Knowledge Is Not White

Working together across privilege

In this program, we will focus on the production of knowledge and question the hierarchies of who can produce recognizable knowledge in our society and whose knowledge are acknowledged? You will hear a converstation with rapper and activist Melz (London), activist Camilo (Hamburg) about decolonising of knowledge and finally you will hear an interview with the funder of the Silent University (a solidarty based knowledge exchange platform by refugees, asylum seekers and migrants) Ahmet Ögüt. In the the last few years, a lot of western academies have spoken and written lots about the refugees and migrants current crisis in europe. Many of the western academies are assumed to have the necessary insight knowledge and educational background to write their own true version of history of indigenous people, minority groups and currently the refugee and migrant crisis. The theories of western academics, through public education and that of the mainstream media, have played a big role in setting the standards, in shaping public policies and opinion. They are framing the public current understanding on who are identified and qualified as a refugees and those who are economic migrants. Our work at The Bridge Radio is to continue to create the media space to challenge and deconstruct the public perception and stereotype which views refugees, migrants, minority groups and indigenous people as illiteracy, uneducated to the european standard and unknowledgeable. In the Bridge Radio we want to question and break this. Here more of Melz music on soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/melz-artist Check out this TED talk with Melz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeKHOTDwZxU and read an article they wrote on decolonising the academy https://medium.com/@melz.artist/decolonising-the-academy-a-movement-without-borders-7a25c071db6e?fbclid=IwAR3Tu1kl-dJ_-Vfv8NBf7aCpVylH1vtFJKlQwsflfr6pC3GzV_hmxKpK5Zo For more on the Silent University: http://thesilentuniversity.org/ https://www.facebook.com/TheSilentUniversity/ *image from the Silent University wagon during the We'll come United - United Against Racism - Parade in Hamburg 2018