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Last time we spoke about the beginning of Chiang Kai-Sheks war against Sun Chuanfang. Chiang Kai-Shek had just conquered Hunan and Hubei, but this caused Sun Chuanfang to finally act. Chiang Kai-Shek's forces preemptively invaded Jiangxi to thwart Sun Chuanfangs two pronged offensive and any chance of him linking up with Wu Peifu. Sun Chuanfang was caught off guard, but managed to toss brutal counterattacks. However internal disunity amongst the 5 provinces led to a great weakening of Sun Chuanfangs campaign. In October, the NRA counterattacked, retaking territory and pushing Sun's forces back. Sun's position crumbled further due to rebellions in Zhejiang, where local leaders allied with the KMT. Despite setbacks, by November, the NRA's relentless pressure led to the capture of Jiangxi, significantly weakening Sun Chuanfang's hold and advancing the Northern Expedition. Meanwhile other NRA forces devastated Fujian's defenders and shockingly seized the province.    #112 The Northern Expedition Part 3: The Zhejiang Campaign Welcome to the Fall and Rise of China Podcast, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about the history of Asia? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on history of asia and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel where I cover the history of China and Japan from the 19th century until the end of the Pacific War. Beginning in November, until the end of 1926, both the NRA and their enemies took a sort of pause to regroup and figure out what was going on. Chiang Kai-Shek had carried out an offensive down the Yangtze and sought the blitzkrieg to carry on, but many within his ranks wanted to slow down and regroup. Meanwhile Sun Chuanfang received more peace offers and chances to join the KMT, but such a thing seemed too far beneath him. With Jiangxi and Fujian lost, Sun Chuanfang instead turned to an unlikely ally. In a very, the enemy of my enemy is my friend-like fashion he turned north to the Fengtian clique warlords. Now obviously, during the later half of the Anti-Fengtian War, Sun Chuanfang kind of held back. He had served the Fengtian a bloody nose and consolidated his 5 provinces, letting the northerners battle it out amongst themselves. Yet they just like he viewed the new southern menace as nothing more than a communist parasite swarming out of Guangdong. In a fit of desperation Sun Chuanfang took a train on November 8th in Nanking bound for Tianjin.  Once in Tianjin Sun Chuanfang met with some subordinates of Zhang Zuolin and Zhang Zongchang. They all reviewed the dire situation that befell Wu Peifu against the NRA in Hunan and Hubei. Sun Chuanfang fully disclosed what had happened to his forces in Jiangxi and Fujian. The northern warlords acknowledged the NRA was not like any other warlord force they had faced before. They were defeating armies much larger and much better armed, it confused them. Even those who had control over strategic railways seemed to be losing to the NRA. The Fengtian warlords had learnt some bitter lessons during their war with Sun Chuanfang and were not going to underestimate a potential enemy again. The Fengtian decided to form a new alliance to destroy the new red menace in the south. Despite the significant grievances between Sun Chuanfang and the Fengtian, particularly with Zhang Zongchang, he agreed to the alliance. Sun Chuanfang really had no choice after losing Jiangxi and Fujian with ill control over Zhejiang. As for Wu Peifu, he really was the unlucky warlord to be first in the crosshairs of the NRA. The commanders at the Tianjin meeting agreed to do what they could to reinforce him over in Honan so that he might be able to mount a counter offensive against Wuhan. They all also agreed, if Wu Peifu refused their alliance and aid, they would be forced to invade Honan to defend the north from the NRA. To reinforce Sun Chuanfang in the southeast, the Fengtian would fit the bill, but bill Sun Chuanfang they also would. In particular Zhang Zongchang was looking enviously at some of Sun Chuanfangs holdings as his province of Shandong was certainly impoverished, all because of his miss rule might I add. Zhang Zongchang had his eye on the gem of Shanghai and its robust black market, where many of his friends resided. Sun Chuanfang offered Zhang Zongchang a guarantee of 500,000$ in silver collected from the good taxpayers of Zhejiang and Anhui in return for reinforcements.  On November 24th, while Sun Chuanfangs forces in Fujian were being obliterated by the NRA, major agreements made at Tianjin were bearing results. Zhang Zongchang's Shandong troops were advancing south into Anhui aboard the Tianjing-Pukou railway bound for the Yangtze delta. They were 60,000 men strong, including some of Zhang Zongchang's elite White Russian units manning armorer trains with their specialized artillery. Within just a weeks time they were arriving to the battlefield under a brand new banner “the Ankuochün / National Pacification Army”. Zhang Zuolin came up with the name, the idea behind it was to make it seem like they were fighting a war to achieve peace against the evil red horde. Zhang Zuolin took the authority as commander in chief and appointed Sun Chuanfang and Zhang Zongchang as his deputy commanders with their HQ being in the Pukou-Nanking area. Zhang Zuolin proclaimed to the people of China he promised to save China from the red menace. The new National Pacification Army was a whopping 500,000 men strong.  Sun Chuanfangs portion of this grand army was of course the weakest link as he had just been battered by the NRA , but the Fengtian had not even had a chance to lift a thumb. Sun Chuanfang was still obsessed with retaining his 5 province empire and that desire would hinder his management of the war.  As Shandong troops arrived, they found not a grand welcoming from the local populations. They of course had terrible reputations and were the very people who had molested southeast China during the Zhejiang-Fengtian war. The CCP and NRA would exploit the southeast Chinese peoples hatred towards the northerners. Within Jiangsu and Shanghai, the Shandongers forced the locals to accept the Zhang Zongchang bank notes, literally worthless pieces of paper. The CCP and KMT began propaganda campaigns playing off this situation to tell the people the northerners were going to basically rip them all off. Sun Chuanfang could see exactly the sort of game the CCP and KMT were playing at and increased his persecution of them within his territories.  Now although Sun Chuanfang had certainly been weakened, Chiang Kai-Shek was not in good enough of a situation to follow up on his Jiangxi and Fujian victories. Chiang Kai-Shek had moved his HQ to Nanchang and was quite nervous about some looming issues within his ranks. He had already postponed the northern expedition back in July of 1926 when strikes broke out against Hong Kong. In November word spread that strikes were yet again occurring in Guangzhou, particularly at the Guangzhou-Hankou railway. The strikes at the railway were spreading up into Hunan. Over in Guangzhou the Cantonese workers at the Shihching and Mortar arsenals were striking as CCP members were agitating sailors and navy unions to join. The workers were demanding higher wages, clearly trying to take advantage of the fact the NRA were at the frontlines. Chiang Kai-Shek ordered the head of the NRA political department, Teng Yenta to travel from the front lines back over to Guangzhou to see if he could quell the madness. Throughout November a lull occurred, but it broke suddenly in December as strikers armed with pickets began closing up rice shops and banks. Reports came to Chiang Kai-Shek at the front, greatly worrying him about their war material situation. A lot of what they produced came out of Guangzhou and it seemed under threat. On December 8th, Chiang Kai-Shek made a speech, talking about how issues were coming about because of conflict within their First United Front. Following said speech, he appointed the garrison commander, Chien Tachuan to act as Guangzhou's police chief and pacify the city. Chiang met some KMT officials of the Central Political Council at Kuling, ordering them to help restrain labor violence and prohibit strikes in Guangzhou against strategic activities, such as communications, banks, and the supply of food and other “vital necessities. The Guangzhou strike situation then spread to Wuhan as workers began marching for higher wages and better working conditions. Because of this, by late 1926 Wuhan's lucrative arsenal industries outputs were declining. KMT leaders were freaking out over the situation as it looked to them all that another Guangzhou style workers uprising would occur. Word spread that a general strike in Wuhan was being planned on December 3rd, prompting Chiang Kai-Shek to intervene. The workers in general were protesting imperialist employers in the three cities; Hankou, Hanyang and Wuchang. They wanted higher pay and better working conditions, pretty standard stuff. Chiang Kai-Shek called together a meeting at Nanchang of various KMT leaders and Borodin. Chiang Kai-Shek proposed regulating the labor movement. Borodin recommended that the CCP corporate in restraining the union problems. Political department members of the KMT proposed disbanding 1000 armed pickets operating in Wuhan, the same way they did at Guangzhou. Hankou had seen some union violence and this deeply worried Chiang Kai-Shek who envisioned foreign marines storming shore from fleets of gunboats along the Yangtze to defend their nationals and property rights. It was eventually agreed some of the protestor leaders would be allowed to join the KMT to help its new government in Wuhan. It seems Chiang Kai-Shek had his hands quite full with internal problems.  Now back over the situation of Zhejiang. Despite the rather hilarious failure of Xia Chao's rebellion, if it could even be called such a thing. Sun Chuanfang's troops had taken a firm station in Zhejiang to maintain the peace. While the violence had cooled down, the sentiment of the people of Zhejiang had not. During late October, Sun Chuanfangs troops had swarmed Zhejiang trying to create a regime that would pacify and try to conciliate the provincial feelings. Zhou Fengqi had been transferred back to Zhejiang, mostly because Sun Chuanfang wanted to get him and his division out of the Jiangxi battlefield because he was doing a terrible job. Sun Chuanfang hoped his provincial Lt's would prove better defenders if defending their homeland. He also began a propaganda campaign, spreading word that the Cantonese forces were brutalizing the civilians everywhere they invaded. He said things like the Cantonese sought to break the traditional family system, that they were merely communists in disguise and such. Sun Chuanfang had also brought Chen Yi and his division back to Hangzhou and by October 31st, appointed Zhejiangs new civil governor after Xia Chao's head was cut off. Simultaneously, Sun Chuanfang kept his own personal retainer, Lu Xiangting, the military governor of Zhejiang. Now as Zhou Fengqi was heading back to Zhejiang, he came to Shanghai where he proclaimed to the pople that Sun Chuanfang had placed him in charge of defending the province against the Cantonese invaders. When he arrived to Hangzhou, Zhou Fengqi stated publically he had no sympathies for the KMT revolutionaries. Why he did this was because many rumors had spread that he had deserted in the Jiangxi fight to the KMT, which of course was 100% correct. On November 25th, Zhou Fengqi spoke publically about his dead mentor Xia Chao and stated “I would sacrafice anything for Zhejiang… neither the Northern Army nor the Southern Army were his friends and that any who invaded Chekiang automatically became his enemy ….” Now Sun Chuanfangs surprising move to ally himself to Zhang Zuolin had greatly shocked and scared the southeastern populations, the Fengtian northerners were of course the brutes who had hurt them. Thus Sun Chuanfang had become a double edged sword. He was saved by the Fengtian reinforcements, but his 5 provinces populations also deeply resented this. For those in Zhejiang who sought autonomy, it looked a lot like the KMT was a better option going forward. Chiang Kai-Shek was well aware of the situation and exploited it. The KMT began offering peace agreements not just to Sun Chuanfang, but to independent bodies in Zhejiang, such as the All-Zhejiand Association and even the All-Jiangsu association. KMT members in Zhejiang such as Tsai Yuanpei and C.T Wang. These two guys were responsible for writing the Zhejiang autonomous consitution of 1921. Within the safetey of the Shanghai international settlement they proposed a new federal system within which provinces would be able to handle their own affairs and be represented by a national assembly. In December of 1926 they began negotiating both with Sun Chuanfang over in Nanking and the KMT. Sun Chuanfang could see he was losing Zhejiang because of his alliance with Zhang Zuolin. Thus he made a tremendous gamble, he simply gave Zhejiang its independence. He did so hoping the province would continue to support him against the perceived red menace. He ordered Chen Yi to declare the province independent just before the KMT had planned to release some propaganda procliaming Zhejiang was under tryannical rule by northerners. Chiang Kai-Shek then tried to counter