African History Club

A conversation with Dr. Yaw Ofusu-Asare from Communication Design at RMIT University in Australia where he addresses decolonizing design from an African perspective to create African futures.

This is a conversation with Tech Entrepreneur, researcher, and public speaker Evelyn Namara on her perspective on AI and the readiness of African countries with regards to policies, infrastructure, and leadership intentionality.

In this session, Dr. Admire Mare & Dr. Allen Munoriyarwa discuss their upcoming book on disinformation campaigns in Africa.

In this episode, Dr. Noah Balogun discusses Human Rights in the Yorùbá thought included in the Ifa Corpus. He challenges the idea in Africa and particularly in Yorùbà culture, women, children do not have rights and are oppressed and shows evidence to the contrary.

In this episode, Dr. Mhando Mashaka Mikidady, an Independent Researcher discusses his research on Slave Trade in Northeastern Tanzania

In this episode, we address the trend toward electric vehicle as and the impact on Africa with Dr. Godwin Kafui Ayetor from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana.

In this episode, our guest Laidlaw Peringanda, Founder of the Swakopmund Genocide Museum in Namibia tells the story of the German Genocide in Namibia, the effect and the work of reparation he has been doing. The German genocide in Namibia was the blueprint for the Holocaust. You can support the Museum by sending money to: Standard Bank NamibiaAccount name: SWAKOPMUND GENOCIDE MUSEUM CCAccount Number: 6000 704 9926Universal Code: 08 73 73Branch Code: 08 21 72Branch: SWAKOPMUNDAccount Type: Business ChequeSwift Code: SBNMNANX

In this episode Nana Karikari, a journalist and collaborator to the current Ashanti King, gives a brief history of how names are given and chosen among the Ashanti in Ghana.

In this edition we cover some news from the continent, focusing specifically on Mali, Senegal, and Niger!

Our anchor discusses main news happening on the continent this week! Leave a comment and follow us on all platform

This video summarizes the history of Yasuke, the African Samurai as recounted in the books of Lockley and Serge Bile

Arab Slavery a little research and talk about history. We were glad to have Dr. David Gakunzi join us to talk about centuries of Arab slavery that destroyed and served as a blueprint for the translation slavery in Africa.

In this episode, Thomas Lockley tells the story of Yasuke, a young African from the Eastern part of the continent, whose prowess, intellectual abilities, and skills left a lasting impact on Japan. It's an interesting story that tells of Africa and her children relation with and impact on the world before chartered slavery.

In this episode, Dr. Marta Scaglioni talks about the history of Black Tunisians. Their history and how it relates to the history of slavery in Tunisia. Dr. Marta shares what she knows about the origin of Black Tunisians. This is our first episode on this topic, and we will certainly have other guests discuss this topic!

The debate over the skin colors of the leaders, queens, and pharaohs stems from the desire of Westerners to claim the history of these great kings of Africa as being an extension of British empire. In this podcast, Dr. Solange Ashby debunks these wrong claims and demonstrates the blackness and Africanness of Egyptian and Sudanese civilizations

In this podcast the Ph.d candidate and Director of the Ijebu Kingdom project Olanrewaju Lasisi discusses Aroko Language, the education system of the Yoruba people and Ijebu Kingdom in his first visit in the African History Club on Clubhouse

Mansa Musa is known for his Hadj  or pilgrimage to Mecca. In this podcast, Dr. Maghan Keita tells us more about Mansa Musa, and debunks wrong notions about Africa in western history books

A discussion on Sékou Touré the former and first President of Guinea Conakry with Dr. Mohamed Camara from Howard University! 

In this talk, our guest Dr. Elizabeth Odhiambo is discussing the Shimoni slave caves and walks us through the interesting history of slavery in East Africa, and its effect on present day Kenyans.

A vivid discussion with our guest Dr. Anne Samson a historian and co-ordinator of the Great War in Africa Association(gweaa.com) about the experiences of African soldiers in WWI in Africa.

In this Clubhouse talk, Dr. Ndongo Samba Sylla discusses the  African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AFCTA) and whether it should be celebrated as the road for African development. Dr. Ndongo Samba Sylla is a Senegalese development economist. Interested in Fair Trade, labor markets, social movements, democratic theory, monetary sovereignty

Dr. Akin Ogundiran our guest, discusses his most recent book, The Yoruba: A new history, on clubhouse in the African History club. Dr. Akin touches on the past, present, and future history of the Yoruba, and through them Africa as he answers questions, and provides a contextual, historical,  and contemporary understanding of Yoruba people. Get the book on Amazon

An interesting conversation with Dr. Portia Owusu  on the history of slavery and African lived realities. She discusses Africans' role in the slave trade and much more. 

In this session of the African History Club on Amazon, Dr. Nwando Achebe from the University of Michigan discusses her latest book on Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa. She shares case studies, from the Rain Queens in South Africa to the Candaces in the horn of Africa to make us travel and understand the power African women have always had.

The history of Bibi Titi Mohammed told by a panel of Tanzanians and scholars who met her, or wrote about her in the African History Club room on Clubhouse. This conversation gives a brief introduction to who she was and her contribution to the independence and formation of Tanzania. With Bibi, we tell the stories of the unsung histories of heroines who fought for the independence of African nations. 

A  discussion hosted by the African History Club on Clubhouse with Mohammed A Artan about the multiple contributions of Africans to the development of countries like India, and Japan. This history is not told or known, and descendants of these Africans today are looked down upon as the contributions of their ancestors and their present contributions are forgotten 

A discussion on Clubhouse African history Club with Prince Asfa Wassen Asserate, Ph. D. Great nephew of Haile Selassie, historian and political analyst. This conversation includes questions from the audience, on June 13th, 2021

The history of Queen Mother Nana Yaa Asantewaa  of Ejisu in the Ashanti Empire – now part of modern-day Ghana – is discussed with Ibrahim B, Anoba, an Atlas Network Fellow and Editor of African Liberty. The Podcast is a recording from the African History Club on Clubhouse. 

This Podcast is a recording of a conversation in the African History Club on Clubhouse with Prof. Nzongola-Ntalaja, Georges focusing on the cost of colonization in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the crime against humanity committed by King Leopold II of Belgium Sunday, May 23rd, 2021 @11am ET