Podcasts about colonial africa

An official report on conditions in the Congo exposes the Free State's atrocities to the world. As pressure mounts on Leopold II to relinquish control of his colony, the king became increasingly determined to cling onto it until his dying breath. Email me: perspectivesinhistorypod@gmail.com Podcast Website Follow me on Twitter Facebook Page Buy Some Used Books Bibliography Ascherson, Neal. The King Incorporated: Leopold the Second and the Congo. Granta Books, 1963.  O'Siochain, Seamas and O'Sullivan, Michael. The Eyes of Another Race: Roger Casement's Congo Report and 1903 Diary. University College Dublin Press, 2003. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. Penguin Books, 2007.  Hochschild, Adam. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. Mariner Books, 2020.  Pakenham, Thomas. The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912. Perennial, 2003. Rutz, Michael. King Leopold's Congo and the ‘Scramble for Africa:' a Short History with Documents. Hackett Publishing Co. Inc, 2018 Cover Image: Satirical cartoon appearing in a November 1906 edition of the British magazine "Punch" depicting Leopold II as a snake attacking a Congolese man. Opening Theme: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op. 95, B. 178 by Antonín Dvořák Closing Theme: Central African tribal chant, date of recording unknown.

This week, Alida and Kathryn welcome Paula Sheridan back to the Round Table to discuss her new project, Finding Penrose.Paula's novel has already captured the hearts of celebrities, plus the media, with 100's of articles already published. And with two renowned film producers adapting Penrose's story for the big screen, they're now in talks with a Hollywood director and actors.This heart-warming and captivating tale is based on the real-life story of Penrose Matsile, a young boy in 1922 Colonial Africa who was stolen from his village and forced into a life of slavery. Despite the unimaginable odds, Penrose spent his entire life courageously fighting to reclaim his identity and freedom.We're excited to share Penrose's story with you, and my fellow author, Paula Sheridan, would be honored to have you join her on this incredible book-to-film journey through her exclusive launch campaign. Paula shares with us why she chose to fund this project herself--with community backing--instead of putting it in the hands of producers and risk the integrity of Penrose's story.Check out Paula's Kickstarter campaign to support Penrose's journey!Get Alida's musings on life, writing, and the writing life in A Room Full of Books & Pencils and stay up to date on book launches, special offers, and more at booksandpencils.substack.com Are you ready to get more out of your writing, grow your writing skills, and get that book written? Do you want community, feedback, and the mentoring of an expert story craft coach? Check out group coaching for novelists and memoirists. A new session is beginning soon. Get details & schedule your free discovery call today at www.wordessential.com/fictioncoaching Are you ready to work with a developmental editor or writing coach? Alida works with fiction and nonfiction writers on all kinds of writing projects. Email or schedule a discovery call. www.wordessential.com. Show notes, links, & more at www.StoryWorksPodcast.com.

The exploitation of the Congo and its people greatly intensifies as rubber becomes a valuable trade commodity. As the Free State begins to rake in profits, a few individuals take notice of the rampant human rights abuses in the colony and resolve to put a stop to them. Email me: perspectivesinhistorypod@gmail.com Podcast Website Follow me on Twitter Facebook Page Buy Some Used Books Bibliography Ascherson, Neal. The King Incorporated: Leopold the Second and the Congo. Granta Books, 1963.  O'Siochain, Seamas and O'Sullivan, Michael. The Eyes of Another Race: Roger Casement's Congo Report and 1903 Diary. University College Dublin Press, 2003. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. Penguin Books, 2007.  Hochschild, Adam. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. Mariner Books, 2020.  Pakenham, Thomas. The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912. Perennial, 2003. Rutz, Michael. King Leopold's Congo and the ‘Scramble for Africa:' a Short History with Documents. Hackett Publishing Co. Inc, 2018 Cover Image: Satirical cartoon appearing in a November 1906 edition of the British magazine "Punch" depicting Leopold II as a snake attacking a Congolese man. Opening Theme: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op. 95, B. 178 by Antonín Dvořák Closing Theme: Central African tribal chant, date of recording unknown.

Ornithology is defined as “a branch of zoology that concerns the study of birds.” The study, at least in America, is often tied to the amateur “father” of the study, John James Audubon. However, Audubon and many like him appropriated the knowledge of black and indigenous contributions and took the credit for themselves. Ornithology is filled with racist ideologies, with many slave-owners and/or white supremacists being rewarded with birds bearing their namesakes. Black naturalists may have been labeled as “amateur”, but their voices cannot remain silenced. Black Birder's week is a celebration of black nature-lovers and a commitment to the larger cause of breaking the colonial ties to greenspaces where everyone should feel welcome and safe. Ms. Nicole Jackson- founder of N Her Nature LLC, nature enthusiast, park advocate, Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Education & Interpretation, and birder-joins us to relight the fire for what we all know is true; the outdoors are for everyone!    Our Sources: Audubon, John James. The Life of John James Audubon, the Naturalist. Edited by Lucy Green Bakewell Audubon. New York: G. P. Putman's sons, 1875. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Life_of_John_James_Audubon_the_Natur/TB2gs7v5se0C?hl=en&gbpv=0. Ellison, Aaron M. et al. “Broadening the ecological mindset.” Ecological Applications, Vol. 31, no. 6, (September 2021): 1-3. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/27092162 Jacobs, Nancy J. “The Intimate Politics of Ornithology in Colonial Africa.” Cambridge University Press, Vol. 48, no. 3 (July 2006): 564-603. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3879437 Mirzoeff, Nicholas. “The Whiteness of Birds.”  liquid blackness, Vol 6, no.1 (April 2022): 120–137. https://read.dukeupress.edu/liquid-blackness/article/6/1/120/299559/The-Whiteness-of-Birds   Mock, Jillian. “‘Black Birders Week' Promotes Diversity and Takes on Racism in the Outdoors.” Audubon Magazine (June 1, 2020) https://www.audubon.org/news/black-birders-week-promotes-diversity-and-takes-racism-outdoors#:~:text=News-,'Black%20Birders%20Week'%20Promotes%20Diversity%20and%20Takes%20on%20Racism%20in,and%20studying%20the%20natural%20world. Nobles, Gregory. “The Myth of John James Audubon.” Audubon Magazine (July 31, 2020) https://www.audubon.org/news/the-myth-john-james-audubon.   Rhodes, Richard. John James Audubon: The Making of an American. New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006. Retrieved from https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=4j2FDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=John+James+Audubon&ots=GTGU7cI5Pk&sig=I0nBHyu6npig6HN8B0skVIF6aBE#v=onepage&q=John%20James%20Audubon&f=false Southern, Keiran. “80 bird species will be renamed ‘to break links with ‘slavery and racism'.” the website for the National African American Reparations Commission. The Times, published on November 02, 2023. accessed on April 11, 2024. https://reparationscomm.org/reparations-news/80-bird-species-will-be-renamed-to-break-links-with-slavery-and-racism/. the National Audubon Society, “Audubon Statement on Incident in Central Park's Ramble,” National Audubon Society, May 2020, https://www.audubon.org/news/audubon-statement-incident-central-parks-ramble the National Audubon Society, “National Audubon Society Announces Decision to Retain Current Name,” National Audubon Society, March 2023, https://www.audubon.org/news/national-audubon-society-announces-decision-retain-current-name   Additional Links: https://people.com/the-true-story-behind-christian-cooper-and-amy-cooper-s-central-park-birdwatching-incident-7510993 https://academic.oup.com/condor/article/125/1/duac047/7026134 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349479882_Growing_a_Community_The_Inaugural_Blackbotanistsweek_Recap_and_Looking_Forward

