Prof Adnan Husain discusses West African Sufi Resistance & Contemporary Freedom Struggles with Dr Butch Ware
Historian and podcaster Professor Adnan A. Husain meets Dr. Butch Ware, the Green Party candidate for California Governor, to discuss Butch’s historical scholarship on West African Islamic education, and Sufi mystical and spiritual movements as anticolonial resistance and slave abolition struggles.
They explored the connections between this profound and underappreciated history and the Atlantic and global resonances in the Black radical tradition and how this informed Butch’s own politics and decisions to enter electoral politics.
Finally, they talk about Butch’s gubernatorial campaign and the prospects within California's “jungle primary” for a Green Party breakthrough!