Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur sheds light on individual and collective actions across Europe, Africa and the Americas to defend racial equality and justice. Our guests - scholars, activists, artists - share their practice with us, highlighting both the forms that historical and contemporary racial violence takes in these different contexts, and examples of possible reforms and mobilizations. Through their experiences fighting against racism, we draw the contours of racial justice efforts ...
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Season III Episode 6 (Part 2) - Reparations for climate and biodiversity loss: Resistance and alternatives to market-based approaches
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45:35Send us a text In this episode of Future Perfect | Futures Antérieur, hosts Liliane Umubyeyi and Meghna Abraham welcome Ruth Nyambura, a Kenyan ecofeminist and organiser, to discuss the biodiversity crisis in Africa and its links to colonial and neo-colonial exploitation. Nyambura explains that biodiversity loss is not just an environmental crisis …
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Season III Episode 6 (Part 1) - Reparations for climate and biodiversity loss: Deep dive into challenges and solutions
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55:53Send us a text In this episode of Future Perfect | Futures Antérieur, hosts Liliane Umubyeyi and Hélène Himmer welcome Meghna Abraham, an international human rights lawyer and expert on economic, social and cultural rights, to discuss the biodiversity crisis, its causes and possible solutions. Meghna explains that biodiversity loss is accelerating …
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Season III Episode 5- Fadhel Kaboub: International Financial Institutions Rooted in the Intrinsic Link between Colonialism and Capitalism: How to End a System of Domination Through Climate Reparations ...
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56:19Send us a text This episode of Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur features Professor Fadhel Kaboub, who highlights the urgent need for decolonizing climate frameworks alongside a radical global economic transformation. He critiques the existing global financial system, in which $2 trillion flows annually from the Global South to the Global North, mov…
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Season III Episode 4- Chenai Mukumba: How to Finance Climate Reparations: Does the Framework of International Financial Institutions Facilitate Healing from the Past for a Better Future?
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42:47Send us a text This episode of Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur, co-hosted by African Futures Lab Director Liliane Umubyeyi and Program Assistant Helene Himmer, features a compelling discussion with Chenai Mukumba, Executive Director of Tax Justice Network Africa, on the urgent need to fund climate reparations. Mukumba unpacks the enduring economic…
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Season III Episode 3- Adrián Martinez Blanco: International Law, Regulations & Negotiations: Addressing the Inefficiency of Loss & Damages Fund and the Role of Litigation in Climate Reparations
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45:54Send us a text This episode of Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur is co-hosted by Patrick Toussaint, an international environmental lawyer, and Helene Himmer, Program Assistant at African Futures Lab. Both welcomed the special guest Adrián Martinez Blanco, Director of La Ruta del Clima. The discussion finds roots in a recent case about the ongoing st…
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Season III Episode 2- Ineza Umuhoza Grace: Activism, Narratives & Media Representation: What is the climate reparations movement missing to emerge and be a priority at the international agenda?
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42:55Send us a text In this podcast episode, Hélène Himmer and Brigette Perenyi, storytelling manager at Reform Initiative host a discussion with Ineza Umuhoza Grace, CEO of the Green Protector and Co. and founder of the Loss and Damage Youth Coalition, about the need for climate reparations and the challenges faced by the Global South, particularly Afr…
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Season III Episode 1: From responsibility to reparations of the climate crisis: why the biggest polluters must pay up for climate damages?
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45:04Send us a text In the first episode of the third season of the Future Perfect-Futur Antérieur podcast, Professor Joshua Castellino, the Co-Executive Director of Minority Rights Group International and Professor of International & Comparative Law at University of Derby, UK, discusses how marginalized racial groups, particularly in Africa, bear the h…
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S2 Episode 6: Juliette Nijimbere : “La montagne qui a accouché d’une souris” : espoirs et échec de la commission parlementaire belge sur le passé colonial
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34:12Send us a text Dans cet épisode de Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur, Juliette Nijimbere, militante de longue date pour les droits humains, les droits de la femme et la lutte contre le racisme en Belgique, nous parle du déroulement et des résultats de la commission parlementaire belge sur le passé colonial du pays. Première en son genre, la commissi…
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S2 Episode 5: Jean Casimir & Michel DeGraff : Onè ak jistis: Avenues for reparations in Haiti
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1:06:38Send us a text In this episode of Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur, we have the honor of welcoming two eminent scholars of Haiti, Professors Jean Casimir and Michel DeGraff, who speak with us about the legacies of colonialism in Haiti and the ongoing fight for justice and repair for the island. Prof. Casimir discusses the place and role of the Hait…
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S2 Episode 4: Malcom Ferdinand : Le scandale du chlordécone et la continuité des violences coloniales en Martinique et en Guadeloupe
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43:04Send us a text Dans cet épisode de Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur, Malcom Ferdinand, politiste et ingénieur en sciences environnementales martiniquais, revient sur le scandale sanitaire du chlordécone dans les territoires français d'outre-mer de la Martinique et de la Guadeloupe. Entre 1972 et 1993, le chlordécone, produit chimique hautement toxi…