King Leopold II consolidates his control over the Congo. In his efforts to make the colony profitable, he oversees the establishment of a coercive regime of exploitation and moves to ruthlessly eliminate all resistance. Email me: perspectivesinhistorypod@gmail.com Podcast Website Follow me on Twitter Facebook Page Buy Some Used Books Bibliography Ascherson, Neal. The King Incorporated: Leopold the Second and the Congo. Granta Books, 1963.  O'Siochain, Seamas and O'Sullivan, Michael. The Eyes of Another Race: Roger Casement's Congo Report and 1903 Diary. University College Dublin Press, 2003. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. Penguin Books, 2007.  Hochschild, Adam. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. Mariner Books, 2020.  Pakenham, Thomas. The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912. Perennial, 2003. Rutz, Michael. King Leopold's Congo and the ‘Scramble for Africa:' a Short History with Documents. Hackett Publishing Co. Inc, 2018 Cover Image: Satirical cartoon appearing in a November 1906 edition of the British magazine "Punch" depicting Leopold II as a snake attacking a Congolese man. Opening Theme: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op. 95, B. 178 by Antonín Dvořák Closing Theme: Central African tribal chant, date of recording unknown.

Leopold II, King of the Belgians, continues his efforts to acquire a colony in Africa. As he constructs an elaborate facade to mask his true intentions, he contracts the famous explorer Henry Morton Stanley to do the dirty work on his behalf. Email me: perspectivesinhistorypod@gmail.com Podcast Website Follow me on Twitter Facebook Page Buy Some Used Books Bibliography Ascherson, Neal. The King Incorporated: Leopold the Second and the Congo. Granta Books, 1963.  O'Siochain, Seamas and O'Sullivan, Michael. The Eyes of Another Race: Roger Casement's Congo Report and 1903 Diary. University College Dublin Press, 2003. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. Penguin Books, 2007.  Hochschild, Adam. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. Mariner Books, 2020.  Pakenham, Thomas. The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912. Perennial, 2003. Rutz, Michael. King Leopold's Congo and the ‘Scramble for Africa:' a Short History with Documents. Hackett Publishing Co. Inc, 2018 Cover Image: Satirical cartoon appearing in a November 1906 edition of the British magazine "Punch" depicting Leopold II as a snake attacking a Congolese man. Opening Theme: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op. 95, B. 178 by Antonín Dvořák Closing Theme: Central African tribal chant, date of recording unknown.  

In the mid-19th century, new technological advances and the emergence of large industrial economies usher in the age of ‘New Imperialism.' As the world's ‘great powers' search for new territories to conquer, their eyes turn towards a region previously thought to be uninhabitable: Sub-Saharan Africa.  Email me Follow me on Twitter Like the show on Facebook Watch the show on YouTube Visit the eBay store Bibliography Ascherson, Neal. The King Incorporated: Leopold the Second and the Congo. Granta Books, 1963.  O'Siochain, Seamas and O'Sullivan, Michael. The Eyes of Another Race: Roger Casement's Congo Report and 1903 Diary. University College Dublin Press, 2003. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. Penguin Books, 2007.  Hochschild, Adam. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. Mariner Books, 2020.  Pakenham, Thomas. The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912. Perennial, 2003. Rutz, Michael. King Leopold's Congo and the ‘Scramble for Africa:' a Short History with Documents. Hackett Publishing Co. Inc, 2018 Cover Image: Satirical cartoon appearing in a November 1906 edition of the British magazine "Punch" depicting Leopold II as a snake attacking a Congolese man. Opening Theme: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op. 95, B. 178 by Antonín Dvořák Closing Theme: Central African tribal chant, date of recording unknown.

To celebrate over two thousand episodes of the show, we are launching KEEN ON AMERICA - a special series of personal conversations with prominent Americans about their now almost 250 year-old Republic. First up is Adam Hochschild, the co-founder of Mother Jones magazine, author of American Midnight and many other important books about the modern world. As Hochschild told me when I sat down with him in his Berkeley home, his life has been fused by activism: at first, the rebellious activism of a son and young citizen in the early Sixties; and now the more cerebral activism of father, grandfather and acclaimed writer. Such activism, I think, make Adam's story very much of an American story and an ideal first chapter in the KEEN ON AMERICA series. Adam Hochschild is the author of eleven books. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis is his most recent. His preceding book, the biography Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes, was published in 2020.  Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, appeared in 2016. Of his earlier books, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN USA Literary Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa and To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 were both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels and the recent Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays collect his shorter pieces, including magazine reporting from five continents. Earlier in his career, he was a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, a commentator on National Public Radio's “All Things Considered,” and a co-founder, editor, and writer at Mother Jones magazine.  He has received the Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Award from the American Historical Association and in 2014 was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a three-time winner of the California Book Awards' Gold Medal for Nonfiction.Keen On is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, host Jonathan Dumas engages in a stimulating conversation with fellow career coach and business owner, Ashmi Patel. They share their experiences with ADHD, higher education, and the radical shift to entrepreneurship. Ashmi highlights the importance of self-compassion, reframing failure, and resisting capitalist pressures. She offers insights into her coaching philosophy and how she utilizes creativity to promote personal growth. They both reflect on how aligning their careers with their values enhances their sense of fulfillment, and the importance of showing up authentically.   Resources for the Show Humanitarian Crisis in Congo The Ghost in your Phone - Throughline Podcast Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara White Malice by Susan Williams The Congo from Leopold to Kabila by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja The Assassination of Lumumba by Ludo de Witte The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart A. Reid King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild Free Palestine & Cease Fire Resources Stay up to date with Bisan on TikTok Palestine Resources & Info guide created by @hina 5 Calls App to call your reps Social Change Map by Deepa Iyer Connect with Ashmi on socials: Website: AshmiPatel.com  IG: @AshmiPatelCoaching LinkedIn: Ashmi Patel Schedule a chat with Ashmi   Ways to support the show:   

