The Ideas Letter Podcast

The Ideas Letter Podcast

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On The Ideas Letter Podcast: A project of the Open Society Foundations, we speak with thinkers and practitioners exploring unconventional and heterodox ideas from around the world. Each episode features authors who challenge assumptions, provoke new ways of thinking, and help us engage beyond borders.

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Jeremy Harding's Analogue Africa: Notes on the Anti-Colonial Imagination

May 5, 2026

Analogue Africa

Jeremy Harding
Hosted by Leonard Benardo

Jeremy Harding has long been one of the premier essayists and journalists of our day. Elegant, committed and free of cant, Harding's writing has often…

Oil and Militancy in Nigeria: A Conversation with Noo Saro-Wiwa

April 26, 2026

The Burning Ground

Noo Saro-Wiwa
Hosted by Ayisha Osori

Noo Saro-Wiwa is an author and journalist. Born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and raised in England, she attended King's College London and Columbia Univ…

Kwame Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism’s High Tide: A Conversation with Howard W. French

December 20, 2025

Kwame Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism’s High Tide

Howard W. French
Hosted by Ayisha Osori

The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide (Liveright, 2025), the second work in a trilogy from best-selling …

Is a River Alive?: A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane

December 1, 2025

Is a River Alive?

Robert Macfarlane

Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his gli…

Can Feminism be African?: A Conversation with Minna Salami

November 20, 2025

Can Feminism be African?

Minna Salami
Hosted by Ayisha Osori

Transcript of the interview Minna Salami is a writer, social critic, and thought leader on feminism, knowledge production, and the aesthetics and str…