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Dialogue Television: #2102 The Challenge for Africa
With Wangari Maathai. Wangari Maathai, author of The Challenge for Africa

Dialogue Television: #1911 Africa: Waging Peace
With Steven Mcdonald. Steven Mcdonald, Consulting Program Director with the Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity and Consulting Program Manager of the Africa Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center

Dialogue Radio: #812 The Image of a People
With Amy Helene Kirshke. Amy Helene Kirshke, author of Art in Crisis: W.E.B. Dubois and the Struggle for African-American Identity and Memory

Dialogue Television: #1713 Sea Change China India and Africa in a New Century
With Martin Walker. Martin Walker, director of the A.T. Kearny Global Business Policy Council

Dialogue Television: #1804 The Scapegoats Tale: Decentralizing Democracy in Africa
With Jesse Ribot. Jesse Ribot, Senior Associate in the Institutions and Governance Program of the World Resources Institute.

Dialogue Radio: #807 Bound For Glory: America, Canada and the Underground Railroad
With Karolyn Smardz-Frost . Karolyn Smardz-Frost author of: I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad

Dialogue Television: #1708 Blood on the Niger
With Emma Okocha. Emma Okocha, author of Blood on the Niger The First Black on Black Genocide

Dialogue Radio: #810 A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
With Ishmael Beah. Ishmael Beah, author of A Long Way Gone Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Dialogue Television: #1412 The Image of a People
With Amy Helene Kirshke. Amy Helene Kirshke, author of Art In Crisis: W.E.B. Dubois and the Struggle for African-American Identity and Memory.

Dialogue Television: #1408 “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”
With Ishmael Beah. Ishmael Beah, author of A Long Way Gone Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Dialogue Television: #1407 “Bound For Glory: America, Canada and the Underground Railroad”
With Karolyn Smardz-Frost . Karolyn Smardz-Frost author of: I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad

Dialogue Radio: #797 Africa: This Generation’s Challenge
With K.Y. Amoako. K.Y. Amoako, former Africa Policy Scholar.

Dialogue Radio: #793 The World’s Most Savage War
With John Katunga . John Katunga, former Acting Executive Director of the Nairobi Peace Initiative and OSI Africa Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center

Dialogue Radio: #760 A Past Revealed: Excavating Slave Burial Grounds
With Dr. Edna Greene Medford. Dr. Edna Greene Medford of the African Burial Ground Project at Howard University in Washington, DC

Dialogue Television: #1304 A Conversation with Jane Goodall
With Dr. Jane Goodall. Dr. Jane Goodall

Dialogue Television: #1109 Bridging Troubled Waters
With Dr. Patricia Kameri-Mbote.

Dialogue Television: #1108 Defining the Future
With Deborah Gray White. Deborah Gray White, Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University and current Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center

Dialogue Radio: #736 Slavery
With James and Lois Horton. James and Lois Horton, authors of “Slavery and the Making of America”

Dialogue Television: #905 An African Story
With Jesse Ribot. Jesse Ribot, Senior Associate in The Institutions and Governance Program of The World Resources Institute

Dialogue Radio: #718 Women of the Sudan
With Durria Mansour El Hussein and Sandra Opoka. Durria Mansour El Hussein – current deputy chair of the Sudanese Women’s Empowerment for Peace Network and Sandra Opoka, a board member of the Sudanese Women’s Empowerment for Peace Network.

Dialogue Radio: #707 Remembering Jim Crow
With Raymond Gavins. Raymond Gavins is Professor of History at Duke University

Dialogue Radio: #702 Shake Hands with the Devil
With Romeo Dallaire. Romeo Dallaire was the head of UN Peacekeeping Operation in Rwanda in 1994.

Dialogue Radio: #721 Liberia: What People Think
With Tornorlah Varpilah and John Moreira. Tornorlah Varpilah of the West African Network for Peace Building and John Moreira, an analyst with the firm of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research

Dialogue Radio: #720 Saving Africa
With Dr. Richard Sezibera, Kenneth Behring, Christine Warnke. Dr. Richard Sezibera is the Ambassador of Rwanda to the United States; Kenneth Behring is a businessman and private philanthropist; Christine Warnke is a government affairs advisor for the law firm Hogan & Hartson.

Dialogue Television: #711 An Election In Cameroon
With Joseph Clark. Joseph Clark is the former Prime Minister of Canada And Chairperson of the Commonwealth Observer Group (COG).

