African Revolutions and Decolonization (AR&D) - Ep. 1: Introduction w/ Momodou Taal

Guerrilla History

Henry

Education, History

4.8 • 669 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

With this episode of Guerrilla History, we officially launch our long awaited series on African Revolutions and Decolonization! Every other week (between other, non-thematic episodes) for roughly the next year and a half, we will be turning a spotlight on struggles across the African continent, with both case studies as well as more theoretical or conceptual episodes present. We could scarcely ask for a better guest to help us launch this series than our comrade Momodou Taal. In this episode, we discuss the importance of studying African revolutionary history, and what we should be doing with this series. Get excited, we certainly are!

In addition, if you want to read Adnan and Henry's thoughts on this series, they introduced the series in a blogpost for the Review of African Political Economy last week.

Also subscribe to our Substack (free!) to keep up to date with what we are doing. With so many episodes coming in this series (and beyond), you won't want to miss anything, so get the updates straight to your inbox. guerrillahistory.substack.com

Momodou Taal is a British-Gambian PhD student at Cornell University studying African Political Economy. He is host of the outstanding podcast The Malcolm Effect, and has a forthcoming book The Malcolm Effect Revisited, which preorders are open for. Be sure to also follow him on twitter @MomodouTaal.

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0:00.0	You didn't remember Den Van Boo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:14.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare.
0:22.9	But they put some guerrilla action on.
0:34.9	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.
0:40.9	I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Huckimacki,
0:43.2	joined as usual by my co-host, Professor Adnan Hussein,
0:47.1	historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada.
0:51.5	Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today?
0:53.8	I'm doing well, Henry. It's
0:55.3	wonderful to be with you today. Absolutely. And I am very excited for what we are kind of unveiling
1:03.1	today. I know that we've talked about it before, but this is episode one of a brand new series
1:07.2	that we're going to have. But before I mention that series, I want to remind the
1:12.4	listeners that they can help support the show and allow us to continue making episodes like
1:16.2	this, both in our series that we're going to be discussing today, as well as our usual,
1:20.7	quote unquote, episodes by going to patreon.com forward slash guerrilla history. That's G-U-E-R-R-I-L-A history.
1:29.5	And you can keep up to date with everything that Adnan and I are doing individually as well as
1:33.2	what the show is doing collectively by following us on Twitter at Gorilla underscore Pod,
1:38.2	G-U-E-R-R-I-L-A underscore pod. And on Instagram at Gorilla underscore History, again, Gorilla with two R's.
1:46.7	So without further ado, and we have a terrific guest, which we'll have introduced himself in
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