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Wasafiri Africa PodcastThe Immortal World of Story with Philippa Kabali-KagwaStraddling seven hills, and situated on the northern shores of Lake Victoria, is Kampala, the capital city of Uganda.Kampala is also Uganda’s commercial capital, having blossomed from its earliest days as a major stop on the East African Railway line, aka The Lunatic Express. As one of the safest cities in East Africa today, and complimented by its equatorial weather, Kampala has flourished for affordable living and boasts breathtaking views. The Kasubi Tombs are a key attraction and were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001.*S...
2025-11-181h 05
Wasafiri Africa PodcastDiminishing Vulnerability Through Adaptive Capacity with Wazana NgidiSouthwestern Township, better known as SOWETO, is located within the City of Johannesburg Metro, and owns an undeniable place in the political history of South Africa. Soweto is where the 1976 Soweto Rebellion began its juggernaut push against Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in Soweto’s High Schools, to Zulu and Xhosa children. Haunting images of Zolile Hector Peterson, remain engraved and venerated in our minds.Yet in SOWETO, an undimmable joie de vivre pulsates in the historic pain and triumph, including a celebration of music and culture, beautifully chronicled in the song Soweto Blues by Hu...
2025-11-111h 04
Wasafiri Africa PodcastLet’s Have a Good Day with Marc Lottering.Belgravia Road is in Athlone, a suburb within the Municipality of Cape Town. Athlone is in the Cape Flats which the Apartheid zoning laws designated a Coloured Area.Athlone is mostly residential; Belgravia Road is a busy main road with bustling businesses ranging from car dealerships to bakeries and everything in between. Belgravia High School, an English medium school, was where in 1985, as part of the student uprising, 5000 pupils gathered to protest the repressive Apartheid regime.*Marc Eugene Lottering has made Belgravia Road in Athlone famous for all the right...
2025-11-041h 12
Wasafiri Africa PodcastTireless Advocate for the Humanities with Premesh LaluRylands is a sub-area in Athlone, a suburb in Cape Town. Located in the Cape Flats, the infamous Group Area Act wielded by the Apartheid Government, designated Rylands an Indian enclave surrounded by a vast Coloured majority and smattering of Black Africans.But where the racist government intended to dehumanize and cast aside, a thriving community evolved with a common purpose of dismantling Apartheid. Flanked by Belgravia, Gatesville and Langa, Rylands residents were part of the heated fray that lost their lives in the despicable Trojan Horse massacre. Their sacrifice lives on in the many remarkable...
2025-10-281h 08
Wasafiri Africa PodcastKeeping a Watchful Eye on Africa with Saeed SalahudeenSituated on the southern coast of the Gulf of Guinea is Accra, the Capital of Ghana. At one point known as The Gold Coast, Accra is inextricably linked to the devastating Trans-Atlantic Slave trade that saw one million people trafficked from its shores. Yet, testament to the resilience of her people, covering almost 226 square kilometers, Accra today is a bustling city famous for Kente cloth, vibrant markets and smart stores, juxtaposed against luxury hotels, historical sites and museums. A visit to Accra is fragrant with Africanity.*Saeed Salahudeen is a G...
2025-10-2158 min
Wasafiri Africa PodcastCircle Back: Debrief & Reflections with Ruth and GeovanyIn this episode, Ruth is joined by Geovany Dias to debrief and reflect on Wasafiri Africa and to celebrate the podcast’s one month birthday. Hurray! Geovany, normally in the background publishing and monitoring the podcast, brings his vibrant enthusiasm for Wasafiri Africa and the shared joy is palpable. Running for roughly half the length of a regular episode, at only thirty-seven minutes, the pair briefly touch on when Ruth first mentioned to Geovany of her intention to launch Wasafiri Africa, back in 2023. In the banter, it becomes clear that his enthusiasm was a catalyst to get...
2025-10-1437 min
Wasafiri Africa PodcastDavid Kramer On Dazzling Cape Town, The West End and BroadwayWorcester, a town in the Western Cape, South Africa, began life as a hunting ground teeming with game and was originally home to the Khoi and San peoples. Folk driving to or from Johannesburg and Cape Town will breeze through this quaint town, now renowned for the fine wine grown in the region. Like many towns in South Africa, remnants of the country’s torrid history, such as slave bell in the market square, can befound. Yet embraced by spectacular mountains on all four points of a compass, a pit stop...
2025-10-071h 05
Wasafiri Africa PodcastRichard Reis On Software Engineering and AI GirlfriendsWith a population of over 9 million people, Luanda is the thriving oil-fed capital of Angola. Home to the Kimbundu ethnic group, the city which was once called the Paris of Africa has Portuguese as the official language.Founded in 1576, Luanda became the administrative center of the Portuguese colony in 1627 and bears the torrid distinction of being a major outlet for slave traffic to Brazil. Now home to an elite wealthy, despite a high cost of living, Luanda has a flourishing harbor and business trade on a backdrop of beautiful architecture.*...
2025-09-301h 14
Wasafiri Africa PodcastDr Joan Nyanyuki on Creating Advocacy for Children and Human Rights on the ContinentKirinyaga County, is located at the foothills of Mount Kenya. A scared focal point for the Agikuyu people the mountain was known as Kirinyaga and the name change happened when the word was lost in translation. When from a far off, the first Europeans saw the snowy peaks straddling the Equator, the mountain was introduced to them as KayEnyA, by the Akamba. They pronounced it differently from the Agikuyu, to whom it is home. Fast Forward to British Colonial Rule and standing at 3,835m high, the easily identifiable landmark, gave rise to the name of the land n...
