A podcast about life and politics on the African continent. By Kim Yi Dionne and Rachel Beatty Riedl.
Tedd Moya Mose, legal professional & Oxford Martin fellow , talks with fellow Basil Ibrahim for ep. 202 about sustainable energy systems & the dilemmas of developmental aspirations that remain tethered to carbon intensive pathways.
https://ufahamuafrica.com/2024/06/22/ep-202-fellow-basil-ibrahim-and-tedd-moya-mose-on-sustainable-energy-systems/
We have a special French-language episode this week with In an interview with fellow Expedit Ologou, Konaté argues that democracy should and will survive.
Happy 200 episodes of Ufahamu Africa!! We're excited to bring you a mashup with Global Stage podcast about the return of military coups in Africa. Thanks to Rash Sulganni for a great conversation with Joe Asunka and our own Rachel Riedl
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On May 29, South Africans voted! This was the first election in which the African National Congress was polling below 50 percent, and our guest Carolyn Holmes spoke to the possibility of the ANC being forced into a coalition with other parties.
Hear more of our episode with Carolyn Holmes, expert on South African politics at the UT, Knoxville political science department.
https://www.ufahamuafrica.com/2024/05/25/ep-199-carolyn-holmes-on-the-upcoming-south-africa-elections/
Bonus episode! We share a new article from Good Authority: "Despite Africa’s digital media boom, huge access gaps persist" written by Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz, Komi Amewunou, and Kelechi Amakoh. Read by Kim Yi Dionne.
https://ufahamuafrica.com/2024/05/11/good-authority-despite-africas-digital-media-boom-huge-access-gaps-persist/
In the last few years, militaries have carried out coups in numerous African countries. Does this signify the beginning of a much broader “coup epidemic?”
Ufahamu cohost Kim Yi Dionne discusses with Ken Opalo on this episode from Good Authority.
https://ufahamuafrica.com/2024/05/04/good-authority-dont-call-it-a-coup-epidemic-in-africa/
Today we have a timely French-language episode on and the country's newly elected president. Listen now to the conversation between fellow Expedit Ologou and political analyst Mamadou Seck of the NRG Institute
Ep. 196: Fellow Expédit Ologou and Mamadou Seck on Senegal’s Election (French) Posted on April 13, 2024April 12, 2024 by md963 Today we have an extremely timely French-language episode on Senegal and the newly elected president, which is hosted by one of our non-resident fellows, Expédit Ologou....
Imagine other worldly visitors have landed on Earth, trying to learn about and understand Ghana and its politics. Out now from fellows, Fu Asiedu and : a people’s political history and Ghanaian voices about the political present and future.
Ep. 194: Fellows Fu Asiedu and Ami Tamakloe and a People’s Political History of Ghana Posted on March 23, 2024March 23, 2024 by md963 Imagine other worldly visitors have landed on Earth and are trying to learn about and understand Ghana and its politics. This episode from our new fellows, Fu Asied...
Lawrence Were is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Sciences Boston University School of Public Health, where he does research on public health. In a conversation with Kim Yi Dionne, hear about the impact of health insurance and how it affects health outcomes.
The podcast is hosted by Kim Yi Dionne and Rachel Beatty Riedl.
Click the link in the bio to listen to the episode!
Out now: former fellow produced an episode speaking with Khaleelah Logan about Black African diaspora and its relationship with the African continent. Listen wherever you get your podcasts!
https://ufahamuafrica.com/2024/03/02/ep-192-takondwa-semphere-and-khaleelah-logan-on-black-african-diaspora-and-the-continent/
Introducing our new podcast fellows! Meet Ami Tamakloe and Fu Asiedu (a team!), Gopolang Botlhokwane, Basil Ibrahim, and Expédit Ologou. Thank you to all who applied!
https://www.ufahamuafrica.com/ufahamu-fellows/
President Macky Sall of has canceled the country's presidential election - originally scheduled for Feb. 25. Today's episode with The Africanist - Podcast and Michelle Gavin (Council on Foreign Relations) is about what's happening and what it all means for democracy.
We’re wrapping up our democracy panel from the African Studies Association
with a presentation from democracy researcher Paul Friesen on local democratic resilience under national autocracy. Friesen is a postdoctoral fellow with the Einaudi Center at Cornell University.
Ep. 189: Paul Friesen on Local Democratic Resilience Posted on January 20, 2024January 19, 2024 by md963 We’re wrapping up our panel on democracy from the African Studies Association with a presentation from Paul Friesen on local democratic resilience under national autocracy. Friesen is a postdoc...
A new way to listen: Ufahamu Africa is now on YouTube!
Ufahamu Africa is a podcast about life and politics on the African continent, co-hosted by Kim Yi Dionne, professor of political science at the University of...
