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Cry Like a boy is a documentary and interview podcast that explores how men are defying stereotypes and promoting gender equality. The series brings you to five African nations to discover how local communities are working towards change. Cry like a Boy is the first original podcast of Euronews, produced with the support of the European Journalism Center and of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Available in English and French. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Our new documentary podcast series will take you on a culinary journey across Africa where we’ll meet communities and local chefs on a mission to revive the continent’s indigenous crops - all while sharing delicious new recipes and flavours. Subscribe to The Star Ingredient on your favourite podcast app or find it on euronews.com or africanews.com …
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The job of Edward Wageni, the director of HeForShe*, is to find the tools to help men change their behaviours towards women and push for structural shifts on all levels. In this episode of Cry Like a Boy, we discuss the challenges that Wageni faces working with men and why gender equality is good for everyone, not just women. *HeForShe is a UN init…
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“Masculinity isn’t really a thing,” argues journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist Georges M Johnson. In this episode of Cry Like a Boy the author of the critically-acclaimed memoir ‘All Boys Aren’t Blue’ addresses the questions around race, identity and gender. They also speak about how opening up about their experiences as a queer Black person living in…
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In Cry Like Boy, we have spoken about the trauma caused by Liberia’s civil war. But conflict is a global issue. In this new episode, we ask Adama Dieng about the impact such a violent act as genocide can have on men, women, or victims of rape. And what can be done to prevent genocide. Adama Dieng is a former UN Registrar of the International Crimin…
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The soldiers in Liberia: My voice was a weapon
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Cecelia Danuweli realised she had the power to change the course of Liberia’s war in 2003. She joined a group of brave women who organised peaceful protests in front of the warlords. Their actions had a better range than bullets. Years later, this story was received with a standing ovation at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York as award-winning d…
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Liberia witnessed a spiral of violence, hunger, and death for more than a decade. But women said enough was enough and united to try and end the war. They came together regardless of their origin, class, or religion. Cecelia Danuweli was one of these women who began by denying their husbands sex and started holding peaceful protests. She, like many…
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The soldiers in Liberia: The invisible wound
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After witnessing the murder of his parents and siblings, Morris Matadi was recruited as a child soldier in the Liberian civil war. One day he managed to put down his rifle and fled. But the horror of war did not end there: he kept returning to the battlefield with vivid nightmares and experienced other symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PT…
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Jonathan is a Liberian man in his late forties. When we first met him in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, Jonathan gave us the impression of being a laid-back guy. But his persona changed as soon as he started to talk about the war. In this episode, we join Liberian journalist Carielle Doe to explore the memories of the country‘s civil war by foll…
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When young guys like Mamadou don’t succeed in their dangerous adventure from West Africa to Europe, they’re often not welcome back home. Why is there such pressure on men to succeed and how does this affect women? In this episode, Khopotso Bodibe continues his conversation with a South African lawyer and rights activist Sharon Ekambaram and Julie K…
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Many African migrants who take the dangerous journey into Europe will not make it. The few who reach their destinations still face hurdles like filling out the right documentation, meeting new friends, or trying to find a job. The tasks become even more difficult as they are Black. In this episode, Khopotso Bodibe talks to South African lawyer and …
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Fana is 18 but he feels he became a man at the age of 12 when he decided to go on an adventure and leave his home in Guinea, seeking a better life in Europe. Unlike our previous hero Mamadou, he made it to France. But what is the price he had to pay for his success? With original reporting and editing by Makeme Bamba in Conakry, Guinea and Naira Da…
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After the death of his father all Mamadou Alpha wanted was to get his mother out of poverty and become her hero: the perfect son, the man of the family. At 18, he embarked on a dangerous migration route to Europe they call “the adventure”, or “tounkan” in the local Malinke language. Thousands of adventurers die trying to cross the Mediterranean in …
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Banna Ba Mamaenara in Lesotho: Absent fathers