the situation by declaring the NRA would not enter Zhejiang if they roke ties with Sun Chuanfang and no northern troops were within their borders. Sun Chuanfang had already declared the northern reinforcements would defend Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui and of course this would mean tax hikes to pay for their protection. Yet again the Zhejiang revolutionaries assembled in the Shanghai international settlement, planning to create an independent provincial regime. On December 8th, they elected a provincial government committee, notably in a form favored by the KMT. Amongst the nominees were some of those responsible for formented the Ningpo rebellion of 1924. That smaller rebellion had seen some local gentry attempt self rule against the nothern warlords ruling them at Hangzhou. There were a few KMT members such as the ex-Zhejiang governor, Chiang Tsung-Kuei. Chen Yi and Zhou Fengqi were elected to the 9 man committee and the Guangzhou agent Ha Xulun who was working behind the scenes to direct matters against Sun Chuanfang. On the 11th december at Shanghai, Zho Fengqi decalred his defection to the NRA in a true modern day politician like fashion. His declaration of course added fuel to those wishing to break with Sun Chuanfang. He soon set up a new HQ at Quzhou and was promoted to commandr of the 26th NRA army. The KMT then descended upon Chen Yi, trying to bring him into the fold. The provincial assembly chairman and head of the Hangzhou chamber of commerce both proposed forming their autonomous state as part of the KMT and pushed Chen Yi to jump aboard the wagon. Chen Yi traveled to Hangzhou and Nanking trying to see what kind of deal he could land, ever an opportunist. Sun Chuanfang refused to move his troops within Zhejiang at Chiahsing as Zhou Fengqi had just joined the enemy, and now he heard word the NRA vanguard had penetrated the province. On the 17th Chen Yi defected to the NRA making his division the 19th NRA army and received promises from Chiang Kai-Shek he would get a nice cushy position in Zhejiang once the war was over. In the 19th the Shanghai group announced the official independence of Zhejiang from Sun Chuanfangs 5 provincial empire. They were now a autonomous province and would: “1) implement self-government for Zhejiang with provincial personnel; 2) oppose militarists who might seek to carve out their own “autonomous” areas; 3) make public the provincial government affairs; 4) subordinate the Zhejiang military to the Provincial Government; 5) provide for the civil freedoms of assembly, press, organization, and speech; and 6) abolish all unconstitutional taxes.” These terms were delivered to both Sun Chuanfang and Chiang Kai-Shek. Now despite doing all of this, the Zhejiang movement was by no means unified. Many of the gentry and military classes were not onboard because the NRA did not have a strong presence in the province. There was also of course Sun Chuanfang collaborators, the type of men who had received good positions from him. Many also rightfully feared Sun Chuanfangs wrath. Zhou Fengqi turned tail immediately from defending Hangzhou and sought the safer refugee of Quzhou. The NRA at this point were still preoccupied with consolidating their gains in Fujian and Jiangxi thus all they really had for Zhejiang at the moment was a vanguard.  In response to the situation Sun Chuanfang assembled his four best divisions along the Zhejiang border. He then formed an agreement with his NPA allies and subordinates in Jiangsu and Anhui to guard his flank as he tossed the kitchen sink into Zhejiang. In a fashion very typical of Sun Chuanfangs military style, he performed a lighting advance. His field commander, Meng Chaoyueh brushed aside Zhejiang divisions from the valleys all the way to the Jiangsu border. The lightning offensive was maintained throughout January of 1927. It seemed to all Sun Chuanfang had succeeded in taking back Zhejiang by force in a quick masterstroke. Within mere days of the offensive, Chen Yi was captured and replaced. Meng Chaoyueh's forces advanced upland, but then ran into the 26th NRA army, reinforced with elements of the NRA vanguard force who had popped out of the Fujian border. Over at Quzhou the NRA dug in, providing something akin to a bridgehead from Fujian into Zhejiang.  Another force under Sun Chuanfang advanced against Chen Yi's 19th NRA army eastwards along Hangzhou Bay's southern shore. At the Tsao River Sun Chuanfangs men found the rebels short on ammunition and served them a crushing defeat around Chuchi. From there many scattered through the southwestern hill side until they found their way to Quzhou. Over there the NRA were holding out under intense attacks until mid January. Within Sun Chuanfangs sink were elements of the Fujian troops who had defeated Zhou Yingren. These units went past Quzhou and seized Lanchi and Chinhua on the 10th. General Ho Yingqin in Fujian now faced the daunting choice of jumping into Zhejiang before the bridgehead closed. But the NRA enjoyed greater mobility and this allowed the 1st NRA army to rush over the border hills to aid the besieged Quzhou before Sun Chuanfang had brought over his heavy artillery.  On January 20th General Pai Qungxi took command over various NRA units and allied forces in Zhejiang to reorganize a battle plan. By the 29th he launched a counterattack out of the highlands. Using local guides who knew the terrain, the NRA marched through tributary valleys leading into the open plain of Qietang where the provincal capital of Hangzhou was. Now with more equal numbers the NRA engaged the enemy at Lanchi and Chinua fighting a brutal 3 day battle. This action turned the campaign around. Sun Chuanfangs forces lost commanding officers of a brigade, regiment and 3 battalions, alongsides 2000 soldiers. The NRA captured large hauls of firearms, but much mor precious, some heavy artillery. The early northern expedition lacked heavy artillery and these pieces would be put to great use. After the 3 day battle Sun Chuanfangs forces would never regain the highlands. Pai Qungxi then divided his force into two prongs aimed at Hangzhou. When Meng Chaoyueh tried to face the NRA through the main valley, but was out flanked. By February 11th around Tunglu, Meng Chaoyueh's forces were routed down the valley, They fled over to Fuyang where they tried to fortify new defensive lines using artillery, alongside some reinforcements, but utterly failed. The defeated greatly demoralized the northerners to the point Zhou Yingren lost complete control over his Fujian units. The soldiers retreated in a panic, breaking ranks as civilians from Fuyang to Hangzhou packed all they had and fled for Shanghai. Their towns were plundered by the soldiers who sought to grab what they could before running home to north china. The battle of Tunglu saw Sun Chuanfang pull his remaining forces towards Hangzhou. There they could mount a defense and feel more secure that the railway line led back to Shanghai and the north. The NRA forces pincer attacked near Hangzhou catching 8000 retreating soldiers who had been waiting on a ferry to get across the Chientang river. Sun Chuanfang tossed more reinforcements into Zhejiang, but they were no longer cooperating with his field commander Meng Chaoyueh who was already having problems controlling the Fujian units. Thus Meng Chaoyueh chose rather than making a stand at Hangzhou, he took his 20,000 men and retreated into Jiangsu. Another province in Sun Chuanfangs infinity gauntlet was being lost. General Meng Chaoyueh and the civil governor of Zhejiang fled for Shanghai on February 17th of 1927. Even the withdrawal out of Zhejiang was an unmitigated disaster as Meng Chaoyueh could not maintain his men's discipline. After advancing 50 miles to Chiahsing many had mutinied, seeking to sack the city. The civilians begged Meng Chaoyueh to force his men to leave them alone and move on, but he dared not try to halt his unruly men. Yet again this proved to be a crucial factor leading to the NRA's success. Where warlords armies went, they looted and molested the common people, while the KMT had strict policies of paying the local populations for what they needed and not to lift a finger upon the common people. The northern chinese tore down civilian barricades, placed by scared shopowners, ransacked them and carried off anything they could. When the NRA made it to Chiahsing after them, they were met with flags and warm greetings. On February 23rd the NRA had effectively cleaned Zhejiang of Sun Chuanfangs forces and allies, most had pulled back to defensive lines west of Shanghai. Their new defensive line was built around the Hangzhou-Shanghai railway line at Sungchiang. Xia Chao was dead, Chen Yi was captured, leaving Zhou Fengqi the last man standing from the triumvirate. Now he was the MVP Zhejiang leader who Chiang Kai-Shek would play upon to consolidate the province. He was quickly appointed to chairman of Zhejiangs military committee and became an official member of her new governmental committee. General Ho Yingqing assembled his forces opposite the Jiangsu border near Chiahsing, preparing for an offensive aimed at Shanghai. Meanwhile KMT members Tsai Yuanpei and Zhou Fengqi began setting up the new Zhejiang government while the NRA organized their offensive. Chiang Kai-Shek was reluctant to attack Shanghai directly. The super city had an enormous population, including countless foreign communities. The great powers had their largest concessions and investments in Shanghai and none of them were taking a liking to the KMT's anti-foreign propaganda. By February of 1927, there had been a plethora of antiforeign incidents that were making foreigners antsy, even those living cushy lives in Shanghai. A month prior at Hankou and Kiukiang, angry chinese mobs spurred by agitators within the KMT, or as Chiang Kai-Shek would tell it, CCP members had attacked British concessions. The British were only able to thwart bloodshed by handing some authority over the concessions back to the Chinese. Foreign residents in the Yangtze valley were evacuating en masse to Shanghai for protection and this helped circulate horror stories in the foreign community there.  It seemed clear to all the foreigners were preparing to defend themselves at Shanghai. It is actually quite reminiscent of the Taiping Rebellion or Boxer Rebellion. As angry mobs of local Chinese approached Shanghai, her foreign residents were banding together to mount and effective defense of the city. All foreign powers with investments in the Yangtze region began pouring what troops they had on hand and recruited volunteers to patrol and defend the city. Command of Shanghai's defenses for the foreign quarters fell to the British commander Duncan who took the Richard Hotel as his HQ. He now coordinated an international force nearly 10,000 strong, consisting mainly of marines and sailors. Duncan had formed an agreement with Sun Chuanfang to help defend a perimeter that expanded outside the foreign concessions. Refers spread around the local population that the British were requesting their government, the US and Japan launch a war against the NRA. Sun Chuanfangs situation got even worse as he had stirred up the foreign community, stating he could not guarantee their safety against the red menace approaching Shanghai. Sun Chuanfang worked alongside the international administrative office to round up and execute any revolutionary agents they could find within Shanghai and her concessions. On the night of January 10th of 1927, inspectors consisting of foreign volunteers who patrolled the streets of the concessions. All suspected revolutionaries were round up and brought to police stations in Sun Chuanfangs areas of control in the Chinese parts of Shanghai. The foreigners also made sure to prohibit any demonstrations or political activities. By late february as the NRA was massing across the border, Sun Chuanfang announced that he, the British and Japanese authorities within Shanghai were cooperating to stop chinese labor unions and workers from performing any mischief. This was followed up by a large round up of suspected revolutionaries. As Chiang Kai-Shek approached Shanghai, he was risking major retaliation from the great powers, who seemed to be aligning with Sun Chuanfang and the NPA. Chiang Kai-Shek risked opening a new front with a great power, perhaps more northern warlords as well. There was no way he could face more opponents and Sun Chuanfang simultaneously. So rather than risk a military confrontation with the Shanghai concessions, Chiang Kai-Shek chose another action. Over at Sungchiang, lying directly in front of Shanghai, the NRA east route army looked like they were preparing a siege against the city. Yet further up the Yangtze the NRA were actually preparing an offensive against Nanking. If Nanking and here ferries linked to the Tianjing-Pukou railway to fall to the NRA, Sun Chuanfang would be isolated south of the Yangtze. To be cut off from his vital railway line that supplied him with men and materials from the north was game over. I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. Chiang Kai-Shek's NRA just kept surprising the world winning enormous battles against the odds. With basically the rest of China's warlords banded together under the NPA, how could the NRA possibly continue the northern expedition? Would they not be crushed by overwhelming numbers, only time would tell. 

