The Africanist Podcast

By Bamba Ndiaye, PhD

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Episodes: 47

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This podcast investigates political, socio-economic, and cultural issues in contemporary Africa and the African Diasporas. It engages Africanist scholars, artists, activists, athletes, opinion leaders, business people, and ordinary citizens in a critical conversation about the challenges facing Africans and people of African descent.

Episode Date
Hospitality and Power in the Teranga Republic
Mar 09, 2026
Mapping Defiance: Dr. Mark Deets on the Casamance Conflict
Feb 23, 2026
Tanzania’s Political Crisis: State, Protest, and Consequences
Dec 08, 2025
Textual Life: Shaykh Musa Kamara and the Politics of Knowledge
Nov 14, 2025
Insistent Presence: Reimagining the Human Figure, Histories & Identities
Oct 25, 2025
Taxed to the Limit: Kenya’s Youth Uprising and the Fight for Economic Justice
Sep 17, 2025
Sonic Scholarship: Teaching, Research and the Academic Podcast
Jul 09, 2025
Africanfuturism vs. Afrofuturism
Jun 23, 2025
Projections of Dakar: A Conversation with Devin Bryson and Molly Krueger Enz
Apr 29, 2025
Shadows of Conflicts: Eastern DRC's War and Regional Tensions
Feb 27, 2025
Mozambique: Political Protest & Electoral Violence
Dec 27, 2024
Perfect Marriage: A Conversation with Ba Mulenga Kapwepwe
Dec 01, 2024
Coup Attempt in The Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jun 15, 2024
Insignificant Things: A Conversation with Matthew Rarey
Apr 17, 2024
The Demise of Senegalese Democracy?
Feb 10, 2024
Islam & Anarchism: A Conversation with Mohamed Abdou
Nov 19, 2023
Seeing the Unseen: A Conversation with Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi
Sep 16, 2023
Decolonizing the Mind: In Conversation with Ngūgī wa Thiong’o
Jul 22, 2023
PART-TWO: The Sentencing of Ousmane Sonko & Another Uprising in Senegal
Jul 03, 2023
PART-ONE: The Sentencing of Ousmane Sonko & Another Uprising in Senegal
Jul 03, 2023
PART-TWO: Why The Current Politico-Legal Unrest in Senegal?
May 26, 2023
PART-ONE: Why The Current Politico-Legal Unrest in Senegal?
May 15, 2023
Dispossession, Slavery and Inequality in West-Central Africa
May 03, 2023
Written Out of History: A Conversation with Joel Cabrita
Apr 23, 2023
Policing Social Activism in Africa
Mar 25, 2023
Opposing Apartheid on Stage: A Conversation With Historian Tyler Fleming
Feb 01, 2023
Discussing Scripts of Blackness with Dr. Noémie Ndiaye
Dec 26, 2022
Military Coup and Political Impasse in Burkina Faso
Oct 03, 2022
Challenging the Executive: Legislative Election in Senegal
Aug 28, 2022
Popular Uprising in Senegal: A Year Later
Jun 01, 2022
The Lemba People of South Africa and Jewish Genetic Ancestry Studies
Apr 11, 2022
The Muridiyya on the Move: Islam, Migration and Place Making
Jan 02, 2022
”Decolonizing Diasporas”: A Conversation with Dr. Figueroa-Vásquez
Nov 16, 2021
Military Coup in Guinea and the Arrest of President Alpha Condé
Sep 24, 2021
Idriss Déby's Death and the Political Transition in Chad
May 02, 2021
The Current Popular Uprising in Senegal
Mar 08, 2021
The Evolution of Hip Hop in Urban Senegal_A Conversation with Dr. Catherine Appert
Feb 10, 2021
Graduate/Doctoral Research Amidst a Global Pandemic
Jan 16, 2021
#EndSARS: Protest Against Police Brutality in Nigeria
Dec 06, 2020
African Philosophy and the "Existential" Quest
Oct 12, 2020
Pan-Africanism Today: Linking Africa & the Diaspora for Cultural, Economic and Social Empowerment
Sep 01, 2020
On Black Liberation Movement, Capitalism and Spirituality
Aug 22, 2020
Ajamization, Islam in West Africa and Racism in the Arab World: A Conversation With Prof. Fallou Ngom
Jul 29, 2020
Tragedies, Solidarity & Black Social Protest Part 2
Jul 09, 2020
Tragedies, Solidarity & Black Social Protest Part 1
Jun 30, 2020
Postcolonialism in Theory and Practice
Jun 03, 2020
Discussing an Africa and African Diaspora-centered non-profit organization: Bridge Kids International.
May 08, 2020