In this engaging conversation, Alyson Kaneshiro, shares her journey in becoming an entrepreneur, driven by her passion for education and a dissatisfaction with traditional systems. She emphasizes the importance of recognizing individual learning differences and implementing a tailored approach to education. Alyson champions the use of universal design within an equity lens in education. Shedding light on her own journey of understanding her identity, she emphasizes the necessity for inclusivity, cultural understanding, and critical thinking in classrooms. While highlighting the importance of creating safe spaces and building solidarity across differences.   Resources for the Show Humanitarian Crisis in Congo The Ghost in your Phone - Throughline Podcast Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara White Malice by Susan Williams The Congo from Leopold to Kabila by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja The Assassination of Lumumba by Ludo de Witte The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart A. Reid King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild Connect with Alyson on socials: Website: learningspecialist.net LinkedIn: Alyson Kaneshiro Schedule a chat with Alyson   Try Magic Mind ✨ Head to Magicmind.com/visible and use code VISIBLE20 to get your pack of Magic Mind 

Congo is currently undergoing a silent genocide. We are lifting our voices for the people of DRC. This episode is my imperfect attempt to amplify the ongoing situation in Congo, and share the 5 greatest lessons I learned from a book I read in light of the moment we are in called Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara. In this episode, I also read an overview of what's happening in the Northern Kivu regions where militia groups are massacring, exploiting, and sexually assaulting Congolese people. Free Congo, Free Sudan, Free Palestine, Free Haiti, and free all nations and peoples suffering under colonial, capitalist, supremacist, and military violence.

July Cannibal Month!!!!! Join us for our 2nd installment in the July Cannibal Month as we delve into the Human Leopard Society in colonial Africa. We weave through the maze that is the trials and the connections to modern times of Secret African Societies. We hope you Enjoy! Source material for this episode: Human Leopard Society: Ritual Murder and Cannibalism in Colonial Africa by KJ Beatty Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08R64MT3P?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/founding-sierra-leone/ https://unipsil.unmissions.org/about-sierra-leone-history SUBSCRIBE! Don't forget to subscribe so you can catch future shows. PLEASE RATE & REVIEW:

Eine Welt ohne Vernetzung? Heute undenkbar. Ein Smartphone allein enthält Grundstoffe aus aller Welt. Das Auto auch. Und dass Callcenter heute in Indien sitzen oder unsere Jeans in Vietnam zusammengenäht werden, ist die Realität. Wir reisen durch die ganze Welt, pflegen Freundschaften rund um den Erdball. Doch die Globalisierung ist nicht nur gut. Ihre Geschichte ist auch verbunden mit Sklaverei, Ausbeutung und Armut. Aber wann fing sie eigentlich an, diese Vernetzung über alle Kontinente hinweg? Und gab es schon zu allen Zeiten Kritik an der Globalisierung? Und ließe sich die Globalisierung auch wieder zurückdrehen? Und vor allem: Wäre das überhaupt wünschenswert? Ein Podcast über chinesisches Porzellan und Billigimporte aus dem Iran um das Jahr 1000. Über den ersten globalen Krieg im 18. Jahrhundert und die Frage: Was hat Globalisierung mit der Klimakrise zu tun? -> Wenn Ihr uns unterstützen wollt, könnt Ihr hier für uns beim **Deutschen Podcastpreis** abstimmen: https://www.deutscher-podcastpreis.de/podcasts/terra-x-history/ -> Hier gehts zu **WDR ZeitZeichen**: https://www1.wdr.de/podcast/podcastpicker/index~_sid-zeitzeichen-1512.html **Gesprächspartner*innen** - Marcia Schenck - Holger Görg - Valerie Hansen - Claus Leggewie - Thomas Eberhardt-Köster - Catherine Higgs - Kathryn E. Sampeck **Literatur:** - Betz, Joachim; Hein, Wolfgang (2022): Globalisierung. Voraussetzungen, Auswirkungen, Widerstände. - Füssel, Marian (2022): Der Siebenjährige Krieg. Ein Weltkrieg im 18. Jahrhundert. - Hansen, Valerie (2020): Das Jahr 1000. Als die Globalisierung begann. München, Verlag C.H. Beck. - Higgs, Catherine (2012): Chocolate Islands. Cocoa, Slavery and Colonial Africa. Ohio University Press. - Leggewie, Claus (2003): Die Globalisierung und ihre Gegner. - Mahlke, Stefan (Hrsg.) (2022): Atlas der Globalisierung, Ungleiche Welt. Le Monde diplomatique. - Marcy Norton (2008): Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World. Cornell University Press. - Oltmer, Jochen (2018): Globale Migration: Geschichte, Gegenwart, Zukunft. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. - Schwartzkopf, Stacey und Kathryn E. Sampeck (2017): Ingested Commodities in Early Modern Mesoamerica. University of Texas Press. - Schenck, Marcia, C. (2023): Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World: Socialist Mobilities between Angola, Mozambique, and East Germany. **Internetquellen:** - https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalisierungskritik#Attac - https://www.bpb.de/kurz-knapp/zahlen-und-fakten/globalisierung/52525/globalisierungskritik/ - https://www.attac.de/ziele/nachhaltig-wirtschaften - https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2018-06/weltwirtschaft-globalisierung-verteilung-gerechtigkeit-holger-goerg - https://www.zeit.de/2007/42/A-Wirtschaftskrise-1857 - https://www.zeit.de/2020/23/erste-weltwirtschaftskrise-hamburg-oesterreich-hilfe - https://unipub.uni-graz.at/obvugrhs/content/titleinfo/2492270/full.pdf - https://www.fes.de/politische-akademie/onlineakademie-vorlage/die-geschichte-der-globalisierung - https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/die-brutalitaet-der-sklavenindustrie-100.html **Team:** - Moderation: Mirko Drotschmann - Sprecher*innen: Dominik Freiberger, Inga Haupt, Andrea Kath, Nils Kretschmer - Redaktion objektiv media GmbH: Janine Funke und Andrea Kath - Technik: Moritz Raestrup - Musik: Sonoton - Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeit: Daniela Ssymank - Produktion: objektiv media GmbH im Auftrag des ZDF - Redaktion ZDF: Katharina Kolvenbach

In this episode, Dr. Eric Bryant interviews Dr. Rebecca Makayi about her research into reaching Post-Colonial Africa. She contends that missionaries could have been far more effective over the long term had they sought to notice what God was already doing among the people of Zimbabwe. Rather than adding Western cultural values to their version of Christianity, cross-cultural missionaries would have been amazed to notice the similarities between African and Jewish culture, the worship of One Creator God, and the creation stories. Our goal with The Post-Christian Podcast is to reframe, simplify, and focus on our mission to make disciples in a post Christian culture. We discuss reaching new people and raising up leaders while removing the barriers of churchianity. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eric-bryant1/support