Dominika Koter, political scientist at Colgate University, presents the next case on democracy from our African Studies Association panel. You’ll hear her presentation on Benin and a news wrap from Kim and Rachel on South Africa's accusations of genocide against Israel, the current events in the Red Sea, and recent court cases involving Ousmane Sonko in Senegal.
https://ufahamuafrica.com/2024/01/13/ep-188-dominika-koter-on-democracy-in-benin/
No episode this week. Thank you for being a part of our community in 2023, and we'll be back in your feeds in the new year!
For our final episode of 2023, we present part 2 of our African Studies Association panel on African democracy! You'll hear Alexandra Blackman present the case of Tunisia, preceded by our news wrap on elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a recent story of a stolen mask from Gabon.
https://ufahamuafrica.com/2023/12/23/ep-187-alexandra-blackman-on-democracy-in-tunisia/
Part 1 of our African Studies Association panel on African democracy - its backsliding and endurance - is out now! You'll hear Rachel Beatty Riedl's intro on democratic backsliding on the continent and a case study from Kim Yi Dionne on Malawi, written with Boniface Dulani.
https://www.ufahamuafrica.com/2023/12/16/ep-186-democracy-in-malawi/
Nisrin Elamin sits down with our cohost Rachel Beatty Riedl for a conversation on the ongoing conflict in Sudan. Episode 183 is out now wherever you get your podcasts.
https://www.ufahamuafrica.com/2023/11/20/ep-183-nisrin-elamin-on-sudan/
We speak with Aisha Namugga, Bashiru Koroma, and Louise Tekapso this week about climate change and sustainable environments. They visited Cornell University this summer as part of the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.
Dede Barpeen, Gibson Maina, and Ruth Sulaimon are health professionals from across the continent. We spoke with them about their expertise in public administration and health while they were at Cornell University this summer completing the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders.
https://www.ufahamuafrica.com/2023/10/21/ep-180-mandela-fellows-dede-barpeen-gibson-mainaon-and-ruth-sulaimon-on-health/
The podcast is back! Our guests on this week's episode give us first-hand accounts of the 3-day protest in Ghana in late September.
Antoinette Boama, Barbara Ntumy, and Benjamin Darko speak with guest host and graduate podcast fellow Ami Tamakloe about the protests, arrests, and economic strife in the country.
https://www.ufahamuafrica.com/2023/10/14/ep-179-occupyjulorbihouse-protests-in-ghana/
We received almost 1,000 applications for our non-resident fellowship! Thank you so much to all who applied.
Please be patient with us as we begin the review process! We aren't able to respond to any new queries over email and cannot accept any late applications.
Our student essay competition winner is Wisdom Adediji, an undergraduate student at the University of Ibadan! Wisdom reads his essay, “The Nigeria 2023 Election, Aftermath, and Way Forward to National Development,” for this bonus episode.
https://www.ufahamuafrica.com/2023/08/26/student-essay-winner-the-nigeria-2023-election/
Apply now to become an Ufahamu Africa non-resident fellow! Working remotely, fellows host and produce 4 unique episodes that are aired on the podcast with the support of a $3,500 stipend. Apply by August 30!
https://www.ufahamuafrica.com/call-for-applications-podcast-fellows/
Apply now to become an Ufahamu Africa non-resident fellow!
Working remotely, fellows host and produce 4 unique episodes that are aired on the podcast with the support of a $3,500 stipend. Apply by August 30 on our website: https://www.ufahamuafrica.com/call-for-applications-podcast-fellows.
We're on a summer break, but we'll be back later this year with episodes featuring at Cornell University, in conversation with Rachel Beatty Riedl!
Really enjoyed being on the Ufahamu Africa podcast at Cornell University with other Young African Leaders Initiative Network fellows. The focus of this episode was public policy and governance on the African Continent.
Our conversation with fellow Bamba Ndiaye and journalist Borso Tall continues this week, picking up where we left off on the sexual assault allegations against Ousmane Sonko and the uprising happening in their wake.
Find the episode (and the first part of the conversation) wherever you get your podcasts:
https://ufahamuafrica.buzzsprout.com/share
Out now: An episode from fellow Bamba Ndiaye on what's been happening in Senegal.
In our latest from fellow Kamogelo Tinyiko Theledi, our guests talk about the representation of minority groups in South African art. Mainstream media often tells the story of majority groups and those who don’t fit into those stories are often considered outsiders.⤵️
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In the last few years, militaries have carried out coups in numerous African countries. Does this signify the beginning of a much broader “coup epidemic?” Ufahamu cohost Kim Yi Dionne discusses with Ken Opalo on this episode from Good Authority. https://ufahamuafrica.com/2024/05/04/good-authority-dont-call-it-a-coup-epidemic-in-africa/
Part 1 of our African Studies Association panel on African democracy - its backsliding and endurance - is out now! You'll hear Rachel Beatty Riedl's intro on democratic backsliding on the continent and a case study from Kim Yi Dionne on Malawi, written with Boniface Dulani. https://www.ufahamuafrica.com/2023/12/16/ep-186-democracy-in-malawi/
Apply now to become an Ufahamu Africa non-resident fellow! Working remotely, fellows host and produce 4 unique episodes that are aired on the podcast with the support of a $3,500 stipend. Apply by August 30 on our website: https://www.ufahamuafrica.com/call-for-applications-podcast-fellows.
