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Ekundayo Bandele is a renowned playwright and theater director whose work has significantly impacted the American theater landscape. His play “Judas Hands” premiered at Cleveland's Karamu House in 1997, and his subsequent works, such as “If Scrooge Was a Brother” and “Take the Soul Train to Christmas,” have been produced at theaters across the country, including Houston's Ensemble Theatre and Chicago's ETA Creative Arts Foundation. In 2006, Bandele founded Hattiloo Theatre in Memphis, TN. As its CEO, he curates annual seasons of plays and programs that celebrate Black culture. He successfully raised 10 million dollars to build and expand Hattiloo Theatre, including a state-of-the-art facility and an endowment. He has also led international initiatives, such as a theater management course in Sudan.

In addition to the noontime experience, Calvary offers Dialogue: The Lenten Preaching Series Podcast, recorded live at Calvary Episcopal Church, Memphis, each Wednesday. You are invited to these live podcast recordings with our guests each Wednesday evening.

Message Rella B Here!Welcome to Reading with Rella B! This episode features a sample reading of the early reader chapter book: The Amazing World of STEM by Nathaniel A Turner and Naeem K Turner-Bandele.Welcome to the world of Stuart "STEM" Morgan, a curious and inventive boy who adores his family, friends, and learning new things! When STEM's dad gets hurt during a fun soccer game, STEM is determined to help him keep his job as a mail carrier. With creativity and a little engineering magic, STEM comes up with a brilliant plan that surprises everyone!This heartwarming tale explores themes of love, imagination, and the importance of following our dreams. Tune in to see how STEM not only makes his parents proud but also reminds us all of the incredible power of a child's spirit!If you like this book, it can be purchased on Amazon.FREE ACTIVITYSupport the show***I have a new book that will be coming out! Check it out on BackerKit to get exclusive merch and a copy before it is released to market!*** We will begin getting our brains and bodies ready with some stretching and a riddle with Rella, then we will hear the story and shout out our Co-Creators!There are many participation opportunities for the little ones, so please go to RellaBBooks.com or your favorite social channel, if you would like to learn more about those! I send out FREE weekly activities to my newsletter subscribers and followers. Social HandlesFacebook: @RellaBBooksInstagram: @RellaBBooksTwitter: @RellaBBooksPinterest: @RellaBBooksYouTube: @RellaBBooksTikTok: @RellaBBooksWebsite: RellaBBooks.comThanks for listening, toodles!

Next up this Wednesday AM is Bandele McQueen, Vice President of The Warrenton Group.  Now that Richmond is (surely) out of the casino sweepstakes, John talks to Bandele about the initiative to bring -- and case for -- a casino to the Petersburg area.

There are some extraordinary opportunities for companies with the vision and commitment to get behind the energy transition, and today's guest works with one of them.We're sitting down with David Bandele, who has served as the CFO of Hexagon Composites since 2014. The company is headquartered in Norway and trades under the symbol H E X . O L. Their business is focused on carbon-negative, zero-emission energy solutions supported by world-class manufacturing and digitization.Before joining Hexagon, David held several senior positions in the field of finance and controlling with the Acre Group of Companies, GE Healthcare, and Amersham PLC. He holds a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sheffield and is an ICAEW Chartered Accountant. Highlights:Introduction to Hexagon Composites and their background (3:24)Hexagon's target audience and reach (4:24)David describes his road to Hexagon (4:51)David breaks down the similarities and differences between natural gas, and renewable gas (6:03)Hexagon's growth and quick expansion (8:02)Hexagon's total addressable market and sustainability benefits (11:43) David walks us through Hexagon Agility's mobile pipeline (15:34)Mobile pipeline demand (17:17)David takes us through the roll out of Hexagon Digital Wave and developments in other Hexagon verticals (18:11)Hexagon's recent partnership with Compass Natural Gas (19:45)The projects of Hexagon Purus (20:45)Hexagon Ragasco and their current market outlook (22:26)David gives his outlook on the current environmental and sustainability efforts in business across North America (24:20)How Hexagon is continuing to innovate and win over shareholders for the long term (25:59)David gives us his predictions and goals for Hexagon's near future (28:42)Links:David Bandele on LinkedInHexagon Composites on LinkedInHexagon Composites WebsiteICR LinkedInICR TwitterICR WebsiteFeedback:If you have questions about the show, or have a topic in mind you'd like discussed in future episodes, email our producer, marion@lowerstreet.co.

Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at MomsRising, Monifa Bandele, joins The Lurie Daniel Favors Show this week to discuss the latest and greatest that is happening in terms of reproductive justice. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week on CounterSpin: Elite media can give the impression that problems wax and wane along with their attention to them. So it is with police brutality. The news media has moved on, yet 2023 saw killings by law enforcement up from the previous year, which was up from the year before that. More than 1,200 people were killed, roughly three people every day, including not just those shot dead but also those fatally shocked by a stun gun, beaten, or restrained to death. Thirty-six percent of those killed were fleeing, and they were disproportionately Black. Unheard in the news is the hard work of communities to reimagine public safety without punitive policing. We hear about it from Monifa Bandele from the Movement for Black Lives. Also on the show: Little research is more important or less acknowledged than Princeton's (now UCLA's) Martin Gilens and Northwestern's Benjamin Page 2014 work on the translation of public opinion into public policy. Looking at more than 1,700 policies over 20 years, they concluded that where economic elite views diverged from those of the public — as they would — the public had “zero estimated impact upon policy change, while economic elites are still estimated to have a very large, positive, independent impact.” Awareness of that fundamental disconnect is always relevant — but maybe especially when it comes to election season, where corporate coverage suggests we have an array of choices. How do we acknowledge flaws in the system while still encouraging people to participate and to fight the roadblocks to voting that we're seeing right now? We get at that with Svante Myrick, president of People For the American Way and former mayor of Ithaca, New York.   The post Monifa Bandele on Reimagining Public Safety / Svante Myrick on Roadblocks to Voting appeared first on KPFA.

Communities are hard at work reimagining public safety without punitive policing. There's new work on those possibilities. The post Monifa Bandele on Reimagining Public Safety, Svante Myrick on Roadblocks to Voting appeared first on FAIR.

Senior VP and Chief Strategy Officer at Mom's Rising, sits with Lurie to discuss bans on books, how libraries are being challenged for carrying these books and more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It is Black Women's Equal Pay Day and Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at MomsRising, Monifa Bandele co-leads a national on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people working to achieve economic security and justice for moms, women, and families. There, she directs the organization's work on reproductive justice, maternal and children's health, and criminal justice reform--including ending the school-to-prison pipeline, successfully winning better practices and policies at the federal, state, and local levels. Monifa sits on the policy table leadership team for the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL). https://www.momsrising.org/blog/users/monifa-bandele Social Media: @momsrising

Welcome to a special bonus episode of the Written in Melanin Podcast.Today, I am here with Antoine Bandele. He is an author who lives in Los Angeles, CA with his girlfriend and cat. He is also a YouTuber, producing work for his channel “Antoine Bandele”, an audiobook engineer, and a publisher. Whenever he has the time, he's writing books inspired by African folklore, mythology, and history.And today, he's joining me on the podcast to discuss Black fantasy, sequels, and what it's like supporting other authors.-Antoine's website: https://www.antoinebandele.com/Support the show-Purchase We Are the Origin: https://amzn.to/3YEODQIPreorder We Are Dying Gods: https://shop.writteninmelanin.com/b/wadgphSupport the podcast: https://Patreon.com/CMLockhartMelanin Library: https://MelaninLibrary.comMentoring Services: https://www.writteninmelanin.com/mentoring Editing & Formatting: https://www.writteninmelanin.com/services Music by Akia DaGreatRequest We Are the Origin and We Are Dying Gods at your local bookstore or library!

The hosts of ARTdustry speak with the author, business consultant, educator, and legacy advocate Jelani Bandele. Jelani was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. A master of combining street smarts with book smarts, Jelani obtained degrees in advertising and communications, clinical nutrition, exercise physiology, and cardiovascular perfusion. Jelani has shifted career paths along the way, but her purpose has always been to be of service to others and to build a legacy. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

It's the final episode of Braving the Elements' first season, and Janet and Dante are celebrating with friends new and old! The game's afoot as Janet and Dante are joined by two amazing superfans and two delightful voice actors for a series of games that will show off just how much these four really know about Book One: Water! Antoine Bandele and Kendell Byrd bring their passion and encyclopedic knowledge of the Avatarverse! Jack De Sena (“Sokka”) and Jennie Kwan (“Suki”) pair up with our experts for this two-team showdown! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

The Ark of E Network is Proud to Present The Triumphant Return of Bending Not Breaking. Sunshine & Ben are back and all geared up for SEASON 5! Join Them Every Tuesday for their journey through Season 2 of The Legend of Korra, Each Week, Sunshine & Ben will also look at the given episode through a unique lens. For Episode 13: Darkness Falls, they chose to discuss ACCOUNTABILITY, the lens chosen by their incredible Special Guest and noted Avatar Expert, Antoine Bandele. We hope You enjoy the episode, whether You're a Die-Hard Fan or a Total Newcomer; The Legend of Korra is a unique and wonderful series with so much depth to explore, We hope You'll join us for the journey ahead... AND A HUGE THANK YOU to Everyone Who Listened to Seasons 1-4 and has supported us here on our very own feed! Intro / Outro Music : ("Fantasy Battle Music" from Creative Commons) Bumper Music : ("swing3" by nARK) Produced By : Noah Blanchard Follow Sunshine & Ben On Instagram : @mayfieldja & @nebfabulous , Twitter : @Mr_Sun_Shine & @nebfabulous Send Feedback : thearkofe@gmail.com

