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A special Sankofa flight for you...
My African Cliches (English) - September 28, 2020 02:52 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsHello, you, yes you, hello to you. You, who are still listening to me after 2 seasons of this podcast. This is a special episode to start this new season. An episode to ask you my listener; How are you doing? Did you have a good summer? Is everything around you fine despite the current pan...
Goodbye Season 2! Welcome to "My African Cliches, Le Quiz"!
My African Cliches (English) - July 03, 2020 09:08 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsHello dear friends! What are you doing this Saturday July 4th around 9pm Nairobi time? Whatever your plans, if you have 10 min on Saturday evening, then you will be delighted to learn about the latest addition to the “My African Clichés” family: My African Clichés THE QUIZ NIGHT This is a live...
Pleeease decolonize African public space!
My African Cliches (English) - July 03, 2020 08:23 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMy African Cliché of the day is a British man, called Lawrence. No no, not Lwrence of Arabia, but Lawrence Westgaph, a young British political activist, from Nigerian and Jamaican descents, who has set up a fundraising campaign to finally erect a statue in Liverpool to honor African slaves’s rol...
S6 E3: Pleeeazzzzz decolonize African public space!
My African Cliches (English) - July 03, 2020 08:23 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMy African Cliché of the day is a British man, called Lawrence. No no, not Lwrence of Arabia, but Lawrence Westgaph, a young British political activist, from Nigerian and Jamaican descents, who has set up a fundraising campaign to finally erect a statue in Liverpool to honor African slaves’s rol...
Decolonize African public space first!
My African Cliches (English) - July 03, 2020 08:23 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMy African Cliché of the day is a British man, called Lawrence. No no, not Lwrence of Arabia, but Lawrence Westgaph, a young British political activist, from Nigerian and Jamaican descents, who has set up a fundraising campaign to finally erect a statue in Liverpool to honor African slaves’s rol...
S6 E2: Cops Brutality towards African Americans: A problem for Africans?
My African Cliches (English) - June 15, 2020 03:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMalcolm X's words sound even better in 2020: "Their problem is our problem”. Ask Mrs. Kadiatou Diallo, the mother of the young Guinean Amadou Diallo, a 23-year-old boy, who had just announced to his mother who stayed in Guinea, that he had now worked enough to finally pay for his expensive unive...
Cops Brutality towards African Americans: A problem for Africans?
My African Cliches (English) - June 15, 2020 03:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMalcolm X's words sound even better in 2020: "Their problem is our problem”. Ask Mrs. Kadiatou Diallo, the mother of the young Guinean Amadou Diallo, a 23-year-old boy, who had just announced to his mother who stayed in Guinea, that he had now worked enough to finally pay for his expensive unive...
Cops Brutality on African Americans: A problem for Africans?
My African Cliches (English) - June 15, 2020 03:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMalcolm X's words sound even better in 2020: "Their problem is our problem”. Ask Mrs. Kadiatou Diallo, the mother of the young Guinean Amadou Diallo, a 23-year-old boy, who had just announced to his mother who stayed in Guinea, that he had now worked enough to finally pay for his expensive unive...
Britain abolished slavery: Autopsy of a British delusion.
My African Cliches (English) - June 01, 2020 03:30 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsEPISODE 30: Great Britain abolished slavery: Autopsy of a British delusion On the list of people who ended slavery, the British government does not appear high up on the list, if at all it appears. The people who ended slavery, the real heroes of abolition, were first and foremost, the slaves ...
S6 E1: Great Britain abolished slavery: Autopsy of a British delusion.
My African Cliches (English) - June 01, 2020 03:30 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsEPISODE 30: Great Britain abolished slavery: Autopsy of a British delusion On the list of people who ended slavery, the British government does not appear high up on the list, if at all it appears. The people who ended slavery, the real heroes of abolition, were first and foremost, the slaves ...
Great Britain abolished slavery: Autopsy of a British delusion.
My African Cliches (English) - June 01, 2020 03:30 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsEPISODE 30: Great Britain abolished slavery: Autopsy of a British delusion On the list of people who ended slavery, the British government does not appear high up on the list, if at all it appears. The people who ended slavery, the real heroes of abolition, were first and foremost, the slaves ...
S5 E15: Trilogy of Africa's impact on the world: What America owes to the Africans on the Amistad!
My African Cliches (English) - May 18, 2020 03:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMy African cliché of the day is a tribute to Repats, these African men and women of the diaspora who, like these valiant captives of the Amistad, sometimes give up a very a comfortable life, to return to Africa. According to a study by Inspir Afrika Magazine, their 3 main reasons are: the desire...
Trilogy of Africa's impact on the world: What America owes to the Africans on the Amistad!
My African Cliches (English) - May 18, 2020 03:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMy African cliché of the day is a tribute to Repats, these African men and women of the diaspora who, like these valiant captives of the Amistad, sometimes give up a very a comfortable life, to return to Africa. According to a study by Inspir Afrika Magazine, their 3 main reasons are: the desire...
The Great Return: What America owes to the Africans on the Amistad!
My African Cliches (English) - May 18, 2020 03:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMy African cliché of the day is a tribute to Repats, these African men and women of the diaspora who, like these valiant captives of the Amistad, sometimes give up a very a comfortable life, to return to Africa. According to a study by Inspir Afrika Magazine, their 3 main reasons are: the desire...
Africans in the United Nations: Samir Amin, the lighthouse in the night
My African Cliches (English) - May 04, 2020 03:30 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsIn the short list of Africans who have significantly impacted the United Nations, today I am featuring an Egyptian giant, giant way before Mohammed Salah, but largely unknown to the African public, despite having influenced the creation and transformation of several UN agencies such as UNECA, IF...
