Author Deborah Plant joins guest host John McCaa about the story of about a former slave’s life in Africa and America.
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Fishing For A New Way Of Life
Anna Badkhen joins us to talk about how Senegalese fishing communities are surviving in an era of upheaval.
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How Global Health Went Viral
Dr. Mark Dybul, former executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, joins us to talk about the connection between global health and national security.
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A Look At The Refugee Crisis
Patrick Kingsley joins us to share the stories of refugees from the Middle East and Africa who have fled their homelands in search of a peaceful existence.
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Europe’s Migrant Crisis
This hour, we’ll talk about the current state of the migrant crisis in Europe – and about how these asylum seekers can be better served – with James Hollifield, public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center and director of the Tower Center for Political Studies at SMU.
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Following the Ivory Road
This hour, we’ll talk about how GPS tracking devices are helping to crackdown on the poaching of African elephants with Bryan Christy, who writes about the topic in the current issue of National Geographic magazine.
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The Surfing Life
This hour, we’ll talk with New Yorker writer William Finnegan about the allure of surfing, which he explores in his memoir Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life.
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Battling Ebola
The CDC is fighting the biggest outbreak of Ebola that Africa has ever seen. We’ll talk this hour about why the virus is so difficult to contain with a panel of local infectious disease experts.
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