In this episode of Doing Diversity in Writing, we—Bethany and Mariëlle—interview Antoine Bandele.   Antoine Bandele is an Amazon bestselling author in action adventure fantasy, dark fantasy, sword & sorcery, African American fantasy, and African literature. He was born and raised in Los Angeles, though he spent one year in Fort Lewis near Tacoma, Washington while his father served in the U.S. Army. He lives in Los Angeles with his girlfriend and cat. You can find him producing videos all over YouTube, including his own channel (which you should totally check out). He is also an audiobook engineer. He is the author of the Young Adult fantasy series TJ Young and the Orishas, the Adult fantasy series The Sky Pirate Chronicles, the Lost Tales of Esowon, The Kishi and more.    What we talked about   How Antoine identifies as a person and a writer Why Antoine writes the characters he writes What challenges have come up for him while writing diverse characters Which authors he appreciates for their diverse books The joy and importance of (public) libraries and why they're the best place to go first when in research mode   (Re)sources mentioned on the show   Claudia Gray: http://www.claudiagray.com Brittney Morris: https://www.authorbrittneymorris.com Chuck Wendig: http://terribleminds.com/ramble To learn more about Antoine and his services: https://www.antoinebandele.com/about To learn more about Antoine's books: https://www.antoinebandele.com/complete-collection Bethany's Editing Your Novel's Structure: Tips, Tricks, and Checklists to Get You From Start to Finish: https://theartandscienceofwords.com/new-book-for-authors/   This week's episode page can be found here: https://representationmatters.art/2022/01/27/s2e3/   Subscribe to our newsletter here and get out Doing Diversity in Writing Toolkit, including our Calm the F*ck Down Checklist and Cultural Appropriation Checklist: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/r3p6g8    As always, we'd love for you to join the conversation by filling out our questionnaires.    Our Doing Diversity in Writing – Writer Questionnaire can be filled in at https://forms.gle/UUEbeEvxsdwk1kuy5   Our Doing Diversity in Writing – Reader Questionnaire can be filled in at https://forms.gle/gTAg4qrvaCPtqVJ36    Don't forget, you can find us at https://representationmatters.art/ and on https://www.facebook.com/doingdiversityinwriting 

Overview Antoine returns and has exciting updates. He has continued to create stories for his series, and has started something new. The most exciting is that he is in talks with a producer to turn one of his books into a movie! We discuss how this happened and what's going on with the whole process. Previous Episode - https://www.discoveredwordsmiths.com/2020/07/17/episode-10-antoine-bandele-by-sea-and-sky/ YouTube https://youtu.be/fXJFUbjSQRk Transcript [00:01:31] Stephen: Hey, that was ever Desi. One of my friends that does a podcast. If you are interested in going from a writer to becoming an earth, sorry, if you're interested in going from being just a reader to becoming a writer, Emma is the one, check her out. I have a list of hers and other podcasts on my website under recommendation. All right. As we get ready to do the final episode of this year, 2021 and [00:02:00] moving into 2022, I have a second interview with Antwan Mandalay. He was one of the first ones. I think one of the first 10 or 15 people I interviewed very exciting. His fantasies are about something other than the typical European mythology. And he also has some exciting news about possible movie based on one of his books. So as excited to talk to Antwan, um, I would like to ask again, if you are listening to these podcasts and you're enjoying them, please check out the books, the authors books, that's why they're doing this. They want to provide entertainment and they enjoy doing it, but without support, they stopped doing it. And that's not what we. Also, it would really help a lot. If you would pass on to somebody else, Hey, you might enjoy this and have listened to the podcast or go do a review, do a thumbs up. It would really help the podcast a whole lot. Uh, so here is [00:03:00] Antwan Antwan. Welcome back to discovered wordsmiths. It's good to talk to you again. How are you doing. [00:03:07] Antoine: I am doing well, particularly because last night, my softball team and I won the championship at our little rec league. [00:03:13] Stephen: Nice. Congrats. Very good. So that answers the next question. What are some of the things you're doing lately? Winning, winning softball. [00:03:21] Antoine: That's like my only outside activity right now. Everything else is publishing or YouTube. [00:03:26] Stephen: Okay. So let's dive into that. I want to hear some of the things you're doing because I think some other authors would be very in. So when we talked about remind us what type of books you [00:03:37] Antoine: write? I write fantasy books in particular. Although right now I'm thinking about doing lit RPG. I'm actually having a conversation with a few RPG authors one tonight, and then hopefully another one within the week. But all of my fantasies are based on African or African diaspora, myth and folklore. [00:03:54] Stephen: Okay. So we talked last time, uh, is not the typical [00:04:00] epic token. Fantasies something different. One [00:04:03] Antoine: series is expansive like that. Cause I have two main series, one being TJ young in DOD shows, which is modern day that one's more akin to Lucy Jackson and area. And then I have son story, which is more of the expensive, big world stuff. So that one's more like a song of ice and fire or Lord of the rings. [00:04:22] Stephen: Okay. You're staying within the genre, but go into different interests within that genre. All right. And I remember you were the first author I spoke with on the podcast that had a store and was selling other merchandise. How is that going? And what have you been doing with. [00:04:38] Antoine: That only ever sees play. Usually during my launches, like when my newsletter is looking at it, but other than that, it doesn't really do much of anything. And maybe occasionally I'll see like a few sales on there, but not like a super lot. Got it. [00:04:51] Stephen: Okay. So it's a,

Hello Reading Friends, Welcome to Season Three of A Reader's Book Corner! In today's Episode 21 we are discussing The Gatekeeper's Staff, Book One in the TJ Young and The Orishas series by Antoine Bandele. We discuss a brief overview of the book, author bio and other titles, some of the characters along with pacing, setting, worldbuilding and genre. We also discuss final thoughts about the book. Purchase the book at Amazon/ B&N Connect with Antoine Bandele at www.antoinebandele.com Connect with A Reader's Book Corner at IG/Twitter/Facebook @areadersbc www.arbookcorner.wordpress.com/podcast Until next time, Happy Reading!

Join me today as I speak with Antoine Bandele, an Amazon Bestselling author who's brand new series, TJ YOUNG & THE ORISHAS has taken the YA Mythology Fantasy genre by storm. TJ YOUNG & THE ORISHAS is a series of young adult novels following the adventures of teenager TJ Young. Described as Percy Jackson and Harry Potter meets West African Mythology, it is a tale of close friendships, holy secrets, and true courage. Find everything Antoine Bandele here To support the show, be sure to find us on Instagram and Twitter @bestdamcamppod. If you'd like to get your thoughts across, you can email us at thebestdamcamp@hotmail.com. Percy Jackson Merchandise. For more Percy Jackson content check out Fran's YouTube channel A Healthy Dose of Fran and support her via Patreon. Nickel Anarchy: Instagram and Redbubble Taylor Paisley-French: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Spotify _________________________ Everyone needs a little help now and then, and that's OK. If you or someone you know, need support or maybe you just need someone to understand, there is always someone to call. CheckPoint provides Mental Health Hotline numbers Worldwide. Remember, it's OK to not be OK. https://checkpointorg.com/global/ _________________________ Black Lives Matter links and resources: Ways to Help PLEASE SIGN PETITIONS, DONATE, CALL AND EMAIL TO DEMAND JUSTICE, AND SHARE Twitter Thread on how to support if you have no money Support for the Black Trans Community Twitter Thread for Black Creative Talent to support Advice on how to support from the UK Who to donate too 8 Lessons I Learned About Racism That Were Helpful to me a White Person Support Protestors Racism and the UK Checkpoint World Wide Mental Health Hotlines Stand With and Support the Asian community: Asian Lives Matter Resources Stand Against Hatred Stop AAPI Hate America's History of Scape-Goating its Asian citizens Support for the Trans community: How Black Trans People All About Trans Website Stonewall Website Support UK Mermaids Charity

Episode Notes My guests include Amaranthus Hyden from the Cooper and Young Community Farmers Market. They will speak to how a new program will offer a two for the price of one deal to those of you who enjoy living healthier lives. Next, we have all seen construction workers on our streets and highways. June is National Safety Month and Jeremy Ramberg will join us to discuss how drivers should slow down and be more aware of those around us working while trying to stay safe. Lastly, we focus on a landmark theater group that is coming back to life. Hattiloo CEO Ekundayo Bandele joins me as we raise the curtain on another RTM, Monday, 6-7 pm on WYXR 91.7 FM, Tunein and WYXR.org. Now go out and tell somebody!

Episode NotesMy guests include Amaranthus Hyden from the Cooper and Young Community Farmers Market. They will speak to how a new program will offer a two for the price of one deal to those of you who enjoy living healthier lives. Next, we have all seen construction workers on our streets and highways. June is National Safety Month and Jeremy Ramberg will join us to discuss how drivers should slow down and be more aware of those around us working while trying to stay safe. Lastly, we focus on a landmark theater group that is coming back to life. Hattiloo CEO Ekundayo Bandele joins me as we raise the curtain on another RTM, Monday, 6-7 pm on WYXR 91.7 FM, Tunein and WYXR.org. Now go out and tell somebody!

Sista Brunch has partnered up with the TIME’S UP Foundation for a special, 5-part series focusing on safety, equity, and power in Hollywood. We'll talk to Black women+ in the industry about the impact of these imbalances and what's being done to address them. In part 1 of the series, we speak to TIME'S UP Foundation COO Monifa Bandele about the worldwide impact of Black women's art, our voices, and holding Hollywood powerbrokers accountable for change. She also tells hosts Fanshen Cox and Anya Adams about the importance of disrupting unequal power systems to create "a new normal."

In this episode, Patrisse Cullors discusses her new book "When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir", a poetic memoir and reflection on humanity. Necessary and timely, her story asks us to remember that protest in the interest of the most vulnerable comes from love. Leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement have been called terrorists, a threat to America. But in truth, they are loving women whose life experiences have led them to seek justice for those victimized by the powerful. In this meaningful, empowering account of survival, strength, and resilience, Patrisse Cullors and Asha Bandele seek to change the culture that declares innocent black life expendable. See the video at: https://g.co/talksatgoogle/cullors 

On this episode of The Journey Memphis, we hear from Ekundayo Bandele, CEO & Founder of Hattiloo Theatre, as he takes us through his story and path to creativity and the journey to being a theater director. Make sure to catch all the latest episodes of The Journey Memphis at Kudzukian.com or by downloading the Kudzukian App.

