On the air since 1987, Amandla is a weekly African current affairs program founded in response to racist and misleading mainstream media coverage of Southern Africa.

Since then, the team has expanded the show’s mandate to cover the entire continent, to take stories past the headlines of the mainstream media to show the complexity, creativity, courage and vision of Africans as they confront their colonial past and neo-colonial present.

Other collaborators include Sama Elibyari, Mouloud Idir, Roberto Nieto, Zahra Moloo and Sophie Toupin.

May 10, 2023: Somalia Update, Black Cleopatra, Sudan Demonstration, Coronation commentary

Interview 1: Samaa Elibyari - Somalia is on the brink of famine while the world looks away. In parallel with this human tragedy, pirates off the shore of Somalia are proliferating. Media reports are all condemnation. Shawn Smith, a long-time blogger on affairs affecting Muslims around the world reflects on the situation.

Interview 2: Samaa Elibyari interviews Eniola Soyemi about her study entitled "Making Crisis Inevitable: The Effects of U.S. Counterterrorism Training and Spending in Somalia" dated 1 April 27, 2023, Ẹniọlá ́Ṣóyẹmí, Departmental Lecturer in Political Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Oxford, UK documents how U.S. counter-terrorism policies are having the opposite effect and ensuring that the conflict continues in perpetuity...

Duha Elmardi - Demonstration in Montreal on Sunday May 14th at Phillips Square in solidarity with Sudan.

PLUS
Cleopatra - was she Black or ?? the debate over the new Netflix series
King Charles' Coronation - commentary from Africa is a Country
Tribute to Harry Belafonte

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