West African Women's Development (Part 1) w/ Takiyah Harper-Shipman [REMASTERED]

Guerrilla History

Henry

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🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 86 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 on the fantastic Africana studies scholar, Professor Takiyah Harper-Shipman, to talk about West African women's development, Sankara, AFRICOM, and more! Due to time constraints, this episode will act as an introduction to these topics for our next conversation with Professor Harper-Shipman, which will take place soon and will be a longer, more in-depth discussion. We really enjoyed the conversation, and are already looking forward to diving into the minutiae with the Professor very soon!

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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0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:27.3	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global
0:32.4	proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. I'm one of your co-hosts,
0:39.2	Henry Huckimacki. Unfortunately, only joined by one of my co-hosts today as Professor Adnan Hussein,
0:45.6	of course historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University, is out sick today.
0:50.2	So Adnan, we hope you feel better very soon and undoubtedly you will by the time that you hear this.
0:56.7	But just know that we're thinking about you and hoping that you feel better really, really soon.
1:02.0	I am, however, joined by my other co-host, Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast.
1:10.1	Hello, Brett. How are you doing today?
1:11.5	How are things going in Nebraska? Hello, I'm doing good. Yeah, things are, things are okay here.
1:17.3	Same old same. But yeah, happy to be here and very excited for this conversation.
1:21.1	Absolutely. We've got a really interesting conversation with a really interesting guest,
1:25.1	somebody that I've been wanting to talk to for a very long time
1:28.4	coming up. So our guest today is going to be Professor Takiya Harper Shipman, who is an assistant
1:36.8	professor in the Africana Studies Department at Davidson College, somebody who has done quite a bit
1:43.4	of work that I have seen before, who I've
1:45.8	heard speak before.
1:47.5	And actually, when we were hatching the idea for the show over a year ago and thinking
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