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Guerrilla History: Intro to African Revolutions and Decolonization w/ Leo Zeilig
🕑 Added 2021-02-06 21:47:23 +0000 UTCIn this episode of Guerrilla History, we do a survey on African revolutions and decolonization movements so that we can dive deep into individual African movements/revolutions in the future, and call back to this episode for the broader regional/continental historical context. For this herculean task, we bring on Leo Zeilig, an editor of the Review of African Political Economy, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the School of Advanced Study University of London, and an Honorary Research Associate at the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Leo's books include Thomas Sankara (HSRC Press), Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Third World (I.B. Tauris), African Struggles Today: Social Movements Since Independence (Haymarket), and Congo: Plunder and Resistance (Zed Books). You can find his website at https://leozeilig.com/ and follow him on twitter @LeoZeilig. Also, follow the Review of African Political Economy on twitter @ROAPEJournal and their website https://roape.net/ .
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Foko
Also, kind of unrelated but interesting historical note - E.T. Mensah, a Ghanan musician and revolutionary, wrote a beautiful triumphant song on the eve of his country’s independence, titled “Ghana Freedom” - it’s on YouTube. It was heavily censored at the time but a very small number of pressings made their way to Europe and, I’d wager, across to the US as well. Take a listen and see if you might hear any resemblance to a particular tune written by Johnny Cash seven years later...
Foko
Great episode! I’d second a recommendation of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, as well as the Rev Left episode on Walter Rodney’s life generally. His practice of Groundings, some of which are collected in the volume Groundings With My Brothers, is in my opinion one of the best examples of radical educational praxis and something that deserves much closer study today.
