We discuss Sankara’s rise to power and his amazing foresight on many policy issues (and lack of foresight on the clear and present danger of his boy Blaise). Along the way, we learn that the French had beef with kids on bicycles and people picking fruit trees, that flag designs are important, that it’s tough to convince African ministers to give up AC and luxury rides and that maybe, just maybe, the beef between Sankara and Blaise started on the soccer pitch.

Where we continue to discuss Patrice Lumumba and his rise to power and sadly short-lived reign, his love for the continent and his pre-hipster hipster ways. Along the way, we learn how much political clout one can have from a career as a beer salesman, how effective riots can be for liberation, how many dumb assassination ideas the CIA could devise and how it will ALWAYS be your own.

We discuss Patrice Lumumba and his rise to power and sadly short-lived reign, his love for the continent and his pre-hipster hipster ways. Along the way, we learn how truly terrible Leopold I was, how important the Congo is to the global economy, how much political clout one can have from a career as a beer salesman, how effective riots can be for liberation, how many dumb assassination ideas the CIA could devise and how it will ALWAYS be your own.

In which we talk about the stand made by the queen mother, the Asantehama, Nana Yaa Asantewaa, where she had the Brits holed up in Fort Kumasi. Along the way, we learn the best way to start an empire is through chaos and a symbolic element (like the Golden stool); that Europeans have been coming to the continent woefully underprepared since at least the 18th century and that if you come for the Osei, you best not miss.

In which, we discuss the heroic act of Zerai Deres, who took a stand for Ethiopia by taking a knee. Along the way, we find that Italy did everything it could to find a reason to invade Ethiopia, Italian deli boys get very emotional about black people kneeling, Ethiopians really hated Graziani to the core from day one and so much about colonialism was about controlling the narrative.