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Guerrilla History

Guerrilla History is the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global history for the activist left, and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.

Your hosts are educators Henry Hakamaki and Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University.

Follow us on social media! Our podcast can be found on twitter at https://twitter.com/guerrilla_pod, and can be supported on patreon at https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory. Your contributions will make the show possible to continue and succeed!

Follow the hosts, Henry can be found on twitter at https://twitter.com/huck1995. Adnan can be followed on twitter at https://twitter.com/adnanahusain, and also runs The Majlis Podcast, which can be found at https://anchor.fm/msgp-queens, and the Muslim Societies-Global Perspectives group at Queens University, https://www.facebook.com/MSGPQU/. The other shows of the Revolutionary Left Radio family can be found at revolutionaryleftradio.com.

Thanks to Ryan Hakamaki, who designed and created the podcast’s artwork, and Kevin MacLeod, who creates royalty-free music.

Latest Episodes:

Indigenous Diamonds of Russia's Sakha Republic w/ Sardana Nikolaeva Mar 28, 2025

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In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Dr. Sardana Nikolaeva to discuss her brilliant study Indigenous Diamonds: Extractivism and Indigenous Politics in the Diamond Province of Russia. We go over Sakha and the Sakha people, the history of diamond extraction in Sakha, and then went over the politics of indigeneity in Russia, how these diamonds were branded as "indigenous", and how sanctions on Russia impact the indigenous Sakha people. With so much in this conversation, you are sure to learn a lot, and we hope you will help by sharing this with your comrades! Sardana Nikolaeva is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, where she is an indigenous anthropologist studying indigeneity, indigenous methodologies, extractivism, and more. She cowrote the wonderful paper we discussed today, which you should read here: https://www.ziibiinglab.org/indigenous-diamonds Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory

The Congo - From Colonization Through Lumumba & Mobutu w/ Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja (AR&D Ep. 5) Mar 21, 2025

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With this episode of Guerrilla History, were continuing our series on African Revolutions and Decolonization with an outstanding case study on the Congo, looking at the process of colonization, how decolonization unfolded, Lumumba's short time as Prime Minister, and the transition to the Mobutu regime. We really could not ask for a much better guest than Prof. Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, who not only is one of the foremost experts in not only this history, but also served as a diplomat for the DRC. We're also fortunate that the professor will be rejoining us for the next installment of the series, a dispatch on what is going on in the Eastern Congo and the roots of the ongoing conflict there. Be sure to share this series with comrades, we are still in the very early phases of the planned ~40 parts, so it is a great time for them to start listening in as well! Also subscribe to our Substack (free!) to keep up to date with what we are doing. With so many episodes coming in this series (and beyond), you won't want to miss anything, so get the updates straight to your inbox. guerrillahistory.substack.com Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja is Professor Emeritus of African and Afro-American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and previously served as the DRC's Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Additionally, he is the author of numerous brilliant books, including Patrice Lumumba and The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People's History

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Revolutionary Papers w/ Mahish Ahmad, Koni Benson, & Sara Kazmi Mar 14, 2025

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In this episode of Guerrilla History, we discuss a wonderful resource for revolutionary scholars and activists - Revolutionary Papers. Revolutionary Papers is a transnational research collaboration exploring 20th century periodicals of Left, anti-imperial and anti-colonial critical production, and in this discussion, we talk about the goals of the project, the intended audience, and forms that this project has taken. You'll want to be sure to check out their fantastic work! Some additional resources for you are the South Asian Research & Resource Center, as well as https://www.jamhoor.org which is a Left media platform focusing on South Asia and its diasporas. Koni Benson is a historian at the University of the Western Cape. Her research focuses on collective interventions in histories of contested development and the mobilization, demobilization, and remobilization of struggle history in southern Africa's past and present. You can find her Revolutionary Papers page here. Sara Kazmi is a scholar, translator, and protest singer, a professor of Literature and Culture of the Global South whose research looks at poetry and drama from 1970s Punjab, in particular focusing on the re-working of oral, folk genres as a literary mode for subverting the bordering logics of the Indian and Pakistani state, and for critiquing the boundaries drawn by caste, patriarchy and institutional religion in the region. Follow her on instagram and find her Revolutionary Papers page here. Mahvish Ahmad is an educator, scholar and organiser. She is an Assistant Professor of Human Rights and Politics at the Department of Sociology, London School of Economics, where she studies state violence and the intellectual and political labour of movements targeted in repression. Follow her on twitter @mahvishahmad and find her Revolutionary Papers page here.

