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Community musicking and musical cognition among adungu music communities of the Acholi people from Awach, Gulu district, Northern Uganda
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140. Jumpstart June: Engaging Jesus in Your Emotional Health How do we engage Jesus in our emotional health? We are overwhelmed by all of the things we have going on in our lives. But God never intended for us to do any of it on our own. We need Him and we need to engage Him in every area of our life - even in our emotions and our mental health. Our feelings and the status of our heart matters to God. We need to cry out to Him and share what we are experiencing. Let's ask Him to show us where our heart is not aligning with Him? When we give Him our struggle, we can find rest in Him. (Be sure to listen to Kim's explanation of Psalm 23 and what we need to be able to rest.) When we engage Jesus by spending time with Him at the beginning of our day, it prepares us mentally for our day and to endure our circumstances. When we place our trust and faith in Him, we can count it all joy - even struggles and hardships - because He will use it to grow us and strengthen us. He tells us to cast all our cares on Him for He cares for us. We are here for you! Visit our website and see the resources we have to help you engage Jesus in every area of your life. Some of our favorite resources are... Personalized Coaching Programs - Coaching is for everyone. It helps you recognize your blind spots, identify what is holding you back, and move forward in becoming who He has created you to become and do what He is calling you to do Leadership Roundtable - want to grow your leadership capacity? Grab a seat at the table at engagewithpam.com Stickwithitness Bootcamp - ready to persist through delays? Learn more at engagewithgwen.comReach out today for a complimentary call. Connect with us at https://bit.ly/EFMConnect AND… We are partnering with Life Beads Jewelry to help the Acholi women in Northern Uganda. Your purchase of this jewelry helps these women provide for their families and they hear the gospel! Check out the jewelry at engageformore.com/lifebeads. Learn about Engage for More and our Team...Website: www.engageformore.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engageformore/FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/EngageforMore #engageformore #christianpodcast #podcastforwomen #dailydevotional #godcaresforus #godcares
Poetry of Witness is our fourth conversation in a series centering the Warscapes anthology Insurgent Feminisms: Writing War (Daraja Press). Featuring Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, Jehan Bseiso and Meg Arenberg. What is the poet's role in the event of the erasure of an entire people? Even as we deem certain acts of violence as “unspeakable” and “indescribable”? As the refrain “no words left” rings in our ears, many of us find ourselves seeking solace or sense from poetic language. Poetry and poets have long been understood (and also wilfully misunderstood) for the ability to deploy resistance to silence and to complicity. More than ever, words matter and words provide witness. Meg Arenberg will speak with poets Jehan Bseiso and Otonya J. Okot Bitek about their respective writing practice, their sense of poetry's role in a violent world, the value of poetry in the face of numbing horrors, and their specific work putting words to the unspeakable in Palestine and Rwanda.Otoniya Juliane Okot Bitek is an Acholi poet. Her 100 Days (University of Alberta 2016) a book of poetry that reflects on the meaning of memory two decades after the Rwanda genocide, was nominated for several writing prizes including the 2017 BC Book Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, the 2017 Alberta Book Awards and the 2017 Canadian Authors Award for Poetry. It won the 2017 IndieFab Book of the Year Award for poetry and the 2017 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry. Otoniya's poem “Migration: Salt Stories” was shortlisted for the 2017 National Magazine Awards for Poetry in Canada. Her poem “Gauntlet” was longlisted for the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize and is the title of her most recent work, a chapbook with the same title from Nomados Press (2019). She is an assistant professor of Black Creativity at Queen's University in Kingston, which occupies the lands of the Anishinaabe and the Haudenosaunee people. Otoniya's work has been published widely online, in print and in literary magazines.Jehan Bseiso is a poet, researcher, and aid worker. Her poetry has been published on several online platforms. Her co-authored book I Remember My Name is the Palestine Book Awards winner in the creative category (2016). She is the co-editor of Making Mirrors: Writing/Righting by and for Refugees (2019). Jehan has been working with Médecins sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders since 2008.Meg Arenberg is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of Humanities and the African Languages and Translation Program at the Africa Institute. She earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Indiana University Bloomington in 2016. Prior to joining the Africa Institute, she completed postdoctoral research positions in the Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures (AMESALL) at Rutgers University, New Brunswick and the African Humanities Colloquium at Princeton University. Arenberg is a scholar of 20th and 21st-century African literatures with particular research interests in intertextuality, Kiswahili poetics, translation studies, and digital media.Buy the book: https://darajapress.com/publication/insurgent-feminism-writing-war
138. Jumpstart June: How to Engage Jesus Join us as we chat with Melanie Redd, best selling author, blogger, and speaker. Listen as she shares that she does not want to do anything apart from Jesus. Therefore, she engages Jesus first thing in the morning to fill her cup before she pours into anyone or does anything. You are going to enjoy this conversation and all of the nuggets she shares with us. You may want to listen several times in order to absorb them all. The #1 takeaway is time with Jesus every single day. How do you engage Jesus? Do you walk with Him and talk with Him? Are you in the Word? What does your prayer life look like? Is it interactive? Be sure to follow Melanie on all socials @ Melanie Redd, follow her blog at https://melanieredd.com and order her books from Amazon. You will be glad that you did. She has such a heart for God and will be a great encouragement to you. We are here for you! Visit our website and see the resources we have to help you engage Jesus in every area of your life. Some of our favorite resources are... 1. The CIRCLE Mentorship Program - This program teaches you application of God's word in your life. This is what you have been looking for. It includes teaching, accountability, resources, and coaching by Gwen, Kim, and Pam. 2. Personalized Coaching Programs - Coaching is for everyone. It helps you recognize your blind spots, identify what is holding you back, and move forward in becoming who He has created you to become and do what He is calling you to do. 3. Leadership Roundtable - want to grow your leadership capacity? Grab a seat at the table at engagewithpam.com 4. Stickwithitness Bootcamp - ready to persist through delays? Learn more at engagewithgwen.comReach out today for a complimentary call. Connect with us at https://bit.ly/EFMConnect AND… We are partnering with Life Beads Jewelry to help the Acholi women in Northern Uganda. Your purchase of this jewelry helps these women provide for their families and they hear the gospel! Check out the jewelry at engageformore.com/lifebeads. Learn about Engage for More and our Team...Website: www.engageformore.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engageformore/FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/EngageforMore #engageformore #christianpodcast #podcastforwomen #dailydevotional #godcaresforus #godcares
137. Maybe He Doesn't Even Care This is the 4th episode in our Maybe Series. Have you ever felt as if God doesn't care about you or about the circumstances of your life? Hebrews 4:15-16 reminds us that God does care and that He can sympathize with us because He experienced temptations. We must be careful to recognize the lies of the enemy and discard those. Instead, let's cling to the truth of God's word. Remember to ask, "who told me that?" Scripture tells us over and over again that He does indeed care. Sometimes we cannot understand why God is not doing what we think He should do. Why is He allowing pain and hard things to happen? The decision we have to make is to choose to trust God - even with things are not going our way. The choice is to run to God or to run from Him. Paul in 2 Corinthians 12 asked God to rid him of the thorn in his side. God tells Paul that His grace is sufficient, it is enough to carry us through. He gave us His riches at His own Son's expense. Therefore, we can be sure He cares. Let's stop seeing things from our perspective. But remember James 1:2-4 where it tells us to count it all joy when we troubles come our way. When our faith is tested, our endurance has a chance to grow. "So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing." We can trust that God's answer is best. We know that God is good. We know that He is faithful, will never leave us, will never forsake us. Cling to the truth - write things you know to be true - and keep them in your truth journal. We have not be abandoned. God cares for us. We are here for you! Visit our website and see the resources we have to help you engage Jesus in every area of your life. Some of our favorite resources are... 1. The CIRCLE Mentorship Program - This program teaches you application of God's word in your life. This is what you have been looking for. It includes teaching, accountability, resources, and coaching by Gwen, Kim, and Pam. 2. Personalized Coaching Programs - Coaching is for everyone. It helps you recognize your blind spots, identify what is holding you back, and move forward in becoming who He has created you to become and do what He is calling you to do. 3. Leadership Roundtable - want to grow your leadership capacity? Grab a seat at the table at engagewithpam.com 4. Stickwithitness Bootcamp - ready to persist through delays? Learn more at engagewithgwen.comReach out today for a complimentary call. Connect with us at https://bit.ly/EFMConnect AND… We are partnering with Life Beads Jewelry to help the Acholi women in Northern Uganda. Your purchase of this jewelry helps these women provide for their families and they hear the gospel! Check out the jewelry at engageformore.com/lifebeads. Learn about Engage for More and our Team...Website: www.engageformore.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engageformore/FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/EngageforMore #engageformore #christianpodcast #podcastforwomen #dailydevotional #godcaresforus #godcares
136. Maybe None of This is Real We are here for episode 3 of our Maybe Series. We hope you are enjoying this series and finding some assurance around all of your maybe's. Today, listen as we wonder - Maybe... none of this is real. Have you ever wondered if God is real? Do you struggle with doubt? You are not alone. It is okay to ask questions. Be sure to recognize who is causing you to question. Who wants you to doubt? Scripture tells us that the enemy came to kill, steal, and destroy. What is the basis of your doubt? What is the evidence of existence of God, of Jesus? The evidence is all around us. If none of this is real, what is the purpose? We are here to remind you that there is a higher purpose. There is a plan. God, the Creator of the Universe, wants to have a relationship with you. While that is unimaginable for our finite minds, God will meet us in an intimate way and become our Savior, our Lord, our Good Shepherd and so much more. We urge you to seek God, to invite Jesus into your heart, and to receive the gift of eternal life. If you are His and in a season of doubt, cry out for help. Don't be stuck in this season of struggle, go to God. Cry out to Him and seek His face. Pam, Gwen, and Kim can all testify of His presence, of His goodness, and of His faithfulness. We are here for you! As believers, we have a responsibility to be intentional to share what we know with others. Tell others about Jesus, pray with others, and share your testimony with those around you. Talk about it with truth and with grace. Love others enough to share with them. Invite them to experience what you have experienced. We are here for you! Visit our website and see the resources we have to help you engage Jesus in every area of your life. Some of our favorite resources are... 1. The CIRCLE Mentorship Program - This program teaches you application of God's word in your life. This is what you have been looking for. It includes teaching, accountability, resources, and coaching by Gwen, Kim, and Pam. 2. Personalized Coaching Programs - Coaching is for everyone. It helps you recognize your blind spots, identify what is holding you back, and move forward in becoming who He has created you to become and do what He is calling you to do. 3. Leadership Roundtable - want to grow your leadership capacity? Grab a seat at the table at engagewithpam.com 4. Stickwithitness Bootcamp - ready to persist through delays? Learn more at engagewithgwen.comReach out today for a complimentary call. Connect with us at https://bit.ly/EFMConnect AND… We are partnering with Life Beads Jewelry to help the Acholi women in Northern Uganda. Your purchase of this jewelry helps these women provide for their families and they hear the gospel! Check out the jewelry at engageformore.com/lifebeads. Learn about Engage for More and our Team...Website: www.engageformore.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engageformore/FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/EngageforMore #engageformore #christianpodcast #podcastforwomen #dailydevotional #godisreal
135. Maybe I am Lost This is the 2nd episode of our Maybe Series. We are wondering if you ever feel lost - as in you aren't sure where you are headed, if you are doing the right things, or if you have more questions than you have answers. What do we do when we feel lost? First, let's rest in Him. This requires spending time with Him, leaning into Him, and allowing Him to help us. Next, we have to go to Him and ask for His direction. We have to listen to hear and know the next step we are to take. We cannot let our feelings, which are not always truth, impede us or lead us astray. The truth is God has not gone anywhere. It could be our sin that has distanced us from God. Sometimes we are blind to our sin and what is separating us from God. Confession is required for us to experience that closeness again. Evaluate your inputs. Who are you spending time with? What do you do with your time? What are you putting into your heart, soul, and mind. What you input determines your output and could cause your feeling of being lost. Stay in God's word. It is our guide. As you read and study, open your hands and ask God to come and be with you. Get to know your Savior all over again. You are not lost, it just feels that way. Run to Him and be found! We are here for you! Visit our website and see the resources we have to help you engage Jesus in every area of your life. Two of our favorite resources are... 1. The CIRCLE Mentorship Program - This program teaches you application of God's word in your life. This is what you have been looking for. It includes teaching, accountability, resources, and coaching by Gwen, Kim, and Pam. 2. Personalized Coaching Programs - Coaching is for everyone. It helps you recognize your blind spots, identify what is holding you back, and move forward in becoming who He has created you to become and do what He is calling you to do. 3. Leadership Roundtable - want to grow your leadership capacity? Grab a seat at the table at engagewithpam.com Reach out today for a complimentary call. You can click HERE to connect with us or if you would prefer to reach Gwen - click here, Kim - click here, or Pam - click here. AND… We are partnering with Life Beads Jewelry to help the Acholi women in Northern Uganda. Your purchase of this jewelry helps these women provide for their families and they hear the gospel! Check out the jewelry HERE. Learn about Engage for More and our Team... Website: www.engageformore.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engageformore/ FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/EngageforMore #engageformore #christianpodcast #podcastforwomen #dailydevotional
