Podcast Episodes

HAP 116 - Olufemi Taiwo and Olufemi Taiwo on Cabral

Episode 153

Two scholars of the same name join us to shed further light on Amílcar Cabral.

2 years, 11 months ago

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HAP 115 - Weapon of Choice - Amílcar Cabral

Episode 152

Amílcar Cabral, leader of a revolution against colonialism in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, rethinks culture and Marxist theory as bases for his stru…

3 years ago

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HAP 114 - Teacher Taught Me - Julius Nyerere

Episode 151

The first leader of independent Tanzania grounds his socialist ideas in traditional African values.

3 years ago

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HAP 113 - A Fighting God - Black Theology

Episode 150

After Albert Cleage and James Cone propose a liberatory interpretation of Christianity, William R. Jones wonders whether God is a white racist. We al…

3 years ago

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HAP 112 - Poems That Kill - the Black Arts Movement

Episode 149

African American literature of the late 1960s reflects the Black Power movement, in the works of such authors as Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Haki M…

3 years, 1 month ago

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HAP 111 - A Kwanzaa Story - Maulana Karenga

Episode 148

The controversial career of the Pan-Africanist philosopher Maulana Karenga, inventor of the holiday Kwanzaa.

3 years, 1 month ago

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HAP 110 - Politics with Bloodshed - the Black Panthers

Episode 147

The philosophical underpinnings of a “vanguard of revolution” led by Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver: the Black Panther Party.

3 years, 2 months ago

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HAP 109 - Say It Loud - Black Power

Episode 146

How the controversial slogan “black power,” used by activists like Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown, relates to ideas of militancy, separatism, an…

3 years, 2 months ago

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HAP 108 - Or Does It Explode? - Lorraine Hansberry

Episode 145

The underestimated radicalism of Lorraine Hansberry, author of the famous play "A Raisin in the Sun".

3 years, 3 months ago

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HAP 107 - Lewis Gordon on Frantz Fanon

Episode 144

We're joined by a leading Fanon expert to talk about a range of themes in his work: Negritude, psychiatry, and violence.

3 years, 3 months ago

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