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The Audio Long ReadFrom the archive: ‘Colonialism had never really ended’: my life in the shadow of Cecil RhodesWe are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2021: After growing up in a Zimbabwe convulsed by the legacy of colonialism, when I got to Oxford I realised how many British people still failed to see how empire had shaped lives like mine – as well as their own. By Simukai Chigudu. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
2024-07-1044 min
Museum SecretsSubscribe to Fingerprints, a new Ashmolean podcastEvery object in the Ashmolean has passed from hand to hand to reach the Museum. In a new podcast, we uncover the invisible fingerprints left behind by makers, looters, archaeologists, soldiers, rulers, curators, and many more. These stories of touch reveal the ways in which the forces of conflict and colonialism have shaped Britain’s oldest Museum. Join the Ashmolean’s curators alongside artists, experts, and community members, for our new podcast: Fingerprints.Fingerprints will be released on the Ashmolean’s website, on Spotify, Apple, and wherever you get your podcasts, weekly from 21 January 2022 until 25 February 2022.Fin...
2021-12-2102 min
Objects Out LoudSubscribe to Fingerprints, a new Ashmolean podcastEvery object in the Ashmolean has passed from hand to hand to reach the Museum. In a new podcast, we uncover the invisible fingerprints left behind by makers, looters, archaeologists, soldiers, rulers, curators, and many more. These stories of touch reveal the ways in which the forces of conflict and colonialism have shaped Britain’s oldest Museum. Join the Ashmolean’s curators alongside artists, experts, and community members, for our new podcast: Fingerprints.Fingerprints will be released on the Ashmolean’s website, on Spotify, Apple, and wherever you get your podcasts, weekly from 21 January 2022 until 25 February 2022.Fin...
2021-12-2102 min
How Epidemics EndSimukai Chigudu and the Political Life of EpidemicsDr Simukai Chigudu (Oxford) and Dr Erica Charters discuss the Zimbabwe cholera epidemic and the politics of epidemics.
2021-10-0817 min
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesBook at Lunchtime: The Political Life of an Epidemic – Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in ZimbabweTORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on The Political Life of an Epidemic – Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe written by Professor Simukai Chigudu. About the book:
Zimbabwe's catastrophic cholera outbreak of 2008–9 saw an unprecedented number of people affected, with 100,000 cases and nearly 5,000 deaths. Cholera, however, was much more than a public health crisis: it represented the nadir of the country's deepening political and economic crisis of 2008. This study focuses on the political life of the cholera epidemic, tracing the historical origins of the outbreak, examining the social pattern of its unfolding and impact, analysing the institutional and communal responses to the...
2021-02-041h 05TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesBook at Lunchtime: The Political Life of an Epidemic – Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in ZimbabweTORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on The Political Life of an Epidemic – Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe written by Professor Simukai Chigudu. About the book:
Zimbabwe's catastrophic cholera outbreak of 2008–9 saw an unprecedented number of people affected, with 100,000 cases and nearly 5,000 deaths. Cholera, however, was much more than a public health crisis: it represented the nadir of the country's deepening political and economic crisis of 2008. This study focuses on the political life of the cholera epidemic, tracing the historical origins of the outbreak, examining the social pattern of its unfolding and impact, analysing the institutional and communal responses to the...
2021-02-041h 05
Atlantic FellowsHEALTH SYSTEMS AFRICA CONVENING 2020 | SESSION 2 - Creating an African ProjectSESSION 2 - 01.10.20 | CREATING AN AFRICAN PROJECT - RETHINKING THE CONFIGURATION OF KNOWLEDGE TO ADVANCE AFRICAN HEALTH & HEALTH SYSTEMS
Globally, decoloniality requires researchers and practitioners located in Africa to build and develop collective capacities and knowledge archives that centres Africa and African people. This Convening foregrounds African people as experts, and provides us with an opportunity to highlight our own solutions to the challenges faced on the African continent in the area of African Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR).
This Convening was co-sponsored by HEALTH SYSTEMS GLOBAL (HSG), the ATLANTIC INSTITUTE, TEKANO, CHESAI and WITS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, UNIVERSITY...
2021-01-131h 21TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesTalking AfropeanTalking Afropean: Johny Pitts in conversation with Elleke Boehmer and Simukai Chigudu about his award-winning book. TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events!. Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
This Writers Make Worlds and TORCH panel discussion features the author Johny Pitts in conversation about his ground-breaking travelogue Afropean, his 2019 notes on a journey around contemporary Black Europe.
Johny Pitts will explore together with Oxford academics Simukai Chigudu and Elleke Boehmer questions of black history, hidden archives...
