A statement from Publishers for Palestine calling for a ceasefire and denouncing repression of Palestinian solidarity. November 3, 2023 We invite publishers, editors, and writers around the world who stand for justice, freedom of expression, and the power of the written word, to sign this letter and join our global solidarity collective, Publishers for Palestine. We […]
I met with Lina Andrew (from Tanzania), Ange David Baimey (from Côte d’Ivoire), and Susan Nakacwa (from Uganda) in Colombia while attending a meeting of the GRAIN board in Colombia. The interview was also broadcast on Amandla! Radio, CKUT 90.3 FM
As John Holloway described the book (https://darajapress.com/publication/a… “A fabulous book. Just read the introduction and you realise that this is a special book, not just because of its theme, but because of the way that the theme is approached: politically, personally, critically. A book on the Kurdish revolution, a book from the inside, by someone […]
Amazon is building its African HQ on a floodplain in Cape Town at the confluence of the Liesbeek and Black Rivers and the sacred ancestral land of the Indigenous Khoi and San people. As the site of the first colonial bloodshed and resistance, this site is of historical importance to all people of Southern Africa, […]
Minoo Kyaa, Gathanga Ndung’u and Gacheke Gachihi, Brian Mathenge, and Wangina Wahome talk to Firoze Manji, Daraja Press, about the civic uprisings and the killings of unarmed civilians by the police in Kenya in recent days and the role of Raila Odinga, the leader of the opposition party, the AZIMIO coalition. Minoo Kyaa is a […]
Nikesha Breeze has taken pages from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, taken his words, and forced them to leave his colonized mind. She has made the words her own in poetic form. She illuminates the invisible Black voices inside, a radical, surgical, and unapologetic Black appropriation, at the same time as a careful birthing and […]
Our guest is none other than Prof Ngugi wa Thiongo, Novelist, Theorist, Pioneering decolonial writer, and distinguished Professor of Literature at the University of California, Irvine. In today’s broadcast, Prof Ngugi and Dr Mwangi will be exploring Language as protest as well as other the future of Maendeleo in Africa, all in the context of […]
The recently published book Breaking the Silence on NGOs in Africa by the Kenya Organic Intellectuals Network is a really important text that has come out of Africa, providing thought-provoking perspectives on NGOs and their implications. Through this webinar, we have the chance to hear what remarkable African individuals like Lewis Maghanga, Gacheke Gachihi, Rodgers […]
This recording is co-produced by Daraja Press and Amandla! Radio. It is an extract from 9 July (Tuesday) HK 21:00 – 23:00 (GMT 13:00 – 15:00) African People’s Struggles for Liberation Moderators: Firoze MANJI (Daraja Press, Canada/Kenya) SIT Tsui Jade Margaret (Southwest University, China). The full lectures can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-pMGappofI Samar Al-Bulushi is […]
Despite its role in the fight for Kenya's independence and the post-colonial struggles for liberation, Mathare's story is often overlooked. As Gathanga writes in his book, most people outside the settlement associate the name Mathare with the mental hospital bordering the settlement. For others, their narrative of Mathare is one of pity, considering that the place is known to house the urban poor. But Gathanga's story of Mathare is different. As he writes, this book is a counter-narrative of Mathare and one written from a proud insider perspective. It is refreshing to have a retelling of Mathare’s story, especially one from an insider's view. When people tell their own stories, they get to rewrite their history, and this is evident in Gathanga's book. Getting to tell our own stories also moves us from the objects of our story to the subjects. It prevents us from being othered in our history. Gathanga’s book offers the untold story of Mathare, one of Nairobi's most significant informal settlements, unraveling the role of Mathare in the fight for Kenya’s independence and the subsequent betrayals and delayed promises of the post-colonial regimes.
Radio Ada and its members are under attack— again. Noah Dameh, Deputy Station Coordinator at Radio Ada, is being targeted by the local authorities of Ghana for calling out the violence being perpetrated against Dangme people in the Greater Accra Region. Amanor Dziagu and Serwa Waree, collaborators at the station, have also received violent threats; […]
The international anti-apartheid movement deservedly occupies an important chapter in the history of the struggle against white supremacy and imperialism. People of all generations and every corner of the world acknowledge and celebrate that history. In this book, we read for the first time from internationalists around the world—including many Canadians—who secretly worked for Umkhonto we […]
A discussion with three scholars of Frantz Fanon’s work and legacy. Rose Ferreria da Silva, Professor at State University of Bahia in Brazil, who writes on race, politics, Afro-Brazilian literature, and comparative ethnic and African studies, speaks to Fanon’s legacy in Afro-Brazilian thought and political movements. She is joined by Lou Turner, who teaches Black political thought […]
Kali Akuno, the co-founder of Cooperation Jackson, recently wrote that “we have a little less than two years before the neo-confederates and neo-fascists install a reactionary dictatorship by the end of January 2025.” What can be done under such circumstances given the rise and confidence of the right and the weakness of the left in […]
We learned of the brutal armed attack on Radio Ada, Ghana’s oldest and best-known community broadcaster on 13 January 2022 . This attack endangered workers of the Station and studio guests resulting in the damage to equipment and attempting to stop the voice of a broadcaster that spoke out on a wide range of economic, political, and cultural matters. The attackers stated that their objective was to halt the continued broadcast of information and voicing of local public opinion relating to the ongoing struggle over Songor Lagoon. They threatened further reprisals if this journalism did not cease. To learn more about what happened, I speak with Julius Odoi, graduate of the University of Ghana and a experienced Community Radio broadcaster. Julius has a 10 years broadcasting experience in community radio broadcasting and volunteers with Radio Ada in the Ada-East District of Ghana. Also, Julius is the external Communication office for Radio Ada.
Released On: 15 Jan 2022Available for over a year https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct2g92 Voiced by Ben Arogundade and presented by Noo Saro-Wiwa. Producer: Bairbre Flood The last writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa from prison in Nigeria to an Irish nun in the run up to his execution in November 1995. Smuggled out of prison in bread baskets, they are […]
I spoke with Rob Wallace about his excellent article on Patreon: “Don’t look up…COVID’s infectious period” available at https://bityl.co/AOvI. Omicron variant is everywhere. It isn’t the only variant in the mix. The crisis is growing to unprecedented proportions. The response of governments is underwhelming, obsessed as they are to prioritizing profiteering over people’s health. Workers […]
Join us for a discussion celebrating the life and work of Ato Sekyi-Otu, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Social Science and the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought at York University in Toronto, and author of Fanon’s Dialectic of Experience (1996) and Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays (2019). The panel will be hosted by […]
I talk with April Zhu and Stoneface Bombaa about archiving lost/erased histories of resistance in Kenya through the production of podcasts and radio in Sheng, the alternate language of the informal settlements. April Zhu is a freelance journalist based in Nairobi, where she has written on gender, urban inequality, and China-Kenya as seen from the margin. While […]
We are pleased to announce that Daraja Press has been included in a recently published video wiki “Publishing Houses Filling A Niche.” Founded in 2011, Ezvid Wiki was the world’s first video wiki, and is now among the top 3,000 websites in the United States. https://wiki.ezvid.com/m/6-publishing-houses-filling-a-niche-Be-Fy-6dO-68S