Hi everyone, and thank you for tuning in to another episode of the We Make Books Podcast - A podcast about writing, publishing, and everything in between! This week, we are joined by Antoine Bandele, author, publisher, and a lot-of-other-stuff-er. He's a busy guy who knew what he wanted out of the fantasy maps for his series world of Esowon, and found help on Fiverr to see it realized. You'll want to start out, if possible, with his page of maps open in a browser: https://www.antoinebandele.com/esowon-maps We Make Books is hosted by Rekka Jay and Kaelyn Considine; Rekka is a published author and Kaelyn is an editor and together they are going to take you through what goes into getting a book out of your head, on to paper, in to the hands of a publisher, and finally on to book store shelves. We Make Books is a podcast for writers and publishers, by writers and publishers and we want to hear from our listeners! Hit us up on our social media, linked below, and send us your questions, comments, concerns, and tell us your favorite novel covers! We hope you enjoy We Make Books! Twitter: @WMBCast  |  @KindofKaelyn  |  @BittyBittyZap Instagram: @WMBCast  Patreon.com/WMBCast   Episode 43: The Maps of Esowon, Cartography with Antoine Bandele transcribed by Sara Rose (@saraeleanorrose)   [0:00] K: Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of We Make Books, a show about writing, publishing, and everything in between. My name’s Kaelyn Considine and I am the acquisition editor for Parvus Press.   R: And I’m Rekka, I write science fiction and fantasy as R.J. Theodore and today we have a very, very awesome guest. This is Antoine Bandele. He happened to write a book that I happened to read recently and when Kaelyn suggested that we do a whole series on artwork, I said,” Ooh! We should talk about cartography, and I have the book and the author for this episode.”   K: Yeah, we said Artwork August, it became more “Artwork Series.” But cartography is a really important and, I think frequently underappreciated, certainly, part of a book. You know, as Antoine mentions in the episode, fantasy books especially, it’s almost expected that you have some kind of a map or something in there.    R: It might be overlooked as far as the work that goes into it, but if it’s not there, it will not be overlooked.   K: Yeah.   R: Your fans will be talking to you about, “Excuse me?! You invented a world?!”   K: Visual representation of this world.   R: Yeah. So this was a series of maps at the beginning of the book that I read, which was By Sea and Sky, an Esowon story, and there were a series of maps at the beginning, including a diagram of one of the vessels in, as the title kind of gives it away by sea and sky, so there’s an airship and there’s a great, even just a layout of the airship. Almost plan-like, ship...plans.   K: A schematic.   R: Schematic! That works. I took interior design for a year, I don’t know what to call the drawings. Hey! Drawings! That’s what we called them.   K: Pictures. Pictures of boats.   R: Yes. So, almost like a draftperson’s drawing of an airship concept. So those are all in the beginning of the book and, when I opened them, I was just like—I don’t know if they loaded. Because you know an eBook will load to a certain page when you open it and, like, you have to go back to see the preceding pages.   I always go back to the cover because I always wanna see how the cover looks on an eReader because this is just a minor point of mine. And I happened to see the artwork, the cartography. Whether it was loaded after the automatic page one , or before. I was like, “Oh! These are nice! These are really nice,” because Kaelyn and I have talked about maps before for books. Colin and I have talked about maps before for books. I did my map for my books and that was a whole heck of a project and I wish I had somebody else to do the work for me because it’s not easy.   K: I think we think, like, “Oh, whatever. You just sit down and you draw some borders, some boundaries, some oceans. Throw some mountains in there, I guess, and you’re done. It’s not that. It’s not easy at all. It’s certainly not that easy. There’s a lot of considerations that go into building a world and then putting it on a piece of paper. You can be an excellent artist, are you that good a cartographer, though?   R: Cartographer’s a big word and it’s a big responsibility.   K: So, anyway, we had an absolutely fantastic time talking to Antoine. Hopefully we’ll have him back at another date because oh my god does that guy do a lot of stuff.   R: Yep, yep.   K: So, anyway, take a listen and we hope you enjoy.   [intro music plays]   R: I just wanted to double check the pronunciation. A: Bandele. Kind of like ándale, with a B.   R: Okay.   A: It’s actually a mistranslation. [laughs] It really should be Bamidele, but I guess somewhere, the naming coming over to America, it got—   R: A syllable fell off?   A: Yeah. So now it’s Bandele.    K: So, Antoine, do you wanna take a moment and introduce yourself to our listeners?   A: Yeah, so my name’s Antoine. I do many-a-things but the thing that’s most relevant to today is that I am a publisher and writer and I do fantasy works, particularly fantasy works that are inspired by pre-colonial African myth and folklore, anything of that nature.   K: And we brought you on today, specifically to talk about a certain special kind of artwork that pops up in especially fantasy books sometimes.   A: Yeah,especially fantasy.   K: Yeah! Maps and cartography. Rekka and I wanted to do a series on artwork in books. We’ve been threatening to do an episode about cover art for a long time. And as we were working through this, we were kind of like, “You know, there’s so much art that goes into a book that you don’t think about or that we take for granted and I think one of those, definitely, are the maps that you find in the books. Because they add so much to the stories and they give the reader a great sense of the world that they’re about to explore and just helps set the stage.   I think that they’re—well, everything’s relative in terms of difficulty, but designing a map is very different than designing cover art.    R: Yeah.   A: I would suspect. I don’t even know. I just hire people to do it, so I dunno.   R: Well that’s one of the smart things, right? Is making sure that you stick to the areas that your expertise is heavier in, and don’t try to be Master of Everything. So when we were talking about this Artwork August, I had just finished reading your book By Sea and Sky. So, I just served up these maps into my face and enjoyed them and then we started talking about doing artwork.   I instantly said, “Oh! You know what great maps I’ve seen? And they’re not like in an old, 60-year-old Lord of the Rings edition. Let’s talk about some current stuff.”   A: Mhm.   R: These are really great maps and I didn’t even know at the time, and it blew me away, but you found these on Fiverr?   A: Yes, so a woman named Maria Gondolfo, who actually is from Italy, which is awesome about working remote or online, is that you can work with people all across the world. Like, my first book, I think my editor was from Texas and then one of my beta readers was from the East Coast. I think York was one of them. And my cover artist is from Bangkok and then I have my cartographer, she’s from Italy. So it’s a lot of people all over the world who get to work with me.   She is renflowergrapx on Fiverr. And I got really lucky because I think she was maybe the first person I found on Fiverr.   K: Oh, wow. Okay.   A: Just by searching up “fantasy maps.” I think my brother had directed me there because he usually goes there for Dungeons and Dragons maps, and that’s what she usually does. She does Dungeons and Dragons campaign maps for people.   K: Very cool. Yeah.   A: And I was like, “Oh! Do you also do it for books? Or have you done it?” She’s like, “Yeah, I’ve done a few books before. Just give me what—” Oh! I should show you guys this! I actually have drawings. So, I usually would do a sketch-up of the map itself and then she goes and does her amazing work. I should find that.   K: Getting a map together—as you’re grabbing these sketching that you did—it’s no small thing. It’s a commitment. It’s a very difficult—I think a lot of people underestimate how difficult it is, even as the writer, to sit down and plan out the map in your head. What made you decide, “Yes, this is the book that I wanna take this on.”       A: So the reason I need maps is that, yes, it’s a fantasy fable. It’s actually expected from the fantasy reader to have a map and it helps, as you were saying before, contextualize the world. Especially when people start talking about locations in the world. It’s like, “What? What are you referring to? I don’t know this world.” But you can refer to the map and be like, “Oh! He’s talking about that little corner in the north!”    So the way I do my maps, is I really just take from real world landscapes and basically just do copy-pasting. So I’ll take a sheet of clean paper and then I’ll have a section, like, I think some of the islands are based on some SOutheast Asian islands. Not the big ones you would recognize, but the little ones that are off to the size. And then I just blow them up to be bigger. I’m like, alright cool, and then I do that. And the benefit of that is that you’re getting a natural land formation versus it just being completely out of your mind, in which case sometimes that can come out with mistakes and that sort of a thing. So I just do that, mostly as a way to help the reader figure out what this world is and what it’s about.   K: And so you’re starting—rather than starting from scratch, you’re drawing inspiration from existing geography—   A: Correct.   K: But this is a fantasy world, things are gonna exist there that don’t quite exist in South Asian islands.    A: Right, exactly. Well, ‘cause I don’t have a full world map right now because I’m building out the world section by section and then connecting it later.   K: I was gonna ask, did you sit down and figure this out all at once or are you kind of adding a new land as you need to?   A: Yeah, I add new land until the world map is filled out. So, for looking at the Esowon Esterlands map. If you turn it clockwise, you might notice that landscape, possibly. It’s a little scrunched up, but if you look at it, it is basically Panama.   R: Okay. Yeah.   K: Yep, yep.   A: The space between South America and Central America.   K: Alright, yes, I can see it.   A: But flipped the other way so it looks a little more reminiscent of Northeast Africa and Arabia.   R: Yeah.   A: And then, also, the middle islands are based on the Carribean, so it’s inserting the West Indies in the Red Sea, basically. But, again, making a fantasy of it because that stuff doesn’t necessarily exist. Even that, you know, the indication of Octa, that’s supposed to be Egypt and the Delta Nile, that’s supposed to look like the Nile, but it’s obviously not.    Victoria Falls is kind of in that bottom section. So it’s very much inspired, and this one in particular I did that because I, specifically was going the Song of Ice and Fire route—And that’s actually what George R. R. Martin did. Westeros is basically just the UK turned upside down.   K: Yep, and stacked on top of each other a little bit.   A: Exactly, and there are some differences to meet the standards of Westeros, but that’s essentially the basis for what I did for this, you know, making it somewhat familiar but then still being its own thing in a fantasy realm.   K: Yeah, and for reference, if you’re wondering what we’re talking about, we’re on Antoine’s website where he has all of the maps from the books displayed on there. And a link to find the cartographer who did them. They’re very impressive.   R: And that link to this page will be in the show notes. We should’ve said that at the top so that people could bring him up while they listen, if they’re not driving. Because who commutes anymore?   [A and K laugh]   A: Right.   R: Yeah. So you went to Fiverr. Was that your first stop looking for a cartographer?   A: Yeah, that was definitely my first. I think I was first flirting with the idea of doing it myself and then I was like, “Nah, I’m not gonna do it myself.” Because I realized very quickly, as you were saying, it’s actually more complex than you would actually expect.   R: Oh yeah.   A: And there’s actually a lot of rules to cartography that people don’t think of. Like, the way the rivers flow, they have to come off mountains. Stuff like that. The way port cities usually are. There’s a lot of little nuances that people don’t really recognize. I definitely just went to Fiverr and I just got really lucky. I honestly, my first search—I might’ve looked at a few people, but then Renflower was a standout for me, for sure. She had an option for standard black and white and she had a full color and and I saw her examples and I was like, “I don’t think I have to look anymore! Lemme just, like, reach out to her and see if she’ll do it.”   K: This is it!   [11:44]    R: Nailed it. A: And then what’s really awesome, and she surprised me on this because By Sea and Sky, it features airships. And I was looking and I was like, “Aww, I’m probably gonna have to find a new person, because she only does maps,” right? But that’s my thinking. I was like, “Well, hey, I need like an airship. I don’t know if you’ve ever done that before…” and she’s like, “Yeah! I love doing them!” She says it gets kind of old to just do her maps, you know, week in and week out. And she was really excited. She, actually I think uses it as an example or whatever now.    K: Oh, awesome.   A: I needed that in particular because I was writing the third act of By Sea and Sky which takes place, there’s like a battle sequence at the end. I was like, “Oh, man. I need to know, solidly, what the landscape of the—” Basically I had to know which level everybody’s on, how are they getting trapped—   R: What room’s above them and under them, yeah.   A: Yeah! Exactly! So I got her to do that and, again, I got references, something like that. I was like, “Is this kinda like the—” I describe it as looking like a ship, but it flies and has like the sails on the sides so it can fly and that kinda stuff. And the different rooms and where the captain’s quarters is and the mess hall and all that kinda stuff. So that was a lot of fun for her and for me.   R: So this sort of comes from her experience doing D&D maps, I assume—   A: Right, exactly.   R: This was kind of laid out where, you actually could, if you printed it out big enough you could do a campaign through the ship, reenacting the battle from the third act.   A: You definitely could.   R: Yeah. Yeah, and it’s great. There’s a kind of isometric view of the ship, where you get the wow factor of what the ship looks like with the lateral sails and the more traditional sails, and then you get the deck structure. And then you get the breakdown, floor by floor, almost like architectural drawings.   A: Right. And that’s because she wanted to feel like it was in the world, so some of the names you see on the bottom right are actually characters in the world, the engineers who built out—    K: Ohh!   R: Oh, yes!   A: Very, very small in the bottom right corner—   K: Very cool!   R: I didn’t even try reading it because it was so small.   A: Janaan Malouf, Ismad al-Kindi, who some of them actually show up in the book, like Ismad al-Kindi is the engineer that we know in the story itself. Janaan is someone we meet in book two. But these are actual, in the year of The Viper, the year of 3582. So she made it feel like it was in-universe, except for the typeface with the navigation and whatever that looks very much like it’s us typing that in, versus it being written.   But, otherwise, it’s supposed to be like an in-universe kind of blueprint.    R: And there’s something to be said for legibility, too, if you want someone to read that.   A: Exactly. You gotta be able to read it, though.   R: I mean, we all assume it’s translated into English and maybe it’s also translated into a serif font—   A: Exactly!!   