One Africa Worldview

One Africa Worldview

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One Africa Worldview episodes

  • The People's War Radio Show, Episode #36: Give us the land! Hands off the Bethesda African Cemetery!

    The Moses African Cemetery in Bethesda, Maryland, holds the remains of hundreds of African people dating back to at least the 18th century.

    Today the Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition is fighting developers and Montgomery County to stop the desecration of the sacred site as bulldozers tear the land to build a self-storage compound.

    We talk with Marsha Coleman-Adebayo and her husband Reverend Segun Adebayo about:

    • The brutal colonial kidnapping and theft of human and intellectual capital from the world's original universities in Africa to build the tobacco agricultural industry of the U.S.'s mid-Atlantic region.
  • The attack on and forced disappearance of a vibrant working class neighborhood of black farmers, quarry workers and small business owners that was initially founded in the years immediately after the end of chattel slavery - reminiscent of Tulsa, OK and Rosewood, FL.
  • The work of the Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition - comprised of several concerned organizations and individuals - to protect the Moses African cemetery and build a museum on the historic site to tell the story of Africans in America.

    • Marsha Coleman-Adebayo is the Pulitzer prize-nominated author of No FEAR: A Whistleblowers Triumph over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA, based on her work at the Environmental Protection Agency for almost 20 years, where she sought to stop the endangerment of African miners in Occupied Azania (South Africa).

    Reverend Segun Adebayo is pastor of the Macedonia Baptist Church, the last remaining institution from the early community of Africans, custodian and protector of the Moses African Cemetery.

    The People's War radio show is produced by WBPU 96.3 FM "Black Power 96" in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is hosted by Dr. Matsemela Odom and Muambi Tangu, bringing an African Internationalist perspective to the important issues of our world.

    57 min
  • The People's War Radio Show, Episode #35: The "white people's State"- pilgrims, proud boys, police

    Last week, 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse was released from jail where he was being held on murder charges after killing 2 people who were protesting the Kenosha, Wisconsin police shooting of Jacob Blake, an unarmed African man. 

    Rittenhouse’s 2 million dollar bond was raised through a crowdfunding effort that drew popular support from white people around the U.S., including from the CEO of the My Pillow company.

    Rittenhouse is associated with and influenced by armed white nationalist groups and individuals who are making a lot of noise around the country these days, threatening and carrying out violence against African, Mexican and Indigenous people and those who stand with us. 

    These actions are taking place in the context of the polarization between overt white nationalists groups represented and egged on by Trump vs. the growing resistance to state violence led by the African working class with some support from white progressives following the murder of George Floyd.

    On this episode of the People’s War radio show we talk about the roots of white nationalist violence - whether from citizens or the state - and how it can be stopped. 

    Our guest is Penny Hess, author of the book, “Overturning the Culture of Violence” and Chairwoman of the African People’s Solidarity Committee, an organization formed by the African People’s Socialist Party to build political support and reparations from the white community for the African freedom struggle.

    The People's War radio show is produced by WBPU 96.3 FM "Black Power 96" in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is hosted by Dr. Matsemela Odom and Muambi Tangu, bringing an African Internationalist perspective to the important issues of our world.

    58 min
  • The People's War Radio Show, Episode #34: Culture, the "war of ideas" and the Black Power movement

    2020 has been a year of African resistance - resistance to police violence, poverty and mass incarceration.

    This episode looks at the role that culture plays in the “war of ideas” - how books, movies and music can express the worldview and serve the interests of the oppressor or those of the oppressed.

    Aundrey Jones, Ethnic Studies doctoral candidate at UCSD, and Curtis Howard, early Crips member who was incarcerated for decades in California prisons - both organizers with "All of Us or None" ex-prisoner advocacy organization - discuss the political and psychological impact of:

    • Movies - Hollywood's "Blaxploitation" films of the 1970s, American Gangster, L.A. Rebellion films, 3rd Cinema
  • Authors - Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Iceberg Slim, Donald Goines, Chester Himes, Walter Mosley 
  • TV shows - Cops, America’s Most Wanted, First 48, Lockdown, Scared Straight

    • Curtis Howard is a writer, blogger, public speaker and activist from San Diego, California.  One of the earliest members of a local San Diego Crips set, Curtis spent decades in various California prisons including Salinas Valley and Pelican Bay.  He is the author of the popular book Cellmates and Cellouts, a collection of stories of life on the streets and behind bars, and the forthcoming book Crips and Politics. Curtis recalls the books found in the prison library that influenced his political development, including on Malcolm X and Assata Shakur.