This episode we're talking about the genre of Economics! We discuss economic philosophy, Excel spreadsheets, micro vs macro, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World by Ha-Joon Chang Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil by Nicholas Shaxson Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara Communism for Kids by Bini Adamczak Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails by Yanis Varoufakis, translated by Jacob Moe Other Media We Mentioned Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World by Rutger Bregman King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa  Adam Hochschild The Colour of Magic by Terry Prachett “Perhaps there is something in this reflected-sound-of-underground-spirits? It was a cumbersome phrase. Rincewind tried to get his tongue around the thick syllables that were the word in Twoflower's own language. What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement by Vladimir Lenin (Wikipedia) Links, Articles, and Things If Books Could Kill - Freakonomics Fear the Boom and Bust: Keynes vs. Hayek (YouTube) Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek - Economics Rap Battle Round Two Peter Singer (Wikipedia) Unspeakable Conversations: Harriet McBryde Johnson on debating Peter Singer “He insists he doesn't want to kill me. He simply thinks it would have been better, all things considered, to have given my parents the option of killing the baby I once was.” If Books Could Kill - Rich Dad Poor Dad Saltwater and freshwater economics (Wikipedia) Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (Wikipedia) Another normal day of mining in Africa (Reddit) Belt and Road Initiative (Wikipedia) Report exposes solar panel industry Uyghur forced labour links Ouija (Wikipedia) Chinchilla (Wikipedia) Social media is doomed to die (The Verge) Reddit: Antiwork Reddit: Late Stage Capitalism 25 Economics books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed Get Good with Money: Ten Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole by Tiffany Aliche Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change by Aja Barber The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It by Dorothy A. Brown 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World by Ha-Joon Chang Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk by Satyajit Das The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy by Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson and Arthur Manuel Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street by Cin Fabré Build the Damn Thing: How to Start a Successful Business If You're Not a Rich White Guy by Kathryn Finney Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas Indigenomics: Taking a Seat at the Economic Table by Carol Anne Hilton The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex edited by Incite! Women of Colour Against Violence Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships: Nehiyawak Narratives by Shalene Wuttunee Jobin How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged by Kimberly Jones The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice by Jessica Gordon Nembhard Can't We Just Print More Money? Economics in Ten Simple Questions by Rupal Patel The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America by Shawn D. Rochester Karl Marx's Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy by Kohei Saito The Wisdom of Sustainability: Buddist Economics for the 21st Century by Sulak Sivaraksa Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance by Edgar Villanueva The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today by Linda Yueh Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism by Muhammad Yunus Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, May 16th we'll be talking about some old genres we've covered and whether we'd read them again. Then on Tuesday, June 6th we'll be discussing the genre of Fantasy! 

Today I speak with Adam Hochschild, journalist, lecturer at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and author of eleven books. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis is his most recent. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa and To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 were both selected as finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. We discuss the British Anti-Slavery Movement and his 2006 book Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN USA Literary Award, the Gold Medal of the California Book Awards, and was a finalist for the National Book Award.   Adam recommends these two books: The Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano Disposable People by Kevin Bales

In this segment of The Crossroads I made a short introduction of the current cold war between the USA and China over microchips, and how this international debacle is directly linked with the enslavement of Congolese people in mining plants of The Democratic Republic of the Congo.(Sources) The images and some of the information mentioned in this episode are from: USA vs China, The War You Can't See (https://youtu.be/k_zz3239DA0)The Dark Side of Electric Cars (https://youtu.be/2_T5DgsO0jc)The World's Poorest Country is Sitting on $24 Trillion (https://youtu.be/whfzA0A2xLg)Recommended Books: 1. "Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives" by Siddharth Kara2. "The Congo: From Leopold to Kabila, A People's History" by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja3. "King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa" by Adam Hochschild4. "Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association" by Tony Martin5. "Culture and Imperialism" by Edward W. Said6. "The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of Dark Continent From 1876 to 1912", by Thomas Pakenham7. "How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States", by Daniel Immerwahr8. "The Destruction of Black Civilization" by Chancellor Williams9. "The Rebirth of African Civilization", by Chancellor WilliamsFollow the podcast on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lamogollapr/Spotify: La Mogolla PRApple Podcast: La Mogolla PRSíguenos en:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lamogollapr/Spotify: La Mogolla PRApple Podcast: La Mogolla PR

Links from the show:* American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis* Follow Ryan on Twitter* Subscribe to the showAbout my guest:Adam Hochschild (pronunciation: ”Hoch” as in ”spoke”; ”schild” as in ”build”) is the author of eleven books; American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis is his most recent. His preceding book, the biography Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes, was published in 2020.  Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, appeared in 2016. Of his earlier books, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN USA Literary Award, the Gold Medal of the California Book Awards, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa and To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 were both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels and the recent Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays collect his shorter pieces, including magazine reporting from five continents.Earlier in his career, he was a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, a commentator on National Public Radio's “All Things Considered,” and a co-founder, editor, and writer at Mother Jones magazine. Links to recent articles of his appear below. He has received the Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Award from the American Historical Association and in 2014 was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Get full access to Dispatches from the War Room at dispatchesfromthewarroom.substack.com/subscribe