134. Maybe... I Need to Change My Habits Listen as Gwen opens us with some tough questions and asks us to define our habits. Are they replenishing us or depleting us? Are they drawing us closer to God or leading us astray? Give it some thought. Do you need some new habits? What habits do you have that need to be exchanged for something far better? When you make it a habit to be obedient to the instruction we find in God's word, it is amazing what can take place in our lives. How do we know if a habit is a good habit or bad habit? It crosses the line when it becomes all about "me". The motive of our heart is what is important and what determines whether the habit is good or bad? We need the habit of discernment to identify the difference in the lie of the enemy and the truth found in God's word. Kim encourages us to identify the lie and find the scripture to combat that lie. Apply the truth in your life. What if we made it a habit to know God more, to trust Him more and to walk in obedience to Him. Let Romans 12:1-2 guide you as you establish some new habits. Choose to know longer be like the world, but to be set apart by the habits you create. Allow yourself to hunger for Jesus, for God's word, for what He has for you. We are here for you! Visit our website and see the resources we have to help you engage Jesus in every area of your life. Two of our favorite resources are... 1. The CIRCLE Mentorship Program - This program teaches you application of God's word in your life. This is what you have been looking for. It includes teaching, accountability, resources, and coaching by Gwen, Kim, and Pam. 2. Personalized Coaching Programs - Coaching is for everyone. It helps you recognize your blind spots, identify what is holding you back, and move forward in becoming who He has created you to become and do what He is calling you to do. 3. Leadership Roundtable - want to grow your leadership capacity? Grab a seat at the table at engagewithpam.com Reach out today for a complimentary call. You can click HERE to connect with us or if you would prefer to reach Gwen - click here, Kim - click here, or Pam - click here. AND… We are partnering with Life Beads Jewelry to help the Acholi women in Northern Uganda. Your purchase of this jewelry helps these women provide for their families and they hear the gospel! Check out the jewelry HERE. Learn about Engage for More and our Team... Website: www.engageformore.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engageformore/ FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/EngageforMore #engageformore #christianpodcast #podcastforwomen #dailydevotional
133. How Do We Spring Forth? How do we become intentional about moving forward in our relationship with Jesus and letting Him spring us forward into what He is asking us to do? Join us as we read from Isaiah 43:18-19. Let's not be dormant, stuck in our past. It's time to spring forth! As God has promised, He will use all things for our good bringing springs of living waters in the desert. Highlight Mark 4:26-29 and know that even when you are asleep (physically or just checked out), God is still at work. What is pressing down on you or surrounding you is being used to develop you. This episode is filled with encouragement for you. You have nothing to fear. If you are a Daughter of the King, rest on your Lord. He has you! He will carry you! Oh, sweet friends. Jesus is everything you have ever wanted and everything you need. Trust Him! Let's be intentional... 1. Pray for and with others. 2. Invite others to church. 3. Let your light shine. We are here for you! Visit our website and see the resources we have to help you engage Jesus in every area of your life. Two of our favorite resources are... 1. The CIRCLE Mentorship Program - This program teaches you application of God's word in your life. This is what you have been looking for. It includes teaching, accountability, resources, and coaching by Gwen, Kim, and Pam. 2. Personalized Coaching Programs - Coaching is for everyone. It helps you recognize your blind spots, identify what is holding you back, and move forward in becoming who He has created you to become and do what He is calling you to do. 3. Leadership Roundtable - want to grow your leadership capacity? Grab a seat at the table at engagewithpam.com Reach out today for a complimentary call. You can click HERE to connect with us or if you would prefer to reach Gwen - click here, Kim - click here, or Pam - click here. AND… We are partnering with Life Beads Jewelry to help the Acholi women in Northern Uganda. Your purchase of this jewelry helps these women provide for their families and they hear the gospel! Check out the jewelry HERE. Learn about Engage for More and our Team... Website: www.engageformore.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engageformore/ FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/EngageforMore #engageformore #christianpodcast #podcastforwomen #dailydevotional
131. Planting Seeds that Point Others to Jesus - How can we be intentional about planting seeds about the good news of Jesus? We start by being intentional about praying for others, praying they will be receptive and that the seeds will take root. We can also ask God to help us recognize the opportunities to plant seeds when they arrive. In the Parable of the Sower we learn that the condition of the soil matters, which is the condition of the heart. It's up to the hearts of others whether the seeds bear fruit or not. We can plant seeds by choosing to share our Jesus story when given an opportunity. It is our story of redemption. It's easier than you think. Just tell what He has done in your life. We also plant seeds by how we conduct ourselves. If we are intentional to live our faith out loud, others notice and become curious about how that works. It matters how we live our life. It matters what seeds we sow. How are we influencing those around us? Do we influence them to turn to Jesus or are we influencing them to turn away from Him? We are here for you! Visit our website and see the resources we have to help you engage Jesus in every area of your life. Two of our favorite resources are... 1. The CIRCLE Mentorship Program - This program teaches you application of God's word in your life. This is what you have been looking for. It includes teaching, accountability, resources, and coaching by Gwen, Kim, and Pam. 2. Personalized Coaching Programs - Coaching is for everyone. It helps you recognize your blind spots, identify what is holding you back, and move forward in becoming who He has created you to become and do what He is calling you to do. Reach out today for a complimentary call. You can click HERE to connect with us or if you would prefer to reach Gwen - click here, Kim - click here, or Pam - click here. AND… We are partnering with Life Beads Jewelry to help the Acholi women in Northern Uganda. Your purchase of this jewelry helps these women provide for their families and they hear the gospel! Check out the jewelry HERE. Learn about Engage for More and our Team... Website: www.engageformore.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engageformore/ FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/EngageforMore #engageformore #christianpodcast #podcastforwomen #dailydevotional
130. How Do we Bloom Spiritually? How do we grow spiritually? What is spiritual growth? Let's start by asking are we growing or are we dormant? We find the answers in scripture. Take some time to read Psalm 1 - and see how we are to be like a tree bearing fresh fruit. The Word is what nourishes us and causes us to bloom spiritually. The fruit of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Are these fruits blooming in your life? Are some blooming more than others? Take time to till your soil, weed your garden, and do the work to ensure a healthy season of blooming. What are some weeds that need to be removed? They could include pride, self-sufficiency, disobedience, doubt, unbelief, bitterness, and so many others. We are here for you! Visit our website and see the resources we have to help you engage Jesus in every area of your life. Two of our favorite resources are... 1. The CIRCLE Mentorship Program - This program teaches you application of God's word in your life. This is what you have been looking for. It includes teaching, accountability, resources, and coaching by Gwen, Kim, and Pam. 2. Personalized Coaching Programs - Coaching is for everyone. It helps you recognize your blind spots, identify what is holding you back, and move forward in becoming who He has created you to become and do what He is calling you to do. Reach out today for a complimentary call. You can click HERE to connect with us or if you would prefer to reach Gwen - click here, Kim - click here, or Pam - click here. AND… We are partnering with Life Beads Jewelry to help the Acholi women in Northern Uganda. Your purchase of this jewelry helps these women provide for their families and they hear the gospel! Check out the jewelry HERE. Learn about Engage for More and our Team... Website: www.engageformore.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engageformore/ FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/EngageforMore #engageformore #christianpodcast #podcastforwomen
128. Speak Lord, I am Ready to Listen - We want the Lord to speak to us, we are ready to hear. There are those times when we can't hear a peep. What stops us from hearing from God? Are we too distracted, too busy, or anticipating how we think we will hear from Him? Maybe we need to create margin - blank space - that is reserved from Him. Maybe we need to sit in the quiet so we can hear Him whisper. Maybe we need to silence the enemy or turn down the world's volume, so we can hear what the Lord has to say. What is our posture? Obedience, correct posture, and purposeful silence sets us up to hear the Lord's voice. The more time we spend in His presence, the more often we will hear from Him. It may be in a song, in a phrase, in a sermon, in a conversation with a friend and then repeated in our devotion. So what are we to do? Get in the Word so we can know the Word and can discern truth from the lies of the enemy. Once we hear from Him, we have to be ready to adjust our life and walk in obedience with Him. He never calls us to do what we can accomplish in and of ourselves. This is how He gets the glory. We hear from God through communion, relationship, counsel and conviction. Believe He has something to say to you and expect to hear from Him. Rely on the Holy Spirit to be your helper and your teacher. Pray His Word and hear from Him. Ask Him to open your eyes to see, your ears to hear, and your heart to receive! We are here for you! Visit our website and see the resources we have to help you engage Jesus in every area of your life. Two of our favorite resources are... 1. The CIRCLE Mentorship Program - This program teaches you application of God's word in your life. This is what you have been looking for. It includes teaching, accountability, resources, and coaching by Gwen, Kim, and Pam. 2. Personalized Coaching Programs - Coaching is for everyone. It helps you recognize your blind spots, identify what is holding you back, and move forward in becoming who He has created you to become and do what He is calling you to do. Reach out today for a complimentary call. You can click HERE to connect with us or if you would prefer to reach Gwen - click here, Kim - click here, or Pam - click here. AND… We are partnering with Life Beads Jewelry to help the Acholi women in Northern Uganda. Your purchase of this jewelry helps these women provide for their families and they hear the gospel! Check out the jewelry HERE. Learn about Engage for More and our Team... Website: www.engageformore.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engageformore/ FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/EngageforMore #engageformore #christianpodcast #podcastforwomen
127. The Resume of a Leader - When we talk about leadership we are referring to being a servant leader. A servant leader is a growing leader led and grown by the Holy Spirit. In order to lead like Jesus, we are called to serve. We are to live by a different model than the world lives by. Servant Leadership Is about being like Jesus and leading like Him - not just showing up and going through the motion. It is about the posture of our heart. We are not to strive, we are to surrender our leadership to Him. A Godly leader is faithful and obedient no matter where they are serving. We are to shepherd our people. We accept and delegate responsibility. Shepherding requires caring for our people and doing what is best for the lot. We are to be a leader others can trust. Enjoy this episode and be challenged to rise up and lead. If you are interested in the Leadership Roundtable, learn more at www.engagewithpam.com. We are here for you! Visit our website and see the resources we have to help you engage Jesus in every area of your life. Two of our favorite resources are... 1. The CIRCLE Mentorship Program - This program teaches you application of God's word in your life. This is what you have been looking for. It includes teaching, accountability, resources, and coaching by Gwen, Kim, and Pam. 2. Personalized Coaching Programs - Coaching is for everyone. It helps you recognize your blind spots, identify what is holding you back, and move forward in becoming who He has created you to become and do what He is calling you to do. Reach out today for a complimentary call. You can click HERE to connect with us or if you would prefer to reach Gwen - click here, Kim - click here, or Pam - click here. AND… We are partnering with Life Beads Jewelry to help the Acholi women in Northern Uganda. Your purchase of this jewelry helps these women provide for their families and they hear the gospel! Check out the jewelry HERE. Learn about Engage for More and our Team... Website: www.engageformore.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engageformore/ FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/EngageforMore #engageformore #christianpodcast #podcastforwomen TBD
126. Will you Rise up and Lead? As a believer, we are called to lead. We are not called to shrink back and let time just pass us by. We are called to follow Jesus and lead others to Him in our workplace, in our community, and in our home. It is time to stop making excuses. Whether we have a leadership title or not, we are to rise up and lead. But we are not to lead like the world, we are called to lead like Jesus. We are to be humble and kind, trustworthy and honest, and we are to love and serve - all while showing up to allow God's strength to be made perfect in our weakness. If you want to be obedient to rise up and lead, join our Leadership Roundtable. It is for 60 women, for 60 days, and the cost is only $60. We will meet via Zoom once a week. If you can't join us live, the videos will be sent to you via email. You will have the opportunity to connect with Pam, to ask questions, to offer input, and to grow as a Christ-centered leader. You don't want to miss this. Come engage Jesus in the way you lead. Learn more here - www.engagewithpam.com. Scroll down and grab your free booklet, 4 Steps to Lead Better. We are here for you! Visit our website and see the resources we have to help you engage Jesus in every area of your life. Two of our favorite resources are... 1. The CIRCLE Mentorship Program - This program teaches you application of God's word in your life. This is what you have been looking for. It includes teaching, accountability, resources, and coaching by Gwen, Kim, and Pam. 2. Personalized Coaching Programs - Coaching is for everyone. It helps you recognize your blind spots, identify what is holding you back, and move forward in becoming who He has created you to become and do what He is calling you to do. Reach out today for a complimentary call. You can click HERE to connect with us or if you would prefer to reach Gwen - click here, Kim - click here, or Pam - click here. AND… We are partnering with Life Beads Jewelry to help the Acholi women in Northern Uganda. Your purchase of this jewelry helps these women provide for their families and they hear the gospel! Check out the jewelry HERE. Learn about Engage for More and our Team... Website: www.engageformore.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engageformore/ FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/EngageforMore #engageformore #christianpodcast #podcastforwomen
