Podcasts about firoze manji

Busia Senator and activist lawyer Okiya Omtatah recently declared his intent to run for president in 2027. Over his career, Omtatah has sued multinationals, government, politicians, and many others on behalf of the public interest and promises to focus on "anti-corruption measures" and executing the Constitution. We've spent many hours helping people understand the structural nature of what ails Kenya. Omtatah has certainly played an important role as an individual, but is this at odds with what would actually be necessary, structurally, to liberate Kenya from the root causes of its problems? How then should we think about electoral politics? They objectively matter, but how should we organize within a context where its importance is overstated? How should we think about the issue of solidarity within coalitional politics — throwing women and queer people under the bus — for a "lesser evil" and "non-corrupt" candidate? Firoze Manji, PhD, is a Kenyan, but now resides in Québec, Canada. He has more than 40 years of experience in international development, health and politics. He is the publisher of Daraja Press (www.darajapress.com) and an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He is the recipient of the 2021 Nicolás Batista Lifetime Achievement Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. He is the founder and former editor-in-chief of the pan-African social justice website, Pambazuka News. He has published widely on health, human rights, and politics.

Jack Russell Weinstein is here to preview this Sunday's Why radio show as he visits with Firoze Manji. Manji is a Kenyan activist with more than 40 years' experience in international development, health, human rights, teaching, publishing and political organizing. He is the recipient of the 2021 Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Lifetime Achievement Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. (Wikipedia)

Friday, July 8, 2022 - Jack Russell Weinstein is here to preview this Sunday's Why radio show as he visits with Firoze Manji in an episode titled “What does it Mean to be ‘African'?” ~~~ Dave Thompson is here with this week's news chat. ~~~ Matt Olien reviews “Elvis.”

In our fifth episode of the Radical Publishing Futures series, Meg Arenberg interviews Kenyan publisher Firoze Manji, founder of Daraja Press. Reflecting on his 25 years in editing and publishing, including his work as founder and editor in chief of the prize-winning pan African social justice newsletter and website, Pambazuka News and its book publishing arm, Pambazuka Press, Manji describes the bridge-building and solidarity-fostering impulses that led to the founding of Daraja Press. Over the course of the episode, he talks about the difference between publishing academic work and fostering intellectual conversations, what it means to think of publishing as a symphony, and the challenge -- particularly in the digital age -- of keeping engagement with radical ideas alive beyond the printed page.  In addition to his work in publishing, Firoze Manji has 40 years of experience in international development, health and human rights, and is Adjunct Professor at the Institute of African Studies and Contract Instructor, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He has written widely on health, human rights, development and politics and is co-editor, with Sokari Ekine, of African Awakenings: The Emerging Revolutions and co-editor with Bill Fletcher Jr, of Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral. 

Firoze Manji, is Adjunct Professor at the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University. He is Kenyan with more than 40 years' experience in international development, health and human rights, and is the publisher of Daraja Press. He is Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy, and Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies. He is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Pambazuka News and Pambazuka Press. He has previously worked as Africa Programme Director for Amnesty International, Chief Executive of the Aga Khan Foundation (UK), and Regional Representative for Health Sciences in Eastern and Southern Africa for the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC), researcher at the Kenya Medical Research Institute, and lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Nairobi. He has published widely on health, human rights, development and politics. He is co-editor, with Sokari Ekine, of African Awakenings: The Emerging Revolutions and co-editor with Bill Fletcher Jr, of Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral. He is a member of the editorial review board of Global Critical Caribbean Thought and member of the editorial board of Nokoko, journal of the Institute of African Studies. He holds a PhD and MSc from the University of London, and BDS from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Subscribe to our newsletter today

What is racism? How does it operate, and to what extent is it a problem for all of us? The way my first guest on Politeia sees it, and I agree, is that societies either are racist or they aren’t—there’s no such thing as a not-racist society that has racist people in it. The question for us, then, is how can politics as philosophy help us understand the problem of racism and what can we learn about how to move forward with creating a truly anti-racist society? Join me for Part 2 of my discussion with one of the world's foremost philosophers on the subject of racism and politics, Professor and Head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Connecticut, Dr. Lewis Gordon.References for this episode:Black Skin, White Masks, by Frantz Fanon: https://groveatlantic.com/book/black-skin-white-masks/Wretched of the Earth, by Frantz Fanon: https://groveatlantic.com/book/the-wretched-of-the-earth/Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Frantz Fanon: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/frantz-fanon/What Fanon Said, by Lewis R. Gordon:https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823266081/what-fanon-said/Additional discussions featuring Dr. Lewis Gordon available for free online:Conversation with Jason Stanley, Part 1: https://youtu.be/UUaIAxJZFHcPart 2: https://youtu.be/lqYBy2KU6LUPart 3: https://youtu.be/0WAtlqNd7_APart 4: https://youtu.be/-tVtOd4oD2cPart 5: https://youtu.be/oD5FPiZhmbEPart 6: https://youtu.be/mI4UkgkpT0wPart 7: https://youtu.be/pVlF4E5Hhao"Engaging with Fanon in the time of COVID,” interview by Firoze Manji of Daraja Press: https://youtu.be/0azDbkzxtscMaster Class on Frantz Fanon with Dr. Lewis Gordon, hosted by The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown Univerisity:Part 1: https://youtu.be/ciV4wm6YfH4Part 2: https://youtu.be/zmVkHf5WQVkPart 3: https://youtu.be/TLG2hC2lsZkOliver Thorn of PhilosophyTube presents G.W.F. Hegel’s Master/Slave Dialectic:https://youtu.be/OgNt1C72B_4Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PoliteiaPod

What is racism? How does it operate, and to what extent is it a problem for all of us? The way my first guest on Politeia sees it, and I agree, is that societies either are racist or they aren’t—there’s no such thing as a not-racist society that has racist people in it. The question for us, then, is how can politics as philosophy help us understand the problem of racism and what can we learn about how to move forward with creating a truly anti-racist society? Join me as I discuss these and many other questions with one of the world's foremost philosophers on the subject of racism and politics, Professor and Head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Connecticut, Dr. Lewis Gordon.References for this episode:Black Skin, White Masks, by Frantz Fanon: https://groveatlantic.com/book/black-skin-white-masks/Wretched of the Earth, by Frantz Fanon: https://groveatlantic.com/book/the-wretched-of-the-earth/Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Frantz Fanon: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/frantz-fanon/Lewis R. Gordon on the life and writing of Frantz Fanon:https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823266081/what-fanon-said/Additional discussions featuring Dr. Lewis Gordon available for free online:Conversation with Jason Stanley, Part 1: https://youtu.be/UUaIAxJZFHcPart 2: https://youtu.be/lqYBy2KU6LUPart 3: https://youtu.be/0WAtlqNd7_APart 4: https://youtu.be/-tVtOd4oD2cPart 5: https://youtu.be/oD5FPiZhmbEPart 6: https://youtu.be/mI4UkgkpT0wPart 7: https://youtu.be/pVlF4E5Hhao"Engaging with Fanon in the time of COVID,” interview by Firoze Manji of Daraja Press: https://youtu.be/0azDbkzxtscMaster Class on Frantz Fanon with Dr. Lewis Gordon, hosted by The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown Univerisity:Part 1: https://youtu.be/ciV4wm6YfH4Part 2: https://youtu.be/zmVkHf5WQVkPart 3: https://youtu.be/TLG2hC2lsZkOliver Thorn of PhilosophyTube presents G.W.F. Hegel’s Master/Slave Dialectic:https://youtu.be/OgNt1C72B_4

Host Alice of kiskeacity.com welcomes photographer Sokari Ekine of blacklooks.org to discuss her photo exhibit Spirit Desire inspired by her journey through Haiti and its spirituality as a journalist, educator, IDP camp volunteer and mobile clinic attendant.  Sokari is a Nigerian activist, writer and photographer whose work and writing is engaged with pan-Africanist, anti-imperialist, femnist and environmental politics — in both Haiti and Nigeria. She has written for academic journals, anthologies and news publications including Pambazuka News, Feminist Africa and New Internationalist and she is the editor of Blood and Oil: Testimonies of Violence from Women of the Niger Delta, SMS Uprising: Mobile Phone Activism in Africa, and with Firoze Manji, African Awakening: The Emerging Revolutions. See pre- and post-show notes at http://www.kiskeacity.com/2016/12/legacy-of-1804-with-sokari-ekine.html. 

Deliberating new media: creating alternative politics in the Middle East and Africa? The New Media / Alternative Politics conference on 14-16 October debated the relationship between communication technologies and political change in the Middle East and Africa. Amy Saunderson-Meyer, from FreedomFone in Zimbabwe, Herman Wasserman of Rhodes University and Firoze Manji, editor of Pambazuka News joined this panel discussion at the opening session.

On Feb. 4, journalist Firoze Manji walked in on Egyptian theorist Samir Amin and Mamdou Habashi, a well known Egyptian activist talking politics, and joined right in. Here's the recording he made.

The New Media / Alternative Politics conference on 14-16 October debated the relationship between communication technologies and political change in the Middle East and Africa. Amy Saunderson-Meyer, from FreedomFone in Zimbabwe, Herman Wasserman of Rhodes University and Firoze Manji, editor of Pambazuka News joined this panel discussion at the opening session.

The New Media / Alternative Politics conference on 14-16 October debated the relationship between communication technologies and political change in the Middle East and Africa. Amy Saunderson-Meyer, from FreedomFone in Zimbabwe, Herman Wasserman of Rhodes University and Firoze Manji, editor of Pambazuka News joined this panel discussion at the opening session.

Interview with Firoze Manji, Pambazuka News. www.pambazuka.org The post Africa Today – July 23, 2007 appeared first on KPFA.