African Stream

African Stream

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Season 1
March 2025 Monthly Wrap | Congo Crisis Explained, M23 Rebels, Mineral Profiteers & AES Updates
Join @AuthenticAfrican CEO Joe Hotagua, @AfricanStream journalist Inem Richardson, and special guest Maud-Salomé Ekila Bofunda—Congolese journalist, Pan-Africanist, and spokesperson for Urgences Panafricanistes—for a critical deep dive into Africa’s most urgent issues. In this livestream, we’ll explore the ongoing crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo and give you key updates from the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) — Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso.
S1 · E24
Mar 27, 2025
2:14:00
Pan African Attitude Ep 19 | Why Africans Should Care About Palestine
For some, Israel’s attacks in West Asia and the Syrian government takeover are none of Africa’s business. Apart from the fact that solidarity is not transactional, events in Palestine carry a warning of precisely what the current global order thinks of the global majority: We are disposable. Additionally, Africa could have been where Z*onists established the state of Israel had the early-20th century plan gone through in what is now Uganda and Kenya, not to mention Israel is also playing an increasingly nefarious role in our continent through tech espionage, arms sales and resource-extraction at shockingly low prices. We recently sat down with special guest @mariamtheugandan (IG), whose real name is Mariam Nakyobe, who has been linking the struggles in Africa and Palestine. As always, please share your thoughts.
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Mar 26, 2025
51:19
Pan-African Attitude Ep 18 | DRC: The World's Forgotten Genocide Powering Our Technology
While more than 60% of the world's cobalt (used to power smartphones, laptops and e-cars) comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country remains one of the world's poorest, with over 73% of Congolese people living on less than $2.15 a day. A three-decade mineral war has fuelled the destruction of the DRC, with little accountability - despite mounting evidence that Western-backed neighbour Rwanda is the prime gateway for the ‘blood minerals’ trade. In the latest escalation of the proxy war, the M23 rebel group's offensive to seize the eastern regional capital of Goma k*lled nearly 3,000 people (UN) and displaced at least 500,000 in January alone. The rebels’ operations are widely reported as being largely controlled by the Rwanda Defence Forces, which also fund, arm and provide military personnel for M23. Join us for Episode 18 of our Pan-African Attitude Podcast, as we peel back the layers of why the gen*cide in Congo has largely been forgotten, despite displacing over 7-million people in the last 30 years, with approximately 6 million k*lled between 1998 and 2010.
S1 · E22
Mar 24, 2025
1:25:42
Pan-African Attitude Ep 17 | African Stream's CEO Sits Down With His Father To Discuss Sudan's War
Editor-in-Chief Ahmed Kaballo sat down with his father, Sidgi Kaballo, who is an economist, academic and Central Committee member of Sudan's Communist Party, to discuss the proxy war in Sudan. In this insightful interview, Sidgi Kaballo, who spent seven months inside Sudan from the onset of the war, walked us through his two-fold experience. He relayed his experience as a civilian witnessing the war first-hand, including his encounters with the United Arab Emirates-backed Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group that ransacked his home, stole his car and injured his arm. The second perspective Kaballo provided is that of an intellectual and political analyst who understands the root causes of the war, explaining who is backing both sides, and why neither warring party is the 'good guy.'
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Mar 24, 2025
1:04:27
Pan-African Attitude Ep 16 | Why are the Far-Right on the Loose in the UK?
The UK is in crisis right now, with Black and Brown people attacked on the street, hotels housing asylum seekers set alight and attacked, Muslim women being attacked with acid and even graves of Muslims being attacked by mobs of the far-right. Oh, and we forgot to mention a small child on the streets of Belfast in the Occupied North of Ireland is heard shouting “P*kis out” “P*kis out” as she walks down the street while the mother of the child smiles. How did this happen? How did the UK turn into a place of programs against ethnic minorities? We break this all down with legendary hip-hop rapper and journalist @lowkey.
S1 · E20
Aug 7, 2024
1:04:43
Pan-African Attitude Ep. 15 | Venezuelan Elections: Stolen Or Won Fairly?
Venezuela has long been subject to foreign interference and meddling in its political process ever since socialist president Hugo Chavez came to power on 2 February 1999. There have been several coups, one in 2002 against Hugo Chavez and one in 2019 against the incumbent president Nicolas Maduro. Maduro's supporters argue that this is also happening again today, with U.S.-backed opposition forces refusing to recognise the results of the elections and trying to overthrow Maurdo's government and replace it with opposition leader Edmundo González. Opposition supporters argue that the election was stolen and that Maduro is holding on to power illegally, with the U.S. government agreeing with this position and recognising Edmundo González Urrutia as the winner of Venezuela's presidential election and, therefore, the country's new president. On today's episode of Pan-African Attitude, we break all this down with two guests who were recently in Venezuela to observe the elections and another Venezuelan guest who lives in Venezuela.
S1 · E19
Aug 7, 2024
1:09:09
Pan-African Attitude Ep 14 | Revolutionary Activists visit the AES
Four Africans who grew up in the US/Canada recently travelled together around Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger to meet with grassroots organisations and ministries in the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) - to figure out what is going on and what the mood is in the Sahel region. The Thomas Sankara Centre organised the delegation in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, together with the Coalition for the Elimination of Imperialism in Africa based in the diaspora.
S1 · E18
Aug 7, 2024
1:00:56
Pan-African Attitude Ep 13 | Mainstream Fake News Fiasco Debunked with Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal
Join African Stream’s discussion with investigative reporter Max Blumenthal on the power and scourge of misinformation in the mainstream media. He’s been smeared by major outlets over his coverage of the October 7th attacks against Israelis, while we’ve faced unfounded claims of peddling falsehoods by NBC. It referenced an Onyx Impact report that doesn’t even mention African Stream in its executive summary released to the public. We dive into the malicious world of mass media which has pushed so much misinformation that public trust in it has sunk to all time lows. Don’t miss it.
S1 · E17
Aug 5, 2024
1:02:38
Pan-African Attitude Episode 12 | Root Causes of Sudan Crisis
For this episode, we will examine the war in Sudan—what many call a proxy war—and how we got into this mess. Sudan is facing horror “beyond imagination” 25.6 million people are projected to face acute food insecurity or worse. But according to, the outgoing UN aid chief, Martin Griffiths, 750,000 people are under imminent threat of famine and with conditions in danger of worsening even further. That, on top of thousands of people killed. Conservative estimates say the conflict has killed at least 15,500 people, while some estimates are as high as 150,000 and counting. We are joined by a special guest today to help us understand how we got into this message. Dr. Juma Kunda is a professor of peace and development and a dedicated Pan-Africanist activist known for his significant involvement in the peace process in Sudan.
S1 · E16
Jul 9, 2024
57:32
Pan-African Attitude Ep 11. - Kenya's Anti-Finance Bill Protest
Join us for our 11th episode of Pan-African Attitude podcast. We discuss the second week since Kenyans poured onto the streets protesting against the IMF-backed Finance Bill. We host two participants, Booker Omole, Vice Chair the Communist Party of Kenya and Wanjira Wanjiru, a co-founder of the Mathare Social Justice Center, who you might remember from 'We Lose Our Fear We Lose Our Power'. They are active community organisers, with a wealth of knowledge on the implication of imperialist financial institutions on the vulnerable and will help us break down recent events.
S1 · E15
Jul 3, 2024
1:13:46
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