125. What Lies on the Other Side of Obedience? Goodness lies on the other side of obedience. Our disobedience has to be addressed. God's way is best. When we choose His way and walk in obedience to Him, we discover that what He has for us is better than anything we could choose for ourselves. Obedience brings freedom. It means you are no longer in bondage to striving. Obedience offers us His power. It opens the opportunity for Him to work through us. Obedience brings blessing and protection. Who is on the other side of our obedience? How does our obedience impact the lives of others? Who sees our obedience and is inspired, convicted, or encouraged by it? How will God use your obedience to touch the lives of others? Our obedience matters. It matters to us and the transformation that we are to be experiencing. It also matters to those who are around us. Our obedience inspires others to take that step in obedience. We are here for you! Visit our website and see the resources we have to help you engage Jesus in every area of your life. Two of our favorite resources are... 1. The CIRCLE Mentorship Program - This program teaches you application of God's word in your life. This is what you have been looking for. It includes teaching, accountability, resources, and coaching by Gwen, Kim, and Pam. 2. Personalized Coaching Programs - Coaching is for everyone. It helps you recognize your blind spots, identify what is holding you back, and move forward in becoming who He has created you to become and do what He is calling you to do. Reach out today for a complimentary call. You can click HERE to connect with us or if you would prefer to reach Gwen - click here, Kim - click here, or Pam - click here. AND… We are partnering with Life Beads Jewelry to help the Acholi women in Northern Uganda. Your purchase of this jewelry helps these women provide for their families and they hear the gospel! Check out the jewelry HERE. Learn about Engage for More and our Team... Website: www.engageformore.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engageformore/ FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/EngageforMore #engageformore #christianpodcast #podcastforwomen
123. Trust and Obey. Trust and obey for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey. These lyrics to the old song in your church hymnal are so strong. Can you trust and not obey? Can you walk in obedience if you don't trust Him? These are good questions to ponder today. Know Him, love Him, trust Him and obey Him. These 4 elements are necessary if we are to walk in obedience to Him. We are to not merely say we do these things, but to actively practice these things. We need God's grace in order to layer each to these things together in order for us to walk in obedience to God's word. Where do we start? We spend time with Him - reading and studying His word. As we do, we deepen our love for Him. Knowing Him and loving Him, grows our trust in Him. The more we trust Him, our love grows deeper and deeper still. Our love for Him propels us to walk in obedience to Him. We are praying for you as you lean in and choose to trust and obey, for there's no other way. We are here for you! Visit our website and see the resources we have to help you engage Jesus in every area of your life. Two of our favorite resources are... 1. The CIRCLE Mentorship Program - This program teaches you application of God's word in your life. This is what you have been looking for. It includes teaching, accountability, resources, and coaching by Gwen, Kim, and Pam. 2. Personalized Coaching Programs - Coaching is for everyone. It helps you recognize your blind spots, identify what is holding you back, and move forward in becoming who He has created you to become and do what He is calling you to do. Reach out today for a complimentary call. You can click HERE to connect with us or if you would prefer to reach Gwen - click here, Kim - click here, or Pam - click here. AND… We are partnering with Life Beads Jewelry to help the Acholi women in Northern Uganda. Your purchase of this jewelry helps these women provide for their families and they hear the gospel! Check out the jewelry HERE. Learn about Engage for More and our Team... Website: www.engageformore.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engageformore/ FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/EngageforMore #engageformore #christianpodcast #podcastforwomen
123. Walking in Disobedience. Obedience is the practical acceptance of the authority and will of God. It is submitting to Him in our actions, words, and thoughts. It is to agree with God and be in a position of power in Christ. So that means that disobedience is simply not trusting that God knows what is best. Today, ask God to reveal your disobedience. Even doing the right thing for the wrong reason is disobedience. It is all about the motives of our heart. God knows, so get honest with Him. Today is a great day to choose obedience. We don't have to work on it or try to do it. We simply need to choose it. Anytime we falter, confession brings grace. Today is a great day to choose obedience. His way is always best. This episode is filled with practical tips. We are here for you! Visit our website and see the resources we have to help you engage Jesus in every area of your life. Two of our favorite resources are... 1. The CIRCLE Mentorship Program - This program teaches you application of God's word in your life. This is what you have been looking for. It includes teaching, accountability, resources, and coaching by Gwen, Kim, and Pam. 2. Personalized Coaching Programs - Coaching is for everyone. It helps you recognize your blind spots, identify what is holding you back, and move forward in becoming who He has created you to become and do what He is calling you to do. Reach out today for a complimentary call. You can click HERE to connect with us or if you would prefer to reach Gwen - click here, Kim - click here, or Pam - click here. AND… We are partnering with Life Beads Jewelry to help the Acholi women in Northern Uganda. Your purchase of this jewelry helps these women provide for their families and they hear the gospel! Check out the jewelry HERE. Learn about Engage for More and our Team... Website: www.engageformore.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engageformore/ FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/EngageforMore #engageformore #christianpodcast #podcastforwomen
122. Do I Have Enough Faith? The definition of genuine faith is abandoning all human reliance and self effort, placing total dependence upon God's character, His actions, and His promises. Faith is a gift from God. We can pray and ask God to help us have enough faith. Do we worry and fret or do we place our faith in God and rest on His promises? During the midst of every struggle and trial, we have a decision to make. Will we lean into the truth of God's word, lean into our relationship with Jesus, and lean in so close we can hear the promptings of the Holy Spirit? When we choose to abandon ourself and depend on God, we grow to know Him more which increases our faith. To increase our faith, spend time in the Word to know Him more. As our knowledge of Him grows, our belief in Him, His Word and His promises grows. As we know Him more, we learn to trust Him more. As we know Him more, grow our belief, and learn to trust Him more - our faith in Him grows. We are here for you! Visit our website and see the resources we have to help you engage Jesus in every area of your life. Two of our favorite resources are... 1. The CIRCLE Mentorship Program - This program teaches you application of God's word in your life. This is what you have been looking for. It includes teaching, accountability, resources, and coaching by Gwen, Kim, and Pam. 2. Personalized Coaching Programs - Coaching is for everyone. It helps you recognize your blind spots, identify what is holding you back, and move forward in becoming who He has created you to become and do what He is calling you to do. Reach out today for a complimentary call. You can click HERE to connect with us or if you would prefer to reach Gwen - click here, Kim - click here, or Pam - click here. AND… We are partnering with Life Beads Jewelry to help the Acholi women in Northern Uganda. Your purchase of this jewelry helps these women provide for their families and they hear the gospel! Check out the jewelry HERE. Learn about Engage for More and our Team... Website: www.engageformore.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engageformore/ FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/EngageforMore #engageformore #christianpodcast #podcastforwomen
ABOUT THIS EPISODE: In this episode, host Megan Cole talks to Otoniya J. Okot Bitek. Otoniya's book A is for Acholi won the 2023 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. In their conversation Otoniya talks about how she became fascinated by maps and cartography, where she finds magic in writing, and she talks about mullet poems. Visit BC and Yukon Book Prizes: https://bcyukonbookprizes.com/ About A is for Acholi: https://bcyukonbookprizes.com/project/a-is-for-acholi/ ABOUT OTONIYA J. OKOT BITEK: Otoniya J. Okot Bitek is a poet and scholar. Her collection of poetry, 100 Days (University of Alberta, 2016), was nominated for several writing prizes including the 2017 BC Book Prize, the 2017 Pat Lowther Award, the 2017 Alberta Book Awards and the 2017 Canadian Authors Award for Poetry. It won the 2017 IndieFab Book of the Year Award for poetry and the 2017 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry. From the fall of 2020 to the spring of 2021, Otoniya had the privilege of being the Ellen and Warren Tallman Writer-in-Residence and one of the SFU Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellows. She has recently moved to Kingston, Ontario, to live on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe people. Otoniya is an Assistant Professor at Queen's University, Kingston. ABOUT MEGAN COLE: Megan Cole the Director of Programming and Communications for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes. She is also a writer based on the territory of the Tla'amin Nation. Megan writes creative nonfiction and has had essays published in Chatelaine, This Magazine, The Puritan, Untethered, and more. She has her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of King's College and is working her first book. Find out more about Megan at megancolewriter.com ABOUT THE PODCAST: Writing the Coast is recorded and produced on the territory of the Tla'amin Nation. As a settler on these lands, Megan Cole finds opportunities to learn and listen to the stories from those whose land was stolen. Writing the Coast is a recorded series of conversations, readings, and insights into the work of the writers, illustrators, and creators whose books are nominated for the annual BC and Yukon Book Prizes. We'll also check in on people in the writing community who are supporting books, writers and readers every day. The podcast is produced and hosted by Megan Cole.
121. Do You Feel Shame? Satan says "shame on you", but God says, "shame off you". Whatever it is that causes you to feel shame - something we did or something that happened to us - we can exchange our shame for God's peace. Shame started at the beginning with Adam and Eve. It's not new. But the good news is that as Daughters of the King, we can give God our shame, surrender it to Him, and trust Him to take care of it for us. Surrender is to be our new way of living! Surrender may require practice. You may have to continue to practice surrendering your shame and no longer living there. And whenever you start to feel that shame or Satan tries to remind you - remember that shame no longer belongs on you. Ask yourself, where is this from? It's not coming from God, so take those thoughts captive and carry them to God in prayer. **Biblical study - Psalm 25. We are here for you! Visit our website and see the resources we have to help you engage Jesus in every area of your life. Two of our favorite resources are... 1. The CIRCLE Mentorship Program - This program teaches you application of God's word in your life. This is what you have been looking for. It includes teaching, accountability, resources, and coaching by Gwen, Kim, and Pam. 2. Personalized Coaching Programs - Coaching is for everyone. It helps you recognize your blind spots, identify what is holding you back, and move forward in becoming who He has created you to become and do what He is calling you to do. Reach out today for a complimentary call. You can click HERE to connect with us or if you would prefer to reach Gwen - click here, Kim - click here, or Pam - click here. AND… We are partnering with Life Beads Jewelry to help the Acholi women in Northern Uganda. Your purchase of this jewelry helps these women provide for their families and they hear the gospel! Check out the jewelry HERE. Learn about Engage for More and our Team... Website: www.engageformore.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engageformore/ FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/EngageforMore #engageformore #christianpodcast #podcastforwomen
His Royal Highness, Richard Apire, the 26th King of his Acholi clan in Northern Uganda has been a friend for over 20 years. We recently had the chance to catch up and reflect on what has been going on in Uganda, his hopes for the country, and the university Love Does is hoping to begin building. Restore University will not only transform the lives of a generation of students but it also sends a message to the entire region that a land once decimated by war will now be the birthplace of this country's future leaders. To learn more and get involved, visit lovedoes.org/university.
His Royal Highness, Richard Apire, the 26th King of his Acholi clan in Northern Uganda has been a friend for over 20 years. We recently had the chance to catch up and reflect on what has been going on in Uganda, his hopes for the country, and the university Love Does is hoping to begin building. Restore University will not only transform the lives of a generation of students but it also sends a message to the entire region that a land once decimated by war will now be the birthplace of this country's future leaders. To learn more and get involved, visit lovedoes.org/university.
His Royal Highness, Richard Apire, the 26th King of his Acholi clan in Northern Uganda has been a friend for over 20 years. We recently had the chance to catch up and reflect on what has been going on in Uganda, his hopes for the country, and the university Love Does is hoping to begin building. Restore University will not only transform the lives of a generation of students but it also sends a message to the entire region that a land once decimated by war will now be the birthplace of this country's future leaders. To learn more and get involved, visit lovedoes.org/university.