R: So. Yeah.   A: Right.   K: So, you got on Fiverr, you found Maria. What is this first conversation like, while you’re trying to explain and describe this.   A: Oh my god. Well, she—so most Fiverr professionals do this, where they’ll ask you to provide an explanation, for what you want, so there’ll be boxes of, “Do you have fantasy examples that you want your maps to look like?” Because she does several different kinds of styles. “Please tell me a little bit about your story, what is it about? What’s the landscape like? What’s some of the history behind the landscape.” So you explain all this, you fill out the boxes and then you have a conversation.    Well, first, she has to accept it. So when you send it off, you’d be like, “Okay, well, is it cool? Would you wanna work with me?” She says yes or no. Yes. Then you continue forward and then she takes, however long, I’m not sure how long her thing is on her website right now, but I think when I did it, it was like five to ten days, or something like that? I’m not sure. She’s like really popular now. I think she even has a Level 2 badge or something like that.   K: OH, great!   A: Or something to that. I can’t remember, but… So we do that and we talk together, and she’ll send me a rough and I’ll maybe have adjustments. We’ll go back and forth until we both are happy with our final product, and it just goes on like that.   K: Yeah, and actually, as a call back to the previous episode we did with Colin Coyle, who does most of the art direction for Parvus Press, you guys have to have a contract or an agreement in place. When you say you’re talking to Maria, you have to check all of these boxes, there’s gotta be something set up.  You don’t just, you know, hand someone something and say, “Hey, I want it to vaguely look like this,” and then you send them some money and you get back you—   A, laughing: Yeah, no.   R: And Fiverr’s got that kinda built in, don’t they?   K: Yeah.   A: Yes, they do. Fiverr, Upwork, any of those other freelancer websites, that’s kinda the benefit of it because you don’t have to do all the legal stuff because it’s already all done in the background for you. That’s the reason why it costs an extra fee to use those platforms because they’re basically managing all of that paperwork, kind of a thing.   R: Mhm.   K: But worth it, if that’s something you don’t want to worry about.   A: Right.   K: Because we—there’s a lot of really talented, awesome artists on Fiverr, obviously, but they’re—you don’t always know you’re running into and what their work ethic’s gonna be like. Sometimes more so than the work that they’re producing. So if you’re looking to have something like this done, and you’re considering, “Do I go out in the world and find someone, or do I go to somewhere like Fiverr?” There is that, at least to consider as the built-in protection that comes with Fiverr. They have all these policies in place already, so you don’t have to think or worry about that.   R: And there’s some motivation for the artists to maintain their reputation on the side, too.   K: Absolutely.   A: Right, exactly.   R: So these are color maps. What made you choose color? I mean, they’re very colorful, too. So, obviously, digital Kindles and eReaders and on your website, they look fantastic. But, traditionally in books, you’d have like a black and white interior print—   A: Just black and white, yeah.   R: Yeah, exactly. On the ink-readers you won’t see color. So was it a price difference and you just decided you wanted to see that color? Or, what was the decision as you’re art directing her? Even though she’s applying her know-how and all her experience creating these things, but at a certain point certain aesthetics are up to you. So, what were the decisions you made as you went through this?   A: So, that was just her having that option available. Because I was just expecting to go into it black and white, like it was. I mean, that’s just how it is. But then she had like a premium version that wasn’t that much more expensive and I saw her examples and I was like, “Oh, yeah! If color’s an option then let’s do color! Why not?”   R: Mhm.   A: But, of course, you can only see it if you’re looking at it on the Kindle app or if you’re looking at it on an eReader that has full color available to it. If you’re looking on a Paperwhite or anything like that, or on a printed page, you’re not gonna have that. But that’s all a thing, too, that she factors in is that she makes sure that the greyscale, once you put it in greyscale, does it still function? So when we do our passes between each other, she actually factors that in. Every time she sends me a color, it also shows up in black and white as well, to make sure that it functions in both formats.   R: Oh, excellent.   K: Very nice, yeah. More like lineart, kind of.   A: Yeah, ‘cause a lot of times amateur cartographers or amateur artists don’t consider that you can’t just flip a switch, necessarily—   R: Yup.   A: It’s a separate skillset to have black and white versus color.   R: That’s like all the Mad Max and Logan and other movies. They’re starting to release editions that are in black and white. And it’s not just that they desaturate the film, they actually go through and adjust it, just like they were producing a whole new movie, to really play with the tone and the volume and the color and stuff like that. It does take a lot of work to remove all that color and still have something that’s lovely to look at.     [19:26]   K: This is a far more complicated project that requires a different skillset than just: Well, I’m going to draw some mountains on a nebulous looking piece of land. Right? And, you mentioned before, there are rules. You can’t just have a river that just starts in the middle of a continent and also ends in the middle of a continent.   A: Right.   K: It’s gotta be, you know, flowing from somewhere. Presumably, even in your fantasy world, some laws of physics and geography do still apply.   A: Yep.   K: But Maria obviously has a lot of experience dealing with this and designing things. Was there anything that, you know, you said, “Okay, I want it to look like this,” and she went, “Oh no, that’s not how this works. It’s gotta look like this instead,”?   A, chuckles: Um, I don’t know if we ever had those conversations because I think we both came in, both knowing what had to go into it. I’m sure she—because she actually liked me as a client, I guess, because I communicate well or whatever. Because I guess who she usually deals with are people who don’t know that kind of thing? And for me to come in and already have all that set up—Like I said, I do my sketches before she does anything. I’m sure that’s a benefit to her. It’s just easier.   R: Yeah, I can tell you, as a graphic designer, most of the clients you get are, “Oh, I’ll know it’s right when I see it!” And then seventy iterations later, they still don’t like anything.   A, sympathetically: Yeah…   R: And you just want to walk away from the situation. But, yeah, if you know what you want to begin with and you have sketches, I mean that must be so much easier for her. And then she can apply what she knows, to take those sketches. So, your sketches were land shapes and continents, islands, and that sort of thing? Coastlines that you already had an idea of? Or was it mostly an orientation of: these cities are kind of grouped over here and they’re on a continent and this one’s on an island, and this one’s on a straight.   What level of understanding the actual geography of your world did you bring to begin with? Or was it mostly like, “I need a map. I only know that these two things are separated by water and are seventy miles apart.”   A: I was very specific on the land masses and how they looked. The main thing I didn’t really know was the in-between stuff like the mountain placement and forest placement and stuff like that. I knew I would say, like, I would have a drawing of this is greenish, this should be forest-y, this should be desert-y, but then she would go in with the details. So I was very, very—my notes were very specific about shapes and also what was forest, what was desert, and even the spacing.    Like, the spacing, in particular, was important for By Sea and Sky because the main island, Kidogom and Al Anim were a specific, plot-wise, not so much in book one, but in book three, there was a specific plot on the distance between the two, because there’s some travelling that goes on. So I was very, very specific about it. I think, at some point, she had it really close and I was like, “Oh no! They’re not that close together.” And that’s the reason, actually, we made the second version of it, the one that’s called Al Anim and Kidogo map, which shows a little bit better the distance between the two, versus the wider shot. So you can understand when that particular plot happens how much time and distance happens between those two.   R: I’m observing that you know things about book three that have to have bearing—   K: That’s exactly what I was gonna say! How do you deal with this with potential spoilers, because what you’re putting on a map are things that are significant to the story. Did you have any concerns with that, where you’re like, “I’ve gotta put this on here because it exists in the world, but I am then—”   A: Ohh, I see what you’re saying!   K: Yeah.   A: So, yes. Specifically, there are—The map that I have on the website now, those locations are only locations that are spoken in that particular book.    K: Gotcha.   A: So, in oncoming books, like in the second book I mention a newer location, the map gets updated with that little point of interest. So the particular thing with the whole distance between Kidogo and Al Anim, not really a spoiler so much. It just gives context for when that plot point comes up because it’s really just about how long it takes to get back to Kidogo because there’s a plotline of, “Hey, we gotta get back there! And how long is it gonna take for them to catch up to us?” kinda thing, that’s why that was very specific, those two locations in particular.   R: Yeah, and those two are mentioned throughout the book. It’s not like a—   A: Correct, correct. There are places on the map that should be mentioned, but aren’t specifically for that reason that you guys mentioned about it being spoilery. So each map is different.   K: So you just go the method where, “I’m leaving this stuff off and when I need you to know about it, I’ll let you know about it.”   A: Yes. And that’s exactly the same way I write, too. I don’t present every piece of worldbuilding. I was just talking to another author because I work with a lot of authors within the same space of this world that I’m building out, and they’re like, “Whoa! You know so much about this, this, and that!” And I’m like, “Yeah, there’s just no point of putting it in that story because it wasn’t relevant to the story.” But there’s all these pieces of worldbuilding.   I think George R. R. Martin said your worldbuilding should just be like a tip of an iceberg and then, you know, the reader should see the impressions of the iceberg underneath, but that’s not part of the story. So you don’t need to see the entire iceberg, you just need to see the little tip of it.   R: I think Kaelyn would appreciate that, as an editor.   K: It’s funny because Rekka and I talk about this all the time, that I’m a planner.    A: Me too.   K: I want to—and this comes from being an editor is that, especially if I’m working with somebody who’s working on a series, I need to know where this ends up. I need to know how it ends, but also geographically where it ends because I need to make sure that there isn’t something coming completely out of left field here. And what I was gonna ask is if you, along the George R. R. Martin lines, like to pepper little people and name places into your book for you to go back and reference and make relevant later—   A: Yep.   K: —I’ve used that trick with authors where it’s like, “Okay, listen, if you’re not sure how you’re getting yourself out of this hole yet, that’s fine. But you gotta lay some groundwork along the way. So if you wanna make it a throwaway line that could or could not mean anything, that’s fine. But you have to do something.” So that it’s not like: oh! It turns out there’s this entire lost continent that nobody knew about and it’s super-secret and special. That’s how you annoy people.   A: Mhm, yeah.   R: You wanna create a Chekov’s Island and you can put it in the map, but not in the book.   K: Yes, yes exactly.   R: So, it was that planning ahead which was more my question for you. You have a series that is in the works.   A: Right.   R: You already have how many of them written?   A: Yeah, there’s a few. Demons...1984… I think at least six right now, across the entire series.   K: Well, yeah, because you have some prequels and things like that.   A: Yeah! There’s prequels, there’s novellas, there’s a graphic novel as well. There’s a lot of—audiobooks as well. But yeah.   R: And they all share this map.   A: And they all share… portions of the map. Like, I said before. So the portion that we’re looking at now is the northeast version of it, the other one that I have which is for my first book, The Kishi, which is called the Southern Reaches of the Golah Empire, that’s like the southwest portion of it, and then this one here, Southern Eshiya, that’s like far east. So these are, like, pieces of it and I haven’t puzzled them all together yet because I am building out the world bit by bit.Oh! Perfect! You guys already know about Game of Thrones. So basically what I’m doing right now is I’m writing about Robert’s Rebellion before A Game of Thrones happens. So basically, I”m writing all that stuff leading up to the saga, the big epic books.      R: So, planning ahead this much, is it just because you’re going section by section that you have the confidence to say, “Okay, yes, this is where all the cities are, I don’t need to move them because I’m not gonna run myself into any trouble later.” You could get to book eight and say, “Oh shoot! It would really help if Kidogo was actually a little bit further north because then I could squeeze in another island that isn’t here right now!” Like, do you worry about that or are you just like, “Okay, I can commit to this and I can figure it out later.” Or are you really, really planned out to the point of, you have outlines for enough to pretty much flesh out the entire world. And you know what you need.   A: A bit of both. I actually know how the big saga books end. I know how those began. I know where the locations of all these stories will be. So I know what to keep not spoken about.   R: Mhm.   A: That’s why I have only a few points of interest. Like, I don’t go and like, “I’m gonna go and name every single piece of land here!” That would just put me into a corner if I do that. So that’s why my rule is, whatever I’m talking about in the story is what will be mentioned on the map, and nothing more. Because yeah, if I wanna add something in there, what? Never was mentioned before! It’s not canon, so it’s okay. I can insert that in there. But if you do, do that, if you do over explain it too much then, yeah. You can run yourself into a corner of being like, “Whoops! I kind of established that that place is like this and I can’t, you know, add that in there so.”   R: And I put the picture on my site, people are gonna point at it and say I was wrong!   A: Yeah, exactly.   K: And, conversely, though, this is getting more into the actual creating the maps. As you said, you only, if you’re not talking about it, do you keep a list as you’re going through the book of kind of like, “Okay, I need to like—”   A: Oh, yes! I have a story bible. I have a huge story bible.   K: Okay, so like, “We went here, we went here, we went here. These are the places we need to talk about. Or this is mentioned.”   A: Mhm, yeah. There’s timelines, locations, like terms and language phrases. Yeah, that’s very important, too, for creators out there. Writers, make sure you’re having a story bible. For, especially, epic fantasy.   K: Oh, yeah.   