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Right place right time (RPRT) is a history based podcast with an intention of capturing accounts to epoch moments that have shaped history and impacted our lives today.Africans in the past were known to be a very oral society and history was passed down from generation to…
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Brenda Fassie: The Rebellious Voice That Defied Apartheid - Dr. Mbali Mazibuko (opens the original)
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From the streets of Langa, Cape Town, she became one of Africa’s most unforgettable performers, moving to Johannesburg as a teenager and building a career that would take her from township clubs to the biggest stages on the continent.She sang about love, sex, politics, poverty, freedom and life itself. She could make millions dance, provoke a government, challenge expectations of Black womanhood and become a cultural icon all at once.But behind the outrageous performances, the controversy and th
How Thomas Sankara Transformed Burkina Faso in Just 4 Years - Dr. Ernest Harsch (opens the original)
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By October 1987, Thomas Sankara was far more than Burkina Faso's president—he was a revolutionary force whose vision redefined African independence. He renamed Upper Volta to Burkina Faso (“Land of Upright People”), challenged foreign debt, championed women's rights, and tried to remake a nation from the ground up. But confronting entrenched interests carried a deadly price. Just days before Sankara’s assassination, research scholar Dr. Ernest Harsch sat down with him in Ouagadougou for a rare i
Dag Hammarskjöld, The Congo & the Mystery of Ndola - Prof Henning Melber (opens the original)
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By 1961, the Congo Crisis had become far more than a struggle over the future of a newly independent country.The Congo had become a battleground for competing political interests, Cold War rivalry, Belgian influence and the struggle over control of the mineral-rich province of Katanga. At the centre of the international response was Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary-General of the United Nations, increasingly caught between governments and powerful interests that wanted very different outcomes.And the
The Congo Crisis Begins: Dag Hammarskjöld and the UN - Part 1 - Prof Henning Melber (opens the original)
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In 1960, the newly independent Republic of the Congo was plunged into crisis almost immediately after gaining independence from Belgium. Behind the political turmoil were questions of sovereignty, decolonization, Cold War rivalry and control over the Congo’s immense mineral wealth. At the centre of the international response was Dag Hammarskjöld, the Secretary-General of the United Nations—a principled Swedish civil servant who never expected to occupy the UN’s highest office.In this first episo
Julius Nyerere: Neither Saint Nor Tyrant - with Prof. Paul Bjerk (opens the original)
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Who was Julius Nyerere, and why is he still one of Africa's most respected and debated leaders? In this episode of Right Place Right Time, historian Professor Paul Bjerk takes us through the remarkable life of Tanzania's founding president. We explore Nyerere's journey from a small village in Butiama to leading Tanganyika to independence, creating the Union with Zanzibar, introducing Ujamaa socialism, and shaping Tanzania's place in African history.The conversation goes beyond familiar narrative
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