AFRIKA SPEAKS WITH ALKEBU-LAN

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Hear weekly discussions and lively debate on all issues affecting the Afrikan community, at home and abroad. We talk it straight and make it plain!

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Afrika Speaks: Can We Save 365 Brixton Road? with Sis Affiong L. Affiong

Posted by Alkebu-Lan on  November 7, 2016
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LISTEN LIVE! HAVE YOUR SAY: 02071930174 Located in the heart of the Black community, 365 Brixton Centre has remained active for the last 25 years and has also been the destination for a plethora of local visiting dignitaries, academics and activists from global icon Muhammad Ali to Nobel Laureate Prof Wangari

Afrika Speaks: ft MUTABARUKA – Can our art inspire the Movement pt2?

Posted by Alkebu-Lan on  October 31, 2016
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LISTEN LIVE! HAVE YOUR SAY: 02071930174 TICKETS FOR MUTABARUKA LIVE! The impending visit to the UK of Mutabaruka, world renowned poet, recording artist, broadcaster, and philosopher , provides an ideal opportunity to continue our discussion about the relationship between artists and the (liberation/conscious) movement.   Muta was lamenting this state of

Afrika Speaks: Can our art inspire the Movement?

Posted by Alkebu-Lan on  October 24, 2016
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LISTEN LIVE HERE! HAVE YOUR SAY: 02071930174 In previous shows we have explored how Afrikan (“Black”) History Month (AHM), without reference to its founders or objectives, has often been reduced to a narrow definition of culture (e.g. music, dance, food, storytelling), at variance with its activist origins (USA and UK).  However,

Afrika Speaks: Who Really Controls Black History Month?

Posted by Alkebu-Lan on  October 17, 2016
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LISTEN LIVE HERE! HAVE YOUR SAY: 02071930174 We’ll never know that when historian and academic Carter Godwin Woodson created Negro History Week in February 1926, he envisaged it would be a global phenomenon 90 years later. His mission was to “increase awareness of and interest in black history among the black

Afrika Speaks: How can our history guide us towards liberation?

Posted by Alkebu-Lan on  October 10, 2016
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LISTEN LIVE HERE! HAVE YOUR SAY: 02071930174 As highlighted in the previous show Afrikan (“Black”) History Month (AHM) in the UK was launched with the context of Afrikan Jubilee Year.  The reasons for October being chosen are both practical and deeply rooted in Ancestral cosmology. (1)   The initial focus of