Think Africa Press

In this week's podcast, we talk about France's ongoing influence and military role in its former African colonies, Nigeria's ambitious space program, and gay rights in Uganda. For more information on this podcast, further reading and links to the authors and contributors, please visit: http://thinkafricapress.com/podcasts/tap-podcast-la-francafrique-nigeria-in-space-and-gay-rights-uganda

In this discussion, Raffaelo Pantucci, Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, Bala Liman, PhD Candidate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, Virginia Comolli, Research Associate for Transnational Threats at the International Institute of Strategic Studies, and James Schneider, editor-in-chief at Think Africa Press, talked about the northern Nigerian militant Islamist group Boko Haram. For those of you who listened to the start of the conversation on the Think Africa Press podcast, you can skip forwards to 8.39. For further reading and useful sources, go to http://thinkafricapress.com/nigeria/podcasts/who-are-boko-haram

In this week's podcast we discuss the dangers of over simplistic narratives in South Sudan and the Central African Republic, African traders and visas in Guangzhou, China, and the current state of Boko Haram in Nigeria. For more information on this podcast, further reading and links to the authors and contributors, please visit: http://thinkafricapress.com/podcasts/tap-podcast-false-narratives-south-sudan-car-guangzhou-boko-haram