Dispatch: Coup in Guinea w/ Abayomi Azikiwe

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we host a crash course on Guinean history to help provide context on the ongoing coup unfolding! We are calling this a "Dispatch" as it's a shorter, more "in the moment" episode to ground us for current events. Our guest is Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of Pan-African News Wire.

Abayomi Azikiwe is the editor of Pan-African News Wire, and has had writings featured in numerous outlets. Read Pan-African News Wire by visiting http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/. You can follow Abayomi on twitter @panafnewswire. You can also find him on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/panafricannewswire or on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/abayomiazikiwe/?hl=en.

Guerrilla History is the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history, and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. If you have any questions or guest/topic suggestions, email them to us at [email protected].

Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea.

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0:00.0	You remember Den Bamboo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:15.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The prince had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:28.0	Hello, and welcome to a guerrilla history dispatch.
0:32.0	This is a little bit of a new series, let's say, or a new format for the show, but based on current events, we thought
0:40.3	that it would be something that would be very useful for the audience. So for those of you who
0:45.2	are unaware, Gorilla History is the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global
0:49.5	proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. I'm your host, Henry
0:56.0	Huckimacki, joined by one of my usual co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and director of
1:02.2	the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today?
1:08.0	I'm doing well. Thanks so much. I hope you're well too, Henry.
1:13.3	Yeah, things are busy but good.
1:18.8	But we have some very interesting events that have been unfolding over the last 24 hours,
1:24.0	which is why we are putting together this dispatch, which is going to be a little short,
1:32.0	condensed historical context, basically crash course on Guinea. Over the last 24 hours,
1:40.1	we've seen a coup unfolding in Guinea. The longtime president, 11 years president of Guinea has been deposed by the military, and it is very much a still unfolding situation. So we want to
1:47.0	give the historical context of Guinea and of these characters that are in play here so that
1:53.4	the listeners, as they see this story unfold, understand a little bit more what's going on.
1:59.7	Before I introduce our guest, I just want to go through a couple of quick headlines so listeners who haven't seen the news at all because Guinea is not very well covered in Western media whatsoever, have at least an idea of what the topic is going to be today. So from Reuters, we have elite Guinea Army unit says it has toppled president.
2:19.8	Special Forces soldiers appeared on Sunday to have ousted Guinea's long-serving president,
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