Singer-songwriter Chinua Hawk is back in the studio unveiling his new music. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chinua Hawk opened up our week with an amazing performance of his original music. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dear friends,Welcome to Season 2 Episode 86 of the podcast. Today's episode is Lectio Divina on 1 John 2: 6-7 with Chinua. This meditation took place at Shambhala festival, so you may hear more noise in the background. First, Chinua will offer some exercises to help you find quiet readiness for meditation, and second, guide you through the verses with plenty of space for your own contemplation.For the third part, we encourage you to process your meditation by sharing your experience and thoughts if you are meditating with others, or journaling or recording your experience in some way if you are meditating on your own. Enjoy!One of the ways we fund our community is through the support we receive on Patreon! If you want to join in, the link is http://patreon.com/shekinameditationpodcast or send a donation through http://shekinacommunity.com/donateFollow us on Instagram at https://instagram.com/shekinagardenWe are so thankful for your support,Much love,Rae

这期误读会我们分享 Joseph Conrad 的代表作「黑暗的心」The Heart of Darkness 链接这本书是科波拉导演的电影「现代启示录」Apocalypse Now 的原作 链接另外一个更忠实原著的同名电影「黑暗的心」链接关于当代对「黑暗的心」的批评，大家可以参考Achebe, Chinua. "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness'" 链接Said, Edward. "Two Visions in Heart of Darkness" 链接最后推荐的 David Denby 观察哥伦比亚大学学生讨论「黑暗的心」的文章：The Trouble with Heart of Darkness 链接 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dear friends,Welcome to Season 2 Episode 83 of the podcast. Today's episode is Lectio Divina on Psalm 40: 1-4 with Chinua, using the Message paraphrase of the Bible.(This meditation was recorded at Shambhala in your Heart Festival, where we guided daily Christ-centered meditation, so you might hear some festival noise in the background.)First, Chinua will offer some exercises to help you find quiet readiness for meditation, and second, guide you through the verses with plenty of space for your own contemplation.For the third part, we encourage you to process your meditation by sharing your experience and thoughts if you are meditating with others, or journaling or recording your experience in some way if you are meditating on your own. Enjoy!One of the ways we fund our community is through the support we receive on Patreon! If you want to join in, the link is http://patreon.com/shekinameditationpodcast or send a donation through http://shekinacommunity.com/donateFollow us on Instagram at https://instagram.com/shekinagardenWe are so thankful for your support,Much love,Rae

In this epsidoe, Khyler and Shine discuss Chinua Achebe's short story “The Sacrificial Egg." In addition to the story, they talk about tradition vs change, tradition as community, cultural identity, being torn between two cultures, how we lose tradition over time, the importance of family in maintaining cultural identity, how material goods replaced abstract ideas as something significantly cultural, how superstition impacts a person's ability to change, forced conformity,  how much of ourselves is ok to lose in order to assimilate into a dominant culture, how people feel obliged to accommodate “up”, sweet spaghetti, and more. 

Dear friends,Welcome to Season 2 Episode 63 of the podcast. Today's meditation is a contemplation of nature with Chinua. You'll need an item of nature— either something you can hold or something you can see or think about in your mind.First, Chinua will offer some exercises to bring your mind into a quiet space, and second, guide you through questions about your item of nature. For the third part, we encourage you to process your meditation by sharing your experience and thoughts if you are meditating with others, or journaling or recording your experience in some way if you are meditating on your own. Enjoy!One of the ways we fund our community is through the support we receive on Patreon! If you want to join in, the link is http://patreon.com/shekinameditationpodcast or send a donation through http://shekinacommunity.com/donateFollow us on Instagram at https://instagram.com/shekinagardenWe are so thankful for your support,Much love,Rae

Torn N 2 with host Gregory T. Roberts and co-host Melvin Burns II with guest author Chinua Mosley regarding the revival of a century-old Nigerian writing system using children's books!

Today's episode is the fifteenth day of our Advent Daily Meditation Series, the Third Sunday of Advent. This is Lectio Divina from Luke 1:46b-55 with Chinua.For the four weeks of advent, we'll be posting a short meditation each day. All of the Sunday episodes will be available on the podcast, and the weekday ones will be available for patrons on our Patreon channel. You can sign up to be a patron at http://patreon.com/shekinameditationpodcastWe would love to have you, and are excited to go through the days of Advent together with these short meditations! http://shekinacommunity.comhttp://shekinacommunity.com/donate

A fascinating theme by Karen Steinberg, as a consequence of which Europeans might, for once, have a SKOSH of an advantage. There were a few relatively unfamiliar names in the grid - ________ Achebe, "Things Fall Apart" author, CHINUA; 59D, Little ________, who sang "The Locomotive", EVA; and the very rare, 22A, Six-time MLB All-Star Mookie, BETTS (in its second appearance ever in the grid, previously clued as Britain's Crown Princess way back in 1946!). Contact Info:We love listener mail! Drop us a line, crosswordpodcast@icloud.com.Also, we're on FaceBook, so feel free to drop by there and strike up a conversation!

