What are men for? No seriously, we're asking, what are men for? Join Aileen, as she talks with the NairoBEERns Podcast (Kiru and Cris) and Anneliese on some things love, most things men, and all things relationships

If you'd prefer to watch this podcast, you can watch us here:

You can find NairoBEERns here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAXr6AS1E9VGjXc3B4_Y1IQ

What are men for? No seriously, we're asking, what are men for? Join Aileen, as she talks with the NairoBEERns Podcast (Kiru and Cris) and Anneliese on some things love, most things men, and all things relationships

If you'd prefer to watch this podcast, you can watch us here:

You can find NairoBEERns here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAXr6AS1E9VGjXc3B4_Y1IQ

Join Kariithi and Aileen as they reflect on the Queen’s death, how Africa is perceived by the West and whether or not Africans do better with a monarchial/authoritarian form of government.

Digressions include Chicken as Currency, The Little Mermaid, New Girl, BDE, The African Union Anthem and the 2022 Presidential Election

Sources (to fact check or correct things said on the podcast)

Mehera Bonner, The History Behind Duchess Camilla’s Queen Consort Title Is Complicated, (2022)

David Peggs and Rob Evans, Buckingham Palace banned ethnic minorities from office roles, papers reveal (2021)

What would it take for a person of colour, to support a white supremacist government? Today, we find out as we talk about South Africa’s Operation Blackwash.

Digressions: Dolores Umbridge, Barack Obama Sr, and the legal thirst trap that is Thurgood Marshall.

Sources

Bethany Kane, 7 Cognitive Biases that make us Suck at Time Management (2020)

Boston University African Studies Center, Before Apartheid in Confronting Apartheid

Jeanne Theoharis, Martin Luther King and the ‘polite’ racism of white liberals (2020)

Matthew T Cole, Ivan Pastine and Tuvana Pastine, Incumbency Advantage in an Electoral Contest (2018)

Nigel Biggar, A Critical Response to William Beinart, “Appendix A: Historical Appendix to the Report of the Oriel College Commission on the Rhodes Statue and Diversity within the College” (2022)

Rebecca Davies, A chronicle of Apartheid's propaganda war on black America (2013)

Richard Bolton, The Architect of Apartheid, Cecil Rhodes, Falls at Oxford (2020)

Robin Wright, Mandela’s Dream for South Africa Is in Ruins (2021)

Ron Nixon, South Africa's Global Propaganda War (2015)

Rosie Tobutt, Who Was Cape Town's Cecil Rhodes? (2016)

Sheila M Hopkins, An Analysis of US South African Relations Analysis of US South African Relations in the 1980s: Has Engagement Been Constructive? (1985)

South African History Online, A history of Apartheid in South Africa

William Beinart, Cecil Rhodes: Racial Segregation in the Cape Colony and Violence in Zimbabwe (2022)

In this episode, Aileen and her guest, Simran, discuss the climate; How we got here, who's to blame, and what we can do about it.

TL;DR, We have screwed the pooch five ways from Sunday. But we still got Saturday, and we can minimise the damage. Maybe...

Digressions include wheat and supa loaf

Image Credit and Explanation: NASA/GSFC. In 2015, NASA’s supercomputer model illustrated the simulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The image was supposed to help scientists study the movement of CO2 in the atmosphere, and understand what will happen if the land and ocean can no longer absorb half of all climate-warming CO2 emissions. In short, bad things. Bad things will happen.

Aileen is back is back to finish of this series on Population Control in Africa. And. It. Gets. BLEAK. I am talking “bribing-women-to-get-sterilized,” “inserting-IUDs-into-13-year-olds’-bodies,” “rewarding-doctors-for-contracepting/steralizing-as-many-women-as-possible,” BLEAK.

Surprisingly, the digression was about the National Anthem of the Soviet Union

Audio Clips:

American Eagle

Last Week Tonight, “One Child Policy”

Roy Orbison, Pretty Woman

Sparkle Sound Effect

That Mitchell and Webb, “Are We the Baddies”

Sources

Butte College, TIP Sheet: Conspiracy and Conspiracism (2019)

Charlotte McDonald, How Many Earths do we Need? (2015)

Clare L. Roepke & Eric A. Schaff, Long Tail Strings: Impact of the Dalkon Shield 40 Years Later (2014)

E. Wesley F. Peterson, The Role of Population in Economic Growth (2017)

Hippolyte Fofack, Changing the Africa Population Narrative (2021)

Karl Itman, African Populations and British Imperial Power, 1800–1970 (2022)

Lisa Baker, Control and the Dalkon Shield (2001)

Mark Dowie, Barbara Ehrenreich, Stephen Minkin, The Charge: Gynocide (1979)

Matthew Connelly, Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population (2008)

Matthew Connelly, How did the ‘population control’ movement go so terribly wrong? (2008)

Monica Bahati Kuumba, Perpetuating Neo-Colonialism through Population Control: South Africa and the United States(1993)

Rachel Sullivan Robinson, Population Policy Adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Interplay of Global and Local Forces(2016)

Rachel Sullivan Robinson, Population Policy Adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Interplay of Global and Local Forces(2016)

USAID Policy Paper, Population Assistance (1982)

What do you get when you cross a human and an ape? This is what Soviet Era scientist Ilya Ivanov tried to find out, and it. gets. weird; like inseminating a woman with ape sperm weird. So, let’s talk about it!

