This interview is with Zachariah Mampilly, who is the Marxe Endowed Chair of International Affairs at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, CUNY. In 2012/2013, he was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.  This interview was recorded in October 2021. 

In this episode, Zachariah  discusses several topics, including: 

• The third wave of mobilization and protest in Africa
• Why we seeing a constant change of political leaders in Africa, but little change in their behaviour
• How we can evaluate the strength of democratic social movements and their success The centrality of the global order when trying to evaluate social movements
• The type of international economic order are we currently living in and its alternatives
• The kind of utopias that are being put on the table by social movements in Africa