A: You really should have it for anything. Like, even The Office, which is just a sitcom, has  a story bible.    K: Yep.   A: Fantasy, it’s a must. It’s not even like an optional thing. You must have a story bible.    K: Yeah, otherwise you’re gonna run into some bizarre continuity errors. But, there are certainly some famous ones out there. But I have actually read a book, I can’t remember which one it was, where they had a map in there and there were two places just missing off of it. And they weren’t particularly relevant to the story or anything, but they were mentioned and there were characters from there and I’m a hundred percent sure they were meant to be on the map. And they just left them off it. But, yeah, you know if you’ve got a lot of cities and places and stuff, I’m sure it can happen.   [29:52]   A: And the benefit of me being indie published is that I can rectify that very easily. ‘Cause I’m like, “Oh, that’s not on there? Alright, photoshop, put it in there, reupload,” and then that e-file gets updated so that person is like, “Alright cool. Sweet. Never happened. What.”   K: What are you—what are you talking about? That was always like that. You’re imagining things. Stop hallucinating cities that weren’t there.   A: Right.   R: So, I’m noticing that as we run through these maps and you’re talking about them in different ways, and you’re mentioning that they’re different regions of the planet, I am noticing that they—or the worlds, planet is for sci-fi—that these maps are kind of in different styles. Is that intentional, that they would be a regional style for each story?   A: Yes! Yeah, so they’re slightly different depending on which region we’re in. And it’s supposed to kind of be like a—what Maria always wanted to do was make sure that, as much as she could, make it like it was an in-world map and not so much a map made by 21st Century people—   R: A digital file, yeah.   A: Yeah, exactly. So yeah, yeah that’s the reason for the differences. That’s why we have the airship layout looking like it’s like a blueprint and then you have Kidogo and stuff looking, as it does.   R: And creases! Creases in your maps and discolored areas and…   A: Yes, yes! Oh, and she—which is funny because when I first started, I use a program called Vellum which is a formatter, and it didn’t—at first, it didn’t support full-page leaved images, so when I had showed her the book the first time, she’s like, “Oh… I designed it to be full page…”    I was like, “I know, but it doesn’t support it! I had to make it a little tiny thing on one page. And then I showed her, “THEY DO IT NOW! THEY DO FULL PAGE IMAGES!!!!!” So the crease that she does there actually creases with the spine of the book, like it actually exists. Like “OOOH!”   And she’s so happy that it has that now, and I was like, “Yeah, I know you wanted that,” because they only put that in seven months ago or something like that.   R: Yeah, it was not that long ago. When I went in and I found it, I was equally happy.   A: I use it all the time. My title pages look so awesome now!   K: That is, that’s very cool.   R: And I noticed it also, like you said, lay a single image across two pages, if you have your print layout done through them, too. So yeah. Very good update. Vellum is constantly improving. I’m a huge fan.   A: Yeah, they’re awesome.   K: You work on these books with an editor. Do you include the editor in the designing process of these maps at all? Do you get any input or run anything by the editor, or do you just handle all of this yourself?   A: More or less. I mean, it depends on how important that location is to the story. I definitely have an editor—I have one of my editors, she’s more developmental, she’s more about the characters, and then I have one who’s more into the worldbuilding aspect of it? Fiona’s the one I’m mentioning who is like, more the character-based one and then Callan, Callan Brown, is the more worldbuildy.    So, with Callan, I moreso do that kind of stuff with, where I’m like, hey this location—or, when we get to Al-Anim, because Al-Anim’s the main thing of book two, we were talking about the design of that city, the idea of the spine that goes through the entire city where everybody congregates and stuff like that. Or the idea, like I came up with a tavern, I’m like, “Okay, this tavern, what’s the history of this tavern? Why is it central? Why is it so important for everybody? Like, why is it popular? Why does it do so well?” We have those kinds of conversations, for sure, with an editor.          K: Gotcha. ‘Cause we spend a lot of time talking about how, especially in self- and indie publishing, there’s this drive to just want to do everything yourself. I can take this, I can handle this, I don’t want people coming in and messing up my thing, but an outside voice, an outside set of eyes, is certainly, I think, helpful, even when it is something as microcosmic as building a map.   A: I think it’s a complete necessity, actually. I don’t think it should ever be a one-mind person. Like, it’s very similar to filmmaking, where it’s a really collaborative effort when you really look at what goes into a book. Like, there’s not too many people out there who are gonna be doing everything on their book. From audiobook production or your cover design or your cartographers or your editors. Like, it’s definitely a collaborative thing.    And I’m very huge about that. Like, I use the heck out of beta readers. I really, really—several iterations I’ll have a draft go, have the beta readers say something, send the other one out, have the beta readers say something. Alright, now my editor’s going through it, now my critique partner’s going through it. I’m very, very into the feedback and that feedback loop of making sure that everything makes sense and things track. I think that’s super important.    K: Yeah, I completely agree. So, along those lines, we always ask when we have guests on, advice,s suggestions, red flags, things you would pass along to somebody who’s thinking, “Hey, you know, I’m gonna include a map in my book.” What would you tell them? To either watch out for or to make sure you do.   A: I would send them to Brandon Sanderson’s, he has a bunch of YouTube videos. It’s his classes, literally his classes for free. One of those episodes that he has on YouTube is about him talking about maps. Literally, the whole session of that class was about maps. And he really, really goes into—Also him, and there’s also other people on YouTube who talk about it. D&D people, I would say look up D&D channels.   K: Okay.   A: They also have really good insights about map design. Because yeah, it’s not as simple as putting a mountain, and like you were saying, having a river in the middle of a continent, sort of situation. Even port cities. Port cities are done incorrectly because they aren’t typically right on the coast, they’re usually a little bit more inland, whether it’s a bay or on a river, deeper in. Whatever it might be. So, I would say, I usually suggest Brandon Sanderson’s works, his lectures that are free on YouTube.    You don’t have to take a college course about geography or geology or anything like that, but it does help to have some knowledge about what tectonic plates are, how they work, how they form continents, why continents look the way they do. Why those mountain ranges look different from a different kind of mountain range. A little bit, just a little bit, if you’re gonna be making maps, to know that.    K: Yeah, I would even take it a step further and say, you know, think about the terrain that you’re putting in here and how it fits into your story. Will this kill the characters, based on the length of time it’s supposed to take them to cross it?   A: Right.   K: I’ve seen a lot of traditionally published books where you look at the maps and you’re like, “That’s not how long it should have taken them to get from that place to the other, compared to these two cities which are much closer together and somehow took a longer amount of time.” But I’m sure that’s a factor you have to consider as well. If I say these two cities are this far apart and it took these two characters six days to get between them, and these two are twice as far apart, in theory it should take at least twelve.   R: And one’s in an airship and another one’s sailing on the water.   A: That is literally the reason why I was talking about the whole book three thing between the Kidogo and Al-Anim thing because it was very important ‘cause both of those things factor in. It was like, “Okay, how long will the sea ship take to get there? How long will the airship take to get there?” So I had to factor it and I’m like measuring it out. I’m like, “Okay, so, if I’m taking this or something like that, I’m gonna measure out each piece of it. Okay, this little prong is probably gonna be a quarter of a day, so if I do four of these, this distance takes a day— Yeah, I totally had to do all of that and adjust things based on plot reasons.   K: Plot reasons. Yes. No, we could do an entire episode on geography versus plot. And how they work for and against each other.   A: Uh-huh.   K: The airship, you know, what if it’s crossing mountains that frequently have storms over it. What if the sea ship is going through a channel that’s known to be very rocky, so you really have to slow down and navigate through there.   A: And sometimes you add that, specifically, because you’re like, “I need them to slow down! Lemme put a typhoon here!”   R, laughing: Excellent.   K: These people are gonna get there two days before they left the last…   A: Yup, yup, yup.   R: I did see that there’s a sea serpent on the map. Occasionally it might just pop up and grab the airship or something, right?   K: Here there be monsters.   R: You do so much else.   K: Like, a lot.   R: A lot, a lot. What do you want our listeners to know about you before we let you go and, definitely include where they can find you. Talk about your publishing your house, talk about your various business—   A: Ventures and endeavours. Yeah.   R: You just keep switching hats! And go, “Today, I am an audio producer. Tomorrow, I’m editing video.” I’ll let you do it.   A: You can find everything about me, if you just wanna see every single thing that I’m doing, on my website. That is antoinebandele.com [spells it], so I do a bunch of stuff. So I do, primarily right now, the main income generator for me is my YouTube channel. I am a YouTuber. Right now, I’m focused mostly on Avatar: The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra because those have come back to Netflix and my channel is like, “Hey! Lots of people are watching those videos! You should make more of those videos!” And I’m like, “Oh my god, yes I will!” And so I… that’s the main focus right now.   K: Fine, I’ll talk about Avatar: The Last Airbender more.   A: Oh, fine. Jeez, Louise! So I’ve been doing that, as of late. But I do other things, too. I’ve covered Harry Potter, Star Wars, Game of Thrones, as we’ve been talking about. Samurai Champloo, some anime, stuff like that.   R: Nice.   A: So I have my YouTube, and that’s my main thing. I also work freelance for other YouTube channels. I used to work for a company called JustKidding films, where they do a news channel, they have a party channel for board games. I also work for a blog channel, their name is Tip and Kace. Basically it’s just a family blog, just their day-to-day and stuff like that. So I have those services, and I also do services for indie authors who are trying to produce audiobooks.   So I have a bunch of—I live in L.A., I think as I mentioned already in the podcast, so I have a lot of friends who are actors, or up and coming actors, who would love to have work. I was doing audio just for myself, right? Just for my own books, because I’m already an editor I’m like, “I’ll just do it myself.” And then one of my friends, after we had collaborated on the prequel to By Sea and Sky, Stoneskin, and when we did that prequel and I did the audiobook, he’s like, “Dude, this is like really good. You should be doing this as a service.”   I was like, “I don’t know about that, that sounds like a lot of work.” He’s like, “It’s not! You obviously know how to do it.” And I was like, “Fine,” and I did it and I have a bunch of clients now who work with me on their audiobooks, whether it’s urban fantasy or sci-fi and all these other genres—romance, I’ve never done romance before. That was interesting to experience.   [40:13]   K: Oh! How was that?   A: It’s definitely a different genre. It’s definitely different from what I’m used to.   R: In audiobooks, no one can see you blush.   [K laughs]   A, laughing: Exactly, exactly! So I started doing that. So I have that going on as well. But then, you know, my main thing, the thing I’m wanting to be my main thing, is my own publishing. Of my books and other works. So, of course, I write these Esowon books, as we’ve been talking about. That’s the sky pirate stuff, the African fantasy inspired stuff, but I’ve also produced a children’s book for another friend of mine, who had a children’s book that he published, I think, in 2012, and he’s like, “Hey, I’ve seen that you have really good quality of your books. Could you re-do my old book?” And I was like, “Yeah, sure! Why not?” And then he actually profited within the first two months, before I even profited on my own works.    K: Oh, wow. Great.   A: I was like, “Oh my god! Children’s books is where it’s at, apparently!” So  I do that, as well. I’ve published… five authors, at this point? Besides myself. Underneath my imprint of Bandele Books. So, yeah, I think that’s everything that I do. My YouTube channel, my editing, publishing, audiobook production, writing. Think that’s everything.   K: Jeez, that is an incredibly… full and talented.   R: Full plate.   K: Full plate, and incredible brand of talents. That’s really, really awesome. Thank you so, so much for taking the time to talk with us about this. This is, you know, like we said, a really cool thing in books that I think are taken for granted by both, well, especially readers, but even sometimes by authors, with how much work and effort and time goes into this.   A: Mhm.   R: Excellent! Well make sure you go and follow Antoine, check out his work on his website. Check out the books, they’re really great! I happen to be biased toward airships. But everyone should be.   K: A little bit.   R: And I’m looking forward to reading the next one and seeing what you add to these maps! Now I’ve got this little piece of candy that I can follow. What’s new? What’s new on the map? I’m gonna be looking at them real closely. Thank you so much, Antoine, and maybe we’ll have to have you back someday to talk about audio production.   A: For sure, yeah! That’d be fun. R: Awesome, thank you so much.   [outro swish]   R: Thanks, everyone, for joining us for another episode of We Make Books. If you have any questions that you want answered in future episodes, or just have questions in general, remember you can find us on Twitter @wmbcast, same for Instagram, or wmbcast.com. If you find value in the content that we provide, we would really appreciate your support at Patreon.com/wmbcast.    If you can’t provide financial support, we totally understand, and what you could really do to help us is spread the word about this podcast. You can do that by sharing a particular episode with a friend who can find it useful, or if you leave a rating and review at iTunes, it will feed that algorithm and help other people find out podcast, too. Of course, you can always retweet our episodes on Twitter.    Thank you so much for listening, and we will talk to you soon!   [outro music plays]   The team Antoine gathered to work on his Esowon books:Cartography - RenFlowerGrapx (Maria Gondolfo): https://www.fiverr.com/renflowergrapxFiona McLaren - DevelopmentalCallan Brown - ContinuityJosiah Davis - Line/CopyeditSutthiwat Dekachamphu - Cover ArtSarayu Ruangvesh - Character ArtOther resources:Brandon Sanderson Creative Writing Lessons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6HOdHEeosc&list=PLSH_xM-KC3Zv-79sVZTTj-YA6IAqh8qeQ