120. Are you Lonely? Loneliness has become a mental health crisis in the United States. We can google and find the world's recommendations of how to endure loneliness. But even better than that, we can look in God's word to see what the Lord instructs us to do when we find ourselves feeling lonely. Jesus is your best friend and you can interact with Him. Listen as we describe a way you can journal and have God speak into your personal situations proving that you are not alone. As promised, God is always with you and He is everything you need. We understand your pain as your friend group diminishes or as you find yourself an empty nester. But you do not have to be stuck in the struggle. Instead of focusing on your feeling of loneliness, fix your eyes on Jesus. He will carry you through and supply all of your needs according to His riches. Remember, the most important thing in our life is our relationship with Jesus. What can you do to grow your friendship into a deeply rooted, fully committed relationship with Him? Check out Pam's book, Saved by Grace, Now What? And check out this resource on our website... Developing God Honoring Friendships Masterclass. We are here for you! Visit our website and see the resources we have to help you engage Jesus in every area of your life. Two of our favorite resources are... 1. The CIRCLE Mentorship Program - This program teaches you application of God's word in your life. This is what you have been looking for. It includes teaching, accountability, resources, and coaching by Gwen, Kim, and Pam. 2. Personalized Coaching Programs - Coaching is for everyone. It helps you recognize your blind spots, identify what is holding you back, and move forward in becoming who He has created you to become and do what He is calling you to do. Reach out today for a complimentary call. You can click HERE to connect with us or if you would prefer to reach Gwen - click here, Kim - click here, or Pam - click here. AND… We are partnering with Life Beads Jewelry to help the Acholi women in Northern Uganda. Your purchase of this jewelry helps these women provide for their families and they hear the gospel! Check out the jewelry HERE. Learn about Engage for More and our Team... Website: www.engageformore.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engageformore/ FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/EngageforMore #engageformore #christianpodcast #podcastforwomen
118. The Lies we Believe We are comfortable believing lies about ourselves, about our circumstances, and even about the health of our relationship with Jesus. Sometimes we are being deceived and sometimes we are deceiving ourselves. How do we stop believing the lies of the enemy and start making sure what we believe lines up with the truth of God's word? Ask the Holy Spirit to help you identity and define the lies. Ask yourself "who told you that?" Surrender the lie and replace it with the truth of God's word. Grab this download of this 3 step process HERE. Remember, the most important thing in our life is our relationship with Jesus. Surrendering the lies you believe and exchanging them for His trust will move you forward with Him. Today is the day to start speaking truth. We are here for you! Visit our website and see the resources we have to help you engage Jesus in every area of your life. Two of our favorite resources are... 1. The CIRCLE Mentorship Program - This program teaches you application of God's word in your life. This is what you have been looking for. It includes teaching, accountability, resources, and coaching by Gwen, Kim, and Pam. 2. Personalized Coaching Programs - Coaching is for everyone. It helps you recognize your blind spots, identify what is holding you back, and move forward in becoming who He has created you to become and do what He is calling you to do. Reach out today for a complimentary call. You can click HERE to connect with us or if you would prefer to reach Gwen - click here, Kim - click here, or Pam - click here. AND… We are partnering with Life Beads Jewelry to help the Acholi women in Northern Uganda. Your purchase of this jewelry helps these women provide for their families and they hear the gospel! Check out the jewelry HERE. Learn about Engage for More and our Team... Website: www.engageformore.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engageformore/ FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/EngageforMore #engageformore #christianpodcast #podcastforwomen
117. There is No Greater Love - Merry Christmas, friends! It is a busy time of year, but we pray you will slow down enough and remember that there is no greater love than God's love for you. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." (John 3:16) Christmas reminds us about a God who loves us so much He sent His Son to die on a cross for us. His birth is worthy of a celebration - especially now that we know that we know what it offers to us - Hope, reconciliation to God, hope of eternity with Him! He humbled Himself, He gave His life, and He glorified the Father. This is the example that we are to follow. We are to humble ourselves. We are to live our life as a living sacrifice to Him. We are to live a life that brings honor to our Father. May 2024 be the year our #1 goal is to look more and more like Christ. May we make Jesus the center of our life. May we point others to Him! To God be all the glory! We are here for you! Visit our website and see the resources we have to help you engage Jesus in every area of your life. Two of our favorite resources are... 1. The CIRCLE Mentorship Program - This program teaches you application of God's word in your life. This is what you have been looking for. It includes teaching, accountability, resources, and coaching by Gwen, Kim, and Pam. 2. Personalized Coaching Programs - Coaching is for everyone. It helps you recognize your blind spots, identify what is holding you back, and move forward in becoming who He has created you to become and do what He is calling you to do. Reach out today for a complimentary call. You can click HERE to connect with us or if you would prefer to reach Gwen - click here, Kim - click here, or Pam - click here. AND… We are partnering with Life Beads Jewelry to help the Acholi women in Northern Uganda. Your purchase of this jewelry helps these women provide for their families and they hear the gospel! Check out the jewelry HERE. Learn about Engage for More and our Team... Website: www.engageformore.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engageformore/ FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/EngageforMore Gwen: www.engagewithgwen.com Kim: www.engagewithkim.com Pam: www.engagewithpam.com
116. How Do I Grow My Love for Him? We have been talking about Jesus, His love for us, and our love for Him. We don't want our love to be stagnant or diminishing. We want to grow our love for Him, but it is not always easy. The pruning we endure, the suffering we endure, and the trials we walk through all teach us that He is trustworthy and lead us into a deeper love for Him. Listen in as we share steps to take in order for our love to grow. Let's take the steps that will lead us into more intimacy with Him. Nothing matters more than our relationship with Him. Here is one to give some thought... what is competing with your love for Jesus? What is taking His place in your life? Where are you spending your time and what is most important to you? Let's link arms and grow to love Him more and more and even more still. We are here for you! Visit our website and see the resources we have to help you engage Jesus in every area of your life. Two of our favorite resources are... 1. The CIRCLE Mentorship Program - This program teaches you application of God's word in your life. This is what you have been looking for. It includes teaching, accountability, resources, and coaching by Gwen, Kim, and Pam. 2. Personalized Coaching Programs - Coaching is for everyone. It helps you recognize your blind spots, identify what is holding you back, and move forward in becoming who He has created you to become and do what He is calling you to do. Reach out today for a complimentary call. You can click HERE to connect with us or if you would prefer to reach Gwen - click here, Kim - click here, or Pam - click here. AND… We are partnering with Life Beads Jewelry to help the Acholi women in Northern Uganda. Your purchase of this jewelry helps these women provide for their families and they hear the gospel! Check out the jewelry HERE. Learn about Engage for More and our Team... Website: www.engageformore.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engageformore/ FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/EngageforMore Gwen: www.engagewithgwen.com Kim: www.engagewithkim.com Pam: www.engagewithpam.com
115. God's Love is Personal - Today, we want you to know that God loves you! He knows you completely and He loves you completely! Don't let Satan cause you to doubt His love for you. He loves you so much that He sent His only Son to pay the penalty for your sin so that you could have the hope of eternity with Him. His love for you is personal and He is inviting you into a personal relationship with Him. He has proven it is a committed love. Now it is our turn to prove our commitment to Him. He has even given us a Helper - the Holy Spirit - to help us live out a committed love for our Savior. Proof of our love for Jesus is our obedience to God's word. Our problem is that most of us don't know God's word enough to walk in obedience to it. As we get into the Word, it gets into us. But most importantly, as we read God's word we grow to know Him more, gain more understanding of the depth of His love for us, and find ourselves falling into a deeper love for Him. We are here for you! Visit our website and see the resources we have to help you engage Jesus in every area of your life. Two of our favorite resources are... 1. The CIRCLE Mentorship Program - This program teaches you application of God's word in your life. This is what you have been looking for. It includes teaching, accountability, resources, and coaching by Gwen, Kim, and Pam. 2. Personalized Coaching Programs - Coaching is for everyone. It helps you recognize your blind spots, identify what is holding you back, and move forward in becoming who He has created you to become and do what He is calling you to do. Reach out today for a complimentary call. You can click HERE to connect with us or if you would prefer to reach Gwen - click here, Kim - click here, or Pam - click here. AND… We are partnering with Life Beads Jewelry to help the Acholi women in Northern Uganda. Your purchase of this jewelry helps these women provide for their families and they hear the gospel! Check out the jewelry HERE. Learn about Engage for More and our Team... Website: www.engageformore.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engageformore/ FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/EngageforMore Gwen: www.engagewithgwen.com Kim: www.engagewithkim.com Pam: www.engagewithpam.com
In this podcast series, we bring you an exclusive insight into the latest development initiatives taking place in Acholi sub-region. District officers in charge of information, technology, and district planning are undergoing specialized training by Uganda Bureau of Statistics. Their mission? To equip parish chiefs with advanced data collection techniques that will unlock a wealth of knowledge to address the distinctive needs of each parish. Join us as we unravel the power of data-driven solutions and how they are reshaping the future of Acholi's communities. It's a journalistic journey you won't want to miss! #DataDrivenAcholi #EmpoweringCommunities #PodcastInsights
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Emil Langballe, Lukasz Konopa and Face2Face host David Peck talk about their new film Theatre of Violence, Christianity and conflict, radicalization,nature versus nurture, restorative justice, government oppression, and why retributive justice doesn't work.Watch the trailer here and head to Hot Docs for more information.Synopsis:Can you be an executioner and a victim at the same time? At the age of 9, Ayena's client, Dominique Ongwen, became one of at least 20.000 children abducted by rebel leader Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda. Ongwen was brainwashed by Kony, who used a combination of Christianity, witchcraft and torture to turn the children into loyal LRA soldiers in the rebellion against president, Yoweri Museveni.Ongwen quickly learned that it was a matter of kill or be killed - and he rose to the rank of commander before one day surrendering to the authorities and the following prosecution in The Hague. He is charged with 70 different counts of crimes, including torture, rape and murder. But his defence lawyer, Ayena, wants him acquitted because he believes Ongwen is not responsible for the way his life turned out. In addition, the outcome of the trial threatens to reopen old wounds at home in Uganda seeing that Ongwen and the LRA are part of the Acholi people of northern Uganda, where Kony founded his brutal army in response to the equally brutal crackdown on the Acholi people by the incumbent president, Museveni. Personally, Ayena has a lot at stake. He must not only get justice for his client and his people - but also try to explain to the Western-based International Criminal Court what kind of country Uganda is, and what the potential consequences of the verdict might be.About Emil and Lukasz:Lukasz Konopa has a master's degree in Documentary Film Directing from the UK's National Film and Television School (NFTS) and an MA in sociology from the University of Warsaw, Poland.His documentaries have been featured at festivals, such as Hot Docs, Camerimage, Visions du Reel and SXSW. His film After won the CILECT Best Documentary film award, which is chosen by the association of the world's major film and television schools. Currently splitting his time between Tel Aviv, where he works as a cinematographer on documentaries produced by one of Israel's top production companies, Heymann Brothers Films; and Denmark where he has just completed his first feature length documentary with Made in Copenhagen.Emil Langballe graduated from UK's National Film and Television School in 2013. His graduation film Beach Boy was honoured at such film festivals as Karlovy Vary, Thessaloniki, Tampere and Hot Docs. The Wait premiered at IDFA. His latest films Q's Barbershop and A Married Couple both premiered in competition at CPH: DOX.Image Copyright: Emil Langballe, Lukasz Konopa & Dogwoof Films.F2F Music and Image Copyright: David Peck and Face2Face. Used with permission.For more information about David Peck's podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit his site here.With thanks to Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Dr. Henni Alava, postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University, on her fascinating new book published by Bloomsbury as part of the New Directions in Anthropology of Christianity book series: Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda: There is Confusion (Bloomsbury, 2022). Alava's work sheds critical light on the complex and unstable relationship between Christianity and politics, and peace and war. Drawing on long-running ethnographic fieldwork in Uganda's largest religious communities, Henni Alava maps the tensions and ironies found in the Catholic and Anglican Churches in the wake of war between the Lord's Resistance Army and the Government of Uganda. The book describes how churches' responses to the war have been enabled by their embeddedness in local communities. Yet it is also in the churches' embeddedness in structures of historical violence that religious faith nurtures peace liable to compound conflict. At the heart of the book is the Acholi concept of anyobanyoba, translate as 'confusion', which depicts an experienced sense of both ambivalence and uncertainty, a state of mixed-up affairs within community and an essential aspect of politics in a country characterized by the threat of state violence. Foregrounding vulnerability, the book advocates 'confusion' as an epistemological and ethical device, and employs it to meditate on how religious believers, as well as researchers, can cultivate hope amid memories of suffering and on-going violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Dr. Henni Alava, postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University, on her fascinating new book published by Bloomsbury as part of the New Directions in Anthropology of Christianity book series: Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda: There is Confusion (Bloomsbury, 2022). Alava's work sheds critical light on the complex and unstable relationship between Christianity and politics, and peace and war. Drawing on long-running ethnographic fieldwork in Uganda's largest religious communities, Henni Alava maps the tensions and ironies found in the Catholic and Anglican Churches in the wake of war between the Lord's Resistance Army and the Government of Uganda. The book describes how churches' responses to the war have been enabled by their embeddedness in local communities. Yet it is also in the churches' embeddedness in structures of historical violence that religious faith nurtures peace liable to compound conflict. At the heart of the book is the Acholi concept of anyobanyoba, translate as 'confusion', which depicts an experienced sense of both ambivalence and uncertainty, a state of mixed-up affairs within community and an essential aspect of politics in a country characterized by the threat of state violence. Foregrounding vulnerability, the book advocates 'confusion' as an epistemological and ethical device, and employs it to meditate on how religious believers, as well as researchers, can cultivate hope amid memories of suffering and on-going violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Dr. Henni Alava, postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University, on her fascinating new book published by Bloomsbury as part of the New Directions in Anthropology of Christianity book series: Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda: There is Confusion (Bloomsbury, 2022). Alava's work sheds critical light on the complex and unstable relationship between Christianity and politics, and peace and war. Drawing on long-running ethnographic fieldwork in Uganda's largest religious communities, Henni Alava maps the tensions and ironies found in the Catholic and Anglican Churches in the wake of war between the Lord's Resistance Army and the Government of Uganda. The book describes how churches' responses to the war have been enabled by their embeddedness in local communities. Yet it is also in the churches' embeddedness in structures of historical violence that religious faith nurtures peace liable to compound conflict. At the heart of the book is the Acholi concept of anyobanyoba, translate as 'confusion', which depicts an experienced sense of both ambivalence and uncertainty, a state of mixed-up affairs within community and an essential aspect of politics in a country characterized by the threat of state violence. Foregrounding vulnerability, the book advocates 'confusion' as an epistemological and ethical device, and employs it to meditate on how religious believers, as well as researchers, can cultivate hope amid memories of suffering and on-going violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-studies
