Intro to African Revolutions and Decolonization w/ Leo Zeilig [Remastered]

Guerrilla History

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🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we first provide a small bit of information about the retribution that friend (and future guest) of the show Momodou Taal is facing from Cornel University for standing in solidarity with Palestine in the face of the ongoing Genocide, before releasing a fully remastered edition of one of our very first episodes, the nearly 4 year old survey on African revolutions and decolonization movements we did. We still have our ~35 part series on African Revolutions and Decolonization upcoming imminently, so this past episode can serve as a sort of a first precursor/prelude to those coming episodes, and we can call back to this episode for the broader regional/continental historical context. For this herculean task, we brought on Leo Zeilig, an editor of the Review of African Political Economy, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the School of Advanced Study University of London, and an Honorary Research Associate at the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Leo's books include Thomas Sankara, Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Third World, African Struggles Today: Social Movements Since Independence, and Congo: Plunder and Resistance. You can find his website at https://leozeilig.com/ and follow him on twitter @LeoZeilig. Also, follow the Review of African Political Economy on twitter @ROAPEJournal and their website https://roape.net/ .

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0:00.0	You remember Den Ben-Brew?
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 prince had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare.
0:22.9	But they put some guerrilla action on.
0:33.1	Hello, guerrilla history listeners.
0:35.8	This is one of your co-hosts, Henry Huckimacky.
0:39.3	Today you're going to be hearing a remastered edition of one of our very first episodes, but before I introduced the episode that you
0:43.7	are going to be hearing the remastered edition of, I want to let you know about something that we
0:48.5	have upcoming and some news about one of our first guests that we were going to have for
0:53.9	this series. Many of you will guests that we were going to have for this series.
0:55.5	Many of you will know that we have been planning a series on African revolutions and decolonization
1:01.4	for quite some time. And that is still the case. We have about 35 episodes planned for this series.
1:08.2	And the plan is that we will run these episodes, which range
1:11.9	from case studies to more conceptual and theoretical episodes, every other week interspersed
1:17.2	by our normal material that we usually put out. So with 35 episodes, that means that you will
1:22.7	be hearing this series over the course of the next year with it coming out every other week.
1:27.4	We hope that you're
1:28.0	looking forward to it. Our first episode that we had planned for this series was an introduction,
1:33.7	just a broad survey to African introductions and decolonization, the importance of studying
1:38.9	these issues and associated material. Our guest for that episode was Mamadu Tal,
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