Digressions include Transhumanism and the Hunger Games!

Sources

A. E. Samaan, From a "Race of Masters" to a "Master Race": 1948 to 1848(2013)

Eric Michael Johnson, Scientific Ethics and Stalin's Ape-Man Superwarriors (2011)

Ivan Cenzi, The Strange History of Men Going Nuts for Monkey Testicle Transplants (2021)

Julian Huxley, Transhumanism, 1957

Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, Global Gag Rule Threatens Reproductive Health in Kenya: Study, (2020)

Matthew Gault, The Soviet Union’s Crazy ‘Planet of the Apes’, (2014)

Paul Weindling, Julian Huxley and the Continuity of Eugenics in Twentieth-century Britain, (2015))

Pawel Wargan, A Dream of Soviet Ape‑Men (2013)

Sam Kean, The Soviet Era's Deadliest Scientist Is Regaining Popularity in Russia (2017)

Stephanie Pain, Blasts from the past: The Soviet ape-man scandal (2008)

The Open Society Foundation, What Is the Global Gag Rule? (2019)

Wulf D. Hund, Racist King Kong Fantasies. From Shakespeare's Monster to Stalin's Ape-Man (2011)

Did you know that there was once a Negro Bible, that excluded most of the Old Testament and any mention of freedom and liberation? Or that Zambia had a space program in the 1960s? In this episode, Aileen walks you through these incredible facts of history!

Imagine, there are no digressions!

Blog Post: https://the-inbetweeners.blogspot.com/2018/04/tribalism-not-just-african-problem.html

Sources

The Negro Bible

Bartolomé de las Casas (WikiQuote)

Becky Little, Why Bibles Given to Slaves Omitted Most of the Old Testament (2019)

Blue Letter Bible, Expose of Mormonism: The Bible, (n.d.)

Brigit Katz, Heavily Abridged ‘Slave Bible’ Removed Passages That Might Encourage Uprisings(2019)

Daniel Walden, Was Jesus a Socialist? (2020)

Erica Johnson, Rosaries and Revolution: Father Philemon, Catholicism, and the Haitian Revolution(2015)

George Moore, Wrongfully Dividing the Word Of Truth: The History And Impact of the Negro Slave Bible - Part 1 (2021)

George Moore, Wrongfully Dividing the Word Of Truth: The History and Impact of the Negro Slave Bible- Part 2 (2021)

John E. Baur, International Repercussions of the Haitian Revolution (1970)

Michel Martin, Slave Bible From The 1800s Omitted Key Passages That Could Incite Rebellion(2018)

Rearranged the Trade Patterns of the Western Hemisphere in Lucia Coppolaro and Francine McKenzie, A Global History of Trade and Conflict since 1500 (2013)

Robert J Matthews, “Why don’t we use the Inspired Version of the Bible in the Church? Would it be helpful to me to read it?” (1977)

Steven Topik, An Explosion of Violence: How the Haitian Revolution

Zambia’s Space Program

Royal Museums Greenwich, The Zambian Space Programme (n.d.) Namwali Serpell, The Zambian “Afronaut” Who Wanted to Join the Space Race (2017)

Colin Marshall, Meet ‘The Afronauts’: An Introduction to Zambia’s Forgotten 1960s Space Program, (2020)

Eric Otieno Sumba, Afronauts Are Forever | The Enduring Cultural Legacy Of The ‘Zambia Space Program’(2020)

Alexis C Madrigal, Old, Weird Tech: The Zambian Space Cult of the 1960s (2010)

Join Aileen and a GUEST, as they talk about conspiracy theories, population control, and perhaps the worst IUD in human history – the Dalkon Shield.

Surprisingly, there are no digressions (huh, who even knew these were possible)

Sources

In Part 2 of the Female Heroines of Africa, Aileen talks about Mekatilili wa Menza and Dona Beatriz of the Congo

Digressions include Dear White People, the Protestant Reformation and Shrek

Image Credits:

Mekatilili – Google Arts & Culture

Donna Beatriz – Wikipedia

Sources:

Alexander Ives Bortolot, Women Leaders in African History: Dona Beatriz, Kongo Prophet (2003)

Benjamin Hendrickx & Tebatso Molefe, Dona Beatriz (Kimpa Vita): Some New Considerations on Her Role And Death in The Kingdom Of Kongo (2010)

Capuchin Fransiscans, Who we Are

Celia Nyamweru and Neil Carrier, The (re)creation of a heroine: the case of Mekatilili wa Menza

Ciaran Conliffe, Beatriz Kimpa Vita, African Prophet (2017)

Nita Bhalla, Kenyan female freedom fighter Mekatilili wa Menza celebrated on Google (2020)

Rejected Princesses, Mekatilili wa Menza

Zarina Patel and Neil Carrier (trs.) The Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies, Mekatili: Local Heroine

Cool Additional Resources

The Nest Collective – Mekatilili wa Menza Comic Book