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The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Eurafrica

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

News, Society & Culture, Politics

0.00 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This week, a tale of two continents. Katy speaks to the Kenyan writer Patrick Gathara about Eurafrica, an idea that informed the European project after World War II but is now largely forgotten. Sixty years after a wave of African countries won their independence in 1960, we're also talking about why decolonisation is an ongoing process. Also this week: jilted Balkan lovers, mixed meat messages, and a lost summer soundtrack.

Read Patrick's piece about Eurafrica for Al Jazeera: https://bit.ly/2HE5s88

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello from the podcast that prides itself on its huge geographical range spanning an entire continent.

0:21.7

Today we're coming to you from two rooms in the same city. We're both in London. But Dominic

0:26.3

says he doesn't like it when we record in the same place because I look at him too much.

0:29.8

It's true. And also, as I've said before, London is so huge. It would like take me an hour

0:33.4

and a half to get to you and frankly, you not worth it okay glad to hear it no but we are

0:40.0

actually meeting in real life tomorrow which i'm really looking forward to and that wasn't meant to

0:44.6

sound as sarcastic as it did no offense taken uh i'm looking forward to seeing you too just

0:50.7

staring at you for the entire time it's fine if you you look at me, just not when I'm recording,

0:55.5

please. Okay, point taken. How are you? Yeah, I'm fine, although I was rather disturbed to see

1:01.5

my local supermarket that they're now serving something that's 50-50, half meat and half fake meat.

1:08.5

Whoa. And I think it's the beginning of the apocalypse.

1:12.0

I don't understand the point.

1:14.4

Did you buy any?

1:15.4

No.

1:16.3

I just buy fake meat.

1:17.5

I'm intrigued to find out what it tastes like though.

1:19.8

Yeah.

1:20.0

And I can imagine some people will be intrigued and will buy it once.

1:24.0

But like who's going to carry on buying that?

1:27.3

Because if you've got the sense of like, oh, I should

1:30.6

be eating less meat, then probably you'll just go for the vegetarian option, don't you think?

1:35.5

But maybe it's got rid of that like nasty texture that quite a lot of fake meat has. My brother,

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