Welcome back to episode 3! In this episode, Antoine Bandele (author of The Kishi) joins me, where we discuss the legendary shapeshifting demons from Angola, and what it means to be a fantasy writer. Twitter/Instagram: @bythefire_pod Facebook: By The Fire Podcast Email: bythefire.mail@gmail.com

Marjon Carlos and Monifa Bandele speak with Maytha Alhassen on The Conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recorded by makalani bandele for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 19, 2020. www.poets.org

Under the Aegis of a Winged Mind by Makalani Bandele by Poets & Writers

Alicia Garza is joined this week by the Founder and Chief Doer of the Three Point squad, Jessica Byrd, and by the Senior Vice President for MomsRising.org, Monifa Bandele. Garza, Byrd and Bandele discuss the BREATHE Act, a visionary bill that divests our taxpayer dollars from brutal and discriminatory policing and invests in a new vision of public safety. Plus, Garza’s weekly round-up of all that is awful and excellent, known as “Lady Don’t Take No”.Learn about the BREATHE Act at https://breatheact.org/Join The Movement For Black Lives at https://m4bl.org/Jessica Byrd on TwitterMonifa Bandele on TwitterLady Don't Take No on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook.Alicia Garza on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook. This pod is supported by the Black Futures LabProduction by Phil SurkisTheme music: "Lady Don't Tek No" by LatyrxAlicia Garza founded the Black Futures Lab to make Black communities powerful in politics. She is the co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network, an international organizing project to end state violence and oppression against Black people. Garza serves as the Strategy & Partnerships Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance. She is the co-founder of Supermajority, a new home for women’s activism. She shares her thoughts on the women transforming power in Marie Claire magazine every month. Her forthcoming book, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart (Penguin Random House) will be published in October 2020, and she warns you -- hashtags don’t start movements. People do. 

