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!

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A big African literature prize in an African language

Lizzy Attree

The Kiswahili Prize works to undermine the marginalization of African languages in literary culture. An interview with one of its founders.

Politics

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Like a bad rain year

William G. Moseley

The consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for African food security and the need for greater food sovereignty.

Politics

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No amount of foreign currency can justify this

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The dire, often fatal, conditions that African, and in this case specifically Kenyan, domestic workers are facing in the Middle East.

Politics

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The “alternative” money economy of Nigerian students

Jing Jing Liu

In Northern Cyprus, African students, many of them Nigerian, study diligently for tertiary degrees while juggling multiple income streams in a peer-to-peer system for collective survival.

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We are actually reading

Radical Books Collective

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Politics

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Patrick Lyoya’s life mattered

Lilly Havstad

The harrowing execution of Patrick Lyoya, a Congolese refugee in Michigan, and the unfulfilled promise of resettlement in America.

Ancestors

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The doctor from District Six

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Politics

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Against the youth fetish in politics

William Shoki

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Culture

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Is the academic boycott of Israel a violation of academic freedom?

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Culture

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African liberation and African scholarship

ICAADS Organizing Committee

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Ancestors

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Democraticizing money

Francisco Perez

Cameroonian economist Joseph Tchundjang Pouemi died in 1984, either poisoned or by suicide. His ideas about the international monetary system and the CFA franc are worth revisiting.

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Bookends: Khadija Abdalla Bajaber

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Politics

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The Mexico option

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Mexico is fighting to regain sovereignty over its energy future, and African Leftists would do well to look to it for some answers.

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World Refugee Day from the US-Mexico border

Boima Tucker

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Politics

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A new politics, from the ground up

Axolile Notywala

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Culture

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Punks of the Witwatersrand

Chris Webb

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Politics

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Land grabs and conservation propaganda

Aby L. Sène

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Ancestors

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The institution of Alex Magaisa

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Cricket, lovely cricket

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Culture

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More than a national pastime

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Further Reading