Dec 2025

Minisode: The Jingle Bells Story (Christmas 2025)

Full shownotes at www.80dayspodcast.com/jinglebells | Support: www.patreon.com/80dayspodcast In this episode of 80 Days: An Exploration Podcast, we're exploring the story behind the writer of the most well-known secular Christmas song: Jingle Bells, and some of its surprising bac ... Show More

1h 2m

May 2025

Ceuta (S6.10)

Full shownotes at www.80dayspodcast.com/ceuta | Support: www.patreon.com/80dayspodcast n this episode of 80 Days: An Exploration Podcast we’ll be talking about the autonomous city of Ceuta -- Spanish exclave, military post, and free port on the coast of Morocco, at the Medi ... Show More

1h 52m

Feb 2025

Shetland (S6.09)

Full shownotes at www.80dayspodcast.com/shetland | Support: www.patreon.com/80dayspodcast In this episode of 80 Days: An Exploration Podcast we’ll be talking about Shetland, a group of about 100 islands, fewer than 20 of them inhabited, in Scotland, 210 km (130 miles) north ... Show More

2h 4m

Apr 2025

538. South Africa: What the West Needs to Learn | Dr. Ernst Roets

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with South African filmmaker, author, and activist Dr. Ernst Roets. They discuss the genetic and cultural hyper-diversity of Africa, the early settlement patterns of South Africa, the origin story of the Boers, how forgotten history breeds rhyming ... Show More

1h 40m

Apr 2024

Oliver Tambo returns to South Africa from exile

On 13 December 1990, the anti-apartheid politician Oliver Tambo returned to South Africa after 30 years in exile.As the president of the banned African National Congress (ANC), he had lived in Zambia building the liberation movement while other key ANC members including Nelson Ma ... Show More

9m 59s

Jul 2025

Nathaniel Mathews | Zanzibar & Oman's Common History & Identities

<p>Nathaniel Mathews is associate professor in Africana Studies at Binghamton University and author of "Zanzibar Was a Country: Exile and Citizenship between East Africa and the Gulf." He tells us about his journey in studying Zanzibar, prompted by his early exposure to Swahili c ... Show More

1 h

Jun 2024

Andrew Feinstein | Nelson Mandela, apartheid, Gaza & unseating Keir Starmer | BB #131

In this episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dillt Hussain speaks with the former South African member of parliament, anti-apartheid activist and investigative author, Andrew Feinstein. Topics of discussion include: <ul><li>Apartheid South Africa, the ANC, and Andrew's famil ... Show More

1h 12m

Sep 2024

Ethiopian history

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week’s Witness History episodes. We’re looking at key moments in Ethiopian history, as it’s 50 years since Emperor Haile Selassie was overthrown in a military coup. We start our programme looking at the moment a military junta called the D ... Show More

50m 52s

Oct 2022

Ugandan Asians: The Reckoning

General Idi Amin seized power in in Uganda in 1971. His brutal dictatorship is synonymous with the deportation of the country's 80,000-strong Asian population fifty years ago this year. As the popular story goes, Asians built the economy and the country. Then a brutish African le ... Show More

29m 12s

Sep 2021

Molefi Kete Asante on Afrocentrism

<p><a href="http://www.asante.net/">Molefi Kete Asante</a>, the chair of the Department of African American Studies at Philadelphia's Temple University, has long been at the forefront of developing the academic discipline of Black studies and in founding the theory of Afrocentri ... Show More

25m 28s

Sep 2025

Festac ’77: Nigeria’s largest festival of African arts and culture

In 1977, Nigeria hosted the largest festival of African arts and culture there had ever been. About half a million visitors attended, as well as 16,000 delegates including Stevie Wonder and Miriam Makeba.Dozens of African nationalities, and people from the African diaspora were r ... Show More

10m 3s

Feb 2025

539. Horror in the Congo: The Crimes of Empire (Part 2)

“A secret society of murderers with a king for a ringleader”. In 1885 King Leopold of Belgium; an awkward, ruthless, selfish man, was recognised as the sovereign of the Congo. Long determined to carve out his very own private colonial domain, he had alighted upon the Congo - Afr ... Show More

58m 59s

Oct 2024

Boris Adjemian, "The Brass Band of the King: Armenians in Ethiopia" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

In 1924, the crown prince and future emperor of Ethiopia, Ras Täfäri, on a visit to Jerusalem, called on forty Armenian orphans who had survived the genocide of 1915-1916 to form his empire's royal brass band. The conductor, who was also Armenian, composed the first official anth ... Show More

1h 8m

Tierra Del Fuego (S4.09)