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Side Effects of The African Perspective (with Ahmed Kaballo)

Smart Funny & Black Productions

Amanda Seales

Kids & Family, Performing Arts, Arts, Education For Kids, Visual Arts

4.89.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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This week, we are joined by Ahmed Kaballo, CEO and co-founder of African Stream, to unpack the sequence of events that led to the media outlet getting deplatformed.

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0:00.0

Small doses, self-help from the hit.

0:06.0

Small doses.

0:07.0

We're talking at shit.

0:08.0

Small doses and keeping it real.

0:11.0

Small does sacks with me and in the seals.

0:14.0

It's so funky.

0:17.0

Hello, small doses, familia.

0:19.0

Today's episode is really cool. Not that every episode isn't really cool,

0:24.5

but I just think it's really cool because we really get to talk to somebody who has felt the brunt of

0:31.3

the U.S. government and who is not from the United States and who has felt the brunt from the Democrats.

0:39.9

And I think it's a really important context

0:42.9

because he's also from Africa.

0:45.3

So when we talk about the United States

0:47.2

as an imperial empire,

0:50.1

and we try to bifurcate Democrats out of the complicity of that, we are doing ourselves and injustice.

0:57.3

And we're doing our folks in the motherland and injustice at that.

1:01.2

African Stream was, is a page that started to really come to light for me in the last two years as a great resource for understanding things that are happening

1:12.4

on the continent that was outside of mainstream media. And that has been a real just general

1:18.1

movement for me in terms of getting my news about everything, right? Just going to independent

1:23.2

media sources. So discovering African stream as an independent media source for the motherland was like,

1:28.0

oh, wow, this is super dope. Today we're talking to its creator, its founder, Ahmed Caballo,

1:33.4

who's going to walk us through how they were effectively de-platformed by the Biden administration,

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