Dialogue Television: #709 Liberia: What The People Think
With John Moreira and Tornorlah Varpilah. Tornorlah Varpilah of the West African network for peace building and John Moreira, an analyst with the firm of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research.

Dialogue Television: #505 Shake Hands With the Devil
With Romeo Dallaire. Romeo Dallaire was the head of United Nations peacekeeping forces in Rwanda when the genocide broke out in 1994.

Dialogue Television: #503 Sudan: North and South
With Jok Madut Jok. Jok Madut Jok is Assistant Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University.

Dialogue Radio: #697 Rwanda: An End to Ethnicity?
With Paul Kagame. Paul Kagame is the President of Rwanda.

Dialogue Radio: #691 And Still They Rose: The History of an Unfree People
With Dianne Pinderhughes. Dianne Pinderhughes is Professor of Political Science and Afro-American Studies and Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Dialogue Radio: #683 Sudan: North and South
With Jok Madut Jok. Jok Madut Jok is Assistant Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University and a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center.

Dialogue Radio: #193 Race in America
With Bill Bradley. Bill Bradley is a former U.S. Senator from New Jersey.

Dialogue Television: #213 Saving Africa
With Richard Sezibera, Kenneth Behring, and Christine Warnke. Richard Sezibera is the Ambassador of Rwanda to the United States; Kenneth Behring is a businessman and private philanthropist; Christine Warnke is a governmental affairs advisor at the law firm Hogan & Hartson.

Dialogue Radio: #673 Botswana: An African Success Story
With Festus Mogae. Festus Mogae is the President of the Republic of Botswana.

Dialogue Radio: #669 Sister Circle
With Sharon Harley. Sharon Harley is editor of Sister Circle: Black Women and Work.

Dialogue Radio: #625 Of Health and Development
With Jeffrey Sachs. Jeffrey Sachs is Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.

Dialogue Radio: #664 A Memoir of Nigeria and Biafra
With John Sherman. John Sherman is author of War Stories: A Memoir of Nigeria and Biafra.

Dialogue Television: #303 The Democratic Republic of Congo: At the Crossroads
With Ambassador Faida Mitifu. Faida Mitifu is Ambassador of the Democratic Republic of Congo to the United States.

Dialogue Television: #111 Tomorrow's Africa
With H.E. Yoweri Museveni. President of Uganda

Dialogue Radio: #628 Mauritius: Small Island, Big Future
With Deborah Brautigam . Deborah Brautigam is a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center.

Dialogue Television: #101 Mozambique
With Joaquim Alberto Chissano. Joaquim Alberto Chissano is the president of Mozambique.

Dialogue Radio: #617 Towards Peace in Burundi
With Howard Wolpe. Howard Wolpe is a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center and a former U.S. Representative from Michigan.

Dialogue Radio: #576 The Congo
With William Zartman. William Zartman is the Director of African Studies at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.

Dialogue Radio: #572 The AIDS Crisis
With Dr. Anthony Fauci. Dr. Anthony Fauci is the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.

Dialogue Radio: #542 Dwelling in Mandelaland
With Allister Sparks. Allister Sparks is the founder of the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Dialogue Radio: #541 Pioneering Progress
With Noah Samara. Noah Samara is founder and CEO of Worldspace Corporation.

Dialogue Radio: #526 Lost Revolutions
With Pete Daniel. Pete Daniel is Curator in the Division of the History of Technology at the National Museum of American History, and is author of Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s.

Dialogue Radio: #518 King Leopold's Ghost
With Adam Hochschild. Adam Hochschild teaches writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dialogue Radio: #499 Racial Matters, Racial Manners
With Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn. Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn is Associate Professor of History at Syracuse University and a former Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center.

Dialogue Radio: #483 Afro-British Voices of the 18th Century
With Vincent Carretta. Vincent Carretta, professor of literature at the University of Maryland and author of Unchained Voices.

Dialogue Radio: #477 Thomas and Sally Hemmings
With Annette Gordon-Reed. Annette Gordon-Reed is Associate Professor of Law at New York University Law School.

Dialogue Radio: #473 John Quincy Adams and Slavery
With William Lee Miller. William Lee Miller is the Thomas C. Sorenson Professor of Political and Social Thought at the University of Virginia and author of Arguing About Slavery.

Dialogue Radio: #468 All On Fire
With Henry Mayer. Henry Mayer is author of All On Fire.

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