This series explores Africa's influence on twentieth-century life in America through the travels of host Skip Westphal.An online collection of early educational public radio content from the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB).
https://www.unlockingtheairwaves.org/programs/americas-african-heritage/
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden:
#9: 1 Doctor for 30,000 People and #10: Medicine from the Root of a Tree
Episode 9 discusses the experiences of patients and healthcare workers at the Evangelical Medical Instute of Kimpese in the Congo. Episode 10 focuses on a recording from a Chicago pharmaceutical plant about medicines containing products from Africa.
#18: Digging for Diamonds in Bakwanga
This episode focuses on the Bakwanga industrial diamond mines in the Congo.
#13: Landing at Brabanta and #14: The Brabanta Oil Palm Plantations
Episode 13 features an interview with a passenger from Westphal's boat trip on the Congo River and the boat's arrival at an oil palm plantation in Brabanta. Episode 14 focuses on the workers at an oil palm plantation in Brabanta.
#2: What We Can Learn from the People of Africa
This episode focuses on an interview with a Salvation Army captain and their ideas about what Americans can learn from Africa.
#21: The Fabuous Goldmines at Johannesburg Part 1
This episode focuses on Westphal's experience observing the goldmines of Johannesburg, South Africa (part 1 of 2).
#5: A Liberian Rubber Plantation and #6: Slave Dungeons at Elmina Castle
Episode 5 focuses on a rubber plantation near Monrovia, Liberia. Episode 6 discusses Elmina Castle, a fortress in Ghana that was used to imprison enslaved people during the translantic slave trade.
#9: 1 Doctor for 30,000 People
This episode discusses the experiences of patients and healthcare workers at the Evangelical Medical Instute of Kimpese in the Congo.
#8: We Talk with a Friend of George Washington Carver
This episode focuses on Westphal's conversation with theologian Harry V. Richardson, who was also traveling to observe African cultures.
#20: The Kolwezi Cobalt Mines
This episode discusses the copper and cobalt mines at Kolwezi in the Congo.
#10: Medicine from the Root of a Tree
This episode focuses on a recording from a Chicago pharmaceutical plant about medicines containing products from Africa.