Whose Voices?

Meron Estefanos is a Swedish-Eritrean activist who speaks to us about rescuing fleeing Eritreans and Sounds of Torture, her film about the plight of refugees.

In this episode, Sandra Kwikiriza, founder of Her-Internet joins Youlendree and Kerubo to explore knowledge gaps in terms of digital space and challenges faced by the queer community while using the internet.

We explore whether the digital space can adequately serve African women by implementing sexual and reproductive health and rights through an intersectional lens. Listen to more episodes on our website: https://podcast.whoseknowledge.org/.

This episode features Esther Mwema an artist who questions Big Tech (like Facebook and Google) in Africa, through literary fiction, abstract art, and poetry.

How do African feminists reimagine and want to rethink what the web feels, sounds, and reads like? Join as Memory Kachambwa tells us more.

In this episode, Kenyan transgender activist and feminist Arya Jeipea Karijo, unravels the complexities of online representation of trans people from marginalized communities. Go to our podcast website to listen or read the transcript: https://podcast.whoseknowledge.org/posts/ep16/.

For many Africans, reclaiming their language isn’t only tied to books. Wangui wa Goro talks about alternate forms of decolonizing knowledge online.

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The palawa kani language has been revived based on records from most of the original languages spoken in Lutruwita. Theresa Sainty shares about this community-led initiative.

For speakers of Indigenous languages, what does the internet look like? Getting online isn’t enough, says Subhashish Panigrahi, who builds open resources for Indigenous and endangered languages.

Millions of people speak Arabic, yet it remains underrepresented online. Majd Al-Shihabi explores how power dictates what is present and accessible in the language.

More here: https://podcast.whoseknowledge.org/posts/ep12/.