The African Union's vision of silencing the gun by 2020 was conceived in 2013, at their 50 anniversary. There, African leaders pronounced their determination to achieve the goal of a conflict free Africa, to make peace a reality for all people and to rid the continent of wars, civil conflicts, human rights violations, humanitarian disasters and violent conflicts and to prevent genocide. In this episode, we discuss whether this ambitious goal is close to being achieved and what must be done to silence the guns in the African continent with Mohamed Diatta of the Institute for Security Studies.

Our guest for this episode is Frances Roberts-Gregory,  an ecowomanist ethnographer and PhD Candidate in Society & Environment at the University of California, Berkeley. She lectured on climate justice, environmental racism, digital media and gender justice at Tulane University and Bard Early College New Orleans (BECNO). Frances also consulted for the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice as the project manager for the Gulf Equity Water Corps Project. Her current research explores women of color, post-apocalyptic imaginings and state-corporate crime in Louisiana. She is a founding member of the Feminist Agenda for a Green New Deal and hopes to increase the underrepresentation of grassroots women of color in climate policy in the future

In this Episode of AfriCan Geopardy, we talk about maritime and fisheries crimes, new tools to tackle them, and explore the differences between criminalization of the poor and crimes. 

This month's episode discusses the sacrifices associated with being a woman/mother and a researcher. We share our personal experiences and grateful for the support we get from our partners. So, if you feel grossed out by breast-milk pumping, do not listen. Cheers, to all the mamas out there that rock!

In this new episode of AfriCan Geopardy, we receive our guest of the month, Dr. Dirk Siebels to talk about maritime security in Africa. Who hasn't heard about piracy in the horn of Africa, or around the Niger Delta? While many think maritime security could be summarized to that, in reality there is no generally agreed upon definition for maritime security. We define it as the absence of threat -- threats to seafarers, including fisherfolks and anyone that depends on the marine environment for livelihoods; threats to the state from other state and non-state actors. The maritime domain captures adequately, the interconnectedness of the human and national security discourse in that security threat at sea have implications for the security of the state and the people who depend on the marine environment for subsistence. In this Episode, Dr. Siebels talks about his new book: Maritime Security in West and East Africa: a tale of two regions, available at: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030226879

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