⁣African History Series-African Empires of Ghana and Mali

Why would Kenya and some Caribbean countries agree to send police to Haiti as part of an imperial occupation project? Jemima Pierre explains how the global dynamics of race distort our understanding of ourselves and each other as black people worldwide. The conversation discusses in detail the fact that racism organizes the current world order, and the misconception of many Africans that racism only applies to South Africa and the United States.

0:00 Introduction
1:07 Background to Pierre's book on race in Ghana
5:15 Slavery as the intellectual foundation of race and colonialism
25:06 The price Haiti has paid for having a revolution
32:50 How religion, language and neo-colonialism mislead the black world about Haiti
37:55 The role of the West in constructing African ethnicity
43:16 Ethnicity is a form of racialization
57:23 The inferior place of Africa in the world order
1:00:11 De-ethnization, deracialization and decolonization
1:04:26 Racism and white supremacy in Africa
1:19:41 The so called "gang" problem and Kenya's invasion of Haiti
1:29:36 The Obsession of the US with Haiti

The 1st clip is from a shock documentary made in the 60's called Mondo Cane, it shows a catholic mission in New Guinea. The second is from a film called Concerning Violence, footage captured by a Swiss documentary crew in Africa in the 50s/60s with extracts from Frantz Fanons "The Wretched of the Earth" being narrated by Lauryn Hill.

Juk in Geechee

⁣A Vietnam veteran returns home to find drug dealers and addicts now rule his old neighborhood, and that even his own wife has fallen victim to drugs. Together with three of his buddies from Vietnam, he fights back.

⁣Abibitumi Grandcestors

⁣The Cow-Tail Switch- A Folktale of Africa