Antoine has had a varied career in his life. He caught the wave of Star Wars by having a relevant Youtube channel. He's used those skills with his author career. He uses his life experience and his family ancestry to bring unique stories to life. He bases some of his stories on African mythology and brings it to life in his stories. Check out his website - https://www.antoinebandele.com/ He has a great youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/SilentBat His latest book is a sky pirate series: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B084F2MV6N/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B084F2MV6N&linkCode=as2&tag=saschneider-20&linkId=2b90c4ed76653f84eebb11f537ccf31e Antoine's favorite local bookstore is Eso Won Books

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary andanalysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-hostGlen Ford. Coming up: The Black Alliance for Peace steps up its campaign to get theU.S. military out of Africa; a scholar takes a look at Kwaito music and young people’spolitics in South Africa; and, a new article celebrates the life and work of James Cone,the father of Black Liberation Theology.But first – the U.S. political establishment is still reeling from the nationwide wave ofdemonstrations that followed the police killing of George Floyd. We spoke with MonifaBandele, a veteran activist from Brooklyn, New York, who sits on the policy table of theMovement for Black Lives. Bandele says the ongoing protests are the result of years oforganizing. The United States military has a larger presence on the African continent than Britainand France at the height of their colonial empires. The Black Alliance for Peace isescalating its campaign against AFRICOM, the U.S. Military Command in Africa, whichis active in almost every nation on the continent. Alliance activist Tunde Osazua pointsout that AFRICOM’s first big mission was the regime change attack on Libya, in 2011. Dr. James Cone, the world-renowned theologian, died two years ago, but his workcontinues to influence Black political thinking. Matt Harris is a PhD candidate at the University of California, at Santa Barbara. Harris co-authored an article titled, "In theHope That They Can Make Their Own Future: James H. Cone and the Third World."Harris says Cone is considered the father of Black liberation theology. In South Africa, “kwaito” music is wildly popular with young people – just as is hip hopamong Black American youth. Xavier Livermon is a professor of African DiasporaStudies at the University of Texas at Austin. He’s spent years studying the kwaito musicphenomenon, and written a book, titled ““Kwaito Bodies: Remastering Space andSubjectivity in Post-Apartheid South Africa.” Professor Livermon says Kwaito music hashad a profound effect on South Afrian youth, whose 21 st century politics is quite differentthan the young people who rose up against white minority rule in Soweto in 1976.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: The Black Alliance for Peace steps up its campaign to get the U.S. military out of Africa; a scholar takes a look at Kwaito music and young people's politics in South Africa; and, a new article celebrates the life and work of James Cone, the father of Black Liberation Theology. But first – the U.S. political establishment is still reeling from the nationwide wave of demonstrations that followed the police killing of George Floyd. We spoke with Monifa Bandele, a veteran activist from Brooklyn, New York, who sits on the policy table of the Movement for Black Lives. Bandele says the ongoing protests are the result of years of organizing. The United States military has a larger presence on the African continent than Britain and France at the height of their colonial empires. The Black Alliance for Peace is escalating its campaign against AFRICOM, the U.S. Military Command in Africa, which is active in almost every nation on the continent. Alliance activist Tunde Osazua points out that AFRICOM's first big mission was the regime change attack on Libya, in 2011. Dr. James Cone, the world-renowned theologian, died two years ago, but his work continues to influence Black political thinking. Matt Harris is a PhD candidate at the University of California, at Santa Barbara. Harris co-authored an article titled, "In the Hope That They Can Make Their Own Future: James H. Cone and the Third World." Harris says Cone is considered the father of Black liberation theology. In South Africa, “kwaito” music is wildly popular with young people – just as is hip hop among Black American youth. Xavier Livermon is a professor of African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He's spent years studying the kwaito music phenomenon, and written a book, titled ““Kwaito Bodies: Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Post-Apartheid South Africa.” Professor Livermon says Kwaito music has had a profound effect on South Afrian youth, whose 21 st century politics is quite different than the young people who rose up against white minority rule in Soweto in 1976.

SPECIAL GUEST: Antoine Bandele HE IS AN AMAZON BESTSELLING AUTHOR IN DARK FANTASY, SWORD & SORCERY, AND AFRICAN LITERATURE. Books:  An Esowan Story ***The Kishi The Sky Pirate Chronicles **By Sea and Sky He lives in Los Angeles, CA where he produces work on YouTube for his own channel and others, such as JustKiddingFilms, Fanalysis, and more. http:/www.antoinebandele.com    

In episode two, Susie interviews US activist and writer asha bandele. asha noticed some big differences in the way that New Zealand treats its prison inmates compared to the US. She talks about how the war on drugs is just an extension of racist policies to entrench white supremacy and walks us through her background from being an adopted foster child to parenting her own child with a prisoner who was ultimately deported.

Ekundayo Bandele, founder and executive director of Hattiloo Theatre in Memphis, talks about how to build a black creative class and build a city brand.

"Black women have always been the architects of social movements in this country." In this episode Diana talks to Monifa Bandele, a mom, community leader, activist and Senior Vice President of Healthy Kids & Maternal Justice Programs at MomsRising.  They discuss Monifa's path to her activist work, the power of black moms and the maternal justice and school-to-prison pipeline work she heads over at MomsRising.  Make sure to follow Monifa on Twitter and MomsRising (@momsrising) on all social media.  Don't forget to share the podcast with your friends and leave a review so more people can find us!  You can follow Parenting and Politics on Instagram and Twitter.       

Today on Sojourner Truth: Five years ago, Eric Garner was killed in a chokehold by New York City police officers. He famously said twelve times, "I Can't Breathe." Nevertheless, the chokehold was not released and Eric was killed. Trump's Attorney General, William Barr, has now made the decision that the police officer involved in Garner's killing will not be charged. This, after years of disagreement and legal wrangling and non-stop campaigning for justice by Eric's family. The murder, which was caught on video tape, sparked protests in New York City and across the country. Many protesters have chanted "I can't breathe." For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, our guest is Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele, a member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement who serves as Director of Community Organizing for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Protesters are continuing to block access to the building of a controversial telescope in Hawaii on the mountain of Mauna Kea, where a dormant volcano is located. Protesters say the mountain the telescope will be built on is one of the most sacred sites of Indigenous people on the island. We speak with Dr. Kalama Niheu, a protester on the ground in Hawaii, and Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar, a Native Hawaiian who is a professor of Race, Ethnicity, and Indigenous Studies at Ithaca College, New York. On Tuesday, July 16, the Trump administration imposed new asylum rules that are in conflict with international law. Attorney Marjorie Cohn break this down for us.

This week’s episode 36 of Real Black News features married activist couple Monifa and Lumumba Bandele. Monifa is Senior VP of MomsRising.org, Lumumba is the Director of Community Organizing with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Education Fund, and together they break down their work, marriage, raising activist children, and the top 5 black news stories of the week. Journalist Ronda Racha Penrice joins “The Screen Grab” to discuss Lupita, Us, Danai Gurira, And Marvel’s first Asian Superhero movie. Jatali B. gives financial discipline and investment tips in the Black Wall Street Report.

Follow Monifa at @monifabandele and @momsrising

Video is another way authors can reach out to their audiences and build relationships with new readers. James chats with two authors who are doing just that via YouTube and live streaming service Twitch.

Interview with Ekundayo Bandele, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Hattiloo Theatre about his career, the origins & history of the theatre, and his vision for moving forward.

On today’s episode, Tim speaks with Monifa Bandele, Vice President and Chief Partnership & Equity Officer for Moms Rising: an organization committed to amplifying women's voices within the national public policy dialogue and media. Tim and Monifa discuss Mom’s Rising’s campaign to address the disturbing maternal health disparities between black and white women in America, including distressing rates of maternal mortality for African American women irrespective of socioeconomic status. Why are black women dying at much higher rates, and how does racism — implicit and institutional — contribute to the problem? How do stereotypes of black women, often held even by white physicians, endanger their lives? And what policy changes are needed to address the problem? They’ll also discuss last week’s removal of the statue of J. Marion Sims from Central Park in New York City. Sims, often called the “father of gynecology” (itself a rather absurd term given the long history of midwifery), developed many of his gynecological methods after submitting enslaved black women to torturous techniques, against their will, and without anesthesia. Why is the removal of the statue important, and not only at a symbolic level? Finally, this episode includes a commentary by Tim about the implicit white nationalism at the heart of a number of recent incidents, in which black bodies were presumed not to belong in certain spaces, including that Philadelphia Starbucks we’ve all heard about. While many think of white nationalism as something that comes with burning crosses and marching around with tiki torches (as in Charlottesville last August), the presumption that black folks (and other people of color) simply don’t belong “here” (meaning our neighborhood, our school, our businesses, etc) is all too common and ingrained in the fabric of America.

Perhaps no social movement of the 21st century has had the impact of Black Lives Matter.  Born as an online outcry in 2013, it became a fully-fledged vehicle for nationwide protests that have called for for criminal justice reform and a reckoning with racism's continuing force.  In this episode, Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele join Miwa Messer in the studio to talk about their stirring new book When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir.

[**Click Image to Listen**] Founder & CEO of Hattiloo Theatre, Ekundayo Bandele, addresses the importance of Black Theatre beyond its entertainment value.  He equates Black Theatre and Hattiloo to a church pulpit and a place of education and enlightenment.  He also takes us on a historical ride that allows us to have a greater level of context as it relates to Black Theatres around the country and some of the trailblazers that created the lane in which he is thriving. As you know we always get Real, Right and definitely FUNKKKKYYYYY… Enjoy!!!

THE SPIN: #reImaginingRESISTANCE in the era of mass incarceration MARISSA ALEXANDER - intimate partner violence, self defence, jail, finally free BRESHA MEADOWS - Black girl shoots dead abusive dad, charged w/ murder AMERICA=INCARCERATION NATION - Black men & boys 13th to 2017 Host: Esther Armah Guests: Marissa Alexander, Asha Bandele, Liza Jessie Peterson

THE SPIN & Emotional Justice in partnership with Ebony.com present #theCONSENTconvo: a public loving, unlearning, reframing conversation campaign on CONSENT CONSENT: the personal, familial, cultural and societal CONSENT: on Nate Parker, toxic masculinity & the politics of consent Host: Esther Armah Contributors: Joan Morgan and Asha Bandele

Original Air Date - January 25, 2013 Yahya Bandele is the Founder and Chairman of The C.O.F.A.H Network and the Creator, writer and director of the best selling Documentary on amazon.com "Hebrew or the So-Called Negro" Yahya will discuss current events, history, science and Geo-politics from a scriptural Hebrew Ysralite scriptural perspective. We also encourage caller participation and feedback  View Yahya’s Feature Films?https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=FLdws1o2agoBw-nqaYBjG9Yg  View Yahya's Daily Video Blog?https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv4Ov4g0N91ikDd5zHMAmvxr2Fyhf9s7v  Yahya's Facebook Page?https://www.facebook.com/yahya.bandele  To learn more about COFAH log on to?http://www.cofah.com

(Original Air Date August 03, 2014) Yahya Bandele is the Founder and Chairman of The C.O.F.A.H Network and the Creator, writer and director of the best selling Documentary on amazon.com "Hebrew or the So-Called Negro" Yahya will discuss current events, history, science and Geo-politics from a scriptural Hebrew Ysralite scriptural perspective. We also encourage caller participation and feedback View Yahya’s Feature Films https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=FLdws1o2agoBw-nqaYBjG9Yg View Yahya's Daily Video Blog https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv4Ov4g0N91ikDd5zHMAmvxr2Fyhf9s7v Yahya's Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/yahya.bandele To learn more about COFAH log on to http://www.cofah.com