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Reflections on Mau Mau w/ Shiraz Durrani (AR&D Ep. 4) Mar 07, 2025

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With this episode of Guerrilla History, we continue our series on African Revolutions and Decolonization with a brilliant supplement reflecting on the Mau Mau Uprising. Here, Shiraz Durrani goes through the history and its implications of the uprising, in a really fascinating and useful conversation! This is a brilliant companion to our previous episode in the series, The Mau Mau Uprising w/ Nicholas Mwangi, which you should also check out if you have not done so. Be sure to share this series with comrades, we are still in the very early phases of the planned ~40 parts, so it is a great time for them to start listening in as well! Also subscribe to our Substack (free!) to keep up to date with what we are doing. With so many episodes coming in this series (and beyond), you won't want to miss anything, so get the updates straight to your inbox. guerrillahistory.substack.com Shiraz Durrani is a Kenyan writer who has written expensively on Mau Mau, as well as other aspects of Kenyan history. You can follow him on twitter @sinahabari, and check out many of his articles here, as well as his numerous books here.

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Korea War Games, Trump's Rhetoric on the DPRK, & More w/ Ju-Hyun Park of Nodutdol Feb 28, 2025

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In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring back our comrade Ju-Hyun Park (whom you will remember from our recent episodes A History of American Imperialism in Korea and Korea Dispatch - Martial Law, Impeachment, and More) to discuss the upcoming US led war games taking place in the Peninsula, some interesting rhetoric coming from the Trump administration regarding the DPRK, Nodutdol's positions on each of these topics, and a brief rundown of the latest in the martial law and impeachment story that we covered last time with Ju-Hyun. For more information on these topics and more, be sure to follow the material posted on both UsoutofKorea.org and Nodutdol.org. Also, check out some of Nodutdol's recent instagram posts here: Post 1 , Post 2 Ju-Hyun Park is a writer and activist with Nodutdol for Korean Community Development. Their writing has appeared in a variety of outlets, and they can be followed on Twitter @hermit_hwarang.

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The Mau Mau Uprising w/ Nicholas Mwangi (AR&D Ep. 3) Feb 21, 2025

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With this episode of Guerrilla History, we get into our first case study of our series on African Revolutions and Decolonization. Here, Nicholas Mwangi comes on to discuss the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya - what led to it, how it unfolded, and its legacies. Absolutely critical historical case study, you certainly want to hear it, and share with comrades! Also subscribe to our Substack (free!) to keep up to date with what we are doing. With so many episodes coming in this series (and beyond), you won't want to miss anything, so get the updates straight to your inbox. guerrillahistory.substack.com Nicholas Mwangi is a writer and member of the Ukombozi Library in Kenya. Additionally, he cohosts the Liberating Minds podcast, which you can also support on their Patreon.

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Introducing Our New Sister Show - The Adnan Husain Show! Feb 14, 2025

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The following episode is from Adnan's new show, aptly titled The Adnan Husain Show. Don't worry, Adnan is still continuing with Guerrilla History, and we will be back with our next regular episode next week! We just wanted to let you know about this exciting new project so that you can subscribe to it.

In this episode, Professor Adnan Husain is joined by two outstanding scholars and thinkers, Drs. Peter Beattie and Karim Bettache of BettBeatMedia ( @BettBeat_Media) .They discuss a number of interrelated topics based on BettBeatMedia newsletters on substack: the current geopolitical order, China's role in it, BRICS and political economy, anti-imperialist politics in the Trump era, the media, as well as the politics of race and Islamophobia beyond "left" and right in "the West".

