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.

June 28, 2023: Jay Naidoo received an honorary doctorate from UQAM on June 9.
Amandla! Radio interviewed Jay on the following Friday, June 16, the 49th anniversary of the Soweto Student Uprising.

Jay Naidoo
On June 9, l'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) awarded Jay Naidoo an honorary doctorate for his lifetime of involvement in the struggle for freedom and justice in apartheid South Africa and more broadly after 2000 when he retired from South African politics.
Amandla! Radio interviewed Jay on the following Friday, June 16, the 49th anniversary of the Soweto Student Uprising. Jay tells both the story of the anti-apartheid struggle but reflects deeply on the current state of the world still faces tremendous challenges in the struggle for freedom and justice for all.

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