Hip Hop Scholar Debates, Feel Good African History and the Need to study Kamau Kambon. Message to Mwalimu Baruti, Dr. Umar Johnson, Dr. Wesley Muhammad, Sara Suten Seti, Bro. Poligth, Dr. Ali Muhammad. Part 1.

#China's presence is visible all over #Africa. But nowhere as much as in #Zambia, the African nation where it invested the most money last year. The ties between Beijing and Lusaka are strong and have existed for decades. Today, China possesses one third of Zambia's national debt. It has invested in the mining and industrial sectors, but also in agriculture. Some Zambians denounce this Chinese presence as a form of neo-colonialism.

In September 2020, 4 upper caste Thakur men allegedly brutally gang-raped and attacked a 19-year-old Dalit woman in India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh. She died because of it and the police hurriedly cremated her without the consent of the family. This tragedy led to India actually being forced to deal with its caste problem. In this documentary, we look at the intersection of caste, gender, and violence specifically against Dalit women in India.

**Corrections**

@2:15 - The word 'dalit' in Devanagari script is incorrectly spelled. It should be spelled 'दलित'.
@12:26 - The subtitle should read, "How can one boy drag her and take her away?"@13:28 - The subtitle should read "You all can scream, "hang them, hang them!"
@22:24 - "Nothing's"
@15:15 - This one is 'Rajput'
@15:34 - "These girls are part of the caste quota."
@28:44 - Should be "UP Police","FIR"

Zanzibar -- The Dark Side of Paradise is a twenty minute news documentary which looks at the causes and consequences of the longest blackout in history. The film assesses how unremitting power problems in the Spice Islands are putting their fragile economy at great risk, whilst also denying their impoverished population a safe water supply. It also provides a background of Zanzibar's current political situation and their dependence on tourism in order to illustrate why the power cuts are only serving to aggravate an already dire situation.

February 1961.

Footage of a protest in Djarkata, the capital city of Indonesia against the governments of Belgium and the United States after the confirmation of the death of Patrice Lumumba, the deposed Prime Minister of the Congo.

Lumumba had been killed in secret on January 17th 1961 by a Belgian-commanded firing squad.

Source of footage: Reuters News Archive.

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