's Ghana, which Kwame Nkrum...
S3 E7: The Meaning of Africa!
August 20, 2019 09:00 - 7 minutes - 10.6 MBMy African cliché of the day is a number. 1 billion. This will be the number of young people under 18 years old, on the African continent by 2050 according to the projections by the United Nations. Africa will then own 40% of the children on earth. This number is described as a threat according to the chants of neo-Malthusianism such as the current French president. But this number is above all, an opportunity for Africa, because it represents the promise of millions of African fantastic ...
The Meaning of Africa!
August 20, 2019 09:00 - 7 minutes - 10.6 MBMy African cliché of the day is a number. 1 billion. This will be the number of young people under 18 years old, on the African continent by 2050 according to the projections by the United Nations. Africa will then own 40% of the children on earth. This number is described as a threat according to the chants of neo-Malthusianism such as the current French president. But this number is above all, an opportunity for Africa, because it represents the promise of millions of African fantastic ...
The Meaning of Africa #REPLAY
August 20, 2019 09:00 - 7 minutes - 10.6 MBMy African cliché of the day is a number. 1 billion. This will be the number of young people under 18 years old, on the African continent by 2050 according to the projections by the United Nations. Africa will then own 40% of the children on earth. This number is described as a threat according to the chants of neo-Malthusianism such as the current French president. But this number is above all, an opportunity for Africa, because it represents the promise of millions of African fantastic ...
Welcome in the first black independent republic in History: Palmares Republic #REPLAY
August 19, 2019 05:30 - 6 minutes - 9.54 MBIn the second half of the sixteenth century, with the expansion of highly profitable production of sugar cane in the large sugar cane plantations of North-East Brazil, the importation of slaves from Africa began. There will be several millions in the following three centuries to be subjected to inhuman conditions of life and work, the symbol of which is the flogging by a special whip, called the bacalhau; those who watched successful Brazilian TV series in Africa know what I am talking about...
S3 E6: Welcome in the first black independent republic in History: Palmares Republic
August 19, 2019 05:30 - 6 minutes - 9.54 MBIn the second half of the sixteenth century, with the expansion of highly profitable production of sugar cane in the large sugar cane plantations of North-East Brazil, the importation of slaves from Africa began. There will be several millions in the following three centuries to be subjected to inhuman conditions of life and work, the symbol of which is the flogging by a special whip, called the bacalhau; those who watched successful Brazilian TV series in Africa know what I am talking about...
Welcome in the first black independent republic in History: Palmares Republic
August 19, 2019 05:30 - 6 minutes - 9.54 MBIn the second half of the sixteenth century, with the expansion of highly profitable production of sugar cane in the large sugar cane plantations of North-East Brazil, the importation of slaves from Africa began. There will be several millions in the following three centuries to be subjected to inhuman conditions of life and work, the symbol of which is the flogging by a special whip, called the bacalhau; those who watched successful Brazilian TV series in Africa know what I am talking about...
BLACK is not the new NOIR!
August 18, 2019 04:30 - 6 minutes - 10.1 MBThe episode earlier this week highlighted the numerous negative connotations that comes, in France with the word Noir, that translates into Black in French. One of the consequence maybe of that is that there is now a French tendency to avoid the word French "Noir" to designate a black skinned person in favor of the English term "black" This is well illustrated in a video put online in 2002 by the French association « Les Indivisibles » entitled "Do not be afraid of the Noir". For the purpos...
S3 E5: BLACK is not the new NOIR!
August 18, 2019 04:30 - 6 minutes - 10.1 MBThe episode earlier this week highlighted the numerous negative connotations that comes, in France with the word Noir, that translates into Black in French. One of the consequence maybe of that is that there is now a French tendency to avoid the word French "Noir" to designate a black skinned person in favor of the English term "black" This is well illustrated in a video put online in 2002 by the French association « Les Indivisibles » entitled "Do not be afraid of the Noir". For the purpos...
