Ep 57: Seek Safety in Support Networks with Paul Musyimi
Paul Musyimi on what social movements really are, why peaceful organizing wins, and how activists keep each other safe when the work gets dangerous. With Malemi, Paul talks about the principle "Seek S...
2 Okt 22min
Ep 56: Claim that Seat! With Nancy Siatwiko
Youth activist Nancy Siatwiko on why young Zambians are done waiting for permission to lead. Host Malemi talks with her about locked-out candidates, young women in politics, and using social media to ...
25 Sep 37min
Ep 55: Youth, Power & Political Spaces with Tilvas Ngosa
Ep 55: Youth, Power & Political Spaces with Tilvas Ngosa Recorded at the Global Platform studio in Zambia, this episode asks why youth political participation across Africa stays so low, and what it t...
18 Sep 27min
Ep 54: The Battle of Ideas, with Sefu Sanni
Politicians pass laws, but culture shapes belief, and belief shapes everything else. In this episode, Thompson Luzendi sits with Sefu Sanni to unpack the battle of ideas: how culture becomes the real ...
11 Sep 22min
TM Smoke Signals: Given's Feminist Utopia, With Given Kapolyo
What does an ideal world look like? Given Kapolyo answers without hesitation: one where inequality does not exist, and leadership is not a male sport. In this Smoke Signals, she lays out her feminist ...
21 Aug 15min
Ep 53: No One Is Coming to Save You, with Nalishebo Sinyama
What makes someone walk to the utility company with a placard instead of posting complaints online? Nalishebo Sinyama has been answering that since 2019, when a load shedding protest in her Lusaka sub...
7 Aug 42min
TM Smoke Signals: Silence! A poem by Sylvie Baziga
TM Smoke Signals: Silence, by Sylvie Baziga A spoken word piece by Sylvie Baziga on the slow deaths that leave no bullet holes: the swallowed cry, the smothered dream, the word never spoken because sp...
24 Jul 2min
Ep52: The Moral Political Economy, with Joe Kobuthi
Host: Thompson Luzendi (Zambia) Guest: Joe Kobuthi - philosopher, public theologian, political analyst, and curator of The Elephant Pan-African magazine. The rules of the house were written by someone...
17 Jul 32min
