The Malcolm Effect

We often hear that China is colonising Africa. Or that Russia's actions are imperialist in Africa. Christian and I spoke to one of my favorite thinkers, about all things Africa vis-a-vis China & Russia   Zubairu Wai is Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Development Studies. He is the author of Epistemologies of African Conflicts: Violence, Evolutionism, and the War in Sierra Leone (2012), which won the ATWS Toyin Falola Africa Book Award for 2013, and co-editor (with Marta Iñiguez de Heredia) of Recentering Africa in International Relations: Beyond Lack, Peripherality, and Failure (2018). His research takes up epistemological questions regarding the nature, conditions, and limits of disciplinary knowledge and practices in International Relations, Development Studies, Conflict and Security Studies, and African Studies. Specifically, he focuses on how the intersections of power and coloniality frame the discourses and political economy of knowledge, violence, conflict, development, and state formation in Africa, and the Global South more broadly. His most recent manuscript, Thinking the Colonial Library: Mudimbe, Gnosis, and the Predicament of Africanist Knowledge, which interrogates the contaminating vectors of the colonial archive and its implications for epistemic decolonisation, will be published by Routledge early next year.   I.G. @TheGambian Twitter: @MomodouTaal @CTayJ

Listen in as I speak to Gary Wilder on his generation of scholars and their disavowal of class analysis.   Gary Wilder is a Professor in the Ph.D. Program of Anthropology, with cross-appointments in History and French, at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he is also Director of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change. Wilder’s work on the French empire, Francophone West Africa and the Caribbean, and Black Atlantic social thought is located at the intersection of historical anthropology, intellectual history, and critical theory (with special emphasis on Marxism, postcolonialism, and poststructuralism).

You’d be hard-pressed to scroll through social media without seeing a discussion on gender. Listen in as I discuss with Micah Valentine. Micah Valentine is a stem cell researcher who has an interest in Radical Black politics and labour history.    I.G. @TheGambian @_micahvalentine Twitter: @MomodouTaal   TikTok: Micahvalentine @Afroconfetti

Listen in as Deej, Christian, and I discuss AfroPessimism with Professor Frank Wilderson   Frank B. Wilderson III is an American writer, dramatist, filmmaker, and critic. He is a Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. I.G. @TheGambian Twitter: @MomodouTaal @FanonIsCanon @CTayJ

In this episode, I sat with my Uncle as we discussed the radical history of The Gambia and its connection to movements beyond its borders.   I.G. @TheGambian Twitter: @MomodouTaal

Listen in as Sita, Deej and I discuss Sita's book "Deadly and Slick:Sexual Modernity and the Making of Race"   I.G. @TheGambian Twitter: @MomodouTaal @FanonIsCanon

Philosopher Judith Butler discusses the current state of gender discussions, including the evangelical church's cultural war against gender and the controversy surrounding trans rights. They highlight the complex relationship between feminism, trans rights, and right-wing politics, as well as the evolution of queer theory and the challenges of policing functions within political movements. They explore different ontological perspectives, the importance of different perspectives in alliances against discrimination, and the relevance of technology and gender today.

Listen in as Obi Egbuna jr, Deej and I discuss what Pan African organising in the US should focus on today.   I.G. @TheGambian Twitter: @MomodouTaal @FanonIsCanon

In this episode, we discuss with Dr. Matteo Campasso the history and mechanism of sanctions.    Matteo Capasso is @mscactions research fellow at @cafoscari and @columbia, whose work focuses on imperialism and the Global South.  He is the author of 'Everyday Politics in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya' and co-editor of @mideastcritique. His work has appeared in @ripe, @roap and @journalPolitics.  He is also a rapporteur at in the International Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism: Sanctions Blockades, and Unilateral Coercive Measures @sanctionstrib   I.G. @TheGambian Twitter: @capassomat @MomodouTaal @CTayJ  

In this episode Dr. Norman Finkelstein talk to Annie, Christian, and Momodou about how he sees the class struggle today.   Norman Gary Finkelstein is an American political scientist, activist, former professor, and author. His primary fields of research are the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust. He is a graduate of Binghamton University and received his Ph.D. in political science at Princeton University.