Africa Is a Radio presents #INTLBLK, Episode 1

By: Boima Tucker

It has been awhile since our last Africa Is a Country Radio episode. More than a year in fact! Being busy is no excuse, so I’m going to say that the real reason is we’ve been holding back so that we can bring bring you bigger and better things!

I’m happy to premiere today the first show for a new season from a new location. This is the INTL BLK show from Los Angeles hosted by myself, DJ Chief Boima and INTL BLK collaborator Nora Rahimian. This episode was a preview for our INTL BLK event last Sunday at the Ace Hotel in downtown LA. It featured a guest mix and interview with Nigerian-Angelino Tomi Tribe, and a guest mix from Afro-Panamanian-Angelina Francesca Harding. Enjoy!

We work like elephants, and eat like ants

Camilla Houeland

The weakening of Nigeria’s oil trade unions has a devastating impact on workers. Now workers are paid by Shell and others to sabotage union strikes and actions.

Politics

01.14.2021

Museveni and the Americans

Abdullahi Boru Halakhe

The United States must make the choice to side with the majority of Ugandans who would like to see democracy take root in Uganda.

Politics

01.14.2021

Stop selling out

Stella Nyanzi

Ugandan activist and politician Dr. Stella Nyanzi challenges a new generation of women to take up the struggle for political freedoms and revolution.

Culture

01.13.2021

Women’s liberation and media in post-independence Tanzania

Fatma Alloo

Fatma Alloo (of the Tanzania Media Women’s Association) on how women used the media and cultural spaces to organize and challenge gender norms.

Politics

01.13.2021

Removing a dictator

Nanna Schneidermann

How did popular music become the battlefield of Uganda’s future? And what are the consequences?

Africa Is a Country

12.24.2020

On Safari

Sean Jacobs

What a year. Stay safe, wear a mask, social distance and when the vaccine becomes available where you are, get vaccinated.

12.23.2020

A Port of Spain Christmas

Boima Tucker

On Christmas Day, AIAC Radio heads to Trinidad and Tobago to celebrate a unique Black Atlantic tradition. Tune in to Worldwide FM from 2pm-4pm GMT.

Politics

12.22.2020

The problem with generalizations

Sean Jacobs

Despite the media’s wish for a neat story, the African continent’s response to COVID-19 is all over the map.

Politics

12.22.2020

The legacy of violence in the struggle for South Africa

Sisonke Msimang

An excerpt of an essay, titled “Nongoloza’s Ghost,” in Lapham’s Quarterly. It’s published in partnership with Africa Is a Country.

Politics

12.21.2020

Renewable energy’s dark side

Seán Muller

As countries expand investment in decentralized renewable energy, its worth keeping an eye on who’s profiting.

Culture

12.18.2020

A Cuban individual

A new project from Cuban rapper El Individuo humanizes the Cuban perspective, inadvertently flying in the face of the United States Republican Party’s agenda.

Culture

12.18.2020

Notes on fake decolonization

Bhakti Shringarpure

What counts as “authentic” decolonization as the term takes over our social media and influencer bubbles? And how we can sharpen our activism.

12.17.2020

Diego Maradona, anti-imperial symbol

John Reynolds

For the peripheries and proletarians of the world—most of the world—Maradona is a symbol of defiance against the football aristocracy, corporate bosses and empire itself.

Politics

12.16.2020

We will learn for free and by force

Members of the Capitalism In My City project reflect on the commodification of education in Kenya.

Culture

12.15.2020

Tips from the apocalypse

Lizzy Attree

Speculative fiction by writers from Africa explore viral apocalypses. What can we learn from art on catastrophe?

12.15.2020

Dezemba

Our last AIAC Talk show of 2020 will be festive. Watch on Youtube, Facebook, or Twitter.

Politics

12.15.2020

Soft targets

Raymond van Diemel

What was behind the assassinations in the 1980s of two key anti-apartheid figures: Swedish Prime Minister, Olof Palme, and senior ANC official, Dulcie September?

Culture

12.14.2020

Nollywood’s political struggle

Wilfred Okiche

How has Nigeria’s film industry responded to the protests of #EndSARS?

Culture

12.14.2020

Our distance from dirt

Takondwa Semphere

Can we move from temporary shame about our endless consumption of unethically sourced jewels and smartphones to concrete action?

Politics

12.11.2020

Murder as order

Kalundi Serumanga

The Ugandan government quells public unrest with violence. What won’t it do in the name of “security”?

Further Reading