Noch in dieser Woche senden wir im Rahmen des ARD-Radiofestivals in unserer Lesung Texte berühmter Autor*innen vom afrikanischen Kontinent. Heute können Sie einen Auszug aus dem Roman "Der Pfeil Gottes" des nigerianischen Autors Chinua Achebe hören. Was diesen Autor und diesen Roman so bemerkenswert machen, darüber sprechen wir mit der Verlegerin und Buchhändlerin Stefanie Hirsbrunner.

Dear friends,Welcome to Season 2 Episode 44 of the podcast. We're pulling from the archives again today with this lectio divina on John 15: 4-10 with Naomi, first published in March of 2019. Next week we'll be back with a new episode, now that we are back at Shekina Garden for the season.Here's what to expect in this episode:* Our friends at another Shekina location in Asia did the intro today! Well, it's Ro, who you know, and our dear friend Laura. They chat about recording on a windy beach, art meditation, bird watching, and playing hide and seek.* Naomi guides a Lectio Divina on John 15: 4-10, from The Message paraphrase of the Bible. (If you want to skip to this, it's at 05:40, but don't skip the introduction, because you'll never know what kind of birds Laura saw when she was birdwatching with Chinua and that mystery will haunt you!)For the third part, we encourage you to process your meditation by sharing your experience and thoughts if you are meditating with others, or journaling or recording your experience in some way if you are meditating on your own. Enjoy!One of the ways we fund our community is through the support we receive on Patreon! If you want to join in, the link is http://patreon.com/shekinameditationpodcast or send a donation through http://shekinacommunity.com/donateFollow us on Instagram at https://instagram.com/shekinagardenWe are so thankful for your support,Much love,Rae

Dear friends,Welcome to Season 2 Episode 41 of the podcast. We're pulling from the archives today with this Lectio Divina with Chinua, first posted in August of 2019. ***Here's what to expect in this episode of the podcast:* I was away this week, so Neil and Ro introduce the episode, chatted about passionfruit jam, an excellent discussion on race and white privilege, carpentry, and a benefit concert.* Chinua guides a lectio divina meditation on Psalm 40 : 1-7. If you want to skip straight to this, it's at 06:50. Chinua will offer some exercises to bring your mind into a quiet space, then guide you through the meditation on the verses.For the third part, we encourage you to process your meditation by sharing your experience and thoughts if you are meditating with others, or journaling or recording your experience in some way if you are meditating on your own. Enjoy!One of the ways we fund our community is through the support we receive on Patreon! If you want to join in, the link is http://patreon.com/shekinameditationpodcast or send a donation through http://shekinacommunity.com/donateFollow us on Instagram at https://instagram.com/shekinagardenWe are so thankful for your support,Much love,Rae

Neste episódio entrevistamos a professora, pesquisadora e doutoranda pela UDESC Tathiana Cassiano, que falou conosco sobre seu trabalho de História das Áfricas a partir da Literatura. Nossa relação com essas histórias tem sido há muito tempo mediada por leituras que nos foram legadas pela historiografia europeia. Para criar um canal direto com o continente africano, local onde repousam muitas de nossas raízes, Tathiana desenvolveu um trabalho sobre a escritora nigeriana Flora Nwapa, em busca de conhecer e analisar as histórias sobre as Áfricas, especialmente das experiências das mulheres da etnia Igbo, do sudeste nigeriano. A partir das pesquisas de Tathiana passamos a conhecer esta autora, suas obras e os impactos que elas tiveram na sociedade nigeriana e, também, em outras partes do mundo, como no Brasil. Ouçam este episódio, leiam literatura africana! Enviem seus comentários e perguntas! Arte da Capa Arte do Episódio: Augusto Carvalho Financiamento Coletivo Ajude nosso projeto! Você pode nos apoiar de diversas formas: PADRIM  – só clicar e se cadastrar (bem rápido e prático) https://www.padrim.com.br/fronteirasnotempo PIC PAY [https://app.picpay.com/user/fronteirasnotempo]– Baixe o aplicativo do PicPay: iOS / Android PIX: [chave] fronteirasnotempo@gmail.com Saiba mais da nossa convidada Tathiana Cristina da Silva Anizio Cassiano Currículo Lattes Instagram Twitter e-mail: tathi.leandro@gmail.com Laboratório de Estudos Pós-Coloniais e Decoloniais – AYA – https://ayalaboratorio.com/ Literatura Africana ACHEBE, Chinua. O mundo se despedaça. São Paulo: Cia das Letras, 2009. ACHEBE, Chinua. A flecha de Deus. São Paulo: Cia. Das Letras, 2011. ADICHIE, Chimamanda Ngozi. Hibisco Roxo. São Paulo: Cia das Letras, 2011. MUKASONGA, Scholastique. A Mulher de Pés Descalços. São Paulo: Ed. Nós, 2017. NWAPA, Flora. Efuru. Londres: Heinemann, 1966. Produção da convidada e indicações bibliográficas sobre o tema abordado Laboratório de Estudos Pós-Coloniais e Decoloniais – AYA – https://ayalaboratorio.com/ Mulheres na História da África – Projeto da Unesco – https://en.unesco.org/womeninafrica/ CASSIANO, Tathiana Cristina. História das Áfricas e Literatura: as mulheres igbos na escrita literária de Flora Nwapa. Revista Transversos. Dossiê: O protagonismo da mulher negra na escrita da história das Áfricas e das Améfricas Ladinas. Rio de Janeiro, nº. 21, 2021. pp. 114-132. Disponível em: . ISSN 2179-7528. DOI: 10.12957/transversos.2021.54915. ACHEBE, C. Morning Yet on Creation Day: essays. New York: Anchor Press and Doubleday, 1976. AMADIUME, I. “Macalester International African Women: Voicing Feminisms and Democratice Futures”. Macalester International, v. 10, 2001, p. 47–68. BALLESTRIN, L. M. de A. “América Latina e o giro decolonial”. Revista Brasileira de Ciência Política, n. 11, 2013, p. 89–117. CALHEIRO, I.; OLIVEIRA, E. D. “Igualdade Ou Desigualdade De Gênero Na África? Pensamento Feminista Africano”. Revista Brasileira de Estudos Africanos, v. 3, n. 6, 2019, p. 93–110. CARNEIRO, A. S. A construção do outro como não-ser como fundamento do ser. 2005, Tese (Doutorado em Educação) Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2005. CHUKU, G. “Nwanyibuife Flora Nwapa, Igbo culture and women's studies”. CHUKU, G. (Ed). The Igbo Intellectual Tradition: Creative Conflict in African and African Diasporic Thought. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. p. 267–293. EVARISTO, C. “Literatura negra: uma poética de nossa afro-brasilidade”. Scripta, v. 13, n. 25, 2009, p. 17–31. FALOLA, T.; HEATON, M. M. A History of Nigeria. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. HALL, S. Da Diáspora: identidades e mediações culturais. Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG, 2003. HOUTONDJI, P. J. “Conhecimento de África, conhecimento de africanos: duas perspectivas sobre os Estudos Africanos”. Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, n. 80, 2008, p. 149–160. LEITE, A. M. Oralidades e Escrita pós-coloniais: estudos sobre literaturas africanas. Rio de Janeiro: EdUERJ, 2012. LUGONES, M. Colonialidade e Gênero. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 13 set. 2020. M'BOKOLO, E. África Negra História e Civilizações: tomo II (Do século XIX aos nossos dias). Salvador: EDUFBA, 2011. MARTINS, C. “Nós e as Mulheres dos Outros. Feminismos entre o Norte e a África”. Geometrias Da Memória: Configurações Pós-Coloniais. 2016, p. 251–277. MEILASSOUX, C. Antropologia da Escravidão: o ventre de ferro e dinheiro. Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar Editor, 1995. MORTARI, C.; WITTMANN, L. T. “O equilíbrio de histórias: experiências no ensino de história por meio de narrativas africanas e indígenas”. SILVA, G. J. DA; MEIRELES, M. C. (Eds.) A Lei 11.645/2008: uma década de avanços, impasses, limites e possibilidades. Curitiba: Editora Appris, 2019. p. 15–41. NNAEMEKA, O. “Feminism , Rebellious Women , and Cultural Boundaries : Rereading Flora Nwapa and Her Compatriots”. Research in African Literatures, v. 26, n. 2, 1995, p. 80–113. NNAEMEKA, O. “Negofeminismo: teorizar, praticar e abrir o caminho da África”. Revista Ártemis, v. XXVII, n. 1, jan. 2019, p. 33–62. NWAPA, F. Efuru. Londres: Heinemann, 1966. NNAEMEKA, O. “Women and Creative Writing in Africa”. OLANIYAN, T.; QUAYSON, A. (Eds.) African Literature: an Anthology of Criticism and Theory. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. p. 526–532. OYEWÙMÍ, O. “Conceptualizing Gender: the eurocentric foundation of feminist concepts and the challenge of African Epistemologics”. COSDERIA Gender Series, v. 1, 2004, p. 1–8. NNAEMEKA, O. La Invención de las mujeres: una perspectiva africana sobre los discursos occidentales del gênero. Bogotá: Editorial en la frontera, 2017. PANTOJA, S. A. “Historiografia Africana e Os Ventos Sul: Desenvolvimento e História”. Revista TransVersos, n. 8, dez 2016, p. 46–70. QUIJANO, A. “Colonialidade do poder e classificação social”. SANTOS, B. DE S.; MENESES, M. P. (Eds). Epistemologias do Sul. Coimbra: Edições Almedina, 2009. p. 73–117. UMEH, M. “The Poetics of Economic Independence for Female Empowerment: An Interview with Flora Nwapa”. Research in African Literatures, v. 26, n. 2, 1995, p. 22–29. UZUKWU, E. E. “Igbo World and Ultimate Reality and Meaning”. Ultimate Reality and Meaning, v. 5, n. 3, set. 1982, p. 188–209. Redes Sociais Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Instagram Contato fronteirasnotempo@gmail.com Expediente  Arte da vitrine: Augusto Carvalho; Edição:  Talk'nCast; Roteiro e apresentação:  Beraba. Como citar esse episódio Citação ABNT Fronteiras no Tempo: Historicidade #46 História das Áfricas e Literatura. Locução Marcelo de Souza Silva, Thatiana Cassiano, Cesar Agenor Fernandes da Silva. [S.l.] Portal Deviante, 29/12/2022. Podcast. 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Some people are talented, some are gifted. Mr. Chinua Hawk has a gift of song that will uplift your soul when you experience it! He's an internationally known singer/songwriter and he has recorded with some of the best-known artists in the world. Join me as he stops into the show to chat about his career and future endeavors. Intro snippet Sunflower by Chinua Hawk http://www.chinuahawk.com/ https://www.facebook.com/chinuahawk --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theknowingplace/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theknowingplace/support

