{"id":3154,"date":"2025-03-29T02:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T02:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/resistance-and-liberation-history-of-africa-with-zeinab-badawi-episode-20\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T02:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T02:19:09","slug":"resistance-and-liberation-history-of-africa-with-zeinab-badawi-episode-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/resistance-and-liberation-history-of-africa-with-zeinab-badawi-episode-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Resistance and Liberation &#8211; History Of Africa with Zeinab Badawi [Episode 20]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tlwGz3BgUZM?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>In the 20th episode Zeinab Badawi makes a huge and broad sweep across Africa examining the struggle for freedom, even in the face of bloody crackdowns: a veteran Mau Mau fighter in Kenya, a member of the resistance in Algeria\u2019s brutal war of independence, from one African president whose ancestor fought the French and from the grandson of the Mahdi who defeated Britain\u2019s General Gordon.  And she talks about that heady time of independence with the families of three of Africa\u2019s best known independence leaders: Ghana\u2019s Kwame Nkrumah, Congo\u2019s Patrice Lumuba and Senegal\u2019s Leopold Senghor as well as the son of the legendary Nigerian singer Fela Kuti.  <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribetoafrica<br \/>\nWebsite: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/africa<br \/>\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbcnewsafrica\/<br \/>\nTwitter: https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/bbcafrica\/<br \/>\nInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcafrica\/<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tlwGz3BgUZM\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 20th episode Zeinab Badawi makes a huge and broad sweep across Africa examining the struggle for freedom, even in the face of bloody crackdowns: a veteran Mau Mau fighter in Kenya, a member of the resistance in Algeria\u2019s brutal war of independence, from one African president whose ancestor fought the French and from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3934168192,"featured_media":3155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[434,6220,1318,15,1317,1319,369,169,6223,1197,6217,6218,4143,6224,6222,6221,6219,6216,6215],"class_list":["post-3154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-africa","tag-africa-documentary","tag-africa-news","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-africa","tag-bbc-africa-news","tag-bbc-documentary","tag-bbc-news","tag-fela-kuti","tag-history-documentary","tag-history-of-africa","tag-history-of-africa-with-zeinab-badawi","tag-history-of-the-world","tag-kwame-nkrumah","tag-nelson-mandela","tag-patrice-lumumba","tag-zeinab-badawi","tag-zeinab-badawi-bbc","tag-zeinab-badawi-history-of-africa","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3934168192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}