Disrupting the United Nations System: The Legacy of Samir Amin
My African Cliches (English) - May 04, 2020 03:30 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsIn the short list of Africans who have significantly impacted the United Nations, today I am featuring an Egyptian giant, giant way before Mohammed Salah, but largely unknown to the African public, despite having influenced the creation and transformation of several UN agencies such as UNECA, IF...
S5 E14: Africans in the United Nations: Samir Amin, the lighthouse in the night
My African Cliches (English) - May 04, 2020 03:30 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsIn the short list of Africans who have significantly impacted the United Nations, today I am featuring an Egyptian giant, giant way before Mohammed Salah, but largely unknown to the African public, despite having influenced the creation and transformation of several UN agencies such as UNECA, IF...
From Amadou Mbow ( UNESCO) to Tedros Gebreyesus ( WHO): Same battle?
My African Cliches (English) - April 20, 2020 03:30 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsFrom Amadou Mbow ( UNESCO) to Tedros Gebreyesus ( WHO): Same battle? My African cliché of the day is a vision, M’Bow’s vision of UNESCO. He saw UNESCO as a means to create a world order based on justice, dignity for all, equity, respect for diversity and the preservation of culture heritag...
S5 E13: Africans in the United Nations: Pr Amadou MBOW, the man who awakened UNESCO!
My African Cliches (English) - April 20, 2020 03:30 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsFrom Amadou Mbow ( UNESCO) to Tedros Gebreyesus ( WHO): Same battle? My African cliché of the day is a vision, M’Bow’s vision of UNESCO. He saw UNESCO as a means to create a world order based on justice, dignity for all, equity, respect for diversity and the preservation of culture heritag...
Africans in the United Nations: Pr Amadou MBOW, the man who awakened UNESCO!
My African Cliches (English) - April 20, 2020 03:30 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsFrom Amadou Mbow ( UNESCO) to Tedros Gebreyesus ( WHO): Same battle? My African cliché of the day is a vision, M’Bow’s vision of UNESCO. He saw UNESCO as a means to create a world order based on justice, dignity for all, equity, respect for diversity and the preservation of culture heritag...
S5 E12: Currency of beauty in Africa: the origins of colorism!
My African Cliches (English) - April 13, 2020 09:07 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWhat is your definition of beauty? “Is it a combination of qualities, such as shape, colour, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight” as defined the oxford dictionary? Obviously, definitions of beauty vary across countries, cultures, religions and language. Some are mo...
Currency of beauty in Africa: the origins of colorism!
My African Cliches (English) - April 13, 2020 09:07 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWhat is your definition of beauty? “Is it a combination of qualities, such as shape, colour, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight” as defined the oxford dictionary? Obviously, definitions of beauty vary across countries, cultures, religions and language. Some are mo...
The currency of beauty: to the origins of colorism!
My African Cliches (English) - April 13, 2020 09:07 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWhat is your definition of beauty? “Is it a combination of qualities, such as shape, colour, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight” as defined the oxford dictionary? Obviously, definitions of beauty vary across countries, cultures, religions and language. Some are mo...
Black ‘guinea pigs’ in history: the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study
My African Cliches (English) - April 06, 2020 03:30 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings“The United States government did something that was wrong — deeply, profoundly, morally wrong, it was an outrage to our commitment to integrity and equality for all our citizens. To the survivors, to the wives and family members, the children and the grandchildren, I say what you know: No power...
S5 E11: Black ‘guinea pigs’ in history: the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study
My African Cliches (English) - April 06, 2020 03:30 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings“The United States government did something that was wrong — deeply, profoundly, morally wrong, it was an outrage to our commitment to integrity and equality for all our citizens. To the survivors, to the wives and family members, the children and the grandchildren, I say what you know: No power...
S5 E10: The month of heroines: FEMICRITURE. A home for African female writers! (Part 2)
My African Cliches (English) - March 26, 2020 07:57 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsFOR AFRICAN FEMALE WRITERS.. ” You need to read to open up your world” is a phrase I often heard when I was a child. But in the era of so-called social networks, the supremacy of WhatsApp, fake news and Facebook pages, it seems that fewer and fewer adults are reading books. And this observatio...
The month of heroines: FEMICRITURE.. A home for African female writers! (Part 2)
My African Cliches (English) - March 26, 2020 07:57 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsFOR AFRICAN FEMALE WRITERS.. ” You need to read to open up your world” is a phrase I often heard when I was a child. But in the era of so-called social networks, the supremacy of WhatsApp, fake news and Facebook pages, it seems that fewer and fewer adults are reading books. And this observatio...
THE MONTH OF HEROINES: FEMICRITURE.. A home for African female writers ( Part 2)
My African Cliches (English) - March 26, 2020 07:57 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsFOR AFRICAN FEMALE WRITERS.. ” You need to read to open up your world” is a phrase I often heard when I was a child. But in the era of so-called social networks, the supremacy of WhatsApp, fake news and Facebook pages, it seems that fewer and fewer adults are reading books. And this observatio...
The month of heroines: FEMICRITURE.. A home for African female writers ( Part 2)
My African Cliches (English) - March 26, 2020 07:57 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsFOR AFRICAN FEMALE WRITERS.. ” You need to read to open up your world” is a phrase I often heard when I was a child. But in the era of so-called social networks, the supremacy of WhatsApp, fake news and Facebook pages, it seems that fewer and fewer adults are reading books. And this observatio...
The month of heroines: FEMICRITURE, a home for African female writers.
My African Cliches (English) - March 23, 2020 03:57 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsFOR AFRICAN FEMALE WRITERS My African cliche of the day is a Bantu saying which says I quote: "Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu",which means in French: "A human is human because of other humans".It essentially means that Our humanity depends on the humanity of our fellow humans. No individual, no grou...
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