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S2 Episode 3: Jephta Nguherimo: Reparations to restore dignity: Pursuing justice for the ovaHerero and Nama genocide in Namibia
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51:45Send us a text In this episode of Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur, Jephta Nguherimo, founder of the OvaHerero People’s Memorial and Reconstruction Foundation, speaks to us about the legacies of Germany’s genocide of the ovaHerero and Nama people in 1904-1908. It is not common knowledge that Germany’s first concentration camps were in Namibia; the …
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S2 Episode 1: Mireille-Tsheusi Robert : En quête de respect et de justice : regards sur les luttes antiracistes et décoloniales en Belgique (French)
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58:45Send us a text Dans cet épisode, Mireille-Tsheusi Robert, activiste antiraciste, afro-féministe et décoloniale de longue date, présente une histoire et une analyse complexes de l'activisme décolonial en Belgique. Décrivant son parcours au cours des 25 dernières années, elle présente les défis de l'activisme antiraciste et décolonial en Belgique. Da…
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S2 Episode 2: Kwanza Musi dos Santos: The need for an intersectional approach to fighting racism in Italy (English)
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45:01Send us a text In this episode, Kwanza Musi dos Santos, Italian activist and co-founder of anti-racist organization Questaèroma, speaks with us about the state of the struggle against racism and xenophobia in Italy. Among other topics, Kwanza discusses the challenges of Italy’s citizenship law, how the country’s colonial past and migration are addr…
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Episode 6: Menna Agha: Reclaiming space and being guided by our foremothers’ voices (English)
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50:59Send us a text In this episode of Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur, we speak with Prof. Menna Agha, architect and Assistant Professor of Architecture at Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada. Menna’s research focuses on gender and space, with a particular emphasis on displaced Nubian populations. In this conversation, we learn not only about how, …
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Episode 5 : Elom 20ce : “Notre force est dans l’amour" : Le rôle de l’intime dans les luttes pour la justice raciale (français)
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43:37Send us a text Dans cet épisode de Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur, nous accueillons Elom 20ce, artiste polyvalent - rappeur, réalisateur, designer, penseur, militant - africain d’origine togolaise. Au travers de son parcours artistique et politique, Elom 20ce nous emmène dans une discussion sur le rôle de l'intime dans les luttes pour la justice …
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Episode 4: Mame-Fatou Niang: Working with, through, and around silences in the debate on race in France (English)
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45:32Send us a text In this episode of Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur, we welcome Dr. Mame Fatou Niang, polyvalent US-based French scholar, filmmaker, writer, racial justice activist, and AfaLab Fellow. Mame discusses the state of the debate on race in France, what it means when your country, a country that prizes language, does not have - refuses - t…
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Episode 3 : Noureddine Amara : "La mémoire ne vaut pas justice" : Violences d'État et crimes coloniaux en Algérie (français)
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44:41Send us a text Dans cet épisode de Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur, nous accueillons le Dr Noureddine Amara, historien de la citoyenneté et du droit colonial en Algérie et plus largement en Afrique du Nord. Il nous permet d’aborder des sujets assez controversés tels que le passé colonial de la France en Algérie, ses conséquences contemporaines, la…
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Episode 2: Amara Enyia & Makmid Kamara: Building a Global African movement for reparations and racial healing (English)
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48:35Send us a text In this episode of Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur, we welcome Dr. Amara Enyia, President of Global Black, and Makmid Kamara, Executive Director of the Africa Transitional Justice Fund (ATJLF). ATJLF convened the recent Accra Summit on Reparations and Racial Healing (August 2022), a gathering that brought together activists, policym…
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Episode 1 : Olivia Rutazibwa : Décoloniser le développement international et repenser la solidarité (français)
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39:21Send us a text Dans cet épisode de Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur, Olivia Rutazibwa, spécialiste belge et rwandaise des relations internationales basée au Royaume-Uni, activiste décoloniale et abolitionniste, professeure, ancienne journaliste et auteure de nombreuses publications, nous explique pourquoi la décolonisation du développement internat…
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Introduction to Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur, the African Futures Lab’s podcast
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23:04Send us a text Welcome to our new podcast! In this introductory episode, Liliane Umubyeyi and Amah Edoh share their motivations for launching Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur, the significance and origins of the podcast’s name, and their vision for this podcast as a tool to support racial justice struggles across Europe, Africa, and the Americas. A…
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Introduction à Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur, le podcast de l'African Futures Lab
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22:41Send us a text Bienvenue dans notre nouveau podcast ! Dans cet épisode d'introduction, Liliane Umubyeyi et Amah Edoh partagent les raisons qui les ont conduit à lancer Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur, la signification et les origines du nom du podcast, et leur vision de ce podcast comme un outil pour soutenir les luttes pour la justice raciale en …
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