ARC

ARC

ARC is a non-profit documentary channel. We tell stories through film and narrative-driven podcasting that explore social justice issues, uncover histories that shape the present, and challenge dominant narratives. Our work amplifies voices often left unheard, creating space for deeper understanding. For more see: https://www.arcdocs.org/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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July 15, 2025 29 mins

This is the first in our new episode format: ARC Interviews — conversations with people whose stories and work challenge the way we see the world.


We begin with Brain Miennies — community leader, activist, and a key voice in Unburied. After sharing the episodes of Unburied with Brain, we sat down with him to reflect on the series, the ongoing struggle for the repatriation of Indigenous ancestors, and why this work is about more ...

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As Rudolf Pöch prepared to leave Southern Africa in 1910, he left behind a legacy of exhumed graves, stolen bones, and silenced voices. But he also left behind a trail — one that leads, unexpectedly, to a small cemetery in Kuruman and a moment of reckoning.


In this final episode, Unburied follows the remains of Klaas and Trooi Pienaar, two ordinary people caught in an extraordinary story. Thanks to the disturbing decisions of Pö...

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June 24, 2025 34 mins

In the 1970s, a bookish young man was sorting shelves in a dusty library in apartheid South Africa. He noticed something strange — the way books were classified looked eerily similar to the way people were categorized outside. Years later, he would link that system back to a name few in his community had heard: Carl Linnaeus. 


In this episode, Unburied follows the legacy of racial classification from Sweden to the Kalahari,...

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June 17, 2025 34 mins

Inside an archive in Vienna, the grooves of old wax cylinders hold forgotten voices. These are the sonic remains of Rudolf Pöch’s expedition to the Kalahari in the early 1900s.


In this episode, we follow the distorted “language samples” Pöch left behind and the people whose lives — and deaths — they documented. From the field expertise of Xhosi Tshai to the frustrated warnings of Kxara the Elder, we finally get a glimpse in...

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In 1907, an Austrian anthropologist rode into the Kalahari on an oxwagon and left with bones from more than 170 human beings. This episode begins our investigation into Rudolf Pöch — the man who (unwittingly or not) helped pioneer race science, the communities he studied (and exploited), and the legacy of human remains kept in museum boxes today.


We follow Pöch’s trail through the red dunes of the Kalahari, to the archives of Vi...

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Unburied Season 1: Built from Bones


Season one of the Unburied series retraces the footsteps of Dr. Rudolf Pöch, an Austrian anthropologist who traveled through the Kalahari in the early 20th century. 

The series investigates how Pöch dug up graves and took the remains from more than 170 indigenous people and used the bones for race science, to justify white supremacy. 


Unburied seeks to understand what happened in t...

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March 4, 2025 5 mins

We've got news: Sound Africa is becoming ARC. A new name for a new vision, but the mission stays the same. Independent, non-profit documentary storytelling.

Check out: https://www.arcdocs.org/


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In this final episode of Hustling The African Dream we look at where the term "hustle" actually comes from, how it has evolved over time and what the term means to young Africans living their own hustle today. Hustling the African Dream is produced by Sound Africa in collaboration with The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) in partnership with The Mastercard Foundation.


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Hustling the African Dream is a podcast about innovative young Africans and their hustles. In this episode we speak to one truly remarkable young Kenyan who is bending the rules just enough to make an unjust system work for him. This podcast was produced in collaboration with The Human Sciences Research Council in partnership with The Mastercard Foundation.


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Hustling the African Dream is a podcast about innovative young Africans and their hustles. In this episode Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program Alumni, Emmanuel Ampomah, takes us to Ghana where we hear from young people who have struggled to find a job immediately after graduating. This series has shown that having a degree isn't always a ticket to employment, and in this episode we hear firsthand that expectations about jobs… an...

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Hustling the African Dream is a podcast about innovative young Africans and their hustles. In this episode Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program Alumni, Theresa Ayerigah, takes us to her home country of Ghana to see how innovative young Africans are turning food into profit. This podcast was produced in collaboration with The Human Sciences Research Council in partnership with The Mastercard Foundation


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Hustling the African Dream is a podcast about innovative young Africans and their hustles. In this episode Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program Alumni, James Tayali, takes us to Malawi where some young boda-boda drivers, risk their lives to make a living. This podcast was produced in collaboration with The Human Sciences Research Council in partnership with The Mastercard Foundation.


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Hustling the African Dream is a podcast about about innovative young Africans and their hustles and in this episode Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program Alumni, Ibrahim Bahati, heads back to his home country of Uganda where art and the hustle come together in unexpected ways. This podcast was produced in collaboration with The Human Sciences Research Council with support from The Mastercard Foundation


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Hustling the African Dream is a podcast about innovative young Africans and their hustles. In this episode Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program Alumni, Anita Owiti, takes us to Kenya to see how innovative young Africans are tackling the environmental crisis and climate change. This podcast was produced in collaboration with The Human Sciences Research Council in partnership with The Mastercard Foundation


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Hustling the African Dream is a podcast about innovative young Africans and their hustles. In this episode Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program Alumni, Zimie Sigenu, goes back to the Eastern Cape of South Africa where we explore the urban-rural divide in South Africa and meet young Africans who are dealing with the harsh realities facing graduates. This podcast was produced in collaboration with The Human Sciences Research Counci...

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Hustling the African Dream is a podcast about innovative young Africans and their hustles. In this episode Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program Alumni, Sabelo Mpisi, takes us to South Africa where land and gender dynamics are forcing some women into the hustle. This podcast was produced in collaboration with The Human Sciences Research Council in partnership with The Mastercard Foundation.


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Hustling the African Dream is a podcast about innovative young Africans and their hustles. In this episode Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program Alumni, Liona Muchenje, heads back to her home country of Zimbabwe, where formal jobs are scarce and inflation never sleeps, everyday people are rewriting the rules of survival—turning hustle into a way of life.


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March 30, 2024 3 mins

Hustling the African Dream is a podcast about innovative young Africans and their hustles.


Produced in collaboration with The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) in partnership with The Mastercard Foundation

https://hsrc.ac.za/

https://mastercardfdn.org/


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February 14, 2024 34 mins

In this final episode Adhel, Saree and Michael adjust to their new relationship.

Credits: Sound track and theme song is Arusu by Hardlife Avenue Stars

Mixing and Sound Design by Neil Liddell.

Text and story editing by Brittany Kesselman

Fact-checking by Mustapha Dumbuya

Photography by David Lomuria

Podcast Artwork and Design by Peace Ogwigwiyan

Translations by Alith Ayer

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February 13, 2024 31 mins

In this episode we are introduced to Adhel Ring - Michael's friend who later becomes Saree's co-wife.


Credits: Sound track and theme song, Arusu by Hardlife Avenue Stars Mixing and Sound Design by Neil Liddell Text and story editing by Brittany Kesselman Fact-checking by Mustapha Dumbuya Photography by David Lomuria Podcast Artwork and Design by Peace Ogwigwiyan Translations by Alith Ayer Marketing and Publicity by Didi Khumalo...

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