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"I was an unlikely president"
Season 2, Ep. 36
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For this episode, we’re broadcasting from the Presidential Palace of the Republic of Cabo Verde. The Limitless Africa journalists interviewed President José Maria Neves.
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47. "It should really be called a concentration camp"
17:40||Season 2, Ep. 47In 2023, journalist Stanis Bujakera was imprisoned for six months. The prosecutors were aiming for 20 years. The charge? Writing an article that suggested the country's military intelligence had been involved in an assassination.Stanis Bujakera is one of Democratic Republic of Congo’s most popular journalists. In 2023, he was imprisoned for six months while reporting on the elections. The prosecutors were aiming for 20 years. After his arrest, organisations fighting for press freedom, like Reporters Without Borders, (that’s RSF), and the Congo Hold-Up investigative team, worked to free him. Journalists and intellectuals including Wole Soyinka, Leïla Slimani and Soulemayne Bachir Diagne signed petitions. And ambassadors worked behind the scenes.There are countless other journalists in Africa who are stopped from doing their job - through intimidation, censorship and violence. In this interview we remember journalists like the Cameroonian Martinez Zogo and Sylvie Yebel. And there are others who have also died in suspicious circumstances: John Williams Ntwali in Rwanda, Ahmed Hussein-Suale in Ghana, and Thulani Maseko in Eswatini.The work African journalists do is extremely dangerous. In this interview, Stanis talks about his day-to-day life in the notorious Makala jail. It’s a chilling reminder of the risks independent journalists take to tell the truth to power.46. Is fake news spreading conflict?
15:00||Season 2, Ep. 46Social media means that lies and fake news can spread faster, inflame tensions, and serve the interests of the powerful. So the work that African journalists do - reporting facts and telling the truth - is more important than ever.Jeremias Langa is president of the Mozambican chapter of the press freedom association, Media Institute of Southern Africa.Rodriguez Katsuva is the co-founder of Congo Check, the first news website in the Democratic Republic of Congo that verifies news stories and flags up fake news.Carl Odera is an experienced Kenyan journalist who has reported from all over the continent including South Sudan.45. "He's going to prove that he is the greatest of all time."
40:14||Season 2, Ep. 45Extended interview with Jonathan Eig, a Pulitzer-winning author, who's written the most recent biography of Muhammad Ali. It's our chance to celebrate the 50-year anniversary of Rumble in the Jungle, the legendary fight that took place in Kinshasa, then Zaire, now the DRC where Muhammad Ali became the greatest boxer of all time.44. How did Rumble in the Jungle change the world?
14:24||Season 2, Ep. 44This year it’s the 50-year anniversary of what many say was the greatest sporting event the world has ever seen. And it happened in Africa.Rumble in the Jungle, the boxing match between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali, was held on 30 October 1974 in Zaire, now the DRC. Muhammad Ali’s victory cemented his legacy and showed the world he was the ultimate Greatest of All Time. We speak to Muhammad Ali's biographer Jonathan Eig, the Pulitzer-winning author of Ali: A Life.43. "I was anxious for change"
24:53||Season 2, Ep. 43For this extended episode, we ‘re featuring two guests who decided to move back to the place they consider home, Sinatou Saka and Joli Moniz. Both talk about a turning point in their lives; when they realised that it would soon be too late to start afresh. Both tell us whether they now think if it was the right professional and personal decision.42. Why did I come back? The case for repats
15:00||Season 2, Ep. 42Many diaspora Africans are choosing to return to the continent. These ‘repats’ - as they’re often known - are keen to seize new opportunities. In this episode, three repats tell us how and why they came to Africa.41. "Every woman knows a survivor, but somehow men don't know a predator"
24:38||Season 2, Ep. 41According to some surveys, over a third of women in Africa have experienced physical violence in their lifetimes. We speak to Peninah Kimiri, an expert in gender-based violence, about the rise of cyber misogyny, the increase of femicide and how all men need to step up to protect women.40. How can we stop male violence against women?
14:54||Season 2, Ep. 40According to some surveys, over a third of women in Africa have experienced physical violence in their lifetimes. We ask three activists from Senegal, Cape Verde and Kenya: how can we stop violence against women?Woppa Diallo is a lawyer and gender activist based in Senegal.Natácha Magalhaes is a Cape Verdean writer who often tackles the subject of gender-based violence in her writing. Peninah Kimiri is a Kenyan expert in gender-based violence who has worked across Africa, South East Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East.39. "It started as a hashtag"
31:10||Season 2, Ep. 39Oliver Barker-Vormawor is one of the activists behind the #FixTheCountry and #StopGalamseyNow movements as well as the #occupy-Julorbi-house protest in Ghana. Learn how to deepen and stabilise democracy on the continent.