Interview of Elizabeth Colson, conducted by Alan Macfarlane on 11th April 2006 at the ASA Diamond Jubilee Conference, edited by Sarah Harrison.
For the full video interview, visit the Anthropological Ancestors website here: http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/ancestors/colson.htm
Adebayor, Droga and Essien are African football superstars who have found fame and wealth in Europe, but as Farayi Mungazi tells us, there are many who have failed in the quest for glory.
As early humans slowly began to move beyond their African homeland, they took with them one essential item - a handaxe. It is the most widely-used tool humans have created. Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, sees just how vital to our evolution this sharp, ingenious implement was and how it allowed the spread of humans across the globe. Including contributions from designer Sir James Dyson and archaeologist Nick Ashton.
A simple chipped stone from the Rift Valley in Tanzania marks the emergence of modern humans. Faced with the needs to cut meat from carcasses, early humans in Africa discovered how to shape stones into cutting tools. From that one innovation, a whole history of human development springs. Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, tells the story with contributions from flint napper Phil Harding, Sir David Attenborough and African Nobel Prize winner Dr Wangeri Maathai.
Ruthann has been writing about medical issues, including HIV/AIDS, since the early 1980’s. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from Stanford University where the she and Karen were roommates. She’s received awards from the American Cancer Society, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Council for advancement and Support of Education and the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. In addition to her Africa projects, she is the director of media relations at Stanford University School of Medicine, where she works with media from around the world and covers HIV/AIDS issues.
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Presents a book called "Face to Face: Children of the AIDS Crisis in Africa" and interviews the author, Ruthann Richter. Comments on the documentary "Angels in the Dust" about a South African AIDS children’s village. Also presents the history and evidence indicating that AIDS was developed as a weapon of bioterrorism against homosexuals and non-whites to reduce their population.
Reads the poems, "Finding What You Didn’t Lose" by John Fox, "Waiting in Line" by Nick Penna, and "The Winter of Listening" by David Whyte. Investigates how Charity Navigator rates nonprofits by the size of their bank accounts and the aggressiveness of their fundraising. Quotes the following sources on the DoD development of AIDS: Time Magazine, 1946, House appropriations hearing, 1969, World Health Organization, 1972, New Delhi Patriot, 1984, London Times, 1987, a DoD flowchart for the US Special Virus (1962-1978) discovered in 1999, Chief of Staff Anthony Traficanti, 2002, and Dr. Boyd Graves, current. Quotes from "Designer Diseases: AIDS as Biological and Psychological Warfare" by Waves Forrest.
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Examines whether US foreign aid has been a benefit or a pain in the arse for impoverished people. Looks at a book by Dambisa Moyo called Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa. Uses the evidence of Patrice Lumumba, Mobutu, and AFRICOM to contradict her conclusion that Africans need tough love.
Reads Diana Der-Hovanessian’s poem, Shifting the Sun. For Father’s Day, plays John Hiatt’s "Your Dad Did," and Iron & Wine’s "Upward Over the Mountain." Relates the recent drama at Free Radio SC and plays our listener survey, which was called racist, ignorant, offensive, skin privileged, Nazi propagandist, white supremacist, fear-mongering hate speech,. See what all the excitement’s about!
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Seventy years after the start of the Second World War the overwhelming impression is of a conflict fought on the battlefields of Europe by white troops. Britain’s war effort was bolstered by soldiers from the white Commonwealth – Australia, Canada and New Zealand and later by the United States. The war in the Far East is often overlooked, as is the fighting that took place in Africa. Yet one million African troops participated in the conflict, fighting their way through the jungles of Burma, across the Libyan deserts and in the skies over London. In this documentary we hear first hand from the African troops who participated in the war – and who played a critical part in freeing the world from the threat of fascism. Martin Plaut reports.
To mark the 50th birthday of Youssou N’Dour, Robin Denselow travels to Senegal to profile the best known African musician of recent times.
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This week Jamillah and Rhod chat about hackers, Chris Vallance gets his apps together and we celebrate b3ta reaching it’s 400th newsletter.
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