We're back with our first episode of 2023, and we're talking about RRR! Join us as we learn about the Gymkhana Club, riot gear, Lala Lajpat Rai, flogging in the British Raj, and more! Sources: Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, Volume 281 (6 July 1883): https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/1883-07-06/debates/53f4430d-fcb5-43e2-b9e1-e478f12fb23d/India-CriminalLaw%E2%80%94PunishmentOfFlogging Sean Lang, "John Nicholson: The Sadistic British Officer Who Was Worshipped As a Living God in India," The Conversation, available at https://theconversation.com/john-nicholson-the-sadistic-british-officer-who-was-worshipped-as-a-living-god-in-india-99889 David Skuy, "Macauley and the Indian Penal Code of 1862: The Myth of the Inherent Superiority and Modernity of the English Legal System Compared to India's Legal System in the 19th Century," Modern Asian Studies 32, 3 (1998) Whipping Act of 1909, Full Text Available at https://www.indiacode.nic.in/repealed-act/repealed_act_documents/A1909-4.pdf Radhika Singha, "The Rare Infliction: The Abolition of Floggin in the Indian Army, circa 1835-1920," Law and History Review 34, 3 (2016) "Discrimination Still Alive and Well in India's Clubs," Irish Times, available at https://www.irishtimes.com/news/discrimination-still-alive-and-well-in-india-s-exclusive-clubs-1.1209302 Amrit Dhillon, "No Dogs or Indians: Colonial Britain Still Rules at India's Private Clubs," Sydney Morning Herald, available at https://www.smh.com.au/world/no-dogs-or-indians-colonial-britain-still-rules-at-indias-private-clubs-20170630-gx1vtk.html "Report of the Committee Appointed in the Government of India to Investigate the Disturbances in the Punjab," 1920, available at https://www.google.com/books/edition/Report_of_the_Committee_Appointed_in_the/u9INAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=delhi+gymkhana+club&pg=PA2&printsec=frontcover Vinay Lal, "Hinduism," in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World edited by Peter N. Stearns (Oxford University Press, 2008).  C.V. Mathew, "Arya Samaj," in The Oxford Encyclopaedia of South Asian Christianity edited by Roger E. Hedlund, Jesudas M. Athyal, Joshua Kalapati, and Jessica Richard (Oxford University Press, 2011).  "Hindu Nationalism," in The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History edited by Stanley N. Katz (Oxford University Press, 2009).  "Hindu nationalism," in A Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics and International Relations edited by Garrett W. Brown, Iain McLean, and Alistair McMillan (Oxford University Press, 2018).  Christophe Jaffrelot, "Madan Mohan Malaviya and Lala Lajpat Rai," in Hindu Nationalism: A Reader (Princeton University Press, 2007). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7s415.9 D.P. Singh, "Lala Lajpat Rai: His Life, Times and Contributions to Indian Polity," The Indian Journal of Political Science 52, no.1 (1991): 125-36. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41855539  Vanya Bhargav, "Lala Lajpat Rai's Ideas on Caste: Conservative or Radical?" Studies in Indian Politics 6, no.1 (2018): 15-26.  J.S. Bains, "Lala Lajpat Rai's Idealism and Indian National Movement," The Indian Journal of Political Science 46, no. 4 (1985): 401-20.  S.R. Bhakshi and S.R. Bhakshl, "Simon Commission and Lajpat Rai: An Assessment," Porceedings of the Indian History Congress 50 (1989): 507-18.  Saṅgīt Mahābhāratī, "Vandé Mātaram," in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Music of India (Oxford University Press, 2011).  Martin Thomas, "'Poying the Butcher's Bill': Policing British Colonial Protest after 1918," Crime, History & Societies 15, no.2 (2011): 55-76. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42708833   Aftab Nabi, "Consolidating the British Empire: The Structure, Orientation, and Role of Policing in Colonial Africa and Asia," Pakistan Horizon 69, no.2 (2016): 47-77. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44988203  David Arnold, "The Police and Colonial Control in South India," Social Scientist, 4, no. 12 (1976): 3-16. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3516332   Simeon Shoul, "Soldiers, Riot Control and Aid to the Civil Power in India, Egypt and Palestine, 1919-39," Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 86, no. 346 (2008): 120-39. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44231576   Prashant Kidambi, "'The ultimate masters of the city': police, public order and the poor in colonial Bombay, c. 1893-1914," Crime, History & Societies 8, no.1 (2004): 27-47. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42708561   John Powers, "If you haven't been back to the movies yet, Indian epic 'RRR' is the reason to go," NPR (11 October 2022). https://www.npr.org/2022/10/11/1127995338/rrr-review--rajamouli-indian-epic-cult-following  Steve Rose, "Best movies of 2022 in the US: No 5 - RRR" The Guardian (19 December 2022). https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/dec/19/best-movies-of-2022-in-the-us-no-5-rrr  Glen Weldon et al, "'RRR' is an inteRRRnational phenomenon," Pop Culture Happy Hour, NPR (11 July 2022). https://www.npr.org/2022/06/24/1107301440/rrr-is-an-interrrnational-phenomenon   Nitish Pahwa, "A Wild Indian Blockbuster is Ravishing Movie Fans, but They're Missing Its Troubling Subtext," Slate (8 June 2022). https://slate.com/culture/2022/06/rrr-review-indian-blockbuster-netflix-hindu-nationalism.html   Rotten Tomatoes, https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rrr 

Dr. Nicholas Mays is an Assistant Professor of History at Baldwin Wallace University. After growing up on the west side of Cleveland, Mays earned a bachelor's degree from Baldwin Wallace and then a master's and his PhD in history from Kent State University – which is where we crossed paths – we were both in a post-colonial seminar there taught by Dr. Shane Strate. Dr. Mays' chief scholarly interests are 19th and 20th century America, and the African-American experience from the 17th century to present and Colonial Africa. His particular focus is on American slavery and the black experience, civil rights activism in the North, post-1965 black freedom struggles, hip-hop music and activism, and urban America.

On the 93rd episode of The Bald Head-N-The Dread Podcast, Jr (The Bald Head)  and Autarchii (The Dread) reason about the evil history of the British empire and the death of Queen Elizabeth.Books Recommended In The Reasoning:'Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya' By: Caroline Elkins'King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa' By: Adam HochschildThe Last Empire: South Africa, Diamonds and De Beers from Cecil Rhodes to the OppenheimersBy:  Stefan Kanfer➡️ Sign Up Today To Join The 'I Never Knew Tv' Movement:https://ineverknewtv.com/sign-up/➡️ Get Your 'Nyahbinghi Shirt' Today:https://koncioust.com/products/queen-muhumusa-empress-nyahbinghi➡️ Listen To The 'Generation Gap Riddim': https://ingrv.es/generation-gap-riddi-3qn-i ➡️ Purchase Autarchii 'Disturbing The Status Quo:https://ingrv.es/disrupting-the-status-x2j-j➡️ Tune into 'I NEVER KNEW 'Roots, Rock, Reggae MusicHosted By : Jr of 'I Never Knew Tv'https://www.WLOY.orgSunday 9 -11 AM ESTWednesday 8- 10 AM ESTThursday 10- Noon AM EST

Time to dust off the history books. France, along with other European nations, has a long history of involvement with Africa. Much of this history is based on exploitation of both the natural resources and the people of Africa. The direct French involvement did not end in many of these countries until 1960. This history, and the subsequent treaties established during independence of the African nations during the 1958 - 1960 time period set the stage for the continued economic exploitation of the African continent. News and Links https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/07/07/celsius-sends-500m-of-bitcoin-derivative-to-crypto-exchange-after-debt-payoff/ (https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/07/07/celsius-sends-500m-of-bitcoin-derivative-to-crypto-exchange-after-debt-payoff/) https://cryptonews.com/news/voyager-digital-files-for-bankruptcy.htm (https://cryptonews.com/news/voyager-digital-files-for-bankruptcy.htm) https://watcher.guru/news/coinbase-backed-vauld-suspends-services-users-disappointed (https://watcher.guru/news/coinbase-backed-vauld-suspends-services-users-disappointed) https://twitter.com/tier10k/status/1545164108634460163 (https://twitter.com/tier10k/status/1545164108634460163) https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=RvF30Mz2IZW63s1mjjau2Q== (https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=RvF30Mz2IZW63s1mjjau2Q==) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramble_for_Africa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramble_for_Africa) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_possessions_and_colonies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_possessions_and_colonies) https://www.africa.upenn.edu/K-12/French_16178.html (https://www.africa.upenn.edu/K-12/French_16178.html) https://www.france24.com/en/20100214-1960-year-independence (https://www.france24.com/en/20100214-1960-year-independence) Podcasting 2.0 Apps Available at http://newpodcastapps.com/ (http://newpodcastapps.com/) I can be reached by email at mcintosh@genwealthcrypto.com and on twitter at @McIntoshFinTech. My mastodon handle is @mcintosh@podcastindex.social. Looking forward to hearing from you! Website https://genwealthcrypto.com/ (https://genwealthcrypto.com) Music Credits Rock Guitar Intro 07 by TaigaSoundProd Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8342-rock-guitar-intro-07 License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Funky Life by WinnieTheMoog Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6040-funky-life (https://filmmusic.io/song/6040-funky-life) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

