African Books & Beats

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Farai Mudzingwa

7 episodes

2 days ago

Discussions centered around African literature, music and spirituality.

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Discussions centered around African literature, music and spirituality.

Books

Arts

Episodes (7/7)

African Books & Beats

Stimela Part 3: Chemtengure/The Wagon Wheel

Part 3 in the Stimela series. We discuss the colonial wagons that dragged in colonialism. The rail economy in Southern Africa and the music it transported. Insights on the current state of the rail economy.

3 years ago

48 minutes 13 seconds

African Books & Beats

Stimela Part 2: Chitima Nditakure/Aboard the Train

Part 2 in the Stimela/Chitima Series. This episode is a podcast adaptation of the Twitter Space held on 19 August, 2021, discussing the migrations of literature, music and peoples through Southern Africa.

3 years ago

25 minutes 57 seconds

African Books & Beats

Stimela Part 1: Vagabond - Author Interview with Lerato Mogoatlhe

Part 1 in the Stimela/Chitima Series. This podcast episode is based on the Twitter Space on 19 August, 2021, in which we discussed Lerato Mogoatlhe's book "Vagabond: Wandering Through Africa On Faith". This episode launched the subsequent Twitter Spaces on literary, musical and personal travel and migration across Africa and the diaspora. The series shall be adapted in podcast form in further episodes.

3 years ago

46 minutes 10 seconds

African Books & Beats

Know Your Dictators - Author Interview with Sipho Mudau (Part 3)

Part 3 of the author interview with Sipho Mudau on his ebook "Know Your Dictators: A Little Book of Big Tyrants". This final episode is a podcast adaptation of the Twitter Spaces broadcast on Thursday, 28 October 2021. We discuss some common traits of dictators and cover dictatorships in Burundi, Sierra Leone, Gabon, The Gambia, Libya, Kenya and the US. The opening and closing song is "Regai Tione/Jealousy" by Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited with Leo Wadada Smith.

3 years ago

59 minutes 40 seconds

African Books & Beats

Know Your Dictators - Author Interview with Sipho Mudau (Part 2)

Part 2 of the author interview with Sipho Mudau on his ebook "Know Your Dictators: A Little Book of Big Tyrants".
This interview is a podcast adaptation of the Twitter Spaces broadcast on Thursday, 28 October 2021 and includes brilliant contributions by speakers from Kenya, The Gambia, Britain, Djibouti, Zimbabwe, America and South Africa.

3 years ago

53 minutes 9 seconds

African Books & Beats

Know Your Dictators - Author Interview with Sipho Mudau (Part 1)

Author interview with Sipho Mudau on his ebook "Know Your Dictators: A Little Book of Big Tyrants". This interview is a podcast adaptation of the Twitter Spaces broadcast on Thursday, 28 October 2021. My Twitter handle - @dangurangu Sipho's Twitter handle - @Sipho_Mudau

#AfricanLiterature #Politics #Dictators #Interview

3 years ago

43 minutes 11 seconds

African Books & Beats

Chapter Reading - Green Shadows in the Kiya Kiya Republic

Immersive storytelling. Excerpt from Chapter 3 of "Green Shadows in the Kiya Kiya Republic by Farai Mudzingwa. #african #literature #fiction

3 years ago

10 minutes 7 seconds