Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur
Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur sheds light on individual and collective actions across Europe, Africa and the Americas to defend racial equality and justice. Our guests - scholars, activists, artists - share their practice with us, highlighting both the forms that historical and contemporary racial violence takes in these different contexts, and examples of possible reforms and mobilizations. Through their experiences fighting against racism, we draw the contours of racial justice efforts today. Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur is hosted by Liliane Umubyeyi and Amah Edoh, co-founders and co-directors of the African Futures Lab (AfaLab). A new episode is published every two weeks, and episodes alternate between French and English. Production credits: Production: Amah Edoh; Liliane Umubyeyi; Matt Dann; Recording and editing: Matt Dann; Music: “African Dreams,” written and composed by Seun Anikulapo Kuti; Artwork: Amélie Umuhererezi
Episodes
29 episodes
S5E1: Understanding historical foundations of systemic extraction
How did centuries of colonial exploitation directly shape Africa’s modern sovereign debt crisis?In this premiere episode, we lay the groundwork for our joint miniseries by unpacking the deep historical links between colonial extr...
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S5E0: Decolonizing Africa’s debt and reclaiming her future
As the African Union inaugurates the 2026–2036 Decade of Reparations, this collaborative podcast series from the African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD) and
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S4E6: Para além das fronteiras – Força e solidariedade do feminismo negro (PT)
Em todos os continentes, as mulheres negras nunca resistiram isoladamente. Das lutas anticoloniais aos movimentos contemporâneos pela justiça racial, de gênero e climática, as solidariedades transnacionais têm sido fundamentais para desafiar os...
S4E5: Between war and peace (EN)
Sexual violence was not incidental, but central to colonial rule. Soldiers, administrators, and settlers systematically exerted power through coercion, assault, and absolute impunity—including the taking of women hostage to force labor producti...
S4E4: The price of Black women's labour (EN)
The exploitation of Black women’s labor—whether domestic, agricultural, care-based, or within the cultural and fashion industries—sits at the sharp intersection of race, gender, and class. Historically, colonial systems relied on cheap, feminiz...
S4E3: Beauté, peau et pouvoir (FR)
Les normes de beauté eurocentriques — notamment l’éclaircissement de la peau, la politique capillaire, la stigmatisation du corps et les hiérarchies esthétiques — trouvent leurs racines profondes dans les idéologies coloniales qui opposaient le...
S4E2 : Santé, race et résistance (FR)
Ce deuxième épisode inaugure notre série de podcasts dans le cadre du projet « Unfinished Freedom », une initiative qui explore les histoires de violences subies par les femmes noires et met en lumière leur combat pour que justice soit faite. R...
S4E1: Colonial shadows (EN)
Colonial narratives about Black women did not disappear with colonial rule; they continue to shape how Black women are perceived, treated, and represented today. In this debut episode of Disrupting the Colonial Script: Cente...
Season III Episode 6 (Part 2) - Reparations for climate and biodiversity loss: Resistance and alternatives to market-based approaches
In this episode of Future Perfect | Futures Antérieur, hosts Liliane Umubyeyi and Meghna Abraham welcome
Season III Episode 6 (Part 1) - Reparations for climate and biodiversity loss: Deep dive into challenges and solutions
In this episode of Future Perfect | Futures Antérieur, hosts Liliane Umubyeyi and Hélène Himmer welcome Meghna Abraham, an international human rights lawyer and expert on economic, social and cultural rights, to discuss the biodiversit...
Season III Episode 5- Fadhel Kaboub: International Financial Institutions Rooted in the Intrinsic Link between Colonialism and Capitalism: How to End a System of Domination Through Climate Reparations?
This episode of Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur features Professor Fadhel Kaboub, who highlights the urgent need for decolonizing climate frameworks alongside a radical global e...
Season III Episode 4- Chenai Mukumba: How to Finance Climate Reparations: Does the Framework of International Financial Institutions Facilitate Healing from the Past for a Better Future?
This episode of Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur, co-hosted by African Futures Lab Director Liliane Umubyeyi and Program Assistant Helene Himmer, features a compelling discussion with Chenai Mukumba, Executive Director of Tax Justice N...