DJ Fudge, Chinua Hawk - Love X Love (Michael Gray) Mark Picchiotti, Kenyata White - Love Is The Message (DJ Spen) DJ Rae - The Journey (Richard Earnshaw) Blaze, Palmer Brown - Do You Remember House (Harry Romero) John Julius Knight, Roland Clark - The Underground (Brian Tappert) Luigii Nieto - Pray For House (Glen Horsborough Remix) Hi Voltage - Let's Get Horny (Michael Gray Remix, edit) Stefano Mango - The Storm DJ Kone & Marc Palacios - Right Now (Original Mix) Nu Port 62 - When Love Is Over (Original Mix) Wolf Story, Queen Rose - Waiting For You (Roger Sanchez Jak'n Vibe) Louie Vega, Martinez Brothers, Marc E. Bassy - Let It Go (Vintage Culture) Glass Slipper - Unification Vibration (Atjazz Main Mix) Recorded 1/27/21 Time 60:20

Meet Brent Whiting and Chinua Hawk! If you're someone who has ever thought your vote doesn't matter, they would disagree. I had the chance to chat with them recently where they shared about TomorrowWeVote.org and how they're aiming to empower the next generation when it comes to voting. The three of us also played “Did you know…?” and tested our knowledge on things like runoff elections, the lack of diversity with Senators and Governors, and so much more. This episode is a little longer than previous ones, and some may have thought all the talk about voting would end after November 3rd. But the reality is, not only are Senate Runoffs taking place here in Georgia in January, voting is important and demands more attention than simply every four years. Personally, I've learned so much this election season, and that didn't stop on November 3rd. I've probably learned more since November 3rd, actually. And, as always, I like to share what I learn and thought having this conversation with Brent and Chinua was a perfect opportunity to do just that. If you haven't already, I hope you'll register to vote! And if you're curious about where I got my info or want to know more, check out this full blog post for this episode at ChooseAwareness.org!

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Ciro Faienza presents Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto's “I Wondered If God Saw Me Through My Father.” You can read the full text of the poem and more about Chinua here.

Exporting Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond (U Massachusetts Press, 2020) by Dr. Chinua Thelwell is a rich, well-researched, and sobering investigation of blackface minstrelsy as the “visual bedrock of a transcolonial cultural imaginary.” In tracing minstrel globalization across the Anglo-colonial and British imperial worlds beginning in the 1800s, Thelwell explores the ways that blackface minstrelsy helped to construct and maintain notions of exclusionary citizenship in racial states throughout the Atlantic, Indian, Pacific Ocean worlds. Thelwell shows that the South African Cape Colony became the minstrel nexus of these globalizing performance circuits. Putting this history in conversation with ongoing white settler colonialism and attendant plunder, annexation, and resource extraction, Thelwell argues that minstrel performances discursively strengthened the economic, social, and political cornerstones of the South African racial state, a state that ultimately developed into an apartheid state in the twentieth century. Through archival research and close readings of cultural artifacts, Thelwell shows that minstrel performances reflected gendered and racialized white fantasies of idealized Black laborers in events that normalized practices of racially exclusionary citizenship and reinforced labor exploitation. Exporting Jim Crow also significantly investigates subversive forms of Black resistance to these anti-black racial projects. For example, Thelwell interrogates how African American minstrels and Cape Coloureds attempted to change the terms of minstrel performance by creating shows that celebrated their own cultures and broadcasted images of equal citizenship. An important and critical study, Exporting Jim Crow enriches scholarship on blackface minstrelsy, South Africa, empire and colonialism, racial capitalism, and performance studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Exporting Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond (U Massachusetts Press, 2020) by Dr. Chinua Thelwell is a rich, well-researched, and sobering investigation of blackface minstrelsy as the “visual bedrock of a transcolonial cultural imaginary.” In tracing minstrel globalization across the Anglo-colonial and British imperial worlds beginning in the 1800s, Thelwell explores the ways that blackface minstrelsy helped to construct and maintain notions of exclusionary citizenship in racial states throughout the Atlantic, Indian, Pacific Ocean worlds. Thelwell shows that the South African Cape Colony became the minstrel nexus of these globalizing performance circuits. Putting this history in conversation with ongoing white settler colonialism and attendant plunder, annexation, and resource extraction, Thelwell argues that minstrel performances discursively strengthened the economic, social, and political cornerstones of the South African racial state, a state that ultimately developed into an apartheid state in the twentieth century. Through archival research and close readings of cultural artifacts, Thelwell shows that minstrel performances reflected gendered and racialized white fantasies of idealized Black laborers in events that normalized practices of racially exclusionary citizenship and reinforced labor exploitation. Exporting Jim Crow also significantly investigates subversive forms of Black resistance to these anti-black racial projects. For example, Thelwell interrogates how African American minstrels and Cape Coloureds attempted to change the terms of minstrel performance by creating shows that celebrated their own cultures and broadcasted images of equal citizenship. An important and critical study, Exporting Jim Crow enriches scholarship on blackface minstrelsy, South Africa, empire and colonialism, racial capitalism, and performance studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Exporting Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond (U Massachusetts Press, 2020) by Dr. Chinua Thelwell is a rich, well-researched, and sobering investigation of blackface minstrelsy as the “visual bedrock of a transcolonial cultural imaginary.” In tracing minstrel globalization across the Anglo-colonial and British imperial worlds beginning in the 1800s, Thelwell explores the ways that blackface minstrelsy helped to construct and maintain notions of exclusionary citizenship in racial states throughout the Atlantic, Indian, Pacific Ocean worlds. Thelwell shows that the South African Cape Colony became the minstrel nexus of these globalizing performance circuits. Putting this history in conversation with ongoing white settler colonialism and attendant plunder, annexation, and resource extraction, Thelwell argues that minstrel performances discursively strengthened the economic, social, and political cornerstones of the South African racial state, a state that ultimately developed into an apartheid state in the twentieth century. Through archival research and close readings of cultural artifacts, Thelwell shows that minstrel performances reflected gendered and racialized white fantasies of idealized Black laborers in events that normalized practices of racially exclusionary citizenship and reinforced labor exploitation. Exporting Jim Crow also significantly investigates subversive forms of Black resistance to these anti-black racial projects. For example, Thelwell interrogates how African American minstrels and Cape Coloureds attempted to change the terms of minstrel performance by creating shows that celebrated their own cultures and broadcasted images of equal citizenship. An important and critical study, Exporting Jim Crow enriches scholarship on blackface minstrelsy, South Africa, empire and colonialism, racial capitalism, and performance studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Exporting Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond (U Massachusetts Press, 2020) by Dr. Chinua Thelwell is a rich, well-researched, and sobering investigation of blackface minstrelsy as the “visual bedrock of a transcolonial cultural imaginary.” In tracing minstrel globalization across the Anglo-colonial and British imperial worlds beginning in the 1800s, Thelwell explores the ways that blackface minstrelsy helped to construct and maintain notions of exclusionary citizenship in racial states throughout the Atlantic, Indian, Pacific Ocean worlds. Thelwell shows that the South African Cape Colony became the minstrel nexus of these globalizing performance circuits. Putting this history in conversation with ongoing white settler colonialism and attendant plunder, annexation, and resource extraction, Thelwell argues that minstrel performances discursively strengthened the economic, social, and political cornerstones of the South African racial state, a state that ultimately developed into an apartheid state in the twentieth century. Through archival research and close readings of cultural artifacts, Thelwell shows that minstrel performances reflected gendered and racialized white fantasies of idealized Black laborers in events that normalized practices of racially exclusionary citizenship and reinforced labor exploitation. Exporting Jim Crow also significantly investigates subversive forms of Black resistance to these anti-black racial projects. For example, Thelwell interrogates how African American minstrels and Cape Coloureds attempted to change the terms of minstrel performance by creating shows that celebrated their own cultures and broadcasted images of equal citizenship. An important and critical study, Exporting Jim Crow enriches scholarship on blackface minstrelsy, South Africa, empire and colonialism, racial capitalism, and performance studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Exporting Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond (U Massachusetts Press, 2020) by Dr. Chinua Thelwell is a rich, well-researched, and sobering investigation of blackface minstrelsy as the “visual bedrock of a transcolonial cultural imaginary.” In tracing minstrel globalization across the Anglo-colonial and British imperial worlds beginning in the 1800s, Thelwell explores the ways that blackface minstrelsy helped to construct and maintain notions of exclusionary citizenship in racial states throughout the Atlantic, Indian, Pacific Ocean worlds. Thelwell shows that the South African Cape Colony became the minstrel nexus of these globalizing performance circuits. Putting this history in conversation with ongoing white settler colonialism and attendant plunder, annexation, and resource extraction, Thelwell argues that minstrel performances discursively strengthened the economic, social, and political cornerstones of the South African racial state, a state that ultimately developed into an apartheid state in the twentieth century. Through archival research and close readings of cultural artifacts, Thelwell shows that minstrel performances reflected gendered and racialized white fantasies of idealized Black laborers in events that normalized practices of racially exclusionary citizenship and reinforced labor exploitation. Exporting Jim Crow also significantly investigates subversive forms of Black resistance to these anti-black racial projects. For example, Thelwell interrogates how African American minstrels and Cape Coloureds attempted to change the terms of minstrel performance by creating shows that celebrated their own cultures and broadcasted images of equal citizenship. An important and critical study, Exporting Jim Crow enriches scholarship on blackface minstrelsy, South Africa, empire and colonialism, racial capitalism, and performance studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Exporting Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond (U Massachusetts Press, 2020) by Dr. Chinua Thelwell is a rich, well-researched, and sobering investigation of blackface minstrelsy as the “visual bedrock of a transcolonial cultural imaginary.” In tracing minstrel globalization across the Anglo-colonial and British imperial worlds beginning in the 1800s, Thelwell explores the ways that blackface minstrelsy helped to construct and maintain notions of exclusionary citizenship in racial states throughout the Atlantic, Indian, Pacific Ocean worlds. Thelwell shows that the South African Cape Colony became the minstrel nexus of these globalizing performance circuits. Putting this history in conversation with ongoing white settler colonialism and attendant plunder, annexation, and resource extraction, Thelwell argues that minstrel performances discursively strengthened the economic, social, and political cornerstones of the South African racial state, a state that ultimately developed into an apartheid state in the twentieth century. Through archival research and close readings of cultural artifacts, Thelwell shows that minstrel performances reflected gendered and racialized white fantasies of idealized Black laborers in events that normalized practices of racially exclusionary citizenship and reinforced labor exploitation. Exporting Jim Crow also significantly investigates subversive forms of Black resistance to these anti-black racial projects. For example, Thelwell interrogates how African American minstrels and Cape Coloureds attempted to change the terms of minstrel performance by creating shows that celebrated their own cultures and broadcasted images of equal citizenship. An important and critical study, Exporting Jim Crow enriches scholarship on blackface minstrelsy, South Africa, empire and colonialism, racial capitalism, and performance studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

