Guerrilla History

• The Mau Mau Uprising w/ Nicholas Mwangi (AR&D Ep. 3)

  With this episode of Guerrilla History, we get into our first case study of our series on African Revolutions and Decolonization.  Here, Nicholas Mwangi comes on to discuss the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya - what led to it, how it unfolded, and its legacies.  Absolutely critical historical case study, you certainly want to hear it, and share with comrades!    Also subscribe to our Substack (free!) to keep up to date with what we are doing.  With so many episodes coming in this series (and beyond), you won't want to miss anything, so get the updates straight to your inbox.  guerrillahistory.substack.com   Nicholas Mwangi is a writer and member of the Ukombozi Library in Kenya.  Additionally, he cohosts the Liberating Minds podcast, which you can also support on their Patreon. Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory 

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• Introducing Our New Sister Show - The Adnan Husain Show!

  The following episode is from Adnan's new show, aptly titled The Adnan Husain Show.  Don't worry, Adnan is still continuing with Guerrilla History, and we will be back with our next regular episode next week!  We just wanted to let you know about this exciting new project so that you can subscribe to it. In this episode, Professor Adnan Husain is joined by two outstanding scholars and thinkers, Drs. Peter Beattie and Karim Bettache of BettBeatMedia ( @BettBeat_Media) .They discuss a number of interrelated topics based on BettBeatMedia newsletters on substack: the current geopolitical order, China’s role in it, BRICS and political economy, anti-imperialist politics in the Trump era, the media, as well as the politics of race and Islamophobia beyond “left” and right in “the West”. Check out BettBeat's Substack https://substack.com/@bettbeat Subscribe to the channel here:   / @bettbeat_media  Please subscribe, share, and support this channel: https://adnanahusain.substack.com/ https://patreon.com/adnanhusain  https://www.adnanhusain.org

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• Pan-Africanism: A Primer w/ Layla Brown & Jacquie Luqman (AR&D Ep.2)

  With this episode of Guerrilla History, we launch into Pan-Africanism as a great additional starting point to our series on African Revolutions and Decolonization.  We bring on two marvelous guests, Prof. Layla Brown and Jacquie Luqman, to discuss the history, theoretical currents, and modern expressions of Pan-Africanism.  This is a 2+ hour masterclass, you certainly won't want to miss a moment of it!  Be sure to share this episode with comrades as well, we KNOW they will benefit from listening!   Also subscribe to our Substack (free!) to keep up to date with what we are doing.  With so many episodes coming in this series (and beyond), you won't want to miss anything, so get the updates straight to your inbox.  guerrillahistory.substack.com   Layla Brown is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology & Africana Studies and affiliate faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Brown’s research focuses on Pan-African, Socialist, and Feminist social movements in Venezuela, the US, and the broader African Diaspora.  She is a member of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC), and can be found on twitter @PanAfrikFem_PhD.  She also cohosts the Life. Study. Revolution podcast alongside Charisse Burden-Stelly.   Jacquie Luqman is a radical activist, journalist, and is a coordinator with Black Alliance for Peace.  You can follow some (but not all!) of her writings at Black Agenda Report, and watch her show Luqman Nation on Black Liberation Media. She is on twitter @luqmannation1. Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory 

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• BRICS - A View from South Africa w/ Prof. Narnia Bohler-Muller

  In this episode of Guerrilla History, we have a fascinating discussion on South Africa's role in BRICS, the view of BRICS in South Africa, South Africa's case against Israel at the ICJ, a new National Health Insurance law in SA, and more.  For this, we bring on someone ideally placed to discussed all of this and more - Prof. Narnia Bohler-Muller, a South African law professor and policy specialist who has been intimately involved in each of these topics.  This is really a great conversation, and hopefully helps you in thinking more about South Africa's role in BRICS when you have discussions about that grouping.   Don't forget to subscribe to our Substack (free!) to keep up to date with what we are doing.  We have a LOT of interesting things coming your way (not least of which, our African Revolutions and Decolonization series which began last week and continues with episode 2 next week), and you won't want to miss anything, so get the updates straight to your inbox.  guerrillahistory.substack.com   Narnia Bohler-Muller is a divisional executive in the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa's Developmental, Capable and Ethical State research division and acting Group Executive: Shared Services.  She is a lawyer and former Professor at Nelson Mandela University, and was one of the individuals involved in South Africa's admission to BRICS and many of the discussions since then surrounding SA's place in the grouping.  You can find more of her work on her HSRC page. Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory 

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• African Revolutions and Decolonization (AR&D) - Ep. 1: Introduction w/ Momodou Taal

  With this episode of Guerrilla History, we officially launch our long awaited series on African Revolutions and Decolonization!  Every other week (between other, non-thematic episodes) for roughly the next year and a half, we will be turning a spotlight on struggles across the African continent, with both case studies as well as more theoretical or conceptual episodes present.  We could scarcely ask for a better guest to help us launch this series than our comrade Momodou Taal.  In this episode, we discuss the importance of studying African revolutionary history, and what we should be doing with this series.  Get excited, we certainly are! In addition, if you want to read Adnan and Henry's thoughts on this series, they introduced the series in a blogpost for the Review of African Political Economy last week.   Also subscribe to our Substack (free!) to keep up to date with what we are doing.  With so many episodes coming in this series (and beyond), you won't want to miss anything, so get the updates straight to your inbox.  guerrillahistory.substack.com   Momodou Taal is a British-Gambian PhD student at Cornell University studying African Political Economy.  He is host of the outstanding podcast The Malcolm Effect, and has a forthcoming book The Malcolm Effect Revisited, which preorders are open for.  Be sure to also follow him on twitter @MomodouTaal. Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory 

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