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.

August 23, 2023: Niger coup and ECOWAS threats
Kenya return of precious artifacts and archeology

Niger’s military overthrew the elected government of President Mahomed Bazoum on July 26 and the ECOWAS countries are threatening military intervention. Ameth Lo of GRILA Toronto provides insight to what underpins this turn of events.
Kenya – Samaa Elibyari speaks with Veronica Waweru, a lecturer in African studies at Yale and an archaeologist doing fieldwork in Kenya about the return of cultural artifacts and indigenous knowledge.

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