BLACK is not the new NOIR #REPLAY
August 18, 2019 04:30 - 6 minutes - 10.1 MBThe episode earlier this week highlighted the numerous negative connotations that comes, in France with the word Noir, that translates into Black in French. One of the consequence maybe of that is that there is now a French tendency to avoid the word French "Noir" to designate a black skinned person in favor of the English term "black" This is well illustrated in a video put online in 2002 by the French association « Les Indivisibles » entitled "Do not be afraid of the Noir". For the purpos...
S3 E4: Black, History of a color in France
August 17, 2019 05:30 - 7 minutes - 10.4 MBI wrote this short rap in french with french expressions that give a negative connotation to the word « Noir » which translate to Black or Dark in English depending on the context. I know in English, you have expressions such as black market, to blackmail, black sheep, but in French, there are so many of them that it becomes legitimate to ask whether they do not have a consequence on the perception of black skinned people in France. How did we get to such reality when it is well known that, ...
Black, History of a color in France #REPLAY
August 17, 2019 05:30 - 7 minutes - 10.4 MBI wrote this short rap in french with french expressions that give a negative connotation to the word « Noir » which translate to Black or Dark in English depending on the context. I know in English, you have expressions such as black market, to blackmail, black sheep, but in French, there are so many of them that it becomes legitimate to ask whether they do not have a consequence on the perception of black skinned people in France. How did we get to such reality when it is well known that, ...
Black, History of a color in France
August 17, 2019 05:30 - 7 minutes - 10.4 MBI wrote this short rap in french with french expressions that give a negative connotation to the word « Noir » which translate to Black or Dark in English depending on the context. I know in English, you have expressions such as black market, to blackmail, black sheep, but in French, there are so many of them that it becomes legitimate to ask whether they do not have a consequence on the perception of black skinned people in France. How did we get to such reality when it is well known that, ...
Black, History of a color in France
August 17, 2019 05:30 - 7 minutes - 10.4 MBI wrote this short rap in french with french expressions that give a negative connotation to the word « Noir » which translate to Black or Dark in English depending on the context. I know in English, you have expressions such as black market, to blackmail, black sheep, but in French, there are so many of them that it becomes legitimate to ask whether they do not have a consequence on the perception of black skinned people in France. How did we get to such reality when it is well known that, ...
The Amazing Tale of Yasuke , the African Samurai! #REPLAY
August 16, 2019 04:00 - 6 minutes - 9.46 MBMy African cliché of the day is like a fabric. A fabric made of gossips and lies, a fabric that wraps most Africans migrating to the West, into an insulting category of trying to abuse the social benefits system whereever they live. However, like Yasuke did before them, to surpass oneself in a foreign country, to defy isolation, xenophobia, prejudices, discrimination, and so and so , in order to reach their dreams, is a characteristic of the majority of the Africans scattered around the wor...
The Amazing Tale of Yasuke , the African Samurai!
August 16, 2019 04:00 - 6 minutes - 9.46 MBMy African cliché of the day is like a fabric. A fabric made of gossips and lies, a fabric that wraps most Africans migrating to the West, into an insulting category of trying to abuse the social benefits system whereever they live. However, like Yasuke did before them, to surpass oneself in a foreign country, to defy isolation, xenophobia, prejudices, discrimination, and so and so , in order to reach their dreams, is a characteristic of the majority of the Africans scattered around the wor...
The Amazing Tale of Yasuke , the African Samurai!
August 16, 2019 04:00 - 6 minutes - 9.46 MBMy African cliché of the day is like a fabric. A fabric made of gossips and lies, a fabric that wraps most Africans migrating to the West, into an insulting category of trying to abuse the social benefits system whereever they live. However, like Yasuke did before them, to surpass oneself in a foreign country, to defy isolation, xenophobia, prejudices, discrimination, and so and so , in order to reach their dreams, is a characteristic of the majority of the Africans scattered around the wor...
S3 E3: The Amazing Tale of Yasuke , the African Samurai!
