Remembering Anticolonial Algiers: Panthers & Pan-African Revolutionaries w/Elaine Mokhtefi
Guerrilla History
Henry
4.8 • 622 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
In this collaboration between Guerrilla History and the Adnan Husain Show, Adnan has a wonderful conversation with a remarkable radical activist, Elaine Mokhtefi, as part of our ongoing series of interviews with living historical revolutionaries. Elaine Mokhtefi is author of "Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers." This fascinating discussion retraces Elaine's early political engagement with the FLN mission to the UN, her decision to move to Algeria to help build the postcolonial nation after liberation from France, her experiences as a translator and journalist covering the transnational movements for liberation across the Global South, and work with the Black Panthers exiled in Algiers. She danced with Fanon, met radical third world leaders, and struggled for a better world. Now in her 90's, she remains an inspiring and committed activist. A lot to learn in this conversation!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, guerrilla history listeners. This is co-host Henry. First, by way of apology, |
| 0:07.0 | you undoubtedly have noticed that the last couple of guerrilla history release days, there has not |
| 0:12.7 | been an episode which has come out. The reason for that is that I was at a conference in Moscow |
| 0:19.3 | recently and wasn't able to do the editing that I typically |
| 0:22.2 | do to get the episodes ready for release. |
| 0:25.7 | With that being said, you are getting an episode today on a typical release day, and you |
| 0:31.8 | will also be getting an episode on Friday this week, as usual, with a couple of great guests. |
| 0:38.4 | The episode that you're hearing today is a collaborative episode between guerrilla history |
| 0:42.5 | and the Adnan Hussein show. |
| 0:44.5 | This was also an episode that I wasn't able to be at. |
| 0:48.2 | It's on a book which I read back in 2021, and I remember it very vividly and really wanted to be at that conversation, |
| 0:57.3 | but I was in Crimea during the conversation and wasn't able to access any of the sites that |
| 1:03.8 | I needed to use in order to get the conversation recorded. |
| 1:07.5 | But Adnan did a terrific job with the interview of the guest, which you'll be hearing in just a moment. |
| 1:14.4 | And I want to say that if you haven't already subscribed to the Adnan Hussein show, in addition to guerrilla history, you should do so now. |
| 1:22.0 | This Friday, you can look forward to an episode with Alex Sivina and Michael Fox on the latest in Venezuela. |
| 1:29.4 | And we have a couple of other episodes already recorded, which will also be coming out in |
| 1:33.9 | subsequent weeks, everything from football-related content, not featuring Alex Sivina for once, |
| 1:41.6 | as well as some more African revolutions and decolonization episodes, which |
| 1:47.1 | are coming down the pipeline as well. So stay tuned. Again, apologies that there haven't been |
| 1:52.7 | episodes which have come out on the last couple of Fridays. I just haven't been able to get them |
| 1:56.8 | up and ready to go. But I am now working overtime to make sure that you have fresh |
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