In this episode of PPJ-A... The group reunite after a long minute with Primah in the host seat to unpack some personal and often unspoken aspects of body image and it's effects on our sense of identity They talk about everything from; Childhood messages around beauty and appearance The lasting impact of early comments on their bodies How media, friendships, and colorism shaped their self-image as teenagers The evolution of self-perception into adulthood Let us know what and how your body image a...
Jul 21, 2025•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 75
As natural as the idea of family feels, we also notice it's a historical, cultural and social creation... With such a diverse array of ways we live especially as Africans, we explore the idea of whether there can be an ideal family.What part does religion play in this definition and better yet what are the political implications of who we define as family..Resources on your reading on family RESOURCES: Interparliamentary Conference on Family Values and National Sovereignty: https://drive.google....
Jun 16, 2025•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 74
This episode finds us at the honorable’s home on Labor Day. We catch up on each other's well-being, enjoy some time at Mama Tejass's domicile, and do a mental health check-in. We speak about what we’ve learned about trauma, about how we navigate the work of healing so we don’t bleed on others, and take a quick test using Nancy McWilliams' 10 signs of mental health. If you or someone you love is struggling, please contact someone. Your mental health journey is not something to be ashamed of…it’s ...
May 14, 2025•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 73
Karl Marx called religion the soul in soulless conditions. It's our expressiom of the almighty... And that expression matters as it either liberates all or causes us to look to the world to come instead of the world we're in The disembodied voice of Allan hosts two old friends who were once church boys, Reverend Captain Gideon and some guy called Joel, to a special debate that has a prodigal and a pastor asking each other what it means to be Christian today Does belief actually make us fail to d...
Apr 07, 2025•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 72
In this episode, PPJ dives into the realities of adulting - is it really a scam, or are we just making poor choices? We share unprepared moments, broke stories, and debate whether adulting is as hard as people let on, or are we just romanticising childhood too much? Share your experiences and thoughts in the comment section below.
Mar 30, 2025•1 hr 35 min
Season 2 is here, and we intended to talk about change,ge but instead,d we showed how we process changes in this episode. Joel talks about turning 40 and how they say life starts at 40 because you realize just how short life is and that life happens as you plan. Pumla shares how she navigates friendships and relationships and how she determines when it's time to change, e and Primah gets a revelation about the way she affects people. Oh, and Allan throws some elderly advice in the wise unseen vo...
Mar 05, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 70
It's the last episode of the year, and Primah had us examining not only what the year has been like, how the show has grown and how what we planned kids have learned and continue to learn about Privilege. Note : Tell us your favorite PPJ segment, moment or episode from the year From us to you.. Happy Holidays and if you are in the giving mood...please consider donating to some good causes like; Yambi community outreach who support young girls in Uganda with reusable pads - https://yambicommunity...
Feb 26, 2025•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 69
Sex!! Now that we got your attention... Pumla is the chair today and she's called us to talk intimacy, talk about healthy attachment, and the great separateness yet longing for connection to feel whole that we call love. Love that force that binds without chaining you, that lifts without emptying you... That we call God. Oh and we talk about lube!!! Written by J
Feb 26, 2025•1 hr 53 min•Ep. 68
This episode we talk about becoming super famous you guys!!! Oh Gosh, how are we going to deal with fame ?!;-) No, but thank you for making us one of the most trending podcasts in the country. We value you spending time with us as we use the show as an excuse to just hang out….
Feb 26, 2025•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 67
Primah is finally hosting us, dia. We talked about the theory of attachment from psychology, how the experiences and homes we grew up in may linger in how we express and receive love, as well as some of the benefits and limits of this theory Find and take a test if you so dare here : https://www.attachmentproject.com/attachment-style-quiz/
Feb 26, 2025•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 66
They say you can't change the past. Wrong!! You can. In a way, by reframing and contextualising it, we can learn from it, change how we relate to it and lead to different outcomes today In this special edition, Pumla takes the reins and asks us to speak to our past selves about everything from career to faith.
Feb 26, 2025•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 65
It's been forever since we got to chat and well, the homework was to discuss collectivism vs individualism..along the way we touch on class, capital and even why money is such an issue in marriage and relationships. For those interested in the bit on climate change..please read https://libguides.depaul.edu/c.php?g=253564&p=1690283 We cannot keep our heads in the sand just because the action needed is going to be collective...
Feb 26, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 64
We finally have MERCH!!! The lovely ladies over at "Can We Talk 256 "came over to talk about how they started their platform to foster more intimate, meaningful conversations between people . With their help, we will be launching our own "What the Theory" line of Can we Talk cards this week with 75 philosophy-based questions to help you inject a little dialectics into your relationships. We used the cards during the interview and the things we learned !! Oh Boy. You can find the cards and inform...
May 07, 2024•2 hr 6 min•Ep. 63
Ask someone about their purpose and they may say some combination of “To live my best life” or to achieve happiness. The Declaration of Independence of the United States, the hegemony of ruling ideology, might capture this well in the line “ the right to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" ... Today’s episode will take a thesis, antitheses, and synthesis approach to examine this idea, critiquing it using Pshcialanlys sand then finding some space for synthesis. Also, it wouldn’t be Easte...