    Aundrey Jones earned received a degree in African-American Studies from UC Riverside and has done extensive research on black cultural expression, policing and mass incarceration. His doctoral project, “A Dream Eclipsed: The Cultural Politics of War and Carcerality in Black Los Angeles” argues that "Los Angeles...signifies not only a geopolitical region enabled through war, but an entity whose total socioeconomic structure has depended on the preservation and reproduction of discourses of war” and makes the case that the Cold War, the War on Poverty, the Vietnam War, the War on Drugs, and the War on Gangs were all wars on Black people.

    58 min
  • The People's War Radio Show, Episode #33: Philadelphia - democracy for who?

    Philadelphia is credited with sealing a victory for Joseph Biden in the U.S. presidential race and "saving democracy". At the same time, the city is reeling from nightly protests demanding an end to police violence against the African community.

    This episode of The People's War radio show looks at the city's legacy of violence against the black community and African people's resistance to that violence - from Harriet Tubman's Underground Railroad to the bombing of MOVE to last month's police killing of Walter Wallace.

    We talk with Philadelphia residents:

    • Ikemba Bomani Ojore. Professor at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, Ikemba lives in Philadelphia where he was born and raised.
  • Jess, community activist, born and raised in Philadelphia.
  • Len Demmer, community activist and Philadelphia resident for 12 years.
  • Jihaad Lassiter, survivor of Philadelphia police shooting.

    • The People's War radio show is produced by WBPU 96.3 FM "Black Power 96" in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is hosted by Dr. Matsemela Odom and Muambi Tangu, bringing an African Internationalist perspective to the important issues of our world.

    55 min
  • The People's War radio show, Episode #32: Land, water, police violence and Black Power in the French West Indies

    The struggle for Black Power is reaching a critical point in the so-called French West Indies. Massive protests have been growing against the poisoning of the people, land and water of Martinique and Guadeloupe by continuing use of the internationally-banned pesticide, chlordecone, by plantation owners.

    Activists are demanding an immediate end to the use of chlordecone and reparations for the severe health impacts on the population and the long-term destruction of the natural resources of the islands. The response of the French government has been violently repressive. We talk with:

    • Madly Etile, activist, singer, traditional African dancer and a mother, whose son, Keziah, was brutally beaten, tortured and jailed for his participation in peaceful protests demanding justice for the people of the French West Indies.
  • Steve Fola Gadet, assistant professor at the University of the French West Indies, hip hop emcee, writer, and activist. Fola is from Guadeloupe but lives in Martinique. He is the author of Discourse on Neocolonialism, a 2018 revisiting of Aime Cesaire’s magnum opus Discourse on Colonialism.

    • We also hear directly from Keziah Nussier who is due in court next week for taking a stand against the plantation owners and French authorities.

    Keziah's statements and portions of Madly's interview are presented in French and translated to English by Fola.

    More information on Keziah's case can be found on Instagram and Facebook. 

    The People's War radio show is produced by WBPU 96.3 FM "Black Power 96" in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is hosted by Dr. Matsemela Odom and Muambi Tangu, bringing an African Internationalist perspective to the important issues of our world.

    57 min
  • The People's War Radio Show, Episode #31: #EndSARS: Necolonialism vs. a united socialist Africa

    Militant protests against police repression and murder of African people have spread across Nigeria, strategic oil supplier to the western world. Widespread reparations raids on stores and government warehouses along with attacks on police precincts and prisons have rocked the country. Lagos - Nigeria's financial hub whose population is 3 times larger that NYC - has been brought to a standstill, with curfews imposed and schools closed. 

    We talk with:

    • Luwezi Kinshasa, Secretary General of the African Socialist International. Born and raised in the Congo, Kinshasa speaks 7 languages. He is currently based in London and works as an educator and organizer in African communities throughout Europe and across the continent of Africa. 
  • Dr. Olufemi Taiwo, assistant professor of philosophy at Georgetown University in Washington DC.  Born in the U.S., his family is from the vicinity of Lagos, Nigeria. He is currently writing a book entitled Reconsidering Reparations, making a new philosophical argument for reparations and exploring links with environmental justice.

    • The People's War radio show is produced by WBPU-LP FM in St. Petersburg, Florida. It's hosted by Dr. Matsemela Odom and Muambi Tangu.

    59 min
  • The People's War Radio Show, Episode #30: Video gaming, black representation and capitalist exploitation

    This November, Sony and Microsoft will be releasing their newest gaming consoles, Playstation 5 and the XBOX Series X. It's estimated that by 2024, Sony and Microsoft will sell over 100 million of these new gaming units.  