2020-11-201h 02TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesTalking AfropeanTalking Afropean: Johny Pitts in conversation with Elleke Boehmer and Simukai Chigudu about his award-winning book. TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events!. Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
This Writers Make Worlds and TORCH panel discussion features the author Johny Pitts in conversation about his ground-breaking travelogue Afropean, his 2019 notes on a journey around contemporary Black Europe.
Johny Pitts will explore together with Oxford academics Simukai Chigudu and Elleke Boehmer questions of black history, hidden archives...
2020-11-201h 02
Ufahamu AfricaEp. 94: A conversation with our co-hosts, Rachel Beatty Riedl and Kim Yi DionneWe're back with season 5 of the Ufahamu Africa podcast! In this teaser episode, Kim and Rachel share what they've been reading, the conversations and guests they are looking forward to, and announce that the podcast has received funding from the Carnegie Corporation. Tune in every Saturday for new episodes that will continue to prioritize African perspectives as we learn about life and politics on the continent.Books, Links, & ArticlesFrom Pews to Politics: Religious Sermons and Political Participation in Africa by Rachel Beatty Riedl and Gwyneth H. McClendonDemocracy in Ghana...
2020-09-2627 min
GND Media"We've got to rebuild trust" Finance, Class and the environment with Grace BlakeleySafe to say that he Economy as we formally know it has taken a nose dive. Britain has lost 20% of GDP over the course of lockdown as businesses closed up and demand slumped to save the population from Covid-19. But what is the British economy actually made of? Is GDP representative of the actual production of everyday people in the UK? Has chasing these golden numbers skewed the british economy into a place where traditional working class jobs are less important that they used to be? If there is to be a recovery and a green recovery at that...
2020-06-221h 09
Ufahamu AfricaBonus: Emmanuel Balogun’s review of “The Political Life of an Epidemic”In this bonus recording, hear Ufahamu Africa host Kim Dionne read Emmanuel Balogun’s (@Ea_Balogun) review of “The Political Life of an Epidemic,” written by Simukai Chigudu (@SimuChigudu), a professor of politics at Oxford University. The review was published in this past Friday’s installment of the African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular (#APSRS20), and this recording is being shared as part of a collaboration with The Monkey Cage (@monkeycageblog), a blog on politics and political science at The Washington Post. Find the books, links, and articles we mentioned in this episode on our website, ufahamuafrica.com.
2020-06-1506 min
Les Voix du CrépusculeLes épidémies : une histoire sans finSortir de la sidération et de la peur. C’est l’objectif d’une grande partie de la production médiatique et de la communication des États face à l’épidémie du Covid-19. Toutes les sciences sociales, de l’histoire à la philosophie sont convoquées pour donner un sens à l’enfermement et aux mesures radicales prises pour lutter contre l’épidémie.
Il faut reconnaître que la perspective d’une épidémie avait quasiment disparue des imaginaires des sociétés du Nord. Les dernières semblaient sous contrôle et l’on pensait que ces maladies concernaient des continents lointains suivis par...
2020-05-0700 min
LSE PodcastsCiting Africa | Series 1, Ep 2: Consumption and valuation of knowledge in the global North and SouthThis episode examines who gets cited as the leading authorities on reading lists in Development and African Studies in four African countries and the UK. We explore whether different ‘silos’ of knowledge are being created as well as examine the barriers to having more diverse and representative reading lists on Development Studies and African Studies courses across countries. Abidah Ferej, Marie-Noelle Nwokolo, Dr Simukai Chigudu and Dr Eyob Gebremariam contributed to this episode.
For further information about Citing Africa please visit the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa website http://www.lse.ac.uk/africa/citing-africa/podcasts
2019-05-2825 min
LSE PodcastsDecolonising the Curricula: why necessary and why now [Audio]Speaker(s): Dr Simukai Chigudu, Dr Laura Mann, Dr Lyn Ossome | From Cape Town to Oxford and beyond, student movements across the world calling for education to be decolonised have gained prominence over the past few years. In fact, academics have been raising concerns about the foundation of Africa scholarship as far back as 1969 at an African Studies Association in the United States. Simukai Chigudu (@SimuChigudu) is Associate Professor of African Politics at the University of Oxford. Laura Mann (@balootiful) is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Development at LSE. Lyn Ossome (@lyn_ossome) is Senior Research Fellow in...
2019-03-0615 min
Citing Africa#2 | Consumption and valuation of knowledge in the global North and SouthContributor(s): Abidah Ferej, Marie-Noelle Nwokolo, Dr Simukai Chigudu, Dr Eyob Gebremariam | This episode examines who gets cited as the leading authorities on reading lists in Development and African Studies in four African countries and the UK. We explore whether different ‘silos’ of knowledge are being created as well as examine the barriers to having more diverse and representative reading lists on Development Studies and African Studies courses across countries. Abidah Ferej, Marie-Noelle Nwokolo, Dr Simukai Chigudu and Dr Eyob Gebremariam contributed to this episode.