August 16, 2019 04:00 - 6 minutes - 9.46 MBMy African cliché of the day is like a fabric. A fabric made of gossips and lies, a fabric that wraps most Africans migrating to the West, into an insulting category of trying to abuse the social benefits system whereever they live. However, like Yasuke did before them, to surpass oneself in a foreign country, to defy isolation, xenophobia, prejudices, discrimination, and so and so , in order to reach their dreams, is a characteristic of the majority of the Africans scattered around the wor...
Marley THE African Icon
August 15, 2019 09:00 - 7 minutes - 10.1 MBIf today in Jamaica, the tornado of dance made in the USA, makes the legend Marley less alive, Africans still celebrate the one who defended and sung them so much. For African youth, Bob Marley has absolutely made it to the hall of fame of black icons such as Thomas Sankara, Nelson Mandela, or Malcom X. His African successors such as Alpha Blondy, Lucky Dube or Tiken Jah Fakoly, continue their way of fighting for peace and denouncing hypocrites governments from the North and the South.
Marley THE African Icon
August 15, 2019 09:00 - 7 minutes - 10.1 MBIf today in Jamaica, the tornado of dance made in the USA, makes the legend Marley less alive, Africans still celebrate the one who defended and sung them so much. For African youth, Bob Marley has absolutely made it to the hall of fame of black icons such as Thomas Sankara, Nelson Mandela, or Malcom X. His African successors such as Alpha Blondy, Lucky Dube or Tiken Jah Fakoly, continue their way of fighting for peace and denouncing hypocrites governments from the North and the South.
S3 E2: Marley THE African Icon
August 15, 2019 09:00 - 7 minutes - 10.1 MBIf today in Jamaica, the tornado of dance made in the USA, makes the legend Marley less alive, Africans still celebrate the one who defended and sung them so much. For African youth, Bob Marley has absolutely made it to the hall of fame of black icons such as Thomas Sankara, Nelson Mandela, or Malcom X. His African successors such as Alpha Blondy, Lucky Dube or Tiken Jah Fakoly, continue their way of fighting for peace and denouncing hypocrites governments from the North and the South.
Marley THE African Icon #REPLAY
August 15, 2019 09:00 - 7 minutes - 10.1 MBIf today in Jamaica, the tornado of dance made in the USA, makes the legend Marley less alive, Africans still celebrate the one who defended and sung them so much. For African youth, Bob Marley has absolutely made it to the hall of fame of black icons such as Thomas Sankara, Nelson Mandela, or Malcom X. His African successors such as Alpha Blondy, Lucky Dube or Tiken Jah Fakoly, continue their way of fighting for peace and denouncing hypocrites governments from the North and the South.
Literature and War in post-colonial Africa
August 14, 2019 09:00 - 6 minutes - 9.65 MBMany works of Western literature retrace the exploits of magnificent military heroes. Reading them, well, I often questioned myself on the existence of exploits of African military heroes. Although post-independence African literature has paid great attention to the military phenomenon, it has had relatively little interest in the war itself. And speaking of the military, African writers have evoked the wicked more than the heroes. It is as if antagonism has developed between writers and the...
Literature and War in post-colonial Africa #REPLAY
August 14, 2019 09:00 - 6 minutes - 9.65 MBMany works of Western literature retrace the exploits of magnificent military heroes. Reading them, well, I often questioned myself on the existence of exploits of African military heroes. Although post-independence African literature has paid great attention to the military phenomenon, it has had relatively little interest in the war itself. And speaking of the military, African writers have evoked the wicked more than the heroes. It is as if antagonism has developed between writers and the...
S3 E1: Literature and War in post-colonial Africa
August 14, 2019 09:00 - 6 minutes - 9.65 MBMany works of Western literature retrace the exploits of magnificent military heroes. Reading them, well, I often questioned myself on the existence of exploits of African military heroes. Although post-independence African literature has paid great attention to the military phenomenon, it has had relatively little interest in the war itself. And speaking of the military, African writers have evoked the wicked more than the heroes. It is as if antagonism has developed between writers and the...