Season III Episode 3- Adrián Martinez Blanco: International Law, Regulations & Negotiations: Addressing the Inefficiency of Loss & Damages Fund and the Role of Litigation in Climate Reparations
This episode of Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur is co-hosted by Patrick Toussaint, an international environmental lawyer, and Helene Himmer, Program Assistant at African Futures Lab. Both welcomed the special guest Adrián Martinez Bla...
Season III Episode 2- Ineza Umuhoza Grace: Activism, Narratives & Media Representation: What is the climate reparations movement missing to emerge and be a priority at the international agenda?
In this podcast episode, Hélène Himmer and Brigette Perenyi, storytelling manager at Reform Initiative host a discussion with Ineza Umuhoza Grace, CEO of the Green Protector and Co. and founder of the Loss and Damage Youth Coalition, about the ...
Season III Episode 1: From responsibility to reparations of the climate crisis: why the biggest polluters must pay up for climate damages?
In the first episode of the third season of the Future Perfect-Futur Antérieur podcast, Professor Joshua Castellino, the Co-Executive Director of Minority Rights Group International and Profess...
S2 Episode 6: Juliette Nijimbere : “La montagne qui a accouché d’une souris” : espoirs et échec de la commission parlementaire belge sur le passé colonial
Dans cet épisode de Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur, Juliette Nijimbere, militante de longue date pour les droits humains, les droits de la femme et la lutte contre le racisme en Belgique, nous parle du déroulement et des résultats de l...
S2 Episode 5: Jean Casimir & Michel DeGraff : Onè ak jistis: Avenues for reparations in Haiti
In this episode of Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur, we have the honor of welcoming two eminent scholars of Haiti, Professors Jean Casimir and Michel DeGraff, who speak with us about the legacies of colonialism in Haiti<...
S2 Episode 4: Malcom Ferdinand : Le scandale du chlordécone et la continuité des violences coloniales en Martinique et en Guadeloupe
Dans cet épisode de Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur, Malcom Ferdinand, politiste et ingénieur en sciences environnementales martiniquais, revient sur le scandale sanitaire du chlordécone dans les territoires frança...
S2 Episode 3: Jephta Nguherimo: Reparations to restore dignity: Pursuing justice for the ovaHerero and Nama genocide in Namibia
In this episode of Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur, Jephta Nguherimo, founder of the OvaHerero People’s Memorial and Reconstruction Foundation, speaks to us about the legacies of Germany’s ge...
S2 Episode 1: Mireille-Tsheusi Robert : En quête de respect et de justice : regards sur les luttes antiracistes et décoloniales en Belgique (French)
Dans cet épisode, Mireille-Tsheusi Robert, activiste antiraciste, afro-féministe et décoloniale de longue date, présente une histoire et une analyse complexes de l'activisme décolonial en Belgique. Décrivant son parcours au cours des 25 ...
S2 Episode 2: Kwanza Musi dos Santos: The need for an intersectional approach to fighting racism in Italy (English)
In this episode, Kwanza Musi dos Santos, Italian activist and co-founder of anti-racist organization Questaèroma, speaks with us about the state of the struggle against racism and xenophobia in Italy. Among other topics, Kwanza discusses...
Episode 6: Menna Agha: Reclaiming space and being guided by our foremothers’ voices (English)
In this episode of Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur, we speak with Prof. Menna Agha, architect and Assistant Professor of Architecture at Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada. Menna’s research focuses on gender and space, with a partic...
Episode 5 : Elom 20ce : “Notre force est dans l’amour" : Le rôle de l’intime dans les luttes pour la justice raciale (français)
Dans cet épisode de Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur, nous accueillons Elom 20ce, artiste polyvalent - rappeur, réalisateur, designer, penseur, militant - africain d’origine togolaise. Au travers de son parcours artistique et politique, ...
Episode 4: Mame-Fatou Niang: Working with, through, and around silences in the debate on race in France (English)
In this episode of Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur, we welcome Dr. Mame Fatou Niang, polyvalent US-based French scholar, filmmaker, writer, racial justice activist, and AfaLab Fellow. Mame discusses the state of the debate on race in Fr...
Episode 3 : Noureddine Amara : "La mémoire ne vaut pas justice" : Violences d'État et crimes coloniaux en Algérie (français)
Dans cet épisode de Future Perfect | Futur Antérieur, nous accueillons le Dr Noureddine Amara, historien de la citoyenneté et du droit colonial en Algérie et plus largement en Afrique du Nord. Il nous permet d’aborder des sujets a...
