DTA LIVE

Feb 15 2024 31 ep. 46 mins 13
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DTA.LIVE is the online radio station brought to air by Decolonising The Archive. From global African reparations movements and Pan-Africanism to sound healing, yoga and Black collaborative economics, this podcast preserves the cream of the station's content - an archive of our Afro-future.

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DUPPY CONQUERORS EP2

Feb 15 2024 68 mins  
Connie Bell and world-renowned Maroon expert, Dr. Michael Siva discuss the history of the Jamaican Maroons, exploring how Africans in Jamaica resisted enslavement by the British and Spanish, establishing their own sovereign nation.

ARCHIVES TO LIBERATION - THE SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY ARCHIVES

Feb 06 2024 35 mins  
For far too long, resistance has been an unavoidable part of our lives. We want to celebrate resistance to the oppressions we have faced, but It is more important that we can learn the lessons of the struggle and avoid repeating past mistakes. In this episode Connie Bell connects with Dr Geraldine Frieslaar to discuss our future as Africans at home and in the diaspora - revisiting

DUPPY CONQUERORS EP1

Feb 06 2024 58 mins  
Connie Bell and world-renowned Maroon expert, Dr. Michael Siva discuss the history of the Jamaican Maroons, exploring how Africans in Jamaica resisted enslavement by the British and Spanish, establishing their own sovereign nation.

Voicing Olive's Legacy w/ Yasmin Begum

Dec 20 2022 42 mins  
Voicing the Legacy of Olive Morris is a new DTA Radio Podcast series with host Chloe Tayali which communicates Olive Morris's legacy through the lens of contemporary activists who are working tirelessly to empower Black communities in Britain and taking matters into their own hands when failed by the governing system. Episode 1 looks at Yasmin Begum's trailblazing work.

PAUSE & BREATHE w/ LILLIAN LARTEY

Apr 21 2022 22 mins  
Relaxation is part of our repair. The 'Pause & Breathe' Experience, led by @lillianlartey_ is a mindfulness method that offers professionals the opportunity to ‘pause’ from the business, stress, and demands of work and life. Using a few, simple techniques, 'Pause & Breathe' helps you ease anxiety and to breathe deeply, de-stress, quiet the mind, relax the body; be pres

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT w/ DR APRIL-LOUISE PENNANT

Apr 21 2022 46 mins  
Scholar -Activist, Creative Educator and all-round Queen Dr April Louise Pennant traces the history of Penryn Castle - a space billed by the National Trust as a ‘fantasy castle with colonial foundations’ (wtf?!?) - locating her family history in the building of the castle and discussing the reparative work she has been doing involving this site.

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT EP.18: UNDAUNTED w/ MELBA WILSON

Jan 14 2022 36 mins  
In March 2022, the Black Cultural Archives will be launching the Melba Wilson Collection, as part of their project to catalogue Melba Wilson’s papers. The collection spans over 40 years of her work in national and regional mental health programmes, policy units and services, including grassroots and community activism alongside formal policy work and leadership. DTA spent some t

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT EP.7: TOYIN AGBETU & LIGALI

Jan 14 2022 61 mins  
Listen to Toyin Agbetu talk interdependence and imaginaries in the context of his pioneering work with Pan African, human rights organisation Ligali on behalf of the global African family.

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT EP.6: 100 BLACK BRITONS

Jan 14 2022 31 mins  
DTA connect with Patrick Vernon to discuss the 100 Great Black Britons peoject. From abolitionists and Industrial Revolution-era social reformers to pioneers of modern nursing, beloved children's authors and recipients of the Victoria Cross, 100 Great Black Britons celebrates the many ways in which Black Britons have challenged and overcome racial barriers to make notable advances

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT EP.5: PRESERVING THE BLACK PRESENCE IN THE UK AT THE BLACK CULTURAL ARCHIVES

Jan 14 2022 34 mins  
Archives are fundamental in transforming our relationship to where we are now and how we got here’ Honoured to have Collections Assistant Rhoda Boateng on this week’s Community Spotlight. Rhoda has been doing amazing work caring for the collections at the Black Cultural Archives. There are very few archivists of African heritage in the UK - it’s vital we celebrate us so