African Literature and its triple heritage
August 13, 2019 09:00 - 7 minutes - 9.99 MBMy African cliche of the day is an answer to Thomas Jefferson. To you who thought that blacks are a people without poetry, I would have liked to be there in 1784 to tell you that black Ethiopians wrote poems before your ancestors, in the British islands, learned from the Romans the Latin alphabet. And poetic tradition is so deeply rooted today among Kiswahili-speaking peoples in East Africa that newspapers receive letters and poems from readers almost daily. You need to know Mr. Jefferso...
African Literature and its triple heritage
August 13, 2019 09:00 - 7 minutes - 9.99 MBMy African cliche of the day is an answer to Thomas Jefferson. To you who thought that blacks are a people without poetry, I would have liked to be there in 1784 to tell you that black Ethiopians wrote poems before your ancestors, in the British islands, learned from the Romans the Latin alphabet. And poetic tradition is so deeply rooted today among Kiswahili-speaking peoples in East Africa that newspapers receive letters and poems from readers almost daily. You need to know Mr. Jefferso...
S2 E15: African Literature and its triple heritage
August 13, 2019 09:00 - 7 minutes - 9.99 MBMy African cliche of the day is an answer to Thomas Jefferson. To you who thought that blacks are a people without poetry, I would have liked to be there in 1784 to tell you that black Ethiopians wrote poems before your ancestors, in the British islands, learned from the Romans the Latin alphabet. And poetic tradition is so deeply rooted today among Kiswahili-speaking peoples in East Africa that newspapers receive letters and poems from readers almost daily. You need to know Mr. Jefferso...
African Literature and its triple heritage #REPLAY
August 13, 2019 09:00 - 7 minutes - 9.99 MBMy African cliche of the day is an answer to Thomas Jefferson. To you who thought that blacks are a people without poetry, I would have liked to be there in 1784 to tell you that black Ethiopians wrote poems before your ancestors, in the British islands, learned from the Romans the Latin alphabet. And poetic tradition is so deeply rooted today among Kiswahili-speaking peoples in East Africa that newspapers receive letters and poems from readers almost daily. You need to know Mr. Jefferso...
Who are the AFRICANS? My first attempt to climb the mountain!
August 12, 2019 05:00 - 6 minutes - 8.56 MBDo you know the "African Brother" syndrome? It often happens when an African, in a minority context, meets another African, (in reality, anyone black-skinned is enough). Very often, these two people at least look at each other a little longer; sometimes they make a discreet sign of recognition, or even outright, begin to call each other, my brother or my sister, just before asking the fateful question, "So where are you from? Welcome to a Sankofa journey to the heart of the provocative que...
Who are the Africans? #REPLAY
August 12, 2019 05:00 - 6 minutes - 8.56 MBDo you know the "African Brother" syndrome? It often happens when an African, in a minority context, meets another African, (in reality, anyone black-skinned is enough). Very often, these two people at least look at each other a little longer; sometimes they make a discreet sign of recognition, or even outright, begin to call each other, my brother or my sister, just before asking the fateful question, "So where are you from? Welcome to a Sankofa journey to the heart of the provocative que...
Who are the AFRICANS?
August 12, 2019 05:00 - 6 minutes - 8.56 MBDo you know the "African Brother" syndrome? It often happens when an African, in a minority context, meets another African, (in reality, anyone black-skinned is enough). Very often, these two people at least look at each other a little longer; sometimes they make a discreet sign of recognition, or even outright, begin to call each other, my brother or my sister, just before asking the fateful question, "So where are you from? Welcome to a Sankofa journey to the heart of the provocative que...
S2 E14: Who are the AFRICANS? My first attempt to climb the mountain!
August 12, 2019 05:00 - 6 minutes - 8.56 MBDo you know the "African Brother" syndrome? It often happens when an African, in a minority context, meets another African, (in reality, anyone black-skinned is enough). Very often, these two people at least look at each other a little longer; sometimes they make a discreet sign of recognition, or even outright, begin to call each other, my brother or my sister, just before asking the fateful question, "So where are you from? Welcome to a Sankofa journey to the heart of the provocative que...
Kwame Nkrumah: The leader Africa never understood.
