Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
A child’s fingers cut off becuase he is too ill to tend his master’s goats. A woman beaten brutally and set afire because she refused to give up her baby to slave abductors. This isn’t the slavery of years past, this is present day Sudan. Join Kojo as he discusses this modern day horror with a former Sudanese slave and other anti-slavery activists.
Guests
- Joe Madison WOL radio personality
- Francis Bok Former Sudanese slave
- Dr. Charles Jacobs President and co-founder of the American Anti-Slavery Group
- Jemera Rhone Sudan expert Human Rights Watch
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