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Professor Siphokazi Magadla discusses the importance of centering African women's experiences in the quest for a just and peaceful future.

In this episode of the Kujenga Amani Podcast, Professor Siphokazi Magadla reflects on her journey as a South African scholar of political science and journalism, and an activist who aims to center the existence, imagination, and hopes of African women, girls, and children in the work towards ensuring a future that sustains the dignity, vitality and creativity of human life. Professor Magadla reflects on the deep entanglement of our lives and the urgency of reimagining the global order—not just to reform it, but to dismantle and rebuild it entirely to eradicate what she describes as an unworkable social, political, and economic fabric antithetical to peace and cohesion. She urges African scholars, practitioners, and activists to take for granted that Africans have always been theorists of the world, encourages them to revisit moments of persevering struggles for liberation, asks that they consider the morality that guides their generation, and warns against disillusionment. What does it mean to live in a world where wealth is hoarded and inequality reigns? What happens when we lose the language to name the future we want? Professor Magadla emphasizes the moral imperative for…

People in this episode

Guest: Professor Siphokazi Magadla

Topics covered

• African women
• political science
• activism
• global order
• liberation
• ethics of love

Keywords

• radical hope
• entanglement
• African imagination
• social fabric
• inequality
• moral imperative
• liberation struggles

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Kujenga Amani Podcast

Places: South Africa

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