Episodes

  • S1 E1: Why a bilingual podcast on African History?
    Jul 12 2019

    A family podcast to share between generations the history of Africa and its implications for the world today.

    We embark on short SANKOFA flights which take us to revisit the wonderful and powerful history of the African continent, Africans and Afro-descendants from around the world.

    Get on board and let's travel, let's learn about Africa. let's love this continent and let's make it proud!

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    5 mins
  • S1 E2: How was the African pie divided (and eaten) by foreign settlers?
    Jul 15 2019

    On this day in 1885, the final act of the Berlin Conference was signed by European countries. It divided Africa like an apple pie, with no African at the table. While many countries got their share, the biggest winner of the conference was Leopold II, king of Belgium. This day marks the start of the systematic exploitation of colonies by the European masters. 

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    5 mins
  • S1 E3: From dictatorship to democracy in Benin Republic in 1990
    Jul 16 2019

    In 1990, Benin Republic was facing an economic and ideological and political crisis, after 27 years of a brutal dictatorship by Président Mathieu Kerekou. When the risk of civil war at a peak, the Benin people, despite the tension, arranged a national inclusive consultation that led to the negotiations of a peaceful resolution and transition. Benin then invented the principle of a national conference that would be replicated in multiple countries in the francophone region, with more or less success. Learn more about a conference which changed the destiny of the country and set a historical example of diplomatic finesse of Africans. 

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    5 mins
  • S1 E4: How did Egypt become a free Nation: The political birth of Gamal Abdel Nasser
    Jul 17 2019

    Learn about the Egyptians' people fight against colonial powers and the coup against the King that revealed Gamal Abdel Nasser

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    5 mins
  • S1 E5: Colonial Italy defeated by Ethiopia in 1896: the unforgettable victory!
    Jul 18 2019

    Wonderful Ethiopian Army defeated Italian army! Menelik and his wife, made history 

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    5 mins
  • S1 E6: Miriam Makeba: Freedom fighter and life lover!
    Jul 19 2019

    Zenzile Miriam Makeba, was born on March 4, 1932 in Jo'Burg, South Africa, and dead on November 10, 2008, was a famous South African Grammy award singer

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    6 mins
  • S1 E7: Mariama BA: Pioneering African Feminisms
    Jul 23 2019

    All her life, Mariama BA has tried to reconcile her culture, religion and openness to other cultural horizons. Rooting and opening have thus constituted the two sometimes conflictual poles of her itinerary marked with asperities.

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    6 mins
  • S1 E8: Prophetess Kimpa Vita (Dona Beatriz): she freed the pride of Africans ( well.. she tried lol)
    Jul 24 2019

    The Kongo's "Jeanne D'Arc"  caused the inquisition, a great deal of worry, she who freed the pride of the black identify and carried an emancipatory faith on a continent in prey of oppression

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    6 mins