August 11, 2019 05:30 - 6 minutes - 9.71 MBHis country for which he took all the risks, stabbed him with a mortal wound in his heart, the most wicked wound. And he fought alone against death, until the last hour, in this infirmary of Bucharest in Romania. Such a death is a betrayal, a denial of which Ghana and Africa as a whole were guilty, as put by a local journalist , in an article entitled "Nkrumah, the leader we never understood."
S2 E13: Kwame Nkrumah: The leader Africa never understood.
August 11, 2019 05:30 - 6 minutes - 9.71 MBHis country for which he took all the risks, stabbed him with a mortal wound in his heart, the most wicked wound. And he fought alone against death, until the last hour, in this infirmary of Bucharest in Romania. Such a death is a betrayal, a denial of which Ghana and Africa as a whole were guilty, as put by a local journalist , in an article entitled "Nkrumah, the leader we never understood."
Kwame Nkrumah: The leader Africa never understood. #REPLAY
August 11, 2019 05:30 - 6 minutes - 9.71 MBHis country for which he took all the risks, stabbed him with a mortal wound in his heart, the most wicked wound. And he fought alone against death, until the last hour, in this infirmary of Bucharest in Romania. Such a death is a betrayal, a denial of which Ghana and Africa as a whole were guilty, as put by a local journalist , in an article entitled "Nkrumah, the leader we never understood."
How the Togolese independence became a nightmare!
August 10, 2019 09:00 - 7 minutes - 9.65 MBI take you today into the mazes of the abrasive history of Togo, this German colony that gained independence from France on April 27, 1960. Two days later, Sylvanus Olympio was elected as the first president of the Republic. However, on January 13, 1963, he was assassinated during a military coup. Many saw the hand of French imperialism, that wanted to get rid of a president who wanted his total freedom from France, including his own national currency. But we may never know why and who ha...
S2 E12: Togo's Olympio murdered: first parricide in post-independence Africa
August 10, 2019 09:00 - 7 minutes - 9.65 MBI take you today into the mazes of the abrasive history of Togo, this German colony that gained independence from France on April 27, 1960. Two days later, Sylvanus Olympio was elected as the first president of the Republic. However, on January 13, 1963, he was assassinated during a military coup. Many saw the hand of French imperialism, that wanted to get rid of a president who wanted his total freedom from France, including his own national currency. But we may never know why and who ha...
Togo's Olympio murdered: first parricide in post-independence Africa
August 10, 2019 09:00 - 7 minutes - 9.65 MBI take you today into the mazes of the abrasive history of Togo, this German colony that gained independence from France on April 27, 1960. Two days later, Sylvanus Olympio was elected as the first president of the Republic. However, on January 13, 1963, he was assassinated during a military coup. Many saw the hand of French imperialism, that wanted to get rid of a president who wanted his total freedom from France, including his own national currency. But we may never know why and who ha...
How the Togolese independence became a nightmare! #REPLAY
August 10, 2019 09:00 - 7 minutes - 9.65 MBI take you today into the mazes of the abrasive history of Togo, this German colony that gained independence from France on April 27, 1960. Two days later, Sylvanus Olympio was elected as the first president of the Republic. However, on January 13, 1963, he was assassinated during a military coup. Many saw the hand of French imperialism, that wanted to get rid of a president who wanted his total freedom from France, including his own national currency. But we may never know why and who ha...
Come and marvel at Shona people genius: #REPLAY
August 09, 2019 05:30 - 6 minutes - 8.81 MBIt took quite some time for Western researchers to finally accept evidence that these monumental ruins are of, and constitute a unique testimony to the highly developed Shona civilization in the african Middle Age. My African cliché of the day is an exhortation, for all African tourists and the diaspora, so they take the same pleasure to visit and marvel at sites like that of Great Zimbabwe, as well as the Palace of Versailles or the wonders of the British Museum, or the Aztec ruins.
