Uwazi Talks

About Uwazi Talks

This podcast exclusively focuses on politics. Why politics? First, it's the basis of policy. Second, I strongly believe that political enlightenment, empowerment and emancipation is the highest stage of human progress and self-development. In effect, this podcast aims to enlighten, empower and emancipate the listeners. Politics is a broad subject but this podcast presents analyses and commentary on the political economy of development, markets, economic/social policy, governance, economic diplomacy and geopolitics. It largely focuses on Africa.

Publisher

Sitati Wasilwa

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Sept 2020

Latest episode

15 Mar 2021

Latest episodes

3 of 7 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   15 Mar 2021TRANSCRIPT

   IMF's Shock Therapy for Kenya: From Bitter Memories to a Battered Future

   In February 2021, IMF advanced a loan worth $2.4 billion to Kenya. This loan was given with common neoliberal conditionalities such as increase in taxes, spending cuts and reorganization of state-owned enterprises. I outline a brief history of IMF's neoliberal policies, first known as structural adjustment policies, and second rebranded to poverty reduction strategy papers.

2. 

   22 Jan 2021TRANSCRIPT

   Post-Trumpism & Biden's Presidency: Possibilities for Africa

   What does the exit of Donald Trump and Joe Biden's presidency mean for Africa? More aid, vaccine diplomacy, supporting AfCFTA and intensification of the geopolitics of the 5G internet.

3. 

   10 Dec 2020TRANSCRIPT

   The State of the COVID-19 Vaccine in Africa

   The race for the COVID-19 vaccine is heating up. But how prepared are governments across Africa?

4. 

   15 Oct 2020

   Thomas Sankara: Murdered But Not Forgotten

   "You can kill revolutionaries but you can't kill their ideas". By Thomas Sankara. 33 years after his death, Sankara's ideas are a constant feature in Africa's sociopolitical and economic discourse.

5. 

   2 Oct 2020

   What About the Politics of the COVID-19 Vaccine for African Countries?

   As the race for the COVID-19 vaccine heats up, political forces will shape its availability in Africa and geopolitical relations with foreign states.

6. 

   9 Sept 2020

   "Beefing Up Security" and Militarization of Kenya's Civilian Institutions.

   Recently, a process was initiated to transfer the Kenya Meat Commission from the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Irrigation to the Ministry of Defence. Is this further militarization of civilian institutions in Kenya?

7. 

   9 Sept 2020

   Uwazi Talks (Trailer)

Inside a recent episode

IMF's Shock Therapy for Kenya: From Bitter Memories to a Battered Future

Published 15 Mar 2021 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Structural adjustment policies fail and fail fantastically because what do you make of policies that reduce spending on crucial sectors like education and healthcare and lead to thousands restrained from their jobs? imf just like the world bank of the world trade organization works on lame assumptions that what works in developed countries must work in developing countries but before proceeding with ims wretched policies i first examine the history a brief history for that matter of the infamous structural adjustment policies in a wider and narrow sense the structural adjustment policies have been in existence since the 1950s after the formation of the imf in the world bank just after the end of the second world war The policies became popular with the emergence of neoliberalism, the oil crisis and stagflation in the 1970s, and the debt crisis that ravaged developing countries in the 1980s. […]

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