Hi friends,Today’s episode is from the archives, a meditation on the Jesus Prayer. I still remember how this prayer changed my life when I began to pray it, simply because it was one of the ways I first let meditation shape my days, as I prayed it while driving, or waiting, or other times I would normally be worrying.Here the show notes from the episode, which was first published on July 1, 2019:* Chinua and I chat about our week, including working with wood, music, singing, and a blessing way.* I (Rae) guide a meditation on the Jesus Prayer(If you want to skip to this, it’s at 07:26, but don’t skip the intro because you’ll miss some good and deep thoughts.)This week may you have joy, and I have joy, and all of us have deep, deep joy.Much love,~ RaeThank you so much for your support through Patreon! If you want to join in, the link is http://patreon.com/shekinameditationpodcast We are delighted by and thankful for every Patron.Much love to you all.

Hi friends,All around, everything is green. The week has been a rainy one, sprinkled with quiet meditation, trying to come to terms with our current uncertain situation, and, for Chinua and I, the loss of a dear friend.I find that all I really want right now is to be faithful to hear and see. To be reverent and sensitive to the Spirit, as the Message paraphrases Philippians 2. It seems the only way to walk forward right now.Here’s what to expect in this episode of the podcast:* Ro and I give a little intro on our week, including gardening, a labyrinth meditation, and a Jesus Storybook Bible circle* Naomi guides a lectio divina meditation on Psalm 23. (All the way from Australia.) - (If you want to skip to the meditation, it’s at 07:43.)~ RaeThank you so much for your support through Patreon! If you want to join in, the link is http://patreon.com/shekinameditationpodcast We are delighted by and thankful for every Patron.Much love to you all.

At the height of his career, today's subject was a national hero in the UK, knighted by George V. His life ended as a traitor and a pervert, executed by hanging in Pentonville Prison before being thrown in an unmarked grave in the prison yard, his body covered in quicklime. His name was Roger Casement, and we'll talk about his rise and fall, Britain’s hypocritical relationship with imperialism and colonialism, and secret black diaries full of "gentle thrusts" and "splendid erections."  Visit our website for T-shirts, an episode archive, and more information about the show. ----more---- SOURCES: Achebe, Chinua. An Image of Africa: And the Trouble with Nigeria. Penguin Great Ideas 100. London: Penguin Books, 2010.   Dudgeon, Jeffrey, and Roger Casement. Roger Casement: The Black Diaries : With a Study of His Background, Sexuality and Irish Political Life. Belfast, Northern Ireland: Belfast Press, 2016.   Goodman, Jordan. The Devil and Mr. Casement: One Man’s Battle for Human Rights in South America’s Heart of Darkness. 1st American ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.   Halifax, Noel. “The Queer and Unusual Life of Roger Casement.” Socialist Review, February 2016. http://socialistreview.org.uk/410/queer-and-unusual-life-roger-casement.   Hochschild, Adam. King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.   Inglis, Brian. Roger Casement. Belfast, Northern Ireland: Blackstaff Press, 1993.   Mitchell, Angus. “REPUTATIONS: Roger Casement and the History Question.” History Ireland (blog), June 30, 2016. https://www.historyireland.com/volume-24/reputations-roger-casement-history-question/.   O’Toole, Fintan. “The Multiple Hero.” The New Republic, August 2, 2012. https://newrepublic.com/article/105658/mario-vargas-llosa-dream-of-celt-fintan-otoole.   Toibin, Colm. Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature. New York, NY: Scribner, 2004.   Our intro music is Arpeggia Colorix by Yann Terrien, downloaded from WFMU's Free Music Archive and distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Our outro music is by DJ Michaeloswell Graphicsdesigner.

Hi, dear ones,At Shekina Garden we are on break for the smoky season, so the podcast will have a special series for the time of our break.We had the privilege of guiding Christ-centered meditation every day at Shambhala festival in Chiang Dao, and during the next weeks we will be posting a meditation each week, with a shortened, pre-recorded intro. All of these meditations were recorded during the festival as we guided with circles of travelers and festival-goers. I hope you enjoy them!Here’s what to expect in this episode of the podcast:* A short intro by Rae, highlighting the series for the next weeks.* Chinua guides a Contemplation of Nature meditation. You’ll need an object of nature to examine or consider during this meditation.(If you want to skip to the meditation, it starts at 4:25)Enjoy! Thanks so much for your listening and support, we are so happy to be back!~ RaeThe podcast will always be free, but you can support us on Patreon.com. We're so thankful for your support, which helps pay the bills for our communities to offer this kind of meditation and other Christ-centered practices for free. We need it! So, thank you!

