Intro to African Revolutions and Decolonization w/ Leo Zeilig
Guerrilla History
Henry
4.8 • 622 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2021
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we do a survey on African revolutions and decolonization movements so that we can dive deep into individual African movements/revolutions in the future, and call back to this episode for the broader regional/continental historical context. For this herculean task, we bring 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 (HSRC Press), Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Third World (I.B. Tauris), African Struggles Today: Social Movements Since Independence (Haymarket), and Congo: Plunder and Resistance (Zed Books). 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 Van Boo? |
| 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 French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on. |
| 0:27.1 | 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. |
| 0:39.1 | I'm your host, Henry Huckamacki, joined by my co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussein, |
| 0:43.9 | historian and director of the School of Religion at Queens University in Ontario, Canada. |
| 0:48.2 | Hello, Adnan. How are you today? |
| 0:49.8 | I'm great. Glad to be with you, Henry. |
| 0:52.7 | Always nice to see you. And Brett O'Shea, host of |
| 0:55.8 | Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast. Hello, Brett, how are you? |
| 1:00.0 | Hello, it's early, but I'm doing great. It is early. That's because we've got a great guest today |
| 1:05.7 | who is based in the UK. So the time difference makes it kind of essential for us to do this in the morning. |
| 1:12.0 | Our guest today is going to be Leo Zieg, who's a writer and researcher on African politics and |
| 1:17.6 | history. He's the editor at the really tremendous journal, the review of African political |
| 1:23.5 | economy, R-O-A-P-E. So if you hear us say Rope, that's what we're referring to. |
| 1:30.2 | You can find that at rope.net. He's also senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth |
| 1:34.8 | Studies at the University of London. His books include Thomas Sankara from HSRC Press, |
| 1:41.8 | Franz Fanon, philosopher of the third world from I.B. Torres. African struggles today, |
| 1:47.3 | social movement since independence from Haymarket and Congo, plunder and resistance from Zed books. |
| 1:53.0 | The episode that we have today is going to be a very broad survey, essentially. Something that we in the West really misunderstand or under understand |
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