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December 24, 2021 Power Of The Streets: Ep7 - Stand Up
Student leader Ruth Yitbarek wants more Ethiopian women to understand their rights and speak up for themselves. She speaks about the Yellow Movement that continues to grow in Ethiopia’s universities and how it challenges abusive societal norms.
Read about the Yellow Movement here: http://www.aau.edu.et/the-yellow-movement/
Follow Ruth here: https://twitter.com/ruth_yitbarek
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25 min
December 10, 2021 Power Of The Streets: Ep6 - Where The Heart Is
How do you prove that the home you fled was unsafe, if you could never report the violence you faced there? Thomars Shamuyarira is a Zimbabwean migrant rights activist living in South Africa. He speaks on South Africa’s restrictive asylum process and the experiences of LGBT people from elsewhere in Africa seeking asylum there.

You can follow the Fruit Basket on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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28 min
November 26, 2021 Power Of The Streets: Ep5 - Taking On The Trolls
What’s it like being a vocal African woman online? Entrepreneur Carol Ndosi discusses the importance of women’s voices on the internet in Tanzania, and how her work led to the creation of support systems for women who are trolled on social media.

Check out Women at Web’s work on Twitter using #WomenatWeb
Check out the Carol and the Launch Pad’s work here: thelaunchpad.or.tz/
Follow Carol Ndosi here: twitter.com/CarolNdosi More information on Carol Ndosi’s startup, Nyama Choma
Festival here: www.instagram.com/nyamachomafestival/ To access the transcript of the show or find out more, you can go here: www.hrw.org/video-photos/podcas…ower-of-the-streets
Follow Human Rights Watch on Twitter (twitter.com/hrw) or Instagram (www.instagram.com/humanrightswatch/).
Join the conversation using #PoweroftheStreets to tell us how you’re speaking truth to power.
Follow host Audrey Kawire Wabwire on Twitter (twitter.com/akawire) or Instagram (www.instagram.com/audreyhrw/).
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27 min
November 12, 2021 Power Of The Streets: Ep4 - Truth To Power
It’s not easy standing up to the most powerful man in the country, but that is what Toufah Jallow did when she accused Gambia’s former president Yahya Jammeh of raping her. Toufah talks about her journey, from healing to activism. ·

Check out Toufah’s foundation here: web.facebook.com/iamtoufahmovement/?_rdc=1&_rdr ·
Watch HRW’s reporting on Toufah here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P0mQJyzosc
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23 min
October 29, 2021 Power of The Streets: Ep3 - Little Big Voice
Ugandan writer Rosebell Kagumire edits an African feminist blog. She discusses the importance of curating these voices and how allies with large platforms influence the current movement. This discussion looks at the media’s role in trivializing sexual violence and the growth of support for survivors.

Follow Rosebell on Twitter: twitter.com/RosebellK
Instagram: www.instagram.com/rosebellk/
Follow the blog African Feminism here: africanfeminism.com/
To access the transcript of the show or find out more, you can go here: www.hrw.org/video-photos/podcas…ower-of-the-streets
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26 min
October 15, 2021 Power of the Streets: Ep2 - Offline and Online
As a young girl, when Lusungu Kalanga saw inequalities in her community, she didn’t have a language for it. Today, she creates safe spaces for girls in Malawi. We talk about how online activism rallied offline organizing in Malawi’s #MeToo movement.

Lusungu on Twitter: twitter.com/Lusukalanga
Growing Ambitions: twitter.com/GrowingAmbition
Feministing while Malawian: anchor.fm/feministingwhilemalawian
Transcript of this available at: www.hrw.org/video-photos/podcas…ower-of-the-streets
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27 min
October 01, 2021 Power Of The Streets: Ep 1 - Power Of The Lens
Visual storyteller Kiki Mordi produced an award-winning documentary about sex for grades in Nigerian and Ghanaian universities. As part of a feminist collective there, Kiki continues to speak out against the violence women and queer people face.

• Watch the documentary ‘Sex for Grades’ here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we-F0Gi0Lqs
• Check out Kiki’s latest project Document Women here: https://documentwomen.com
• Follow Kiki here: https://twitter.com/kikimordi?s=20
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30 min
October 01, 2021 Think African Bonus Episode: Naked Protest
Naked Protest: Public nakedness has been documented as a means of political protest worldwide in vastly different cultural contexts. We explore naked protests in Africa, their origins and contemporary impact with the Associate Prof of Comparative Literature from Cornell University, Naminata Diabate, the author of Naked Agency; Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa (2020).
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2 min
September 10, 2021 Think African Episode 9
A Leadership Revolution: African states are often described as “irremediably corrupt; ‘hopeless’; ‘criminal’; ‘ungovernable’ or generally in ‘chaos’. But is the cause of these maladies an inherent inadequacy of leadership and governance? If not, what is? For the season finale of Think African, Dr. Ayak Chol Deng Alak joined the conversation. She is the Head of Research at the Strategic Defence and Security Review Board, an implementation mechanism of the revitalised South Sudan Peace agreement. She is a former deputy coordinator of the South Sudan Civil Society Forum, and co-founder of AnaTaban, a youth led political movement. She is a medical doctor, and a certified facilitator at the National Transformation Podcast Credits: Think African is brought to you in cooperation with the Heinrich Boell Foundation and African Arguments. Graphics and Artwork: Neo Rakgajane Guest Story Editor: Laura Bain Sound Editing: John Bartmann Soundtrack/Music: The Good People Additional Sound Recording: Dennis/Kampala Writer/Host: Jedi Ramalapa
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22 min
August 27, 2021 Think African Episode 8
Joy As Resistance: It’s a curious feature of autocratic regimes that forms of joy are usually banned. We explore how democratic governments in Africa are continuing in that same tradition. In this weeks episode we speak to Wanuri Kahiu a Kenyan Film Director and founder of AfroBubblegum whose film about same sex love, Rafiki (2018) was banned in Kenya.

Podcast Credits: Think African is brought to you in cooperation with the Heinrich Boell Foundation and African Arguments.
Graphics and Artwork: Neo Rakgajane
Script/story Editing: Rasmus Bitsch
Sound Editing: John Bartmann
Additional Sound Recording: Carl Odera
Soundtrack/Music: The Good People
Writer/Host: Jedi Ramalapa
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23 min

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