Titeln på Chinua Achebes roman "Allt gör sönder" blev en alltför träffande beskrivning av verkligheten. Dan Jönsson reflekterar över den nigerianska författarens litteratur och betydelse. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna. Det finns inget samhälle. Det finns ingen gud. Det finns inga kön, inga samhällsklasser, inga raser och nationer, det finns överhuvudtaget inga skillnader mellan människor vi är alla födda lika och allt mänskligt är fiktioner, det vill säga en sorts vidskepelse, och eftersom det är så måste det också vara vår plikt att sätta oss över dem. Den moderna människans historiska uppgift har ända sedan sjuttonhundratalet varit att träda ut ur sin självförvållade omyndighet, som Kant skrev, och man får nog säga att just vår tid har drivit den uppgiften till sin spets. Det finns inte ens någon modernitet. Och ändå visar det sig gång på gång att bland det värsta som kan hända en mänsklig gemenskap är att den berövas sina fiktioner. Utan dem finns till slut inte ens någon mänsklighet. Samhället, religionen, ideologin påhitt allihop, visst är de det. Men det betyder inte att de inte är verkliga. Slutet i Chinua Achebes roman Arrow of God, Guds pil, är obevekligt som en grekisk tragedi. Ezeulu, den gamle översteprästen i bysamhället Umuaro i östra Nigeria, har förlorat sitt förstånd och övergivits av sin gud. Vi befinner oss i tiden någonstans på 1920-talet; den vite mannens och den kristna religionens första omtumlande intrång i det traditionella Igbo-samhället ligger ett par decennier tillbaka och Ezeulu har sedan dess försvarat sina fäders gud, Ulu, mot dels den vita gudens ogudaktigheter, dels mot mindre konkurrerande gudar och deras präster som i konflikten med den vita civilisationen ser sin chans att sticka upp och så split. Ezeulu ser sig själv som Ulus ödmjuka verktyg, pilen i Guds båge, och hans tålmodiga förslagenhet verkar till slut ha segrat: efter en framgångsrik skuggbrottning med kolonialmaktens representanter har även de inhemska fienderna tystnat. Men Ulu är inte nöjd: i en sista akt av dåraktigt övermod tvingar hans präst byborna att skjuta upp den livsviktiga jamsskörden, något som får katastrofala följder och slutar med att en majoritet av folket istället vänder sig till de kristnas gud. Guds pil visar sig träffa, inte Ulus fiender, utan hans tjänare och därmed Ulu själv. En viktig detalj i Achebes berättelse är att Ulu är en konstruerad gudomlighet: flera gånger berättas det hur de äldste i Umuaros olika byar en gång för länge sedan, efter en lång period av krig och söndring, gick ihop för att skapa en gemensam gud, som kunde hålla dem samman. Ulu är alltså av alla i samhället erkänd som en fiktiv kraft men för den skull inte mindre verklig, och rentav nödvändig för att hålla samman gemenskapen. När denna kraft försvinner faller allt. Världen, som man känt den, går under. Guds pil är den sista, och utan tvivel bästa, av de tre romaner som Chinua Achebe skrev under åren kring Nigerias självständighet 1960, en löst sammanhållen trilogi som inleddes med klassikern Things Fall Apart på svenska Allt går sönder och som egentligen kretsar kring detta enda tema: den gamla världens undergång. Allt går sönder har hämtat sin engelska titel, Things Fall Apart, från en berömd dikt av William Butler Yeats. Isär faller tingen, mittpunkten sviktar, världen har givits det vilda i våld står det i Erik Blombergs översättning av denna sorgesång över den gamla ordning som gick under med första världskriget; ord som har citerats gång på gång de senaste åren när världen som vi känner den på nytt ser ut att spricka sönder och förvandlas. Kanske är dessa söndersprickanden och förvandlingar vad den mänskliga historien i grunden handlar om; ett av litteraturens eviga ämnen är det under alla omständigheter. Allt går sönder är den utan jämförelse viktigaste och mest lästa moderna afrikanska romanen, och en milstolpe i den postkoloniala litteraturen överhuvudtaget. Med sin skenbart enkla, men i själva verket mycket intrikata sammanflätning av europeiska höglitterära teman och element ur igbokulturens muntliga traditioner har boken blivit mönsterbildande för otaliga författare i det postkoloniala Afrika som genom litteraturen har försökt att bygga upp en självständig kulturell identitet. Allt går sönder utspelar sig precis i början av den process som skildras i Guds pil, strax före förra sekelskiftet, i det fiktiva bysamhället Umuofia där klanledaren Okonkwo för en kamp som i mycket liknar prästen Ezeulus mot en kolonial övermakt han tror sig kunna bemästra men i själva verket inte alls förstår sig på. Okonkwos historia är också lika tragiskt ödesbunden; hans egen son sviker sina fäders tro och ansluter sig till de kristna missionärerna. I den dramatiska, men tvetydiga finalen tar Okonkwo sitt eget liv, varpå perspektivet skiftar till en av kolonialmaktens utsända, som med några cyniska förströdda reflektioner får gestalta hur den traditionella kulturens dödskamp knappast märks mer än som lite pittoreskt men obetydligt gnissel i den koloniala övermaktens väldiga maskineri. Allt går sönder är alltså mycket medvetet skriven med en kulturell dubbelblick. Chinua Achebe växte upp i en privilegierad igbofamilj, föräldrarna hade hört till dem som tidigt omvänt sig till kristendomen, och som elev på några av det koloniala Nigerias mest prestigefyllda skolor stiftade han grundlig bekantskap med den västerländska kulturen och litteraturen. Han beskrev själv i många sammanhang den ambivalens som växte fram ur denna fostran, en känsla av samtidigt beundran och motstånd, framförallt mot den tradition av koloniala Afrikaskildringar som fått sitt emblematiska uttryck i Joseph Conrads klassiker Mörkrets hjärta. Allt går sönder kan läsas som en stram och traditionsmedveten motskrift, där vreden märks mest som en återhållen, sorgsen insikt om den egna vanmakten. Den vite mannen har satt en kniv i det som höll oss tillsamman,, säger en röst i Achebes roman och vi har fallit i sär. Det är nog denna känsliga balans som förklarar romanens enorma betydelse. För även om Allt går sönder idag räknas som banbrytande, så var den knappast den första moderna nigerianska romanen. Litteraturvetaren Terry Ochiaga har i en studie beskrivit hur Achebe i själva verket var en i en grupp nigerianska författare som trädde fram vid samma tid, och ur samma krets, och hur genomslagskraften för Allt går sönder först visade sig på lite sikt, i takt med landets självständighetsprocess och publiceringen av de följande delarna i den afrikanska trilogin. I den andra, No Longer at Ease Inte längre hemma på svenska som kom ut samma år som självständigheten, 1960, upprepas Okonkwos tragedi som en mörk fars när hans sonson Obi, som på byns bekostnad fått en fin utbildning i London, återvänder för att konfronteras med den korrupta verkligheten i det snart självständiga hemlandet, och tvingas inse vad som återstår att tro på när alla gamla sanningar plockats isär, en efter en. Nämligen förstås pengarna. Och snart inte ens det. Chinua Achebes litterära produktion omfattar i allt väsentligt ett knappt decennium; sedan bröt Biafrakriget ut, och från den katastrofen hämtade han sig aldrig riktigt. Allt går sönder: titeln på Achebes genombrottsroman visade sig bli en profetia. Och när det inte finns någon mänsklighet hur kan man då skriva? Dan Jönsson, författare och essäist Chinua Achebe på svenska Guds pil, översättning av Hans Berggren. Bokförlaget Tranan, 2015. Inte längre hemma, översättning av Hans Berggren. Bokförlaget Tranan, 2014. En folkets man, översättning av Ebbe Linde. Albert Bonniers förslag, 1967. Ny utgåva på Bokförlaget Tranan, augusti 2020. Allt går sönder, översättning av Ebbe Linde. Albert Bonniers förslag, 1967. Ny utgåva på Bokförlaget Tranan, 2014.

Book: Things Fall Apart Written By Chinua AchebeDescription: Story of Ibo People's fight against colonialismRecommended for ages 14+Music: Fluvialbius (composed by Yajat Gupta and Atharv Gopulani, and performed by Yajat Gupta on the piano.)SOAR Logo by Ritu JindalTo leave feedback /requests please connect with SOAR at Facebook or Youtubehttps://www.facebook.com/Soar-Initiative-102175058097745/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBARPFjwtCkn91RQ3dJN3CQ/videos

Hi friends,These past weeks have been so busy! I’m thankful to be back here. Thanks for your patience as I work out a new schedule for the podcast. :)Here’s what to expect in this episode:* I talk a little about our week, including hay fever, Crafternoon, and feeding eighty people.* Chinua guides a Contemplation of Nature meditation.(If you want to skip to the meditation, it’s at 07:40.)Don’t forget to send us your photos of your meditation moments or circles,Many blessings to all of you,~ RaeThe podcast will always be free, but you can support us on Patreon.com and get extra audio each month. We're so thankful for your support, which helps our communities to offer this kind of meditation and other Christ-centered practices for free. We need it! So, thank you!

Del (Chinua Ofulue) is an RnB and alternative soul singer, rapper and writer. He recently graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Economics from Western University. In this episode we talk about is Drake the smartest and greatest rapper alive, advice for breaking into the music industry. How to market and grow your personal brand as a creative and much more. Why Del chose to go to university and wants to go to law school while wanting to be a music artist? Timestamp Del does a freestyle rap live on the show! 44:00 Why Del wants to go to law school while pursuing a music career? 7:37 Does Drake write his own music? - 17:00 What music are you listening to and what are your influences 19:00 The genius of Drake's music and marketing - 23:00 What can aspiring artists learn from Drake? - 29:10 Advice for breaking into the music industry - 33:20 Marketing ideas and strategies for growing your personal brand - 37:05 What is the biggest challenge you have right now? - 39:20 Finding inspiration from Anime 46:10 Why go to school? Why not just pursue your passion right away - 52:40 Where does Del see himself in 25 years - 1:03:25 If you could have dinner with anyone who would it be 1:12:46 Links Full interview and video: https://atila.ca/blog/tomiwa/singer-rapper-writer-delgotgame-chinua-ofulue-atila-tv-013 Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2F-dp9Brgw Listen On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0m74ZmCPgjvp5WGOMg3P9C Listen on Itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-atila-podcast/id1440531021 Del's Music: https://delmusic.net Del's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/delgotgame/ Del's Twitter: https://twitter.com/manlikedel Rowan Makes Art: https://www.instagram.com/rowanmakesart/ Atila Tech's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/atilatech/ Tomiwa's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tademidun/ Jacob's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-munene-4561a4153/ Atila LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/atila-tech/ Tomiwa's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tomiwa1a Tomiwa's twitter: https://twitter.com/tomiwa1a Jacob's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/munenejr

Well, finally!I’m happy to be getting this podcast episode up.We’ve had a wild couple of weeks, with three floods overcoming our garden. The last one was the highest and the most disappointing, as some of our superhero Shekina fam had commenced with a LOT of cleaning.Rainy season is not always like this, but we’re learning about patience and acceptance, I think, through this rainy season.Here’s what to expect in this episode of the podcast:* I talk a little about the flood and our beautiful bhajan night at a chai shop in town.* Chinua guides a contemplation of nature meditation.(If you want to skip to the meditation, it’s at 09:10 but don’t skip the intro! It’s not a soggy donut.)Stay dry friends,Love to you all,~ RaeThe podcast will always be free, but you can support us on Patreon.com and get extra audio each month. We're so thankful for your support, which helps our communities to offer this kind of meditation and other Christ-centered practices for free. We need it! So, thank you!

