Ownership of Development, China in Africa, and AFRICOM (Part 2) w/ Takiyah Harper-Shipman [Remastered]

Guerrilla History

Henry

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🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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This is a fully remastered episode, which originally came out in April 2022

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring back Africana studies scholar, Professor Takiyah Harper-Shipman, to continue our conversation! This time, the discussion focused on the paradigm of ownership of development, China's role in Africa, and AFRICOM! If you haven't already listened to part 1 of the conversation, you should do so first, it will be a good primer for this episode.

Takiyah Harper-Shipman is an Assistant Professor in the Africana Studies Department at Davidson College. Her courses include Africana political economy, gender and development in sub-Saharan Africa, African feminisms, international development: theory and praxis, and research methods in Africana Studies. Her book Rethinking Ownership of Development in Africa is available from Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Rethinking-Ownership-of-Development-in-Africa/Harper-Shipman/p/book/9780367787813. We also highly recommend checking out her chapter La Santé Avant Tout: Health Before Everything in the excellent A Certain Amount of Madness
The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745337579/a-certain-amount-of-madness/.

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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.
0:30.3	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
0:38.4	history to analyze the present. I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Huckimacki, joined as usual by my
0:45.5	co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's
0:50.6	University in Ontario, Canada. How are you today, Adnan?
0:55.3	I'm well.
1:22.5	Drake, to be with you, Henry. Yeah, really looking forward to having you for this conversation, because you missed part one of it, and I'm looking forward to the insights that you have for this one. I'm sorry to miss it. That's fine. That's fine. We've got you now. also joined by Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast. Hello, Brett. How are you doing today? Hello. I'm doing very good. Great. Always nice to see you. How's things going in Nebraska right now?
1:30.6	Good, good. The kids are on there last week or so of school. So we're just waiting for that to end. And then it's just summer. So hopefully it'll be a nice one.
1:45.0	Oh, that sounds great. Hopefully you've got a lot of stuff planned with them. Okay. So today, we have the continuation of our discussion with Professor Tiki Harper Shipman. And we've got a lot of really interesting topics planned.
1:49.3	We're going to be talking about things like African feminisms. We're going to be talking more about Thomas Sankara, more about ownership of development, Africa, all of these topics that
1:54.2	we really, really wanted to dive really deep into last time and just didn't have time for.
1:59.0	So if you're listening to this episode and you haven't
2:02.2	previously listened to the part one episode that we did with Professor Tika Harper Shipman,
2:07.1	you should go back and do that now because that episode is the introduction to all of these
2:12.0	topics. And without that introduction, you know, I'm sure you'd be able to get by, but that really will set you up well to dive deep into each of these topics because we're hoping to get deep here.
2:24.3	So, Adnan, why don't I start with you?
2:26.4	You weren't here last time.
2:27.6	You had another thing pop up at the last minute.
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