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 Juli 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 Juli 32min
TM Smoke Signals: From Protest to Power, with Boniface Mwangi
Human rights defender, activist, and presidential candidate for the Republic of Kenya, Boniface Mwangi joins Smoke Signals for a direct, unfiltered conversation on what it will actually take for Kenya...
10 Juli 11min
TM Smoke Signals: Même Bêtise, by Frank Amani
A spoken word piece by Frank Amani on the cycles we inherit and refuse to break. Same Stupidity confronts the ways human beings repeat patterns across generations, dressing up the same vicious circle ...
3 Juli 4min
Troublemakers Ep51: Put your target in a decision dilemma, with Willy Nkya
Guest: Wilson (Willynkya), film & TV producer, content creator, and influencer based in Tanzania Rodgers sits down with Willynkya to unpack "Put Your Target in a Decision Dilemma" (Andrew Boyd & Joshu...
26 Juni 38min
TM Smoke Signals: Africa will be saved: A poem by Opolot Emmanuel Solomon
In this powerful spoken-word piece, poet Opolot Emmanuel Solomon paints a vision of an Africa that has moved beyond division, dependency, conflict, and limitation. Through repetition, imagination, and...
19 Juni 2min