The story of Rip Van Winkle is portrayed on Wishboning this week with guest host Antoine Bandele youtube extraordinaire joing us. Antoine brings his classic levels of analysis and through research crafting detailed thoughts about Wishbone in the style that made his Youtube channel so popular. This is a very special and very silly episode of Wishbone that John and Christian wil guide us and Antoine through as he has his own Rip Van Winkle moment on the show. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

(Original air date 09/23/2011) Yahya Bandele is the Founder and Chairman of The C.O.F.A.H Network and the Creator, writer and director of the best selling Documentary on amazon.com "Hebrew or the So-Called Negro" Yahya will discuss current events, history, science and Geo-politics from a scriptural Hebrew Ysralite scriptural perspective. We also encourage caller participation and feedback View Yahya’s Feature Films https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=FLdws1o2agoBw-nqaYBjG9Yg View Yahya's Daily Video Blog https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv4Ov4g0N91ikDd5zHMAmvxr2Fyhf9s7v Yahya's Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/yahya.bandele To learn more about COFAH log on to http://www.cofah.com

Yahya Bandele is the Founder and Chairman of The C.O.F.A.H Network and the Creator, writer and director of the best selling Documentary on amazon.com "Hebrew or the So-Called Negro" Yahya will discuss current events, history, science and Geo-politics from a scriptural Hebrew Ysralite scriptural perspective. We also encourage caller participation and feedback View Yahya's feature films by clicking link https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=FLdws1o2agoBw-nqaYBjG9Yg View Yahya's Daily Video Blog https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv4Ov4g0N91ikDd5zHMAmvxr2Fyhf9s7v Yahya's Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/yahya.bandele To learn more about COFAH log on to  www.cofah

Asha Bandele, "The Prisoner's Wife" talks about the policies of the "prison industrial complex" on the community and on the lives of the incarcerated and their families. Technology in private prisons substitutes "virtual visits" for face-to-face visits.

A prolific Nigerian playwright, novelist and screenwriter now based in London, HALF OF A YELLOW SUN is Biyi Bandele’s feature film directorial debut. This first feature follows his distinguished career writing and directing plays for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Court, and writing screenplays for the BBC and British and international film productions. Bandele has previously written and directed a short, THE KISS (2009), a psychological thriller. For television, Bandele wrote Not Even God is Wise Enough directed by Danny Boyle for BBC2 in 1994. His prolific writing for theatre includes his adaptation of Aphra Benn’s Oroonoko, which was a huge hit for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2000, and was successfully revived by New York’s Theatre for a New Audience in 2007. Bandele’s fiction writing includes Burma Boy published by Jonathan Cape in 2007 (published as The King’s Rifle, Harper Collins in the US in 2009). Film Synopsis: Olanna (Thandie Newton) and Kainene (Anika Noni Rose) are glamorous twins from a wealthy Nigerian family. Upon returning to a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria after their expensive English education, the two women make very different choices. Olanna shocks her family by going to live with her lover, the “revolutionary professor” Odenigbo (Chiwetel Ejiofor)  in the dusty university town of Nsukka; Kainene turns out to be a fiercely successful businesswoman when she takes over the family interests, and surprises even herself when she falls in love with Richard (Joseph Mawle), an English writer. They become caught up in the events of the Nigerian civil war, in which the lgbo people fought an impassioned struggle to establish Biafra as an independent republic. Website: http://montereymedia.com/halfofayellowsun/  Trailer:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq2dNtP-2hU&list=UUJT0RwcR7HRLljiEEvF4x9A

Yes Podo's, YES YES!!!!.... I return to the Soul... Its been a minute I know, the last soulful was back in Feb 2012 (SH29) if i'm not mistaken. Although I have been spotting the soulful joints here and there, this one is full on, and was a pleasure to mix. As ususal, I'm been toying with the line up for a while now, and finally settled on this. I hope you enjoy. A few of you have been reaching out asking for a soulful venture, and I hope this satisfies. Tracklisting: 01 - Ladybird - Shine (Andy Compton's Rural Soul Mix) 02 - Cee Elassaad, Heidi Martin - Wanna Be (Rancido's Traveling Soul Mix) 03 - Git, Big Brooklyn Red - Higher (Yoruba Soul Mix) 04 - Timmy Regisford - Thank You (Frankie Feliciano Vocal Mix) 05 - Alton Miller - Can't Hide It (Matthias Vogt Remix) 06 - C Robert Walker, Paris Cesvette - Loving You In Places (Pirahnahead Remix) 07 - Fanatix Feat. Sara Devine, Sterling Ensemble - Call On Me (Rhemi Club Mix) 08 - Aloma - Going Home (Jerk House Connection Remix) 09 - Ananda Project, Terrance Downs - Where Do You Come From (DJ Spen & Gary Hudgins Main Vocal Remix) 10 - Nastee Nev ft. Donald Sheffey - Hung Up (Pristine's Expression Remix) 11 - Kafele Bandele, Eliki - Secret (Cecil's Beatdown Mix) 12 - Smokey Robinson - Just to See Her (Ezel's Remix) 13 - Mash.o, Themby V Khumalo - What You Believe In (CocoSoul Remix) 14 - Elise - Poseidon (Leaked Wisdom Remix) 15 - Elise - Poseidon (Yoruba Soul Mix) So there you have it.... a little late in the month but here all the same... Stay blessed...

There is no better description of poet Makalani Bandele‘s debut book Hellfightin’ (Willow Books, 2012) than the one found on his comprehensive website: “Derived from the nickname the French Army gave the all-Black 369th Infantry Regiment in World War I, the Hellfighters . . . is a tour de force of lyricism, mysticism, jive philosophy, and discursive narrative as blues lick. The title of the book, Hellfightin‘, as a term is best understood in the context of the critical framework of the Blues …” Bandele’s Hellfightin‘, then, is a poetic education in the African American musical, cultural and historical traditions, and one of the latest installments from the famous creative ensemble known as the Affrilachian Poets. Bandele couldn’t be among better company than those poets who seek to bring attention to the black literary tradition within the Appalachian territories. Hellfightin‘ does all that and more. Listen to how Bandele tells us how. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There is no better description of poet Makalani Bandele‘s debut book Hellfightin’ (Willow Books, 2012) than the one found on his comprehensive website: “Derived from the nickname the French Army gave the all-Black 369th Infantry Regiment in World War I, the Hellfighters . . . is a tour de force of lyricism, mysticism, jive philosophy, and discursive narrative as blues lick. The title of the book, Hellfightin‘, as a term is best understood in the context of the critical framework of the Blues …” Bandele’s Hellfightin‘, then, is a poetic education in the African American musical, cultural and historical traditions, and one of the latest installments from the famous creative ensemble known as the Affrilachian Poets. Bandele couldn’t be among better company than those poets who seek to bring attention to the black literary tradition within the Appalachian territories. Hellfightin‘ does all that and more. Listen to how Bandele tells us how. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sometimes we just seem to be in the right place at the right time. Such is the case as I happened to "discover" the music of Jovia. Actually, we were on Twitter last night and a virtual conversation about music made it's way back and forth as a series of direct messages. As it turns out, Jovia and I are related! LOL Well, we know some of the same people and therefore, we are knit at the souls. One mention of Stico Von Drake, Kafele Bandele, or Koku Gonza and you have my attention for good. See how small the world is? http://www.joviamusic.com/ I can already imagine the feedback we're going to receive about this award winning, multi-percussionist, producer, and seasoned vocalist. As beautiful as the day, Jovia's music is destined to find it's way into your hearts. We asked to feature this track which comes from her album. Find the rest of the album on iTunes and for all the Twitterholics out there, find and follow her at http://twitter.com/JoViamusic! Show your love.... dj coa

Kafele Bandele shines again with another winner. Listen in on "Faraway Places" and please give us your thoughts on this one. Find all of his music, including the debut cd Prodigal Moon, on iTunes and Amazon.com!   enjoy...   dj coa

Col' War_short-H.264 800Kbps Streaming Video sent by Jalion Intro to "Col'War" from Lasana Bandele's "Storitela" CD. featuring Earl "Chinna" Smith on Lead Guitar, Tony "Ruption" Williams on Drums,.......... More at: http://www.lasanabandele.com One Love!!!

Living In Shacks (short) by Lasana Bandele Video sent by Jalion Lasana Bandele's "Living In Shacks" video. Video of his hit single from the Storitela CD and the, "The Storitela" TV Special. Living In Shacks was filmed by phase 3 production and directed by dermot hussey of XM Satellite Radio. Lasana Bandele is a prolific Jamaican Singer, Songwriter, Poet, Musician, Producer.More at: http://www.lasanabandele.com : http://www.storitelamusic.com One Love!!!

THIS LAND IS FREE This landIs freeBeautifulAnd freeExcept forThe stinking jailsAnd chained mindsIn concrete castlesThis land is freeOpen fieldsBreath takingMountain sidesCoolUnfailing waterfallsWhen you seeThe foodThis land yieldsYou'll seeThe land is freeFree, freeNot likeFree foodOr, free for allBut freeAs divinity, freeSlaves bloodHas been shedIt has been saidThe battle is wonAnd slaves are freeBut as far asEye can seeThe land alone is freeComeWonder in the artistic orchestrationOf sight lengthening varietiesOf treesBe dazzledBy legions of flowersIntoxicating, colourfulAnd wildBe stolenBy the polyphonic SymphoniesOf BirdsBe smotheredBy the punctuating drippingOf seeds and blossomsPlaying percussive melodiesOn dry leaves, rotten woodsAnd bare ground, classicallyThis land is freeExcept for thoseWho are slavesTo their freedomWho are alwaysToo hungry to fightToo fearful to biteThe vampire's handsWho suck their children's bloodAnd keep the foodOut of the reach ofEveryone with the willBut not the means to surviveBut are always cheap labourersBuilding EmpiresNever get enoughTo appease hungerOr defuse strife The land is freeWith cooing birdsCleansing streamsSheltering hillsCreatures of many kindsBut not free ofoppression and griefFor the manChained by the brainWho can't seeHeIs but a scumIf he keepsFighting for crumbsInstead ofTo be freeLasana Bandele(c) 1986 8.11.86(p) 1986 Storitela Publishing Ltd.LBP-161-spOne Love!!!