Focus
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Interview Archives: Africa
Monday June 04, 2012, 10:06 AM
Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution
Lindsey Hilsum, Journalist; Channel 4 (United Kingdom) News' International Editor
Host: David Inge
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Categories: International Affairs • Africa • Libya
Wednesday May 30, 2012, 10:06 AM
The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change
Roger Thurow, Journalist; Senior Fellow, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Agriculture • Hunger • Africa • Kenya
Wednesday May 30, 2012, 10:06 AM
Current Events in Egypt
Kenneth M. Cuno, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History; Associate Professor of African Studies; Associate Professor of LAS Global Studies South Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Government • Politics • Africa • Egypt
Monday May 07, 2012, 11:06 AM
Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story
Dame Daphne Sheldrick D.B.E. M.B.S., Kenyan Conservationist; Writer
Host: David Inge
We’ll talk with Kenyan author and conservationist Dame Daphne Sheldrick. For 20 years beginning in the mid 1950s, she was co-warden, along with her husband David, of Kenya’s Tsavo National Park. She is the first person ever to have successfully hand-raised newborn elephants, and rehabilitated many different animals, including rhinos and zebras. She will share stories from her African childhood and her 50 years of work in the field of wildlife conservation. That’s the subject of her memoir "Love, Life and Elephants."
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Categories: Animals • Conservation • Africa • Kenya
Thursday December 08, 2011, 11:06 AM
The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square
Steven A. Cook, Ph.D., Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Government • International Affairs • Politics • Africa • Egypt
Thursday December 08, 2011, 10:06 AM
"Land and Power": The Growing Scandal Surrounding the New Wave of Investments in Land in Uganda, Indonesia, Guatemala, Honduras, and South Sudan" September 22, 2011 Oxfam Report
Rohit Malpani, J.D., Senior Campaigns Advisor, Oxfam America
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Asia • Indonesia • Africa • Sudan • Central America • Guatemala • Honduras
Tuesday September 13, 2011, 11:06 AM
Death of the Mantis, A Detective Kubu Mystery
Michael Sears, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; Mystery Writer known as Michael Stanley
Stanley Trollip, Ph.D., Former Director of Learning Strategies, Capella University; Mystery Writer known as Michael Stanley
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Literature • Africa • Botswana • Zimbabwe
Monday August 29, 2011, 11:06 AM
An Update on Events in The Republic of Côte d'Ivoire
Thomas Bassett, Ph.D., Professor of Geography; Affiliate of the Center for African Studies, University of Illinois
Carol Spindel, Teaches nonfiction writing at the University of Illinois; Writer
Host: David Inge
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Categories: History • Politics • Africa • Côte d'Ivoire
Monday May 02, 2011, 11:06 AM
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
Jason K. Stearns, Doctoral Student, Yale University; Journalist
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Violence • War • Africa • Democratic Republic of Congo
Wednesday February 23, 2011, 10:06 AM
Current Events in Egypt
Kenneth Cuno, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, African Studies, LAS Global Studies, and South Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois
Host: David Inge
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Focus: Current Events in Egypt from Illinois Public Media on Vimeo.
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Categories: Politics • Africa • Egypt