In our latest from fellow Kamogelo Tinyiko Theledi, our guests talk about the representation of minority groups in South African art. Mainstream media often tells the story of majority groups and those who don’t fit into those stories are often considered outsiders.⤵️ https://ufahamuafrica.buzzsprout.com/share
Fellow Maseke Rioba is back with another episode! This week, she talks to guest Njuguna Macharia, founder of the African Debate Academy, about the sport and art of debate as a valuable development tool for young people in Africa. Listen now, available wherever you get your podcasts: https://ufahamuafrica.buzzsprout.com/share
Today's bonus episode is a review from Carolyn E. Holmes who wrote about "The Inheritors" and "Until We Have Won Our Liberty" in a review for The Monkey Cage in 2022 - part of the African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular. Now, you can hear the review on the Ufahamu Africa podcast! #APSRS https://ufahamuafrica.com/2023/04/15/bonus-carolyn-e-holmes-reviews-the-inheritors-and-until-we-have-won-our-liberty/
Idayat Hassan is the director of CDD West Africa, an Abuja-based policy advocacy and research organization focusing on deepening democracy and development in West Africa. She talks to us on the podcast this week about the upcoming Nigerian #elections and all there is to be hopeful about - the possibility for change, engagement from young people, and a potential renegotiation of democracy. https://ufahamuafrica.com/2023/02/04/ep-162-a-conversation-with-idayat-hassan-about-the-upcoming-nigerian-elections
Bring your expertise and creativity to the Ufahamu Africa podcast as a non-resident fellow! Learn more: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10eOLy9wLC_nT54qM6-sUKyn4R9GORK4A/view Thanks to support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, all fellows receive a stipend for their work.
This week, we talk to Zainab Usman of the Africa Program at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace! She talks to us about about the importance of economic diversification and how it can contribute to a more climate resilient Africa. https://www.ufahamuafrica.com/1843379/10361457
Bamba Ndiaye is our guest this week! In addition to hosting The Africanist - Podcast, Ndiaye is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society for the Humanities - Cornell University and the Cornell Music Department. He's at work on a book project called "Black Social Movement and Digital Technology," and we talk to him about democracy in Senegal, his work on "neo pan-Africanism," and more! https://www.ufahamuafrica.com/
This week's guest, Nicole Wilett from Open.Society.Foundations, tells us that if the U.S. doesn't engage with African countries as our partners on broad issues, "it's to our peril as we look to the future of the world." Hear more from Nicole & Judd Devermont: buzzsprout.com/1843379/9646386
We're back with a new episode! Listen now to our fantastic conversation with Judd Devermont and Nicole Wilett about their new podcast, 49, from the CSIS Africa Program. Judd and Nicole tell us about the recurring themes on their show, and of course, recommend great books! Listen to the show now, wherever you get your podcasts! https://www.buzzsprout.com/1843379/9646386
On episode 91, we spoke to bestselling author Peace Medie: “My characters take on a life of their own and do what they want, and I have no control over it.” She is an academic and a fiction writer, and she spoke to us about her most recent book, His Only Wife, and her thoughts on gender and conflict in Africa. Listen to the full episode from April 2020: https://ufahamuafrica.buzzsprout.com/1843379/9173572-ep-91-a-conversation-with-peace-medie- about-gender-and-conflict-in-africa-writing-research-and-fiction-and-more
In wealthy nations, Covid-19 vaccines have been widely available for months, but countries across Africa are still struggling to secure doses. In episode 112, Kim and Rachel talk about what a fair distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine would look like as well as how to convince citizens to get vaccinated amid low trust in government across the continent. “We’re not calling for an equal distribution, we’re calling for an equitable one.” Listen to the full episode here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1843379/episodes/9173547-ep-112-a-conversation-between-kim-and-rachel-about-covid-19-vaccines
As we get closer to the return of Ufahamu Africa, we’re looking back at some of our favorite interviews! In episode 83, we spoke to Kenyan fiction writer Yvonne Owuor about development, political violence, and her writing process. In a sobering moment from the episode, Yvonne recalls driving through the battle-ravaged city of Eldoret in the violent aftermath of Kenya’s 2008 presidential election and seeing only a priest on the road helping terrified citizens get to safety. “There was no police, no one around … He had walked through the night. His feet were muddy, armed only with the rosary, collecting frightened people.” Listen to the full episode here: https://ufahamuafrica.buzzsprout.com/1843379/9173581-ep83-a-conversation-with-yvonne-owuor-on- development-politics-storytelling-and-more
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