Welcome to the First Ever World Negro Arts Festival! #REPLAY
August 09, 2019 05:30 - 6 minutes - 9.47 MBThe flight of Sankofa this day lands so in Dakar, Senegal, where we arrive on this 22 April, in the middle of the first ever World Negro Arts Festival. Neighborhoods have been cleaned, hotels have been built, a dynamic museum has even been set up to accommodate what must be the pan-African meeting. So welcome, take your pass and follow me in the alleys of the festival, which wants the reconquest of the dignity of black people. Quite a program !
Welcome to the First Ever World Negro Arts Festival!
August 09, 2019 05:30 - 6 minutes - 9.47 MBThe flight of Sankofa this day lands so in Dakar, Senegal, where we arrive on this 22 April, in the middle of the first ever World Negro Arts Festival. Neighborhoods have been cleaned, hotels have been built, a dynamic museum has even been set up to accommodate what must be the pan-African meeting. So welcome, take your pass and follow me in the alleys of the festival, which wants the reconquest of the dignity of black people. Quite a program !
Welcome to the First Ever World Negro Arts Festival!
August 09, 2019 05:30 - 6 minutes - 9.47 MBThe flight of Sankofa this day lands so in Dakar, Senegal, where we arrive on this 22 April, in the middle of the first ever World Negro Arts Festival. Neighborhoods have been cleaned, hotels have been built, a dynamic museum has even been set up to accommodate what must be the pan-African meeting. So welcome, take your pass and follow me in the alleys of the festival, which wants the reconquest of the dignity of black people. Quite a program !
S2 E10: Come and marvel at Shona people genius!
August 09, 2019 05:30 - 6 minutes - 8.81 MBIt took quite some time for Western researchers to finally accept evidence that these monumental ruins are of, and constitute a unique testimony to the highly developed Shona civilization in the african Middle Age. My African cliché of the day is an exhortation, for all African tourists and the diaspora, so they take the same pleasure to visit and marvel at sites like that of Great Zimbabwe, as well as the Palace of Versailles or the wonders of the British Museum, or the Aztec ruins.
S2 E11: Welcome to the First Ever World Negro Arts Festival!
August 09, 2019 05:30 - 6 minutes - 9.47 MBThe flight of Sankofa this day lands so in Dakar, Senegal, where we arrive on this 22 April, in the middle of the first ever World Negro Arts Festival. Neighborhoods have been cleaned, hotels have been built, a dynamic museum has even been set up to accommodate what must be the pan-African meeting. So welcome, take your pass and follow me in the alleys of the festival, which wants the reconquest of the dignity of black people. Quite a program !
Come and marvel at Shona people genius!
August 09, 2019 05:30 - 6 minutes - 8.81 MBIt took quite some time for Western researchers to finally accept evidence that these monumental ruins are of, and constitute a unique testimony to the highly developed Shona civilization in the african Middle Age. My African cliché of the day is an exhortation, for all African tourists and the diaspora, so they take the same pleasure to visit and marvel at sites like that of Great Zimbabwe, as well as the Palace of Versailles or the wonders of the British Museum, or the Aztec ruins.
S2 E9: One country, Two independences, Four baptisms...and Bob Marley!
August 09, 2019 04:30 - 7 minutes - 11.4 MBWhat if you were asked to rename certain African countries? thoseAfrican cities that still carry, their colonial names.. It is as if France was to bear a name chosen under German occupation during the second World war. The small village of N'Tamo for example, renamed Brazzaville by explorer Savorgnan de Brazza, has never recovered its original name. Fortunately, its twin city on the other side of the river, recovered its real name Kinshasa (originally Nshasha) erasing from the maps, Leopo...
One country, Two independences, Four baptisms...and Bob Marley!
August 09, 2019 04:30 - 7 minutes - 11.4 MBWhat if you were asked to rename certain African countries? thoseAfrican cities that still carry, their colonial names.. It is as if France was to bear a name chosen under German occupation during the second World war. The small village of N'Tamo for example, renamed Brazzaville by explorer Savorgnan de Brazza, has never recovered its original name. Fortunately, its twin city on the other side of the river, recovered its real name Kinshasa (originally Nshasha) erasing from the maps, Leopo...