We begin this week’s episode discussing protests and democracy in Benin, the damage from Cyclone Idai in Mozambique, Malawi, and Zimbabwe, and the consequences of climate change more broadly.
Our featured conversation is with Khalid Medani (@khalidmedani4), an Associate Professor of Political Science and Islamic Studies and the Chair of the African Studies Program at McGill University. He has published widely on the on the roots of civil conflict and the funding of the Islamic movement in Sudan, the question of informal finance and terrorism in Somalia, the obstacles to state building in Iraq, and the role of informal networks in the rise of Islamic militancy. He provides insights on the current protests in Sudan and puts them in context.
Books, Links, & Articles
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor
- “ Sudan and the Unbearable Lightness of Islamism: From Revolution to Rentier Authoritarianism.” by Giorgio Musso