As the horrors of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine unfold before our eyes, we have witnessed a massive wave of refugees absorbed by a range of Eastern European countries – with the most refugees so far remaining in Poland. This is a remarkably apt moment to talk about the lessons of an important new study by historian Jochen Lingelbach. In On the Edges of Whiteness: Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War (Berghahn, 2020), Lingelbach tells the story of just under 20,000 Polish refugees (many, from present-day Ukraine) who, initially deported into the Soviet Union at the start of World War II, found themselves in British hands after the USSR joined the Allies in 1941, and were transferred to the British-held colonies of East and Central Africa. On the Edges of Whiteness traces the complex relationships that developed among the Polish refugees, their British administrators, and their African neighbors in a story of survival and dramatic dislocation against the backdrop of war. Lingelbach's book is an important and timely contribution to African history, Eastern European history, colonial history, and migration studies. Piotr H. Kosicki is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Catholics on the Barricades (Yale, 2018) and editor, among others, of Political Exile in the Global Twentieth Century (with Wolfram Kaiser). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

As the horrors of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine unfold before our eyes, we have witnessed a massive wave of refugees absorbed by a range of Eastern European countries – with the most refugees so far remaining in Poland. This is a remarkably apt moment to talk about the lessons of an important new study by historian Jochen Lingelbach. In On the Edges of Whiteness: Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War (Berghahn, 2020), Lingelbach tells the story of just under 20,000 Polish refugees (many, from present-day Ukraine) who, initially deported into the Soviet Union at the start of World War II, found themselves in British hands after the USSR joined the Allies in 1941, and were transferred to the British-held colonies of East and Central Africa. On the Edges of Whiteness traces the complex relationships that developed among the Polish refugees, their British administrators, and their African neighbors in a story of survival and dramatic dislocation against the backdrop of war. Lingelbach's book is an important and timely contribution to African history, Eastern European history, colonial history, and migration studies. Piotr H. Kosicki is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Catholics on the Barricades (Yale, 2018) and editor, among others, of Political Exile in the Global Twentieth Century (with Wolfram Kaiser). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

As the horrors of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine unfold before our eyes, we have witnessed a massive wave of refugees absorbed by a range of Eastern European countries – with the most refugees so far remaining in Poland. This is a remarkably apt moment to talk about the lessons of an important new study by historian Jochen Lingelbach. In On the Edges of Whiteness: Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War (Berghahn, 2020), Lingelbach tells the story of just under 20,000 Polish refugees (many, from present-day Ukraine) who, initially deported into the Soviet Union at the start of World War II, found themselves in British hands after the USSR joined the Allies in 1941, and were transferred to the British-held colonies of East and Central Africa. On the Edges of Whiteness traces the complex relationships that developed among the Polish refugees, their British administrators, and their African neighbors in a story of survival and dramatic dislocation against the backdrop of war. Lingelbach's book is an important and timely contribution to African history, Eastern European history, colonial history, and migration studies. Piotr H. Kosicki is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Catholics on the Barricades (Yale, 2018) and editor, among others, of Political Exile in the Global Twentieth Century (with Wolfram Kaiser). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history

As the horrors of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine unfold before our eyes, we have witnessed a massive wave of refugees absorbed by a range of Eastern European countries – with the most refugees so far remaining in Poland. This is a remarkably apt moment to talk about the lessons of an important new study by historian Jochen Lingelbach. In On the Edges of Whiteness: Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War (Berghahn, 2020), Lingelbach tells the story of just under 20,000 Polish refugees (many, from present-day Ukraine) who, initially deported into the Soviet Union at the start of World War II, found themselves in British hands after the USSR joined the Allies in 1941, and were transferred to the British-held colonies of East and Central Africa. On the Edges of Whiteness traces the complex relationships that developed among the Polish refugees, their British administrators, and their African neighbors in a story of survival and dramatic dislocation against the backdrop of war. Lingelbach's book is an important and timely contribution to African history, Eastern European history, colonial history, and migration studies. Piotr H. Kosicki is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Catholics on the Barricades (Yale, 2018) and editor, among others, of Political Exile in the Global Twentieth Century (with Wolfram Kaiser). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-studies

As the horrors of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine unfold before our eyes, we have witnessed a massive wave of refugees absorbed by a range of Eastern European countries – with the most refugees so far remaining in Poland. This is a remarkably apt moment to talk about the lessons of an important new study by historian Jochen Lingelbach. In On the Edges of Whiteness: Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War (Berghahn, 2020), Lingelbach tells the story of just under 20,000 Polish refugees (many, from present-day Ukraine) who, initially deported into the Soviet Union at the start of World War II, found themselves in British hands after the USSR joined the Allies in 1941, and were transferred to the British-held colonies of East and Central Africa. On the Edges of Whiteness traces the complex relationships that developed among the Polish refugees, their British administrators, and their African neighbors in a story of survival and dramatic dislocation against the backdrop of war. Lingelbach's book is an important and timely contribution to African history, Eastern European history, colonial history, and migration studies. Piotr H. Kosicki is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Catholics on the Barricades (Yale, 2018) and editor, among others, of Political Exile in the Global Twentieth Century (with Wolfram Kaiser). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/eastern-european-studies

As the horrors of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine unfold before our eyes, we have witnessed a massive wave of refugees absorbed by a range of Eastern European countries – with the most refugees so far remaining in Poland. This is a remarkably apt moment to talk about the lessons of an important new study by historian Jochen Lingelbach. In On the Edges of Whiteness: Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War (Berghahn, 2020), Lingelbach tells the story of just under 20,000 Polish refugees (many, from present-day Ukraine) who, initially deported into the Soviet Union at the start of World War II, found themselves in British hands after the USSR joined the Allies in 1941, and were transferred to the British-held colonies of East and Central Africa. On the Edges of Whiteness traces the complex relationships that developed among the Polish refugees, their British administrators, and their African neighbors in a story of survival and dramatic dislocation against the backdrop of war. Lingelbach's book is an important and timely contribution to African history, Eastern European history, colonial history, and migration studies. Piotr H. Kosicki is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Catholics on the Barricades (Yale, 2018) and editor, among others, of Political Exile in the Global Twentieth Century (with Wolfram Kaiser). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the horrors of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine unfold before our eyes, we have witnessed a massive wave of refugees absorbed by a range of Eastern European countries – with the most refugees so far remaining in Poland. This is a remarkably apt moment to talk about the lessons of an important new study by historian Jochen Lingelbach. In On the Edges of Whiteness: Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War (Berghahn, 2020), Lingelbach tells the story of just under 20,000 Polish refugees (many, from present-day Ukraine) who, initially deported into the Soviet Union at the start of World War II, found themselves in British hands after the USSR joined the Allies in 1941, and were transferred to the British-held colonies of East and Central Africa. On the Edges of Whiteness traces the complex relationships that developed among the Polish refugees, their British administrators, and their African neighbors in a story of survival and dramatic dislocation against the backdrop of war. Lingelbach's book is an important and timely contribution to African history, Eastern European history, colonial history, and migration studies. Piotr H. Kosicki is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Catholics on the Barricades (Yale, 2018) and editor, among others, of Political Exile in the Global Twentieth Century (with Wolfram Kaiser). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies

Dr. Matt Robertshaw explains how Haitians travelled through the French Empire and their impact on Africa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gary: Today's special episode is by Matt Robertshaw. Matt is a PhD candidate in History at York University in Toronto. He is studying the relationship between Haiti and the later French colonial empire in Africa. He is also a video essayist, sharing original research on sport, language and popular culture in the colonial and post-colonial […]

“I'm writing about group creativity, which is not something we often do … what's interesting to me is what happens in the friction between people's minds through conversations, through discussion, through the exchange of ideas, through debate, through sort of egging one another on … bringing about any idea that's going to sort of undermine the nature of reality as we know it.” Gal Beckerman of The Atlantic joins us on the show to talk about his fascinating new book, The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas, including the story behind the Ph.D. he earned in order to write it, how he found the people who drive his narrative from 17th-century France to present-day Minneapolis, how technology helps (or hurts) the exchange of ideas, and so much more.   Featured Books: The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas by Gal Beckerman Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65 by Taylor Branch At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild   Poured Over is produced and hosted by Miwa Messer, edited by David Eitel, and mixed by Harry Liang. Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional bonus episodes on Saturdays.)

By all accounts, Robert Baden-Powell was an extraordinary man. He lived many lives; from his time as a spy to the Victorian hero of the Boer War, and finally as the founder of the international Scouts movement. However, his detractors accuse him of having Nazi sympathies, and of committing terrible crimes in Colonial Africa. To discover the truth about Baden-Powell Steven Edginton interviews Scouting historian Tony Ransley in the latest episode of History Defended.Watch Tony Ransley's interview: https://youtu.be/_OMedwEz6jo|Read more from The Telegraph's award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/ |For 30 days' free access to The Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/audio |See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Welcome to the sixth episode of “We Effed Up!” On this episode, we try to untangle the mess that is King Leopold II's pursuit of the Congo and why reading the fine print is so important.SourcesHochschild, Adam. King Leopold's Ghost: A Study of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. Mariner Books, New York, 1998.Jeal, Tim. Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer. Yale U. Press, Cambridge, 2007.Packenham, Thomas. The Scramble for Africa. Abacus History, New York, 1991.Reeves, Thomas C. Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester A. Arthur. Alfred Knopf, New York, 1975.Van Reybrouck, David. Congo: The Epic History of a People (Sam Collins, Trans.). Harper Collins, New York, 2014. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode Dan & Henry discuss some of the darkest stuff they've ever had to research. No jokes in description.   Resource: King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa

We often hear that homosexuality is “unAfrican” and a Western import. But how true is this (hint: it isn't). To support queer activist projects in Africa, please consider donating to, or following (giving a S/O) to: GALCK Kenya | INEND Kenya | Freedom and Roam Uganda | Association of LGBTI People in Zimbabwe (GALZ) | LEGABIBO (Lesbians, Gays & Bisexuals of Botswana) | LGBT Voice Tanzania If you are a queer person of faith in Kenya and would like to be part of a community that accepts and embraces your queerness, check out Cosmopolitan Affirming Community – issa church. Sources: Alok Gupta, This Alien Legacy; The Origins of "Sodomy" Laws in British Colonialism (Human Rights Watch) Binta Bajaha, Postcolonial Amnesia: The Construction of Homosexuality as ‘un-African' Bisi Alimi, If you say being gay is not African, you don't know your history Boris Bertolt, The invention of heterosexuality in Africa Busangokwakhe Dlamini, Homosexuality in the African Context (2006) 67 Agenda 128 – 136. George Paul Meiu, Colonialism and Sexuality (2015) Keletso Makofane, Unspoken facts: a history of homosexualities in Africa, 2013 15(1) Culture, Health and Sexuality, p.114 – 116. Leah Buckle, African Sexuality and the Legacy of Imported Homophobia Limakatso K Kendall: “'When a Woman Loves a Woman': In Lesotho: Love, Sex, and the (Western) Construction of Homophobia.” Maxim Ananyev and Michael Poyker, Christian missions and anti-gay attitudes in Africa (2020) Okafor Samuel Okechi, The Indigenous Concept of Sexuality in African Tradition and Globalization(2018) 6(1) Global Journal of Reproductive Medicine Rita Schäfer & Eva Range, The Political Use of Homophobia Human Rights and Persecution of LGBTI Activists in Africa (2014) The Black Youth Project (2019), Comic: Queer Folks Existed in Pre-Colonial Africa and y'all can stay mad, University of New York, Albany Queering History, Queering Africa, University of New York Albany Wairimũ Ngarũiya Njambi and William E. O'Brien, Revisiting "Woman-Woman Marriage": Notes on Gĩkũyũ Women(2000) Zahrah Z Devji, Forging Paths for the African Queer: Is There an “African” Mechanism for Realizing LGBTIQ Rights?

In the political ferment of early twentieth century New York City, when socialists and reformers battled sweatshops, and writers and artists thought a new world was being born, an immigrant Jewish woman from Russia appeared in the Yiddish press, in Carnegie Hall, and at rallies. Her name was Rose Pastor Stokes, and she fought for socialism, contraception and workers' rights. What set her apart was not just the strength of her speeches or the passion of her commitments, but her marriage to James Graham Phelps Stokes, the wealthy Episcopalian son of one of the oldest and most elite families in the United States. Over the course of their marriage they lived in an apartment on the Lower East Side, a private island in Long Island Sound, and a townhouse in Greenwich Village. The book Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes by Adam Hochschild (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020) explores her life, her unlikely marriage and the great hopes of the Progressive Era in New York City. Hochschild, a master of deeply researched narrative history, is the author of ten books—among them King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa and Spain In Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War. He has won widespread recognition for his writing and received the Theodore Roosevelt—Woodrow Wilson Award of the American Historical Association. Robert W. Snyder, Manhattan Borough Historian and professor emeritus of American Studies and Journalism at Rutgers University, is co-author of both All the Nations Under Heaven: Immigrants, Migrants and the Making of New York (Columbia) and Metropolitan lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York (Norton/Smithsonian). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the political ferment of early twentieth century New York City, when socialists and reformers battled sweatshops, and writers and artists thought a new world was being born, an immigrant Jewish woman from Russia appeared in the Yiddish press, in Carnegie Hall, and at rallies. Her name was Rose Pastor Stokes, and she fought for socialism, contraception and workers’ rights. What set her apart was not just the strength of her speeches or the passion of her commitments, but her marriage to James Graham Phelps Stokes, the wealthy Episcopalian son of one of the oldest and most elite families in the United States. Over the course of their marriage they lived in an apartment on the Lower East Side, a private island in Long Island Sound, and a townhouse in Greenwich Village. The book Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes by Adam Hochschild (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020) explores her life, her unlikely marriage and the great hopes of the Progressive Era in New York City. Hochschild, a master of deeply researched narrative history, is the author of ten books—among them King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa and Spain In Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War. He has won widespread recognition for his writing and received the Theodore Roosevelt—Woodrow Wilson Award of the American Historical Association. Robert W. Snyder, Manhattan Borough Historian and professor emeritus of American Studies and Journalism at Rutgers University, is co-author of both All the Nations Under Heaven: Immigrants, Migrants and the Making of New York (Columbia) and Metropolitan lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York (Norton/Smithsonian). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