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Dr. Henni Alava, postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University, on her fascinating new book published by Bloomsbury as part of the New Directions in Anthropology of Christianity book series: Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda: There is Confusion (Bloomsbury, 2022). Alava's work sheds critical light on the complex and unstable relationship between Christianity and politics, and peace and war. Drawing on long-running ethnographic fieldwork in Uganda's largest religious communities, Henni Alava maps the tensions and ironies found in the Catholic and Anglican Churches in the wake of war between the Lord's Resistance Army and the Government of Uganda. The book describes how churches' responses to the war have been enabled by their embeddedness in local communities. Yet it is also in the churches' embeddedness in structures of historical violence that religious faith nurtures peace liable to compound conflict. At the heart of the book is the Acholi concept of anyobanyoba, translate as 'confusion', which depicts an experienced sense of both ambivalence and uncertainty, a state of mixed-up affairs within community and an essential aspect of politics in a country characterized by the threat of state violence. Foregrounding vulnerability, the book advocates 'confusion' as an epistemological and ethical device, and employs it to meditate on how religious believers, as well as researchers, can cultivate hope amid memories of suffering and on-going violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Dr. Henni Alava, postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University, on her fascinating new book published by Bloomsbury as part of the New Directions in Anthropology of Christianity book series: Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda: There is Confusion (Bloomsbury, 2022). Alava's work sheds critical light on the complex and unstable relationship between Christianity and politics, and peace and war. Drawing on long-running ethnographic fieldwork in Uganda's largest religious communities, Henni Alava maps the tensions and ironies found in the Catholic and Anglican Churches in the wake of war between the Lord's Resistance Army and the Government of Uganda. The book describes how churches' responses to the war have been enabled by their embeddedness in local communities. Yet it is also in the churches' embeddedness in structures of historical violence that religious faith nurtures peace liable to compound conflict. At the heart of the book is the Acholi concept of anyobanyoba, translate as 'confusion', which depicts an experienced sense of both ambivalence and uncertainty, a state of mixed-up affairs within community and an essential aspect of politics in a country characterized by the threat of state violence. Foregrounding vulnerability, the book advocates 'confusion' as an epistemological and ethical device, and employs it to meditate on how religious believers, as well as researchers, can cultivate hope amid memories of suffering and on-going violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Dr. Henni Alava, postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University, on her fascinating new book published by Bloomsbury as part of the New Directions in Anthropology of Christianity book series: Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda: There is Confusion (Bloomsbury, 2022). Alava's work sheds critical light on the complex and unstable relationship between Christianity and politics, and peace and war. Drawing on long-running ethnographic fieldwork in Uganda's largest religious communities, Henni Alava maps the tensions and ironies found in the Catholic and Anglican Churches in the wake of war between the Lord's Resistance Army and the Government of Uganda. The book describes how churches' responses to the war have been enabled by their embeddedness in local communities. Yet it is also in the churches' embeddedness in structures of historical violence that religious faith nurtures peace liable to compound conflict. At the heart of the book is the Acholi concept of anyobanyoba, translate as 'confusion', which depicts an experienced sense of both ambivalence and uncertainty, a state of mixed-up affairs within community and an essential aspect of politics in a country characterized by the threat of state violence. Foregrounding vulnerability, the book advocates 'confusion' as an epistemological and ethical device, and employs it to meditate on how religious believers, as well as researchers, can cultivate hope amid memories of suffering and on-going violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Dr. Henni Alava, postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University, on her fascinating new book published by Bloomsbury as part of the New Directions in Anthropology of Christianity book series: Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda: There is Confusion (Bloomsbury, 2022). Alava's work sheds critical light on the complex and unstable relationship between Christianity and politics, and peace and war. Drawing on long-running ethnographic fieldwork in Uganda's largest religious communities, Henni Alava maps the tensions and ironies found in the Catholic and Anglican Churches in the wake of war between the Lord's Resistance Army and the Government of Uganda. The book describes how churches' responses to the war have been enabled by their embeddedness in local communities. Yet it is also in the churches' embeddedness in structures of historical violence that religious faith nurtures peace liable to compound conflict. At the heart of the book is the Acholi concept of anyobanyoba, translate as 'confusion', which depicts an experienced sense of both ambivalence and uncertainty, a state of mixed-up affairs within community and an essential aspect of politics in a country characterized by the threat of state violence. Foregrounding vulnerability, the book advocates 'confusion' as an epistemological and ethical device, and employs it to meditate on how religious believers, as well as researchers, can cultivate hope amid memories of suffering and on-going violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/christian-studies
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Dr. Henni Alava, postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University, on her fascinating new book published by Bloomsbury as part of the New Directions in Anthropology of Christianity book series: Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda: There is Confusion (Bloomsbury, 2022). Alava's work sheds critical light on the complex and unstable relationship between Christianity and politics, and peace and war. Drawing on long-running ethnographic fieldwork in Uganda's largest religious communities, Henni Alava maps the tensions and ironies found in the Catholic and Anglican Churches in the wake of war between the Lord's Resistance Army and the Government of Uganda. The book describes how churches' responses to the war have been enabled by their embeddedness in local communities. Yet it is also in the churches' embeddedness in structures of historical violence that religious faith nurtures peace liable to compound conflict. At the heart of the book is the Acholi concept of anyobanyoba, translate as 'confusion', which depicts an experienced sense of both ambivalence and uncertainty, a state of mixed-up affairs within community and an essential aspect of politics in a country characterized by the threat of state violence. Foregrounding vulnerability, the book advocates 'confusion' as an epistemological and ethical device, and employs it to meditate on how religious believers, as well as researchers, can cultivate hope amid memories of suffering and on-going violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Creepy Uganda So Logan and I saw that we were rising through the ranks of Uganda's listeners for the show and thought: “Hey! We should show our love and support to these wonderful people”. So, in order to do it right, we are going on a trip! To Creepy Uganda. Aside from rituals, ancient vengeful deities, and some rather haunted locations found throughout the wonderful country, there's actually quite a few beautiful areas that, as a tourist, would be something to see! Beautiful Lakes, Mountains and rich cultures are just some of the many things that are strewn about Uganda. So without further adieu, Let's Get Creepy. The East African nation of Uganda, formally the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked nation. Kenya borders the nation on the east, South Sudan on the north, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the west, Rwanda on the south-west, and Tanzania on the south. A sizable piece of Lake Victoria, which Tanzania, Kenya, and the rest of the country share, is located in the southern region of the nation. The African Great Lakes area includes Uganda. The climate in Uganda, which is also part of the Nile basin, is variable but usually modified equatorial(Characteristics of Modified Equatorial Climate have a range of 4 to 27 degrees celsius). There are about 42 million people living there, 8.5 million of them reside in Kampala, the country's capital and largest metropolis. Uganda was given its name after the kingdom of Buganda, which ruled over a sizable area of the country's southern region, including the capital city of Kampala, and whose language, Luganda, is extensively spoken today. The United Kingdom began to govern the region as a protectorate in 1894, establishing administrative law throughout the realm. (A Protectorate is state that is governed and guarded by another independent state is known as a protectorate. It is a dependent region with local autonomy over the majority of internal matters that yet recognizes the authority (much like our relationship between the US and Puerto Rico) of a more powerful sovereign state without being that state's actual possession.) On October 9, 1962, Uganda declared its independence from the UK. Since then, there have been other bloody wars, including an eight-year military dictatorship under Idi Amin. Their Constitution stipulates that "any other language may be used as a medium of instruction in schools or other educational institutions or for legislative, administrative, or judicial functions as may be authorized by law," despite the fact that English and Swahili are the official languages. Many more languages, including Ateso, Lango, Acholi, Runyoro, Runyankole, Rukiga, Luo, Rutooro, Samia, Jopadhola, and Lusoga, are also spoken in the Central and South Eastern portions of the nation. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, the president of Uganda at the moment, came to power in January 1986 following a lengthy six-year guerrilla conflict. He was able to run and win the presidency of Uganda in the general elections of 2011, 2016, and 2021 as a result of constitutional revisions that eliminated the president's term restrictions. Uganda's varied terrain includes volcanic hills, mountains, and lakes. The average elevation of the nation is 900 meters above sea level. Mountains line Uganda's eastern and western borders. The Ruwenzori mountain range is home to Alexandra, the highest peak in Uganda, which rises to a height of 5,094 meters. One of the largest lakes in the world, Lake Victoria, which has several islands, has a significant effect on most of the country's southern region. The most significant cities, including Kampala, the capital, and Entebbe, a neighboring city, are found in the south, close to this lake. The country's largest lake, Lake Kyoga, located in the middle of a vast marshy landscape. Uganda is a landlocked country, although it has a lot of big lakes. Lake Albert, Lake Edward, and the smaller Lake George are additional lakes to Lakes Victoria and Kyoga. The Nile basin encompasses practically the whole country of Uganda. On the border with Congo, the Victoria Nile flows from Lake Victoria via Lake Kyoga and into Lake Albert. South Sudan is reached by continuing northward. The Suam River, which is a component of Lake Turkana's internal drainage basin, drains a region in eastern Uganda. The Lotikipi Basin, which is mostly in Kenya, receives water from the far north-eastern region of Uganda. There are 60 protected areas in Uganda, including ten national parks. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and Rwenzori Mountains National Park are both UNESCO World Heritage Sites. What in the hell is UNESCO? It stands for Unidentified Neural Electron Sexual Conspiracy Organization and of course that's incorrect and stupid. It ACTUALLY stands for The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. A specialised agency of the United Nations aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.The Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is home to a group of mountain gorillas, the Mgahinga Gorilla National Park is home to gorillas and golden monkeys, and the Murchison Falls National Park is home to those evil fucking hippos. The military in Uganda is known as the Uganda People's Defense Force. There are about 45,000 soldiers on active service in Uganda's military. Only the United States Armed Forces are deployed to more nations, according to analysts, than the Ugandan army, which is actively engaged in a number of combat and peacekeeping missions in the area. Uganda has troops stationed in the Central African Republic, Somalia, South Sudan, and the northern and eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The landscape and wildlife of Uganda are the main attractions for tourists. In 2012–13, it contributed 4.9 trillion Ugandan shillings (US$1.88 billion or €1.4 billion as of August 2013) to Uganda's GDP, making it a significant source of employment, investment, and foreign money. Photo safaris across the National parks and wildlife reserves are the primary draws. Other highlights are the mountain gorillas, which may be found in Uganda's aforementioned Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (BINP) and Mgahinga Gorilla National Park (MGNP), which are two of the continent of Africa's oldest cultural kingdoms. With more than 1073 species of birds reported, Uganda is an ornithologist's paradise, ranking fourth among bird species in Africa and sixteenth worldwide. The Great Rift Valley and the white-capped Rwenzori mountains are only two of Uganda's many landscapes. Unfortunately like everywhere else, Uganda has a plethora of things that have happened there that aren't exactly what some may consider “pleasant”. For lack of a better term and because we're adults, let's just say some Pretty fucked up shit had happened, actually. Genocide being a fairly big thing. But we want to dive into the lesser known side of Uganda. Like maybe some cryptozoology? Hmmmmmm? A large cryptid bird named Bagge's Black Bird was once sighted in Uganda's Lake Bujuku, which is located south of Mount Speke in the Ruwenozori Mountains. They were purportedly observed in large numbers in 1898 at a height of 9,000 feet, according to Stephen Salisbury Bagge, a guide for the government. Bagge described them as black birds the size of sheep with an alarm call resembling that of a bull. Not much else to go on here since this was the only sighting allegedly of the creature. But who