Having established what happened to unions in Kenya and the role of capitalism in their weakening and eventual co-optation, we move on to imagining what unions can look like in today's conditions. To begin, we highlight a concept rooted in his

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Apr 21st, 2024 1h 3m

Episode 3 - Vampire Nation

Apr 8th, 2024 58m 2s

In this episode, we discuss capitalism as a monster—specifically a vampire—that feeds off the surplus value of the working class’s labour. This is not a particularly new idea; Karl Marx, who remains to be one of the most influential thinkers of

Episode 2 - Capitalism is a death cult.

Mar 22nd, 2024 53m 57s

Learning about the ways of the Aztec today, we all pretty much agree that their ideas around human sacrifices are barbaric. That they have no place in our “modern” civilizations today. But is this really the case?In this episode, we explore t

Episode 1 - What happened to unions in Kenya?

Mar 8th, 2024 1h 6m

We begin in Mombasa where, in 1947, workers staged a general strike. Over 10,000 people gathered in a field they called Kiwanja cha Maskini and demanded dignified living and working conditions from the colonial administration.Today, the Momba

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Season 2 is here!

Mar 4th, 2024 41s

The wait is over! Season 2 is just around the corner. Our first episode drops this Friday. Subscribe on YouTube or find us anywhere you get podcasts.

Uhuru wa Palestina ni Uhuru Wetu

Nov 6th, 2023 2h 27m

At "Until Everyone Is Free," we're here to talk about power and freedom. Our last season focused on the life and work of Pio Gama Pinto, who organized various movements that paved the way for independence in Kenya. We remember Pinto so that we

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Pio Gama Pinto at the Nairobi Gallery

Feb 28th, 2023 1m 2s

When we began UEIF, we could not have imagined that there could be space for a sheng history of Pio Gama Pinto's life and work in a Kenyan museum. We are beyond proud to share our work at The Pio Gama Pinto Exhibition at the Nairobi Gallery i

Episode 7 - Pinto, Shujaa

Jul 6th, 2022 41m 11s

You can tell what kind of person someone was by seeing who attends their funeral.Pio Gama Pinto was buried at City Park Cemetery. On that day, the park was filled with people. Of course there were his friends from politics. Achieng Oneko, his

Episode 6 - Pinto, Political Mastermind

May 29th, 2022 44m 41s

We don’t have many photographs of Pinto. He didn't attend events to be seen. He wasn't the kind of politician who would stand before a crowd of people and deliver a speech.The photos we have of him tell us how he spent his time instead. There'

Episode 5 - Pinto, Trade Unionist

Dec 28th, 2021 56m 8s

We spoke before about how some chapters of history are erased. Today we tell one of those stories. Did you know about the fire that burned in the Happy Valley of Kaloleni for days and days? Did you know about the time that workers from all sect

Episode 4 - Pinto, Radical Journalist

Apr 20th, 2021 49m 50s

When we think of the fight for independence, we often think of the part of that struggle that involves weapons. But, at the same time there was a war fought over territory, a parallel war was being fought for minds. In fact, many of the Mau Mau

Episode 3 - Pinto, Land Justice Advocate

Feb 15th, 2021 45m 20s

In 2015, a monument honouring the Mau Mau was erected at Freedom Corner in Uhuru Park, Nairobi. Many surviving Mau Mau freedom fighters attended, many traveling by matatu from upcountry, some arriving as early as 6am to await the opening ceremo

Episode 2 - Pinto, Mau Mau Ally

Feb 2nd, 2021 37m 15s

The Mau Mau War has gone down in history—not only in Kenya as a key part of the anti-colonial independence struggle—but in the world. Mau Mau freedom fighters and the mass movement that backed them decided that constitutional, non-violent metho

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Episode 1 (Trailer) - Wapi Uhuru?

Dec 22nd, 2020 3m 2s

Less than two years after gaining independence, Kenya began killing its own freedom fighters. One of the first political assassinations in the history of independent Kenya was in 1965. They killed a man who knew too much. He knew that oppress

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