Hi friends,Here’s what to expect in this episode of the podcast:* As usual, Ro and I talk about our week, including a worldwide leukena tree celebration, more singing, and love for contemplation of nature.* Chinua guides a contemplation of nature meditation. You’ll need an object of nature for this meditation—either something you can hold and look at, or something you can see/feel.(If you want to skip to the meditation, it’s at 06:54 but don’t skip the intro because you definitely need to hear the kids romping in the background.)I’ve been reading about Ralph Waldo Emerson, and his play between the life of action, and that free flying internal life of the spirit. Here we are for a purpose, but we still need to connect to the gentle and inspiring words of the Spirit, or we become thirsty and a bit angry, like hedgehogs.I pray that you find that connection this week. Pour your heart out. The Father inclines his ear to you.Love to you all,~ RaeThe podcast will always be free, but you can support us on Patreon.com and get extra audio each month. We're so thankful for your support, which helps our communities to offer this kind of meditation and other Christ-centered practices for free. We need it! So, thank you!

Hi friends,Here’s what to expect in this episode of the podcast:* Chinua and I chat about our week, including working with wood, music, singing, and a blessing way.* I (Rae) guide a meditation on the Jesus Prayer(If you want to skip to this, it’s at 07:26, but don’t skip the intro because you’ll miss some good and deep thoughts.)This week may you have joy, and I have joy, and all of us have deep, deep joy.Much love,~ RaeThe podcast will always be free, but you can support us on Patreon.com and get extra audio each month. We're so thankful for your support, which helps our communities to offer this kind of meditation and other Christ-centered practices for free. We need it! So, thank you!

Hi beloveds,Here’s what to expect in this episode of the podcast:*Ro is back! We chat about her travels and what’s been going on around here, including her visit to Nomad’s Land, hobbit houses, moving house, and vision talks.*Mili guides an imagination meditation on the man beside the pool of Bethesda. (If you want to skip to this, it’s at 08:33, but don’t skip the intro because if you do, you won’t hear the faint background sounds of Chinua playing jazz piano. :D)I pray that you find home in the heart of God this week.Much love,~ RaeThe podcast will always be free, but you can support us on Patreon.com and get extra audio each month. We're so thankful for your support, which helps our communities to offer this kind of meditation and other Christ-centered practices for free. We need it! So, thank you!

Hi everyone,Here’s what to expect in this episode of the podcast:* Chinua sits in for Ro and we chat about his last trip, birdwatching, music from Poland and a culinary experience that may have been better than our wedding day. (!)* Chinua guides a contemplation of nature meditation. (If you want to skip to this, it’s at 11:42, but don’t skip the introduction. You’ll miss Chinua singing Polish music!)I’m praying to be content this week, aware of the grace and love that is constantly flowing to me from the heart of God, even when I’m a bit calloused or impervious to it. I pray the same for you.Much love,~ RaeThe podcast will always be free, but you can support us on Patreon.com and get extra audio each month. We're so thankful for your support, which helps our communities to offer this kind of meditation and other Christ-centered practices for free.

Hi everyone, it’s been a good week!Here’s what to expect in this episode of the podcast:* Ro and I chat about Chinua coming home, veggie beds and trench digging, paper writing, and heading down south.* Neil guides a Lectio Divina on Mark 10: 17-27. (If you want to skip to this, it’s at 09:01, but don’t skip the introduction. You’ll miss my hoarse voice from the smoke!)I pray that this is a week of inspiration toward action.Much love,~ RaeThe podcast will always be free, but you can support us on Patreon.com and get extra audio each month. We're so thankful for your support, which helps our communities to offer this kind of meditation and other Christ-centered practices for free.

Hi beautiful friends. I’m writing this while watering the very dry garden, exulting in the new sprinkler system that Neil and Josh installed in the food forest. I’m still moving sprinklers around in the front of the garden, but the back is mostly easy now! Yay! Also, Josh nearly gave me a heart attack by sneaking up on me while I had my headphones on. While I recover, here’s what to expect in this episode of the podcast* Our friends at another Shekina location in Asia did the intro today! Well, it’s Ro, who you know, and our dear friend Laura. They chat about recording on a windy beach, art meditation, bird watching, and playing hide and seek. * Naomi guides a Lectio Divina on John 15: 4-10, from The Message paraphrase of the Bible. (If you want to skip to this, it’s at 05:40, but don’t skip the introduction, because you’ll never know what kind of birds Laura saw when she was birdwatching with Chinua and that mystery will haunt you!) Here’s the podcast on iTunes. Here’s the episode on Youtube.Today I feel thankful again for the breath of Holy Spirit, blowing us around, we don’t even know where. Much love,~ RaeThe podcast will always be free, but you can support us on Patreon.com and get extra audio each month. We're so thankful for your support, which helps our communities to offer this kind of meditation and other Christ-centered practices for free.

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Ciro Faienza presents Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto's “In One Sentence”, with commentary by the poet and a reading by British-Nigerian filmmaker Tony Sebastian Ukpo. You can read the full text of the poem and more about Chinua here.

Hi, it’s a beautiful Saturday here and I’m thinking about how I want to truly know that God is taking care of everything. That’s what I’m going to focus on this week.Here’s what to expect in this episode of the podcast:* Josh and Ro have a chat about the week, including a prayer bead meditation, visitors coming and going, and a devotion circle about how we tell ourselves the truth.* Chinua guides a Lectio Divina meditation on Psalm 119: 104-112 . If you want to skip straight to this, it’s at 05:30. But don’t, because the introductions are really fun!I pray that you would wake up with the expectation of traveling through your day with someone who makes all things possible.Much love,~ Rae

Hi everyone, here’s what to expect in this episode of the podcast:We have a new patron! Thank you Leona Raptis! This podcast is always free, but you can support it for as little as a dollar a month on Patreon.* I was away this week, so Neil and Ro introduce the episode, chatted about passionfruit jam, an excellent discussion on race and white privilege, carpentry, and a benefit concert.* Chinua guides a lectio divina meditation on Psalm 40 : 1-7. If you want to skip straight to this, it’s at 06:50.This week I pray that you would know the truth of Paul’s words from Acts 17:28 — In him we live, and move, and have our being.Blessings,~ Rae

Hi, Rae here. How amazing that we are here at the tenth episode of the podcast! I’m back in Pai, decompressing after many weeks of having a packed schedule. I’ve taken things a little more easy this week and I’m feeling much better. Just the smell of woodsmoke in the air is restorative.Here’s what to expect in this episode of the podcast:* Ro and I have a little chat about the week: guiding meditation at a Women’s Retreat, transformation, art meditation, and the intoxicating cool season air.* Chinua guides a beautiful contemplation of nature meditation. If you want to skip straight to this, it’s at 08:45. You will need to have a object of nature to hold or look at for your meditation, so take a little walk and find one before you start!This week I challenge you to reach out to someone you haven’t spoken to in a while. After a busy couple of months I got to talk to my brother today, and it was so good to connect. I pray for good connections and relationship in your life.~ Rae

The Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe's 1958 Things Fall Apart transformed the world by vividly imagining the story of an African community in English, the language of the colonizers, and yet on its own terms. It transformed not only the English language but allowed millions of readers to enter into a civilization and worldview that is at once highly specific yet resonant with universal themes. Manthia Diawara, the Mali-born and European-educated renowned filmmaker and writer, explains why Things Fall Apart ranks among the great novels of all time, and how reading this book brings you face-to-face with the great challenges and joys faced by all humans everywhere.

Hi, Rachel here! Here’s what to expect in Episode 2 of the podcast:* Ro and I do an update of life around here this week, including pita, a river of people, controlled fells, and weeds like trees.* Chinua guides us in a Lectio Divina meditation on Psalm 119: 25-32 (If you want to skip straight to this part, it’s at 07:33.)

Listen to the first chapter of Chinua Achibe’s Things Fall Apart.

Want to learn how to make the best of and maximize your youtube channel like the pros? Well this is the episode for that. Chinua Green, representative of Downtown Music Publishing and Songtrust is the Digital and Video Operations Manager and shares with us tips on how to grow your youtube channel and put out content. He explains in detail why there is a difference between how a vlogger releases video and runs their channel versus how a musician should release content and operate their channel. He breaks down the difference between Downtown Music Publishing which is a traditional music publishing company and Songtrust which is a publishing administration company and how they benefit artists and songwriters in different ways. To find out more about these companies please visit them online at, https://www.songtrust.com/ and https://www.dmpgroup.com/. To find Chinua on social media, please follow him at https://www.instagram.com/partyreport/

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Widely regarded as the father of modern African literature in English, Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930. A prolific writer, Achebe authored several works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. His debut and most well known novel, Things Fall Apart, was first published in 1958 and has since sold over 12 million copies internationally. He passed away on March 21, 2013 at the age of 82. He was a widely influential figure in the literary world and within academia. The Museum of the African Diaspora presents a roundtable discussion in celebration of the life and legacy of Chinua Achebe. Sarah Ladipo Manyika is an author and teaches literature at San Francisco State University. She will moderate and be joined in discussion by G. Ugo Nwokeji, Associate Professor of African American Studies at UC Berkeley; Saikat Majumdar, Assistant Professor of English at Stanford University; Sarita Cannon, Associate Professor of English Literature at San Francisco State University; and Donna V. Jones, Associate Professor of English at UC Berkeley. Sarah Ladipo Manyika was raised in Nigeria and has lived in Kenya, France, and England. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and currently teaches literature at San Francisco State University. Her writing includes essays, academic papers, book reviews and short stories. Sarah’s first novel, In Dependence, is published by Legend Press and Cassava Republic Press.