    Africans are overrepresented as gamers but underrepresented as creative workers in the industry. Approximately 7% of whites and 11% of Black young people define themselves as gamers, but Africans are only 3% of the video game industry’s high tech workforce.

    We talk with Ushindi Watu, old school gamer from New Jersey, "I've been in arcades and pool halls since pinball", and Iquan X, St. Petersburg college student and avid gamer, about:

    • Derogatory representation of African characters in video gaming
  • Tech industry dependency and exploitation of precious minerals, like coltan and copper, from Africa
  • Challenges faced by young Africans seeking to use their technology knowledge and skills for positive change and creative expression

    • The People's War radio show is produced by WBPU FM in St. Petersburg, FL and hosted by Dr. Matsemela Odom and Muambi Tangu.

    59 min
  • The People's War Radio Show, Episode #29: Breonna Taylor, Mike Brown and the role of the grand jury in protecting the police
    Following the Kentucky grand jury failure to indict any police for the murder of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, we talk with:
    Jamahl Kersey, of the Kersey Law firm. For over 10 years, Kersey has defended working class people in a range of issues before the court - from criminal cases to the defense of people facing deportation. Kersey is also a community college professor of legal studies. 
    Robert White, a St. Louis-based educator, Black Power activist and juror in the "Black People’s Grand Jury" that indicted Darren Wilson for the 2014 murder of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
    This episode includes excerpts from Megan Thee Stallion's Saturday Night Live performance denouncing Kentucky Attorney General Cameron for "selling out" the black community, Cameron's response to the rap artist, Gil Scott Heron's 1972 "No Knock" song and clips from the 2015 Black People's Grand Jury.
    The People's War radio show is produced by WBPU FM in St. Petersburg, FL and hosted by Dr. Matsemela Odom and community activist Muambi Tangu.
    59 min
  • The People's War Radio Show, Episode #28: Black People's March on the White House, Black Power Matters!
    In the midst of a continuing pandemic, worldwide uprisings against police containment of the African community and a desperately contested U.S. presidential election, we turn to Chairman Omali Yeshitela for answers and a way forward. Chairman Omali is:
    Leader and founder of the Uhuru Movement over 5 decades, initiated campaigns to defend the democratic rights of the African community, to organize and raise up African women, to mobilize opposition to U.S. wars and to popularize the demand for reparations to African people
    Author of numerous books developing the theory and strategy of African Internationalism
    Winner of the 2019 Oxford Union Africa debate
    Chairman of the African Socialist International with branches throughout the U.S., Europe, the Caribbean and on the continent of Africa
    The People's War Radio Show is produced by WBPU 96.3 FM radio in St. Petersburg, Florida and is hosted by Dr. Matsemela Odom and African community organizer Muambi Tangu.
    58 min
  • The People's War Radio Show, Episode #27: The shooting of L.A. Sheriffs in Compton - response to legacy of police violence?
    On September 12, 2020, a gunman opened fire on two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputies at the Willowbrook Blue Line Transit Station in Compton California. 
    The deputies were taken to the nearby St. Francis Medical Center in the neighboring city of Lynwood. Outside of the hospital, protestors gathered, not in support of the officers but in support of the community, chanting, “We hope they die.”
    As we record this program, there have been no arrests in the case. Many residents assume that this attack on the police were in response to a series of recent police killings and to the decades of police containment and abuse against the black community of Compton and Los Angeles.
    In this episode we talk with two community activists about the existence of gangs operating inside of the L.A. Sheriff's Department, the allegations that the recent killing of a black bicyclist was a gang initiation test and the "no comment" response of the black community to offers of "snitch money" in the case of the shooting of the 2 Sheriff's Deputies.
    Tasha Williamson is a celebrated activist and powerful advocate of justice against white power in police departments. She is co-founder of Hotels Vouchers for all and San Diego Compassion Project. In early 2020, she ran for mayor of San Diego winning over 25,000 votes. Tasha Williamson has fought in courts, on the streets, in city hall, in front of city official’s residence to expose the relationship between the policies of violence and imprisonment against Africans and the corruption within these departments.
    Alfred Durr, a father of 6 children born and raised in Compton, California. A former standout athlete, Alfred has seen the best and the worst of life in Compton, California. Currently, Alfred is the co-host of the podcast CoolTalk where they discuss everything from sports to politics. Alfred is a fierce advocate for the African working class on everything from his opposition to gang profiling to his support for healthy eating and exercise.
    57 min

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