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Across Southern Africa, thousands of men are abandoning stable education and employment and are instead seeking a fantasy fortune in South Africa's abandoned mines. The illegal miners, known as the zama zamas, not only put their lives at risk but also leave their families behind in countries like Lesotho and Zimbabwe for weeks if not months at a ti…
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Banna Ba Mamaenara in Lesotho: Redemption
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In this episode, we explore the unknown world of the zama zamas, clandestine miners who are scavenging for gold in the world's deepest abandoned mines of South Africa. Our guests touch upon the condition of the women of illegal miners but also on the positive forms of masculinities that emerge from underground. Mpiwa Mangwiro has explored the socia…
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Banna Ba Mamaenara in Lesotho: No man's land
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There's an impoverished mountainous district of Lesotho where many illegal mineworkers live with their families. Women often wait there for their husbands for months and sometimes years. Some men never return. In this episode, we talk about the fate of the people left behind by those men tasked by their families to provide, tasked to be breadwinner…
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Banna Ba Mamaenara in Lesotho: Brothers of darkness
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How far are you willing to go to provide for your family? Would you put your life at risk to put bread on the table? What if you had no choice? In Lesotho thousands of men have felt so much pressure to provide for their families that they are employed by criminal gangs as illegal miners, digging for gold in clandestine mines. In some cases, they wi…
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The Góor-jigéen in Senegal: Sexual Colonisation
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What are the origins of homophobia in Africa? Where do the laws that punish same-sex relationships come from? South-African activist Khopotso Bodibe speaks to Youssef Belghmaidi, a Moroccan trans woman activist based in France, and Sheba Akpokli, an LGBTQI+ rights activist from Togo, about colonialism and its impact on sexual diversity and educatio…
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In this episode of Cry Like a Boy, South-African activist Khopotso Bodibe speaks to Youssef Belghmaidi, the organizer of the first pride march in the multicultural neighbourhood of Saint-Denis in Paris. She is a Moroccan trans woman activist based in Aubervilliers near the French capital. Our second guest, Sheba Akpokli, is an LGTBIQ+ rights activi…
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A few decades ago, some Senegalese men openly identified themselves as not male or female, but as an alternative gender - the “Góor-jigéen” or “men-women”. Senegalese society accepted them, and they moved about freely in the streets of Dakar and other towns, dressed as women. Today, in those very same streets, men seen as behaving effeminately in a…
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Junior is a young Senegalese man who lives with a secret about who he is. He’s kept it from his family and even his childhood friends, because he’s afraid of not only rejection, but persecution, and even imprisonment. The secret is that Junior is gay. In this episode, Dakar-based journalist Marta Moreiras explores what it means to be gay in Senegal…
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The Abatangamuco in Burundi: The Solutions
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In this episode we continue our conversation about the Abatangamuco, a group of Burundian men who used to be violent to their wives but then changed, and how their experience can be useful for the rest of the world. This roundtable features South African gender equality activist Khopotso Bodibe, Burundian humanitarian worker Grace-Francoise Nibizi …
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After exploring the stories of the Abatangamuco in the first two episodes of Cry Like a Boy, we continue the conversation in this roundtable featuring South African gender equality activist Khopotso Bodibe, Burundian humanitarian worker Grace-Francoise Nibizi and European researcher, Hilde Ousland Vandeskog. Grace-Francoise Nibizi founded an associ…
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More than 10 years ago, Innocent was a violent husband who splurged all his family's wealth on his 27 lovers. That was before he met a group that has led thousands of men in Burundi to rethink their behaviour. In this episode, Burundi-based journalist Clarisse Shaka delves into the world of the Abatangamuco, which means “those who shine light” in K…
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More than 10 years ago, Innocent was a violent husband who splurged all his family's wealth on his 27 lovers. That was before he met a group that has led thousands of men in Burundi to rethink their behaviour. In this episode, Burundi-based journalist Clarisse Shaka delves into the world of the Abatangamuco, which means “those who shine light” in K…
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Cry Like a boy is a documentary and interview podcast that explores how men are defying stereotypes and promoting gender equality. The series brings you to five African nations to discover how local communities are working towards change. Cry like a Boy is the first original podcast of Euronews, produced with the support of the European Journalism …
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