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 24, 2023: Amazigh Studies, George Floyd, Eritrean Independence Celebrations

Amazigh Studies is a burgeoning field that intersects with Arabic, Francophone, Middle Eastern and African studies. But why is it absent in Anglophone academia?
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, was killed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, while being arrested on suspicion of using a counterfeit bill.
On May 24, Eritrea celebrated its Independence Day. Dawit Demoz, international development professional, community organizer and refugee advocate in Toronto called for Eritrean’s to think long and hard about resisting those celebrations.

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