2025-09-2459 min
Wasafiri Africa PodcastVuyisa Qabaka on Going Back to the Cave – Holding the Vision and Building Scaffolding for Entrepreneurs on the ContinenteTyhume eMajwarheni is in the Nonkobe local municipality, Amathole District, in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. The village gets its name from the Tyhume river which flows from Hogsback Mountains on its journey to the Indian Ocean, and borders most of the grounds of Fort Hare University. Founded in 1916 and originally called The South African Native College, the University of Fort Hare has been awarded for its exceptional contribution to Black academic training and leadership development on the continent. Its most famous student being Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela.*In th...
2025-09-161h 00
Wasafiri Africa PodcastWasafiri Africa: A Podcast from Ruth KamauPodcast PreviewIn this preview episode, Ruth Kamau introduces Wasafiri Africa—a podcast that travels across the continent gathering stories of resilience, creativity and transformation. Ruth reflects on her lifelong love for the continent, tracing it back to Kenya's independence era when seventeen African nations claimed their freedom in the 1960s alone.She explores how Kiswahili has become a unifying force for Pan-Africanism, acknowledges the continent's contradictions, and issues a powerful call: it's time for Africans to tell their own stories and celebrate both their past and present as they build tomorrow....
2025-09-0905 min
The Deep Duck Dive PodcastEvery Cape Town surfer has feels about MuizenbergLove it, hate it, ambivalent, only when desperate, all-time favourite - every Cape Town surfer has an opinion on Muizenberg!In a bit of a break from our planned episodes, we're starting what will (hopefully) be a mini-series chatting to local surfers about Muizenberg - their history and experiences at the beach, and their thoughts, feels and opinions about it, personally or in the context of surfing more broadly - in South Africa or globally.To kick things off, in this episode, Karen and Glen chat about their own histories and experiences of surfing at...
2025-06-1252 min
Deep Space Podcast - hosted by Marcelo Tavaresweek491 Deep Space PodcastE ae!Welcome to Deep Space Podcast – 15 years! Many thanks for listening.
I’m so glad to bring today for the 2nd hour Steve DEEEPERHOLIC, from South Africa!Many thanks Steve for joining for the third time 10 years after of your last guestmix!Please check more infos about Deeperholic at:https://www.instagram.com/stevedeeperholic
A big shout to the Spatial Listener of the week Maury Payan! Thanks a lot for your support!
Purchase any subscriptions to premiere this and all the future episodes plus download the full mix by Deeperholic among many other stuff! Check all the infos at:http...
2025-02-282h 00
New Books in LiteratureOmolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi, "Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories" (Amistad Press, 2022)Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi’s novel Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories (Amistad 2022), is a moving and unforgettable collection of stories that span a lifetime. Four young girls rebel against a boarding school principal and the aftermath stays with them throughout their lives in this complex weaving of relationships and customs. Stories about immigration, powerful mothers and strong-willed daughters lead into stories about raising boys, searching for home, and seeking happiness. Ogunyemi references Nigerian history and traditions prior to the changes enforced by the missionaries, and considers a dystopian future, but the friends continue to love and...
2023-04-1831 min
Nothing Without UsIn focus: Creative collaboration with Darren Chetty"We're so sort of conditioned to think of writing as this solitary thing where one person tells you how it is - that collaboration is seen as, as less interesting."In this distilled episode Angie talks to Darren Chetty about his varied family background in Wales, the Netherlands and South Africa, and his focus on collaboration through his disparate work in anti racism in primary schools, academic writing, philosophy of education, Hip Hop Ed and DEI consultancy. Darren Chetty taught in London primary schools for twenty years before becoming a Teaching Fellow at UCL Institute o...
2023-01-1916 min
Nothing Without UsIn conversation with Darren Chetty“I remember talking to my PhD supervisor at the time, and saying I'm really getting fed up with being the angriest person in the room. And his response was, you need to find yourself some new rooms.”In this episode Angie talks to Darren Chetty about his origin story, including his varied family background in the Netherlands and South Africa, and his focus on collaboration through his disparate work in anti racism in primary schools, academic writing, philosophy of education, Hip Hop Ed and DEI consultancy. Darren Chetty taught in London primary schools for twenty years...
2022-11-1749 min
News in KiSwahiliSERIKALI YA TANZANIA YATOA MAAGIZA MPYA KWA WASAFISerikali ya Tanzania imetoa maagizo mapya kwa wasafiri wote hususan raia wa kigeni wanao taka kuingia nchini humo kuaa karantini kwa muda wa siku 14. Taarifa iliyotolewa na katibu mkuu wa wazara ya Afya inaeleza kuwa pia raia wa Tanzania walio safari watalamika pia kukaa karantini wanapo rejea nyumbani.Kwa maelezo ya kina huyu hapa Nixon Katembo akizungza na mwandishi wa habari Farhia Middle kutoka Dar Es Salaam
2021-05-0407 min
JAGEROBecoming Published - As a KenyanI have published three books and I have a fourth on the way. The truth is that it has been a tough, tough journey. Then there is writing; a tough thing as a Kenyan.
Then we have all the writers in this country who have loads of manuscripts that cannot be published one way of the other.
What is happening? We had Kwani? that everyone thought was going to step in forcefully. That is arguable. Then we have many more such as Jalada.
We discussed it. Candidly. Troy Onyango runs Lolwe and he...
2020-10-0228 min