2019-03-0200 minPolitics of epidemicsWe know that infectious disease outbreaks are caused by pathogens, but some would argue that they are also a biological manifestation of social inequality.
Here to discuss the politics of disease outbreak, and how this informs how the global community should respond to them, is Simukai Chigudu, Associate Professor of African Politics and Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford University.
To find out more about BMJ's Global Health initiatives, visit: bmj.com/company/global-health-ii
2019-02-1821 min
Uehiro Centre for Practical EthicsThe Salvation Agenda: The Politics of Medical Humanitarianism During Zimbabwe's Cholera Outbreak 2008/09In this New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Simukai Chigudu examines the humanitarian politics of responding to the most catastrophic cholera outbreak in African history. The paper demonstrates how humanitarian relief operations are riven by competing claims to leadership, authority and legitimacy but often converge on the ineluctable logic of saving lives - 'the salvation agenda'. Nevertheless, the paper contends that the exigency of saving lives in this case did not, and could not, address the background political and socio-economic conditions that led to the epidemic. Thus, the paper explores the possibilities, pitfalls and paradoxes of the salvation agenda and...
2019-02-1200 minUehiro Centre for Practical EthicsThe Salvation Agenda: The Politics of Medical Humanitarianism During Zimbabwe's Cholera Outbreak 2008/09In this New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Simukai Chigudu examines the humanitarian politics of responding to the most catastrophic cholera outbreak in African history. The paper demonstrates how humanitarian relief operations are riven by competing claims to leadership, authority and legitimacy but often converge on the ineluctable logic of saving lives - 'the salvation agenda'. Nevertheless, the paper contends that the exigency of saving lives in this case did not, and could not, address the background political and socio-economic conditions that led to the epidemic. Thus, the paper explores the possibilities, pitfalls and paradoxes of the salvation agenda and...
2019-02-1250 min
Left POCket Project PodcastLeft POCket Project Podcast - Episode 2 - Zoé Samudzi (@ztsamudzi) & Devyn Springer (@HalfAtlanta)Left POCket Project – Episode 2 – Guests Zoé Samudzi (@ztsamudzi) & Devyn Springer (@HalfAtlanta) Resources regarding this episode:“Diaspora Mugabe Supporters and the Limits of a Neocolonial Pan-Africanism” by Zoé Samudzi (OkayAfrica, October 18, 2016)http://www.okayafrica.com/supporting-mugabe-and-the-limits-of-a-neocolonial-pan-africanism/“Does the Western Left Have an African Problem?” by Devyn Springer (Truthout, October 16, 2017)http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/42275-does-the-western-left-have-an-african-problemHistory of Zimbabwe:Alois Mlambohttps://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=alois+mlambo&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Aalois+mlamboSabelo Ndlovu-Gatshenihttps://www.amazon.com/s/r...
2017-12-0150 min
LeftPOCLeft POCket Project Podcast - Episode 2 - Is Africa an Afterthought? w/@ztsamudzi & @HalfAtlantaLeft POCket Project – Episode 2 – Guests Zoé Samudzi (@ztsamudzi) & Devyn Springer (@HalfAtlanta)
Resources regarding this episode:
“Diaspora Mugabe Supporters and the Limits of a Neocolonial Pan-Africanism” by Zoé Samudzi (OkayAfrica, October 18, 2016)
http://www.okayafrica.com/supporting-mugabe-and-the-limits-of-a-neocolonial-pan-africanism/
“Does the Western Left Have an African Problem?” by Devyn Springer (Truthout, October 16, 2017)
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/42275-does-the-western-left-have-an-african-problem
History of Zimbabwe:
Alois Mlambo
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=alois+mlambo&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Aalois+mlambo
Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Sabelo+Ndlovu-Gatsheni&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3A...
2017-12-0150 min
On the Map, Off the RadarInstitutionalized Racism and Rhodes Must Fall MovementOxford DPhil student and Vice President of Oxford's African Society Simukai Chigudu discusses institutionalized racism and the necessary decolonization of academia following the controversy over a racist poster at the Oxford Union.
To learn more about the Rhodes Must Fall Movement:
Twiter: @RMF_Oxford
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rhodes-Must-Fall-In-Oxford/1599672910303410?fref=ts
For more information on the Oxford Union controversy:
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jun/01/oxford-union-racist-colonial-cocktail-poster.
On decolonizing knowledge:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_1q81bg0r_FZ0RtMy1uVXFtUWs/view
2016-01-0707 min