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In the wake of the Genocide in palestine, the world has also woken up to the ongoing conflict in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Since 1996, over six million people have been killed in Eastern DRC. In this episode, Christian Rumu, a Senior Campaigner at Amnesty International, speaks so elaborately about the conflict in DRC, the historical background, actors, the humanitarian cost and what individual activists can do to campaign for the liberation of DRC.

In this episode, Rebecca Turyatunga Juna and Nagawa Lorna, a lawyer with the Women's Probono Initiative and who weigh in on the conversation on the structural silencing of voices of women in Journalist in Uganda women voices. They share their perspectives on how they are actively challenging and resisting this silencing.

Sexual harrasment in newsrooms, objectification of women, and discrimination of queer women threaten the work of women journalists. In this episode, Faith Mulungi of RadioCity and Irah Mercy of Kuchu times shade light on this systematic silencing of Ugandan women in journalism.

In this episode, the guests share insights on how systems connive to silence women's voices. Elisabeth particularly shares a story of how she fought against sexual harrasment that was rampant in a university hostel and how those who hold power did everything in their means to silence her.

This episode is crossposted from Africa-blogging where Daniel Ominde interviews me about the current situation in Uganda.

In April 2019, when millions marched to the headquarters of the military in Khartoum and other cities and the march was transformed into a sit-in that continued for two months, the sit-in became Sudan’s largest arts festival. The art produced during the revolution went viral, as it was covered by foreign journalists who swarmed Khartoum to report on the revolution. However, the narrative was always lacking the historical significance of how art was mobilized. Sudan’s contemporary art history was nurtured by its many revolutions; in 1964, in 1985 and in 2018/2019. Due to the military dictatorships that continued to rule Sudan since independence, except brief honeymoons of democracy, art was always positioned as a revolutionary product.

To contextualize, the revolutionary art produced and consumed during the 2018/2019 revolution, this book explores Sudan’s contemporary history by briefly looking at the politically turbulent 1980s and deeply looking at how culture and art were policed in the dark 1990s- which is the period after the Islamists took over power after the 1989 coup. During that period, the entire artistic and cultural landscape came under attack as artists were arrested, sacked from jobs and intimidated, but the infrastructure that has always supported this landscape suffered the most as the book hopes to explain.

In this Episode, Omina Shawkat hosts the authors of the book Ruba El Melik is an independent researcher and Reem Abbas is a freelance Sudanese journalist, writer, researcher and communications expert.