Part 3 in the Stimela series. We discuss the colonial wagons that dragged in colonialism. The rail economy in Southern Africa and the music it transported. Insights on the current state of the rail economy.
28 Feb 2022
Stimela Part 2: Chitima Nditakure/Aboard the Train
Part 2 in the Stimela/Chitima Series. This episode is a podcast adaptation of the Twitter Space held on 19 August, 2021, discussing the migrations of literature, music and peoples through Southern Africa.
1 Feb 2022
Stimela Part 1: Vagabond - Author Interview with Lerato Mogoatlhe
Part 1 in the Stimela/Chitima Series. This podcast episode is based on the Twitter Space on 19 August, 2021, in which we discussed Lerato Mogoatlhe's book "Vagabond: Wandering Through Africa On Faith". This episode launched the subsequent Twitter Spaces on literary, musical and personal travel and migration across Africa and the diaspora. The series shall be adapted in podcast form in further episodes.
19 Jan 2022
Know Your Dictators - Author Interview with Sipho Mudau (Part 3)
Part 3 of the author interview with Sipho Mudau on his ebook "Know Your Dictators: A Little Book of Big Tyrants". This final episode is a podcast adaptation of the Twitter Spaces broadcast on Thursday, 28 October 2021. We discuss some common traits of dictators and cover dictatorships in Burundi, Sierra Leone, Gabon, The Gambia, Libya, Kenya and the US. The opening and closing song is "Regai Tione/Jealousy" by Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited with Leo Wadada Smith.
10 Jan 2022
Know Your Dictators - Author Interview with Sipho Mudau (Part 2)
Part 2 of the author interview with Sipho Mudau on his ebook "Know Your Dictators: A Little Book of Big Tyrants".
This interview is a podcast adaptation of the Twitter Spaces broadcast on Thursday, 28 October 2021 and includes brilliant contributions by speakers from Kenya, The Gambia, Britain, Djibouti, Zimbabwe, America and South Africa.
10 Jan 2022
Know Your Dictators - Author Interview with Sipho Mudau (Part 1)
Author interview with Sipho Mudau on his ebook "Know Your Dictators: A Little Book of Big Tyrants". This interview is a podcast adaptation of the Twitter Spaces broadcast on Thursday, 28 October 2021. My Twitter handle - @dangurangu (https://www.mixcloud.com/dangurangu) Sipho's Twitter handle - @Sipho_Mudau (https://www.mixcloud.com/Sipho_Mudau)
#AfricanLiterature #Politics #Dictators #Interview
9 Jan 2022
Chapter Reading - Green Shadows in the Kiya Kiya Republic
Immersive storytelling. Excerpt from Chapter 3 of "Green Shadows in the Kiya Kiya Republic by Farai Mudzingwa. #african #literature (https://www.mixcloud.com/discover/african-literature/) #fiction (https://www.mixcloud.com/discover/fiction/)
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