knows! Maybe it was a pterodactyl, or better yet, a rather large black bird that was living rather well and just so happened to be bigger than the rest. Denman's bird was another cryptid bird that Canadian mountaineer Earl Denman purportedly claimed to have seen diving "swiftly and nearly vertically in the high mountain air" in Uganda's Ruwenzori Mountains. Ben S. Roesch speculated that they could have been Verreaux's eagles, which are common in the region and frequently observed diving to grab hyraces (rock rabbits) and hares (the thing that doesn't grow on my head) when hunting in pairs. The irizima, also known as "the thing that may not be spoken of," was a cryptid that was seen in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo near Lake Edward. One of the least well-supported of the African neodinosaurs, it has been compared to both the mokele-mbembe and the emela-ntouka. Neodinosaurian cryptids like the mokele-mbembe or li'kela-bembe have been seen mostly in the Republic of the Congo and Cameroon, where it is thought to live in marshy or swampy wetlands, lakes, and rivers. Several other bodies of water have also reported seeing it, but the Likouala region and Lake Tele are particularly linked to it. Many cryptozoologists have long assumed that the mokele-mbembe is a big amphibious animal with a bulky body, a long neck and tail, and a small head. However, a wide range of different reptilian and mammalian identities have also been proposed. A neodinosaurian cryptid known from the rainforest swamps and rivers of the Republic of the Congo and the southwest Central African Republic, the emela-ntouka (Bomitaba or Lingala: "killer of elephants" or "eater of the tops of trees") is described as a horned animal and has been likened to rhinoceroses and ceratopsian dinosaurs. It is often used as a synonym for the older but now less well-known chipekwe water rhinoceros from Zambia, as well as the ngoubous from Cameroon, the ntambue ya mai from the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and certain accounts of forest rhinoceroses. The morphology of the emela-ntouka has been described as well-defined but puzzling. It is described as an amphibian with an elephantine, rhinoceros-like appearance, a big horn on its nose, and a bulky tail resembling a crocodile. The emela-identity ntouka's has historically been the subject of two extremely divergent conflicting theories: either it was a big semi-aquatic rhinoceros or, primarily due to its bulky tail, a living ceratopsian dinosaur. Many cryptozoologists no longer subscribe to the latter notion, as the emela-ntouka is now thought of as a mammal. One ethnic group, the Aka, refers to the emela-ntouka as mokele-mbembe, a practice that has generated considerable misunderstanding. Now that we understand those two similar cryptids we go back to the irizima. It was initially brought up by Captain William Hichens, who said that there were two conflicting accounts of the creature, including a "gigantic hippopotamus with the horns of a rhinoceros" and an animal with hippo-like legs, an elephant-like trunk, a lizard's head, and an aardvark's tail. Hichens said that such a creature had been spotted by an unknown big game hunter, who then told Herbert Francis Fenn about it, inspiring him to look for neodinosaurs in the Congo. A Brontosaurus, described by Hichens as "a massive marsh animal, ten times as big as the biggest elephant," was discovered in a Congo swamp by a "madcap man" who had been searching for the monster, according to Hichens. Hichens, according to Bernard Heuvelmans, mistook information about the Great Brontosaurus Hoax and Captain Leicester Stevens' excursion for information about Lake Edward. Also, it sounds like they found the funny mushrooms. The brontosaurus hoax was pretty interesting as well. Allegedly, the news paper in the area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo wanted Captain Stevens to find this cryptid found in the marshes of Lake Edward. The twist is that the original reports were of a ceratopsian dinosaur not a brontosaurus that was written in the news. Hunter Roger Courtney later made reference to the Lake Edward monster, describing it as a huge, black beast that spews tremendous waves and spouts. When the hunter persuaded his companions to aid him onto the water, the monster had already dove, according to Courtney, who claimed that a Dutch hunter had spotted the animal from the shore of Lake Edward. In addition, Courtney had heard rumors about "dinosaurs" from the adjacent Ituri Forest, which he took to be true. According to E. A. Temple-Perkins, who studied the irizima in Lake Edward, the monster—especially as it was described by Courtney—may have originated as a local legend intended to explain why waterspouts naturally occur. Given the lack of reliable material from Lake Edward, Bernard Heuvelmans believed that Captain Hichens had accidentally introduced the Lepage-Gapelle fake monster there, leaving Roger Courtney's brief report as the only description of the Lake Edward monster. Karl Shuker, however, asserts that these two contradictory descriptions demonstrate that the term "irizima" is likely used to describe both of the two primary African neodinosaur types found in Lake Edward, the long-necked mokele-mbembe type and the horned emela-ntouka type. Shuker hypothesizes that the irizima, which Hichens described as having numerous horns, may be the same animal as the emela-ntouka and the ngoubou, which resemble Arsinoitherium (a large two horned mammal that went extinct and resemble rhino but the horns being on its brow instead of its snout). A group of semiaquatic cryptids known as water lions, water leopards, or jungle walruses have been found in rivers and occasionally wetlands throughout tropical Africa, particularly in the Central African Republic. The majority of the time referred to as huge cats , they can be identified by their protruding fangs or tusks and their penchant for hippopotamus slaughter, so they're not all bad. A number of competing theories exist, and some water lions have also been identified or confused with neodinosaurs, water rhinoceroses, and pseudodeinotheria. Ingo Krumbiegel and Bernard Heuvelmans theorized that water lions represent a surviving species of sabre-toothed cat adapted to an amphibious lifestyle and that sounds terrifying. The majority of water lion sighting reports were gathered in the 20th century, however reports of the n'gooli or “water panther”, continue to come from Cameroon. The Nandi bear, also known as the chemosit (Kalenjin: "devil"), is a cryptid that has been seen in western Kenyan highlands as well as Uganda. It is described as a deadly creature with a matted mane that resembles a bear. Cryptozoologists have determined that the Nandi bear is a fusion of several different cryptids, including maybe two real unknown animals: a huge hyena and a giant baboon, however identities of a living chalicothere (the weird horse/gorilla looking thing) and an unknown bear have also been proposed. Since the 20th century, there have been few or no sightings, and it has been hypothesized that the Nandi bear, if it ever existed, is now extinct. Maybe another version of the sasquatch? Hope the Cryptids were a little more easy going because now we dive into some… shit. Sir Edward Frederick William David Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula Mutesa, often known as Kabaka Mutesa II, led a fascinating life. He ruled as Buganda's 36th kabaka (king) from 1939 until his passing on November 21, 1969. In addition, he served as Uganda's first president from 1963 until 1966, when he was ousted and taken into exile by Prime Minister Milton Obote. Following the passing of his father, King Daudi Cwa II, he succeeded to the throne of Buganda in 1939. He was overthrown twice: once by the colonial governor-general Sir Andrew Cohen in 1953 so that he could be replaced by his half-brother, whom Cohen believed he could better control; and once more in 1966 when Prime Minister Obote forced him to leave for Britain, where he died in exile. Following his first exile of two years, Mutesa II was permitted to reclaim the throne as part of a negotiated agreement that established him as a constitutional monarch and granted the Baganda the opportunity to choose delegates for the kingdom's parliament, the Lukiiko. He had thirteen wives and eleven children by marriage and six through other means. Initially joining forces to demand self-rule, Sir Edward Mutesa II, KBE and Prime Minister Milton Obote went on to win the 1962 election. Mutesa II was named non-executive president, primarily serving in a ceremonial capacity, but after independence, their relationship started to sour. Obote allegedly instructed Idi Amin-led soldiers to raid his stronghold in 1966. Mutesa II had to escape to the UK once more. Obote declared himself president and assumed total control while he was overseas. The largest of Uganda's several ethnic groups, the Baganda, were led by Mutesa II as monarch. Despite taking advantage of it, Obote used his position of power to get rid of both the traditional kingships and the independence of the province administrations because Buganda had only agreed to join the state if it had a high degree of autonomy. In 1993, Mutesa's son was elected as the 37th kabaka under a revised constitution. Within Uganda, Buganda is currently a constitutional monarchy. In Uganda, Mutesa II attended King's College, Budo. As a student at Magdalene College in Cambridge, England, he enlisted in an officer training corps and received a captain's commission in the Grenadier Guards. Buganda was then a part of Uganda's British rule. Many of the traditional leaders or kings served as the British's representatives in Uganda. The late fourteenth century is when the Buganda kingly line began. Oddly enough, Obote was deposed in a coup in 1971 by none other than Amin, the head of his own army and closest supporter. At the age of 45, Mutesa II passed away from alcohol poisoning at his London apartment in 1969. The British authorities determined that he committed suicide, despite his followers' claims that Obote regime assassins were responsible. In 2009, four decades after Mutesa II's passing, a family friend and fellow Ugandan exile living in London told the BBC, "We got warning, people used to write and say somebody has been sent, be aware, take care." According to JM Kavuma-Kaggwa, an elder from Kyaggwe, Mukono District: “There were rumours that Obote was spending Shs 250,000 per week (a lot of money then) to track down the Kabaka. Their mission had completely failed until luck struck when the late Oscar Kambona of Tanzania who fell out with President Nyerere and fled into exile in London, organised a birthday party in November 1969 in Sir Edward Mutesa's honour.” “Also in attendance was a beautiful Muganda girl who had reportedly been recruited by the GSU to go to London, befriend Sir Edward, be close to him and poison him. She came close to the Kabaka during the party. It was reported that the Kabaka invited the girl to this birthday party and that was the time she managed to poison him because she was the one in charge of the Kabaka's drinks that evening.” After Obote was overthrown in 1971, Mutesa II's remains were brought back to Uganda and given a formal funeral by the new president, Idi Amin, who had led the attack on Mutesa's palace in 1966 as the army commander. Definitely an interesting story to say the least. This next event is a little more… unsettling. On the last night of her life, Rose Nakimuli shut down her little hair salon in rural Uganda at around nine o'clock. The 27-year-old made her way back down to the neighborhood bar for a late-night beverage after walking home to change and turning on her porch light for the evening. Later, while she was strolling along a country road next to a two-lane highway on her way home, a friend leaned out of his small bar to greet her. The following morning, a neighbor discovered her dead; slouched behind banana trees in front of her house. Nakimuli was stripped and forced to kneel on her knees. Her vagina had been penetrated with a cassava stick. Her spouse recognized her by the maroon sweater that was hanging from a tree close by. Considering the porch light was still on suggests that she never actually made it home. Nakimuli is one of 23 women who have died mysteriously and horribly on the outskirts of Kampala, the expanding metropolis of quickly urbanizing Uganda, from May to November of 2017. The murders have caused fear in the neighborhood, sparked doubts about the nation's dedication to protecting women, and increased scrutiny of the police force, a potent institution criticized for acting with impunity and serving as an extension of the government's ruling political party, the National Resistance Movement. All of the victims were female, ranging in age from 19 to 38. Four of the individuals have been recognized as sex workers, along with a number of traders and a high school student. Many of the victims had no nearby family and lived alone. Three of the women, at least, are yet unidentified. Many of the murders, according to the police, were committed by witchcraft practitioners who sought financial gain through human sacrifice. Others, according to them, are the result of spousal abuse, drug use among unemployed youth, land disputes, and lone women who fail to take the necessary safeguards. Twelve or more suspects have been taken into custody. Some have apparently been tortured into confessing. However, not much evidence connecting the suspects to the crimes has been made public. Locals and activist organizations charge the police with being overburdened and conflicted over the murders of over twenty women. “What makes me to feel that there is an element of injustice is that it took Rose to die in order for somebody to move,” said Nakimuli's husband, Anatoli Ndyabagyera. Community watch groups have been established, a curfew has been implemented to prevent women from travelling alone at night, and the local informal economy has collapsed in the interim. Some of the safety measures have not been applied since Idi Amin's regime and the civil conflict that ensued after his overthrow in 1979. Interior Minister Jeje Odongo blamed a couple of businesspeople at the head of a vast criminal network connected to "the Illuminati" in September 2017 for most of the killings. According to Odongo, the guys, Ivan Katongole and Phillip Tumuhimbise, performed rituals using the victims' blood and body parts in order to increase their wealth. In Uganda, magic and mysticism still have great power. The rituals that these beliefs usually take the form of can occasionally become more evil. In the past, killings for ceremonial purposes have often involved children in particular. Jordan Anderson, a researcher who has studied magic in East and Central Africa, claims that the latest killings of women, however, have little in common with conventional ritual homicides. One reason is that it's unusual to preserve a sacrificial body. “You are killing the person because, in the first sense, you want to use that body part in the ‘medicine' or the potion that you are going to put together,” he said. “It's the particular part of the person you want, not the death per se." Black magic can also be useful cover for a murderer trying to hide their tracks or an easy scapegoat for incompetent security forces. “If you have this motif in the media, people can pick it up and copycat it,” Anderson said. “If there's insecurity in this area, if there are murders taking place, this is a great excuse for the politicians, the police and, above all, the people doing the murders.” In an interview at one of the clubs where she was last seen alive, her husband noted that Nakimuli was regarded as being "extremely sweet." She was unable to stand by as a child sobbed. He couldn't bring himself to clean up her house for two months following her passing. In small communities like the one where Nakimuli passed away, rumors are easily disseminated, and Ndyabagyera is still dubious of the police's version of what happened to his wife. He thinks Nakimuli's cousin may have set her up as part of a long-standing vendetta. The small village of Katabi, where Nakimuli and 11 other women were murdered, is located along the main road from Kampala to Entebbe, which is home to the president of Uganda's palace and the country's primary airport on Lake Victoria. Museveni frequently travels this route on his way from his residence to the capital. He didn't go to the town, however, to pay his respects to the deceased until late September. Museveni interviewed the victims' friends and neighbors during the unexpected visit while keeping a clipboard in his hand and taking careful notes. The majority of the twelve slain women in the Katabi area were brutalized in ways akin to Nakimuli. Many had been assaulted with cassava sticks, stripped naked, and strangled. On the opposite side of Kampala, 20 miles north, the bodies of an additional 11 women were found during the same time frame. There, victims were allegedly sexually assaulted and strangled, yet there were no sticks in their genitalia. An individual named Ibrahim Kaweesa, a chicken dealer who had previously served ten years in prison for robbery, has been connected to those killings. Which seems like a huge escalation. The interior minister claimed that Tumuhimbise, a teenage shopkeeper, employed