May 07, 2024•38 min•Ep. 62
In 1888, Friedrich Nietzche finished "The Antichrist" and as you;d imagine, it wasn't released until years later due to its title. While known for being the "God is dead" guy that inspired every angry teen's atheist phase, he's probably also the most misunderstood due to his aphoristic and polemic style. The book is surprisingly kind about Christ and instead focuses on Christianity as an institution, as a belief rather than practice had betrayed the very essence of Christi, turning him into a do...
May 07, 2024•37 min•Ep. 61
What does it mean to be engaged politically in Uganda today? Can a social media website be used to awaken a sense of engagement with politics that all too often leaves us feeling unheard and dominated over? Today’s discussion with Anthony Natif about his life and activism most recently seen in the trending #UgandaParliamentExhibition which has unearthed what we already knew-mounds of corrupt practices with oru lawmakers. In the episode, we tackle items from free speech and tradition, why it’s da...
Mar 17, 2024•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 60
Today we examine the ideology of personal responsibility and how the further we lean on centering the self, the further the deeper we fall into false consciousness Works cited: Michel Foucault - Discipline and punish, John Locke's "Second Treatise of Government", Jordan Peterson's "!2 rules for life" , and Bowling Alone" by Robert Putnam
Mar 10, 2024•34 min•Ep. 59
A survey taken out in 2020 showed young Africans have a strong belief that they will see success, and defeat the largely negative stereotypes that have accompanied our economic underdevelopment in the world system. Largely they believe the advent of new information technologies and a bent toward entrepreneurial innovation, the future of Africa is bright. But is it...enough!? Will new tools and new businesses really change the fundamental material realities we face?! To discuss this, we speak to ...
Feb 17, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 58
This episode takes a look at the concept of technology as the foundation fo civilization as presented by Marc Andreeesen's Techno optimist manifesto and how it follows in a long line of accelerationist philosophy by the likes od Nick Land. Is technology an inevitable irresistible force or is it that the people building our tools want us to think of it that way?
Feb 11, 2024•28 min•Ep. 57
1st Episode of the New Year and we check in with two therapists for life - Nietzche and Dostoyevsky to help us answer the question - should we strive to be good or to be Great?
Jan 28, 2024•43 min•Ep. 56
As we close the year, Pumla, Primah, and Joel take some time to answer some big questions, ruminate on adult friendships, and only take about 20 tangents instead of the usual 30. Thank you to everyone who subscribed and followed along.
Dec 24, 2023•59 min•Ep. 55
Content is king and we are its subjects. When did everything from movies to blogs to pranks all become known by this one word? We take a look at what a young Bill Gates saw coming all the way in 1996, and how we all got turned into content creators .
Dec 12, 2023•35 min•Ep. 54
In today's episode, we delve into the mind-bending world of Slavoj Žižek, the Slovenian Philosopher known for his take on Lacanian psychoanalysis and a knack for making the mundane and seemingly trivial utterly fascinating. This time, we're tackling his book "The sublime object of Ideology" and exploring how it manifests itself in the most unlikely of places: your favourite sugary beverage, Coca-Cola. Join us as we unpack Žižek's idea that ideology, far from being a mere set of beliefs, is a tan...
Dec 12, 2023•34 min•Ep. 53
Today's episode from the banks of the River Nile is about ideology as it appears in the unconscious, in how we commodity and value things, and in our religious beliefs. This serves as a preamble to a deep dive into Slavoj Zizek's "The Sublime object of Ideology"
Nov 05, 2023•20 min
Nike says " Just do it" but most of our problems in our life stem from either thinking without action or acting without thinking. In this episode, we examine the latter issue, why are we encouraged to just take action instead of taking the time to actually examine what must be done The framework examined for thinking deeply is Blooms Taxonomy for the creation of Knowledge.
Oct 30, 2023•27 min
Startups have been all the rage in business and technology. Meant to disrupt the market, change lives, and of course make truckloads of cash for the founders. They've also been disruptive of labor laws, and seen their fair share of fraudsters and hot-air merchants who talk the talk and nothing more. In today's episode, we ask the question - what's the reality behind the start-up phenomenon and is it truly revolutionary or just another great marketing ploy.
Oct 15, 2023•32 min•Ep. 50
The unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates. But he died about 400 years before Jesus and never had to balance career, love, finances and an East African forehead In this PPJ reunion, Pumla, Primah and Joel examine whether they're actually living life well.
Oct 01, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 49
In memory of the best of us
Sep 25, 2023•13 min•Ep. 48
If ideology is what gives meaning to the chaos of our lives, then propaganda is how meaning is communicated and maintained in mass society. It has a negative connotation but in today's episode, I argue that it's not that simple.
Aug 27, 2023•40 min
Man is uncanny, part of the animal kingdom, yet not fully animal,; part of a culture, yet still carries animal instincts. To be free, both sides have to be recognized, man is an animal in search of a master for his desires. In this episode, we explore why habits are crucial for us humans, why necessity is the highest form of freedom, and why we are oddly never happier than when we do things unconsciously. #Philosophy #ImmanuelKant
Jul 23, 2023•23 min•Ep. 45
