Sunday, February 27, 2011

Libya

This week we interviewed Prof. Horace Campbell a prominent Pan-Africanist scholar at Syracuse University in New York. Prof. Campbell addressed the protests in Libya and called for Gaddafi to step down immediately in addition to calling a revolution against capitalism not only against individual dictators.

The interview can be listened to here

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Referendum in Sudan

From January 9 to 15, Sudan held a referendum to decide the faith of the South of the country. The results of the referendum show that the people of the South had voted overwhelmingly to succeed from the north. In this edition of African Perspectives, we spoke with Farid Omar about the larger geopolitical causes and implications of this referendum, the civil war in Sudan, and the prospects for this new country.

Farid Omar is a consultant, freelance writer and researcher at the York Center for International and Security Studies. He recently wrote an article in the Socialist Worker on Sudan and Oil.

Listen to this week's African Perspectives here

Weekly headlines from the African continent (until 15:43)
Interview with Farid Omar (starts at 15:44)