Kaweesa to murder a dozen women "for ritual performance to protect or improve his wealth." As part of a loose network supporting law enforcement, 40-year-old Charles Waswa assisted in the arrest of Kaweesa and claimed, "They removed the blood." Kaweesa resided two-thirds of the way down a short row of apartments, surrounded by women cooking outside and shrieking children. He was labeled by his neighbors as an arrogant and dangerous womanizer. Kaweesa's neighbor Annette Namkose, 29, stepped in to prevent them from dating. She alleged through a translator that in response, he threatened to kill her, saying, "I'll kill you like I did the ones in Entebbe." She declared, "He's not a neighbor you want to be with. Police said that after being detained, Kaweesa swiftly confessed to the crimes. He allegedly led detectives around a number of the crime scenes without being asked. “I don't believe we have arrested each and every person who knew about this matter,” said Kasingye, the police spokesman. “I cannot say 100% there isn't going to be any (more) crime because it has never happened anywhere in the world. But at least it (the arrests) shows us we can stop criminals. We can arrest them, we can prosecute them and we can do this throughout the whole country.” Unfortunately cases like these happen too much in many places around the world. Uganda seems to be trying to get ahead of the curve with the installment of the Anti-Human Sacrifice and Trafficking Task Force following the Anti-Trafficking Act in 2009. Although reports have shown that the task force has been severely underfunded for a while, we do hope that things start to turn around. Speaking of human sacrifices, this is a report from only a few weeks ago: Human sacrifices continue unabated in the remote and rural areas of the landlocked East African country of Uganda despite authorities enacting tough laws and threatening death sentences. According to officials, 132 incidents of human sacrifices have been recorded in the last three years. The numbers have spiked from 22 sacrifices in 2019, 45 in 2020 and 65 in 2021. Most victims of such “ritual sacrifices” are children, apparently because they are easier to abduct and seen as “pure” and so of "higher ritual value". Anadolu Agency quoted authorities as saying on Sunday that the sacrifices are being carried out by witch doctors or local traditional healers, dotting rural areas. Admitting that human sacrifice is a big problem, Lucas Oweyesigire, the police spokesman for the Kampala region, said most such practices take place in rural areas. The so-called leader of traditional healing and witch doctors, Mama Fina, has also condemned human sacrifice and described those recommending the sacrifice of human beings as “fake”. Taking advice from witch doctors Police spokesman Fred Enanga said only last month they "arrested a man identified as Musilimu Mbwire on suspicion of killing his two sons in human sacrifice.” According to preliminary investigations, a rich man had paid Mbwire money and convinced him to sacrifice his two sons at the instructions of a witch doctor. Superstitions lead people in rural areas to seek help from witch doctors, who in turn offer weird prescriptions, including human sacrifices to turn around their luck. A more worrisome part of the superstition is to undertake human sacrifice to put the body at the foundation of a building to bring good luck. Timothy Mukasa, a local leader in Kampala's suburb of Kireka, said many multi-storey buildings in the town have been built on a human body. “The witch doctors tell owners to put a human body at the foundation of the construction of the buildings,” he said. In 2014, authorities apprehended and later sentenced a tycoon Kato Kajubi for sacrificing a child and then putting his body in the foundation of a building that he was about to construct. David Musenze, a journalist who studied psychology, said there are not many qualified counsellors to attend to psychological and mental issues of people, which makes them take advice from witch doctors. "People go to witch doctors to help them get jobs, be promoted at jobs, or kill their enemies, along with many other problems," he said. So, what about hauntings, you might be thinking to yourself. Well, we found a story from someone living in Uganda from the “your ghost stories” website. I had always thought this sort of nightmare was happening to me alone until I have come across this site. I always took my suffering silently especially the unexplained sickness which always followed devil attacks. It all started on 28th November 2004 one hour to midnight. Whilst walking home after branching off from the main road. I heard footsteps of someone walking behind me and whoever it was seemed to have been in a hurry, I glanced back and stepped aside to see who it was and let him/her pass as I was in a narrow path. I saw a hazy form I can't clearly explain here, my hair stood on my head like when you encounter something fearful. A cold shiver enveloped me and a gust of chilly wind wrapped my entire body, like I was putting on a cloak. I let out a silent incoherent scream and ran towards home which was just nearby. That occurrence signalled the beginning of my suffering to date. Since then, whenever I sleep I am woken up by something touching my foot or a feeling of a being lying beside me, in the morning I find scratches on my body and at first I thought it was me scratching myself during asleep so I used to trim my nails, but the scratches continued. During the attacks, I fall in a sort of hypotonizing stance. I neither can move nor make any sound except my feet which I use to struggle and try to shrug of the being. In the past two years the demon has turned sexual, it would turn in a woman form, hugging me in bed trying to initiate sexual intimacy, when I wake up my reproductive organ feels so cold and shrunk. There's pain also in the pelvic area for most of the day. I have tried all sorts of remedies e.g. Blessed water, salt, prayers etc. But none seems to work, Any suggestions on how to get rid of this demon is welcome. And lastly, the Haunted Palace of Kabaka Kabak's Palace, also known as Idi Amin's Torture Chambers or Haunted Mansion or Lubiri Palace is located in Lubiri area of Kampala on Mengo Hill Road. It was the home of the Bugandan kings but these days it largely remains unoccupied due to the horrific events that took place under the rule of Idi Amin and President Milton Obote. President Idi Amin built his torture chamber here where hundreds of people were reportedly tortured to death. Their spirits are believed to have haunted the palace which is closed to the public these days for repair and clearing it from the so-called spirits. MOVIES-Top movies set in africa 30 Must Watch Movies Set in Africa - IMDb
Episode 14 introduces us to Molokoni. A slow-cooked cow hoof soup that originates from both the Acholi in northern Uganda and the Itesot in eastern Uganda. Special guest Sophia Aniku shares with us the first time she had molokoni and how she has come to enjoy it over time. The dish is served in the majority of the kafunda joints and is known to many as nutritious comfort food. Read more about molokoni here: https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/magazines/life/molokony-the-craze-in-kampala-restaurants-1605512 https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/magazines/life/molokoni-prized-ugandan-dish-1775852 Follow Sophia on Instagram: @s_aniku Connect with us on the socials using #ourfoodstoriesUg to let us know what part of the story you enjoyed the most. If you would like to contribute a food story or know someone interested in contributing to this podcast, Kindly email akitcheninuganda@gmail.com or send us a DM on Instagram @akitcheninuganda. Music: Ketsa - Bless-Ups, Ketsa - Spinny-Wheel --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/our-food-stories/message
La riedizione di Modi Bruschi, di Franco La Cecla ; il vademecum "Donne verso l'autonomia. Guida pratica su diritti, tutele e strumenti nel mondo del lavoro", redatto dalle Camere del Lavoro Autonomo e Precario e dalla Casa delle donne “Lucha y Siesta”; dal 28 aprile in libreria si trova Lucille degli Acholi di Ilaria Ferramosca e Chiara Abastanotti, lavoro di restituzione alla memoria di Lucille Tesdale, tra le prime donne chirurghe.
La riedizione di Modi Bruschi, di Franco La Cecla ; il vademecum "Donne verso l'autonomia. Guida pratica su diritti, tutele e strumenti nel mondo del lavoro", redatto dalle Camere del Lavoro Autonomo e Precario e dalla Casa delle donne “Lucha y Siesta”; dal 28 aprile in libreria si trova Lucille degli Acholi di Ilaria Ferramosca e Chiara Abastanotti, lavoro di restituzione alla memoria di Lucille Tesdale, tra le prime donne chirurghe.
Today on the Fatboy Show, Fatboy and Olive engage Honorable Gilbert Olanya, the Kilak County Member of Parliament to explain the controversy surrounding the 312 million shillings that was initially allocated to the Acholi Parliamentary Group as part of the final sendoff budget of former speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah who passed away on March 20th.
Members of the Acholi Parliamentary Group are asking Government to reinstitute the budget for the burial of former Speaker Jacob Oulanyah, which was slashed from 1.8billion shillings to 1.2 billion shillings. Of the 1.8billion, the group had been allocated 235 million shillings to assist in the funeral arrangements.
Fatboy and Olive engage Hon. Paul Omara the Otuke County Member of Parliament on his take following MPs from Acholi, West Nile, and Lango sub-regions having threatened to boycott the elections for the Speaker of Parliament if the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the NRM fails to nominate the candidates they endorsed for the Speakership.
This event was the launch of Yaniv Voller's latest book Second-Generation Liberation Wars: Rethinking Colonialism in Iraqi Kurdistan and Southern Sudan published by Cambridge University Press. The formation of post-colonial states in Africa, and the Middle East gave birth to prolonged separatist wars. Exploring the evolution of these separatist wars, Yaniv Voller examines the strategies that both governments and insurgents employed, how these strategies were shaped by the previous struggle against European colonialism and the practices and roles that emerged in the subsequent period, which moulded the identities, aims and strategies of post-colonial governments and separatist rebels. Based on a wealth of primary sources, Voller focuses on two post-colonial separatist wars: in Iraqi Kurdistan, between Kurdish separatists and the government in Baghdad, and Southern Sudan, between black African insurgents and the government in Khartoum. By providing an account of both conflicts, he offers a new understanding of colonialism, decolonisation and the international politics of the post-colonial world. Yaniv Voller is Senior Lecturer in the Politics of the Middle East at the University of Kent. Prior to this, he was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh. Voller received his PhD from the LSE, where he also taught courses in the International Relations and the International History Departments. In 2018-2019, Yaniv was a Conflict Research Fellow at the DFID-funded Conflict Research Programme at the LSE and the Social Science Research Council. Voller's research broadly concerns the geopolitics of the Middle East, the foreign policies of Middle Eastern states, separatism/liberation, insurgency and the role of ideas, ideology and practices in shaping international politics. He is the author of The Kurdish Liberation Movement in Iraq: From Insurgency to Statehood (Routledge, 2014). Ponsiano Bimeny is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa at LSE. He completed his PhD in Development Studies at SOAS University of London with his thesis examining the contradicting visions of the South Sudanese state and its implications for the processes of state formation within the country and in Sub Saharan Africa more broadly. Bimeny's thesis particularly focused on citizenship and identity in the context of conflict, violence and population displacement in South Sudan, drawing on the 2005 political settlement and the most recent conflict between the government's Sudan People's Liberation Army and the different paramilitary and social groups. Bimeny has more than six years of experience working as a development professional in Northern Uganda, including delivering the UNICEF-funded Government of Uganda's “Justice for Children” programme. Bimeny has also recently undertaken research work focusing on the post conflict settings of the Acholi and Karamoja regions of northern Uganda for the Deconstructing Notions of Resilience project at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa. He has provided regional insights about Africa's Great Lakes Region to the Centre of African Studies at SOAS since 2016.
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We go in hard this week, with the consistently dancefloor filling Otim Alpha terrorising us with his high BPM electro Acholi sounds. There are let-ups sprinkled across the pod, with the exquisite new Elena Setien record on Thrill Jockey, and spiritual jazz from Irreversible Entanglements. Mostly though, we're going uptempo, with a cracker from Rose Bonica, Gorge sounds from Adam Ondo Martenot, and Niger hip hop from Mamaki Boys, proving massive highlights on the pod. Tracklisting Otim Alpha – Lobo Olanya (Nyege Nyege Tapes, Uganda) Elena Setien – Situation (Thrill Jockey Records, USA) Rose Bonica – Heart in my Throat (Roses Are Red, South Africa) Irreversible Entanglements – Open the Gates (International Anthem, USA) Galen Tipton – Kick and Scream and Fight Like Hell (self-release, USA) Main Dice – Family Planning (Marfa Lights, Australia) Adam Ondo Martenot – The Eye of Ondo (Gorge.In, Japan) Mamaki Boys – Takkai (Sahel Sounds, USA) Dai San – Nite Sprite (GAMM, UK) Mildred Maude – Trevena (Sonic Cathedral, UK) Produced and edited by Nick McCorriston
The Big Fix Uganda: Improving the Lives of Dogs and Humans Around the Globe Today’s Guest Sarah Schmidt - Founder of The Big Fix Uganda I’m so excited to introduce to you today’s guest, Sarah Schmidt, the founder of The Big Fix Uganda. Sarah and her team do incredible work to help improve the lives of the dogs and people in Uganda through providing spay/neuter programs for population control, veterinary care to help fight off disease that can spread to both animals and humans, and dog training education. All of these elements are essential to helping improve the health and wellbeing of both the dogs and the people of Uganda, all while promoting important human-animal bonds. On top of providing care and education, this organization has another amazing program called the Comfort Dog Project. This program is aimed at helping Ugandan war trauma survivors overcome the debilitating symptoms of PTSD. Sadly, the experiences of Acholi people in Northern Uganda are incredibly traumatic. It wasn’t uncommon for children to be kidnapped and forced to serve in the rebel army either as sex slaves or as gun-bearing soldiers. These types of experiences truly cause a degradation in the social fiber of the people. You don't have the ability to trust other people, to live in community with other people. The Big Fix Uganda has been a cornerstone in helping heal the people in this community by connecting them with dogs. Having these programs in place is a HUGE win-win for both the people and dogs in Uganda and has brought about healing (for both the people and the canines) in ways you would never believe is possible. If you’re interested in learning more about The Big Fix Uganda and the incredible ways they are healing communities and improving the lives of both dogs and people you don’t want to miss today’s podcast! You’ll Hear About: [02:15] The Mission of The Big Fix Uganda [03:45] The Devastation of the Acholi people in Northern Uganda [06:00] How dogs and humans are helping each other heal [07:00] The Comfort Dog Project [10:00] The Science Behind the Comfort Dog Project [11:00] Charles Healing Story with Dog Ogen [14:00] The importance of names to the Acholi people [17:30] Lucy’s Story [21:30] How the Comfort Dog Project Works [23:30] How you can help support The Big Fix Uganda How You Can Get Involved: If you’re interested in getting involved with The Big Fix Uganda I encourage you to visit their website. On the website you can learn more about the project as well as the various opportunities to support them by giving financially, becoming a volunteer, or donating supplies. Together we can make an incredible impact on the lives of dogs and the people who love them! Links & Resources Website: https://www.thebigfixuganda.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheBigFixUganda/ NTV story about Comfort Dog Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3UJUW4awmk BBC Video about Filda and Lok Oroma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCgOu0p7x0c Video showing Lucy and Sadik: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmMSbVKcMuw Learn more by tuning into the podcast! Thanks for listening—and again, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes / Spotify to get automatic updates. Cheers, ~Doggy Dan
QACC translation of COVID 19 update announced 8th January 2021 in Queensland, Australia. Spoken in Acholi.
