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A weekly news program providing information and analysis about Africa and the African Diaspora, hosted by Walter Turner.
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Africa Today – Amílcar Cabral’s Liberation Schools and the Fight to Build a New Guinea-Bissau [ENCORE] (opens the original)
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On this episode of Africa Today, host Walter Turner speaks with Sónia Vaz Borges about the legacy of Amílcar Cabral and the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde. They explore how liberation schools in Guinea-Bissau used education, political consciousness, and community organizing as vital tools in the struggle against Portuguese colonial rule, and what those lessons continue to offer today. A weekly news program providing information and analysis about Africa and the Afric
Africa Today – September 7, 2026 (opens the original)
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A weekly news program providing information and analysis about Africa and the African Diaspora, hosted by Walter Turner. The post Africa Today – September 7, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
Africa Today – Ivan Van Sertima: Rewriting the History of the African World (opens the original)
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In this previously aired special, Greg Bridges and Walter Turner honor pioneering Guyanese scholar Ivan Van Sertima through archival speeches, interviews, and reflections on his influential work examining African civilizations, the African diaspora, and the African presence in the Americas before Columbus. A weekly news program providing information and analysis about Africa and the African Diaspora, hosted by Walter Turner. The post Africa Today – Ivan Van Sertima: Rewriting the History of the
Africa Today – Sterling Stuckey on Slave Culture and the Foundations of Black America (opens the original)
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Africa Today revisits a conversation with distinguished historian Dr. Sterling Stuckey about his life, scholarship, and landmark book, Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America. Stuckey reflects on African cultural continuity, the roots of Black nationalism, his involvement in the civil rights movement, and his work alongside figures including Malcolm X, Paul Robeson, C.L.R. James, Walter Rodney, and Bob Moses. A weekly news program providing information and analysis
Africa Today – Libya After Gaddafi: Foreign Intervention and Instability (opens the original)
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A previously aired conversation with scholar Horace Campbell examining Libya’s ongoing political conflict, escalating foreign interference, and the consequences of NATO’s 2011 intervention. A weekly news program providing information and analysis about Africa and the African Diaspora, hosted by Walter Turner. The post Africa Today – Libya After Gaddafi: Foreign Intervention and Instability appeared first on KPFA.
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