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Pan-Africanism: A Primer w/ Layla Brown & Jacquie Luqman (AR&D Ep.2) Feb 07, 2025

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With this episode of Guerrilla History, we launch into Pan-Africanism as a great additional starting point to our series on African Revolutions and Decolonization. We bring on two marvelous guests, Prof. Layla Brown and Jacquie Luqman, to discuss the history, theoretical currents, and modern expressions of Pan-Africanism. This is a 2+ hour masterclass, you certainly won't want to miss a moment of it! Be sure to share this episode with comrades as well, we KNOW they will benefit from listening! Also subscribe to our Substack (free!) to keep up to date with what we are doing. With so many episodes coming in this series (and beyond), you won't want to miss anything, so get the updates straight to your inbox. guerrillahistory.substack.com Layla Brown is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology & Africana Studies and affiliate faculty in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Brown's research focuses on Pan-African, Socialist, and Feminist social movements in Venezuela, the US, and the broader African Diaspora. She is a member of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party (GC), and can be found on twitter @PanAfrikFem_PhD. She also cohosts the Life. Study. Revolution podcast alongside Charisse Burden-Stelly. Jacquie Luqman is a radical activist, journalist, and is a coordinator with Black Alliance for Peace. You can follow some (but not all!) of her writings at Black Agenda Report, and watch her show Luqman Nation on Black Liberation Media. She is on twitter @luqmannation1.

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BRICS - A View from South Africa w/ Prof. Narnia Bohler-Muller Jan 31, 2025

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In this episode of Guerrilla History, we have a fascinating discussion on South Africa's role in BRICS, the view of BRICS in South Africa, South Africa's case against Israel at the ICJ, a new National Health Insurance law in SA, and more. For this, we bring on someone ideally placed to discussed all of this and more - Prof. Narnia Bohler-Muller, a South African law professor and policy specialist who has been intimately involved in each of these topics. This is really a great conversation, and hopefully helps you in thinking more about South Africa's role in BRICS when you have discussions about that grouping. Don't forget to subscribe to our Substack (free!) to keep up to date with what we are doing. We have a LOT of interesting things coming your way (not least of which, our African Revolutions and Decolonization series which began last week and continues with episode 2 next week), and you won't want to miss anything, so get the updates straight to your inbox. guerrillahistory.substack.com Narnia Bohler-Muller is a divisional executive in the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa's Developmental, Capable and Ethical State research division and acting Group Executive: Shared Services. She is a lawyer and former Professor at Nelson Mandela University, and was one of the individuals involved in South Africa's admission to BRICS and many of the discussions since then surrounding SA's place in the grouping. You can find more of her work on her HSRC page.

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African Revolutions and Decolonization (AR&D) - Ep. 1: Introduction w/ Momodou Taal Jan 24, 2025

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With this episode of Guerrilla History, we officially launch our long awaited series on African Revolutions and Decolonization! Every other week (between other, non-thematic episodes) for roughly the next year and a half, we will be turning a spotlight on struggles across the African continent, with both case studies as well as more theoretical or conceptual episodes present. We could scarcely ask for a better guest to help us launch this series than our comrade Momodou Taal. In this episode, we discuss the importance of studying African revolutionary history, and what we should be doing with this series. Get excited, we certainly are! In addition, if you want to read Adnan and Henry's thoughts on this series, they introduced the series in a blogpost for the Review of African Political Economy last week. Also subscribe to our Substack (free!) to keep up to date with what we are doing. With so many episodes coming in this series (and beyond), you won't want to miss anything, so get the updates straight to your inbox. guerrillahistory.substack.com Momodou Taal is a British-Gambian PhD student at Cornell University studying African Political Economy. He is host of the outstanding podcast The Malcolm Effect, and has a forthcoming book The Malcolm Effect Revisited, which preorders are open for. Be sure to also follow him on twitter @MomodouTaal.

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