QACC translation of COVID 19 update announced December 2020 in Queensland, Australia. Spoken in Acholi.
QACC translation of COVID 19 update announced December 2020 in Queensland, Australia. Spoken in Acholi.
QACC translation of COVID 19 update announced November 2020 in Queensland, Australia. Spoken in Acholi.
Listen as we understand how religion influences our understanding of health and healing. Religious ideology affects different regions of the world in various ways. The dominant religion of a particular geographical region determines how the people of that community view the world. Further, it affects our understating of what is “healthy” or “unhealthy”. It also influences how we understand healing- is healing collective or individualistic? Listen as we explore these topics with specific reference to the Acholi region of Uganda. Spiritual Virtues to look for in this podcast are curiosity, awareness and interconnectedness. Awareness of how your path of health and healing looks different from someone else's is the first step in appreciating differences between cultures and seeing the humanity in others. Cultivating curiosity on what ideologies and teachings inform your understanding of the healing process, helps you to recognize that your own belief systems are a product of your individual experience and geographical location. The virtue of interconnectedness allows you to examine how your healing process may relate to family and community dynamics. Seeing yourself as a part in a greater universe, helps to unveil how individual healing can ricochet into a higher collective consciousness. If you don't know about Spiriosity's virtues, read our blog here- https://www.spiriosity.com/blog/spiriosity/religionparallels Related Resources An Impossible Inheritance: Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Work of Memory in a West African Clinic by Katie Kilroy-Marac. https://www.amazon.com/Impossible-Inheritance-Postcolonial-Psychiatry-African/dp/0520300203
Listen as we understand how religion influences our understanding of health and healing. Religious ideology affects different regions of the world in various ways. The dominant religion of a particular geographical region determines how the people of that community view the world. Further, it affects our understating of what is “healthy” or “unhealthy”. It also influences how we understand healing- is healing collective or individualistic? Listen as we explore these topics with specific reference to the Acholi region of Uganda. Spiritual Virtues to look for in this podcast are curiosity, awareness and interconnectedness. Awareness of how your path of health and healing looks different from someone else’s is the first step in appreciating differences between cultures and seeing the humanity in others. Cultivating curiosity on what ideologies and teachings inform your understanding of the healing process, helps you to recognize that your own belief systems are a product of your individual experience and geographical location. The virtue of interconnectedness allows you to examine how your healing process may relate to family and community dynamics. Seeing yourself as a part in a greater universe, helps to unveil how individual healing can ricochet into a higher collective consciousness. If you don’t know about Spiriosity’s virtues, read our blog here- https://www.spiriosity.com/blog/spiriosity/religionparallels Related Resources An Impossible Inheritance: Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Work of Memory in a West African Clinic by Katie Kilroy-Marac. https://www.amazon.com/Impossible-Inheritance-Postcolonial-Psychiatry-African/dp/0520300203
QACC translation of COVID 19 ease of restriction announced 3rd of July 2020 in Queensland, Australia. Spoken in Acholi.
QACC translation of COVID 19 testing instruction in Queensland, Australia. Spoken in Acholi.
QACC translation of COVID 19 ease of restriction announced 1st of June 2020 in Queensland, Australia. Spoken in Acholi.
QACC translation of COVID 19 ease of restriction announced 15th of May 2020 in Queensland, Australia. Spoken in Acholi.
QACC response to cyberbullying, online predators, homeschooling, domestic and family violence spoken in Acholi/Acoli.
Generation for Generation Dialogue in Acholi sub region.
With our youth champions, we are promoting youth led accountability in in Acholi and West Nile. These surveys are meant to capture key information about youth services and activities, HIV/AIDS, SRH, violence, and other issues as identified by district and dialogue stakeholders.
We trained 80 youth champions in Acholi and West Nile under the Women Adolescent and Youth empowerment Program. The purpose of the training was to empower the selected youth champions with information about Sexual Reproductive Health and Gender Based Violence information as well as innovation and communication skills so as to empower young people in their communities.
This episode is part-two of Bearing Witness: The backstory to Creating Space where we hear the inspiring yarn behind Ruth Nelson and how this podcast came into being. In the first episode we followed Ruth who, as an 18-year-old, inadvertently signed up to volunteer in community work with refugees leading her on the path of studying psychology. She survived a brain encephalopathy, and in not choosing the path of least resistance, Ruth headed to northern Uganda at the age of 26 to work in community outreach as an NGO. It’s in this episode where we pick up Ruth’s story as she struggles with the futility of her presence, as a young inexperienced community worker, in an active conflict zone. Ruth saw her role, initially at least, as bearing witness to the atrocities of this insidious and complex conflict but over the two years she initiated and facilitated many programs, some of which had surprisingly comedic outcomes. After Ruth returned to Australia to complete her qualifications as a psychologist and to work in the field, life happened, and she made a difficult decision to put her career on hold to dedicate her efforts to raising her child. It was during this period, Ruth felt like she was losing hope as social media reflected a world of growing ignorance and intolerance. So she decided to share stories. What was supposed to be a blog, became a podcast and Ruth searched far and wide to ask women to share their own stories at the virtual campfire. Ruth believes we are sentient bags of saltwater who just love a good story, and in listening to others we can readily identify shared values despite coming from different, seemingly alien backgrounds. Since the Creating Space Project started in June 2016, Ruth has facilitated, so far, the sharing of stories, in a narrative framework, of 73 ordinary, yet extraordinary women. It was my opinion Ruth’s story needed also to be shared and she eventually acquiesced to my appeal for an interview. I think it makes for a particularly inspiring listen … enjoy! This is the last episode before Ruth takes a break for a few months, as she is due to have another baby. But fear not - the Creating Space Project will return!
After years of conflict in Uganda, the people of Acholiland are returning home; but Richard Dowden finds memories of war are straining the Acholi tradition of forgiveness. Peter Marshall meets the British woman on death row in Texas, and considers whether she should be there. Martin Patience goes for a drive with the young people of China in search of new friends on the open road. Charles Haviland is in Sri Lanka, where people are sharing their memories of the long civil war. And a man with a shopping trolley attracts the attention of our man in Johannesburg, Andrew Harding.
Held from 12:00 - 1:30pm. The UN FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization) projects that the greatest number of people in history will be starving this year, with over 1 billion going to bed hungry. In Eastern Africa, this reality is exacerbated by persistent drought. In a world threatened by simultaneous economic and ecological crises, thousands of billions of dollars are made available on short notice for banks and financiers. Should the poorest of the poor suffer even more because of financial profligacy of the moneyed elite? Justin Odera will talk about the plight of his Acholi people in the Sudan, displaced by civil war and now coming home after 15 years from the Kenyan and Ugandan refugee camps to face hunger, and a void in education and medical care. Justin will also speak about those of his people who have come to Alberta and how they are faring in this time of crises. In our interconnected world, this is a story we should be told. Speaker:Justin Odera Justin Odera was born in 1973, during a period of civil war. His Acholi family hometown was Pajok in the Magwi district, eastern Equatoria province, Southern Sudan. Justin lived through twenty-nine brutal war years as well as the fragile life in refugee camps, before arriving in Canada in 2001. The Acholies have been living along the shores of East Africa's rivers and lakes for the past six centuries. The traditional territories of his Luo speaking tribe are the borderlands of western Uganda, north-western Kenya and Sudan's Eastern Equatoria province. Justin is the Program Director of Southern Sudan Canada Acholi Progressive Education Association (SSCAPEA), an Alberta based, non-profit organization dedicated to health, education, economic aid and community development amongst war weary families hailing from the refugee camps of East Africa.
Held from 12:00 - 1:30pm. The UN FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization) projects that the greatest number of people in history will be starving this year, with over 1 billion going to bed hungry. In Eastern Africa, this reality is exacerbated by persistent drought. In a world threatened by simultaneous economic and ecological crises, thousands of billions of dollars are made available on short notice for banks and financiers. Should the poorest of the poor suffer even more because of financial profligacy of the moneyed elite? Justin Odera will talk about the plight of his Acholi people in the Sudan, displaced by civil war and now coming home after 15 years from the Kenyan and Ugandan refugee camps to face hunger, and a void in education and medical care. Justin will also speak about those of his people who have come to Alberta and how they are faring in this time of crises. In our interconnected world, this is a story we should be told. Speaker: Justin Odera Justin Odera was born in 1973, during a period of civil war. His Acholi family hometown was Pajok in the Magwi district, eastern Equatoria province, Southern Sudan. Justin lived through twenty-nine brutal war years as well as the fragile life in refugee camps, before arriving in Canada in 2001. The Acholies have been living along the shores of East Africa's rivers and lakes for the past six centuries. The traditional territories of his Luo speaking tribe are the borderlands of western Uganda, north-western Kenya and Sudan's Eastern Equatoria province. Justin is the Program Director of Southern Sudan Canada Acholi Progressive Education Association (SSCAPEA), an Alberta based, non-profit organization dedicated to health, education, economic aid and community development amongst war weary families hailing from the refugee camps of East Africa.
Held from 12:00 - 1:30pm. The UN FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization) projects that the greatest number of people in history will be starving this year, with over 1 billion going to bed hungry. In Eastern Africa, this reality is exacerbated by persistent drought. In a world threatened by simultaneous economic and ecological crises, thousands of billions of dollars are made available on short notice for banks and financiers. Should the poorest of the poor suffer even more because of financial profligacy of the moneyed elite? Justin Odera will talk about the plight of his Acholi people in the Sudan, displaced by civil war and now coming home after 15 years from the Kenyan and Ugandan refugee camps to face hunger, and a void in education and medical care. Justin will also speak about those of his people who have come to Alberta and how they are faring in this time of crises. In our interconnected world, this is a story we should be told. Speaker: Justin Odera Justin Odera was born in 1973, during a period of civil war. His Acholi family hometown was Pajok in the Magwi district, eastern Equatoria province, Southern Sudan. Justin lived through twenty-nine brutal war years as well as the fragile life in refugee camps, before arriving in Canada in 2001. The Acholies have been living along the shores of East Africa's rivers and lakes for the past six centuries. The traditional territories of his Luo speaking tribe are the borderlands of western Uganda, north-western Kenya and Sudan's Eastern Equatoria province. Justin is the Program Director of Southern Sudan Canada Acholi Progressive Education Association (SSCAPEA), an Alberta based, non-profit organization dedicated to health, education, economic aid and community development amongst war weary families hailing from the refugee camps of East Africa.
Held from 12:00 - 1:30pm. The UN FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization) projects that the greatest number of people in history will be starving this year, with over 1 billion going to bed hungry. In Eastern Africa, this reality is exacerbated by persistent drought. In a world threatened by simultaneous economic and ecological crises, thousands of billions of dollars are made available on short notice for banks and financiers. Should the poorest of the poor suffer even more because of financial profligacy of the moneyed elite? Justin Odera will talk about the plight of his Acholi people in the Sudan, displaced by civil war and now coming home after 15 years from the Kenyan and Ugandan refugee camps to face hunger, and a void in education and medical care. Justin will also speak about those of his people who have come to Alberta and how they are faring in this time of crises. In our interconnected world, this is a story we should be told. Speaker:Justin Odera Justin Odera was born in 1973, during a period of civil war. His Acholi family hometown was Pajok in the Magwi district, eastern Equatoria province, Southern Sudan. Justin lived through twenty-nine brutal war years as well as the fragile life in refugee camps, before arriving in Canada in 2001. The Acholies have been living along the shores of East Africa's rivers and lakes for the past six centuries. The traditional territories of his Luo speaking tribe are the borderlands of western Uganda, north-western Kenya and Sudan's Eastern Equatoria province. Justin is the Program Director of Southern Sudan Canada Acholi Progressive Education Association (SSCAPEA), an Alberta based, non-profit organization dedicated to health, education, economic aid and community development amongst war weary families hailing from the refugee camps of East Africa.
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