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• War-making as World Making: Kenya, the United States and the War on Terror (feat. Samar Al-Bulushi)

  October 9, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min

  What does it mean to wage war in a place that is not officially at war? For two decades, the United States has conducted counterterrorism operations across Africa—not through full-scale invasions, but through drone strikes, surveillance…

• Durban at 25: The Peoples' Conference that Changed Our Trajectory

  October 2, 2026 · 30 min

  In 2001, the world's peoples gathered in South Africa and forced a reckoning. The World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance ran for nine days in Durban—from August 31 to September 8—and it…

• Neo-colonialism in Somalia: Somaliland Secessionism, The Red Sea and Türkiye's Foothold in the Horn

  September 17, 2026 · 50 min

  Somalia is not a "failed state." It is a caged one. Three forces now hold the key to that cage—and none of them answer to Somalis. Somaliland's secessionist project, presented to the world as a peaceful democratic exception, is being…

• 27 Years of the African Union: Libya, African Unity and the War on African Sovereignty (Episode #9)

  September 9, 2026 · 1 hr 41 min

  On September 9, 1999, in the city of Sirte, Libya, African leaders adopted a declaration that would transform the Organization of African Unity into the African Union. Twenty-seven years later, we revisit that moment—not as mere history…

• Centering Sudan: Revolution, Counter-Revolution & The Logic of Empire (Episode #8)

  September 7, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

  In April 2023, a brutal war erupted in Khartoum and spread to engulf the whole of Sudan. It has since become one of the largest humanitarian crises on earth. Over 11 million people have been displaced. Less than 2 million have fled to…

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