In the political ferment of early twentieth century New York City, when socialists and reformers battled sweatshops, and writers and artists thought a new world was being born, an immigrant Jewish woman from Russia appeared in the Yiddish press, in Carnegie Hall, and at rallies. Her name was Rose Pastor Stokes, and she fought for socialism, contraception and workers’ rights. What set her apart was not just the strength of her speeches or the passion of her commitments, but her marriage to James Graham Phelps Stokes, the wealthy Episcopalian son of one of the oldest and most elite families in the United States. Over the course of their marriage they lived in an apartment on the Lower East Side, a private island in Long Island Sound, and a townhouse in Greenwich Village. The book Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes by Adam Hochschild (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020) explores her life, her unlikely marriage and the great hopes of the Progressive Era in New York City. Hochschild, a master of deeply researched narrative history, is the author of ten books—among them King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa and Spain In Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War. He has won widespread recognition for his writing and received the Theodore Roosevelt—Woodrow Wilson Award of the American Historical Association. Robert W. Snyder, Manhattan Borough Historian and professor emeritus of American Studies and Journalism at Rutgers University, is co-author of both All the Nations Under Heaven: Immigrants, Migrants and the Making of New York (Columbia) and Metropolitan lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York (Norton/Smithsonian). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies

In the political ferment of early twentieth century New York City, when socialists and reformers battled sweatshops, and writers and artists thought a new world was being born, an immigrant Jewish woman from Russia appeared in the Yiddish press, in Carnegie Hall, and at rallies. Her name was Rose Pastor Stokes, and she fought for socialism, contraception and workers’ rights. What set her apart was not just the strength of her speeches or the passion of her commitments, but her marriage to James Graham Phelps Stokes, the wealthy Episcopalian son of one of the oldest and most elite families in the United States. Over the course of their marriage they lived in an apartment on the Lower East Side, a private island in Long Island Sound, and a townhouse in Greenwich Village. The book Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes by Adam Hochschild (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020) explores her life, her unlikely marriage and the great hopes of the Progressive Era in New York City. Hochschild, a master of deeply researched narrative history, is the author of ten books—among them King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa and Spain In Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War. He has won widespread recognition for his writing and received the Theodore Roosevelt—Woodrow Wilson Award of the American Historical Association. Robert W. Snyder, Manhattan Borough Historian and professor emeritus of American Studies and Journalism at Rutgers University, is co-author of both All the Nations Under Heaven: Immigrants, Migrants and the Making of New York (Columbia) and Metropolitan lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York (Norton/Smithsonian). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/public-policy

In the political ferment of early twentieth century New York City, when socialists and reformers battled sweatshops, and writers and artists thought a new world was being born, an immigrant Jewish woman from Russia appeared in the Yiddish press, in Carnegie Hall, and at rallies. Her name was Rose Pastor Stokes, and she fought for socialism, contraception and workers’ rights. What set her apart was not just the strength of her speeches or the passion of her commitments, but her marriage to James Graham Phelps Stokes, the wealthy Episcopalian son of one of the oldest and most elite families in the United States. Over the course of their marriage they lived in an apartment on the Lower East Side, a private island in Long Island Sound, and a townhouse in Greenwich Village. The book Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes by Adam Hochschild (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020) explores her life, her unlikely marriage and the great hopes of the Progressive Era in New York City. Hochschild, a master of deeply researched narrative history, is the author of ten books—among them King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa and Spain In Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War. He has won widespread recognition for his writing and received the Theodore Roosevelt—Woodrow Wilson Award of the American Historical Association. Robert W. Snyder, Manhattan Borough Historian and professor emeritus of American Studies and Journalism at Rutgers University, is co-author of both All the Nations Under Heaven: Immigrants, Migrants and the Making of New York (Columbia) and Metropolitan lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York (Norton/Smithsonian). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies

In the political ferment of early twentieth century New York City, when socialists and reformers battled sweatshops, and writers and artists thought a new world was being born, an immigrant Jewish woman from Russia appeared in the Yiddish press, in Carnegie Hall, and at rallies. Her name was Rose Pastor Stokes, and she fought for socialism, contraception and workers’ rights. What set her apart was not just the strength of her speeches or the passion of her commitments, but her marriage to James Graham Phelps Stokes, the wealthy Episcopalian son of one of the oldest and most elite families in the United States. Over the course of their marriage they lived in an apartment on the Lower East Side, a private island in Long Island Sound, and a townhouse in Greenwich Village. The book Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes by Adam Hochschild (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020) explores her life, her unlikely marriage and the great hopes of the Progressive Era in New York City. Hochschild, a master of deeply researched narrative history, is the author of ten books—among them King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa and Spain In Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War. He has won widespread recognition for his writing and received the Theodore Roosevelt—Woodrow Wilson Award of the American Historical Association. Robert W. Snyder, Manhattan Borough Historian and professor emeritus of American Studies and Journalism at Rutgers University, is co-author of both All the Nations Under Heaven: Immigrants, Migrants and the Making of New York (Columbia) and Metropolitan lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York (Norton/Smithsonian). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In the political ferment of early twentieth century New York City, when socialists and reformers battled sweatshops, and writers and artists thought a new world was being born, an immigrant Jewish woman from Russia appeared in the Yiddish press, in Carnegie Hall, and at rallies. Her name was Rose Pastor Stokes, and she fought for socialism, contraception and workers’ rights. What set her apart was not just the strength of her speeches or the passion of her commitments, but her marriage to James Graham Phelps Stokes, the wealthy Episcopalian son of one of the oldest and most elite families in the United States. Over the course of their marriage they lived in an apartment on the Lower East Side, a private island in Long Island Sound, and a townhouse in Greenwich Village. The book Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes by Adam Hochschild (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020) explores her life, her unlikely marriage and the great hopes of the Progressive Era in New York City. Hochschild, a master of deeply researched narrative history, is the author of ten books—among them King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa and Spain In Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War. He has won widespread recognition for his writing and received the Theodore Roosevelt—Woodrow Wilson Award of the American Historical Association. Robert W. Snyder, Manhattan Borough Historian and professor emeritus of American Studies and Journalism at Rutgers University, is co-author of both All the Nations Under Heaven: Immigrants, Migrants and the Making of New York (Columbia) and Metropolitan lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York (Norton/Smithsonian). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

In the political ferment of early twentieth century New York City, when socialists and reformers battled sweatshops, and writers and artists thought a new world was being born, an immigrant Jewish woman from Russia appeared in the Yiddish press, in Carnegie Hall, and at rallies. Her name was Rose Pastor Stokes, and she fought for socialism, contraception and workers’ rights. What set her apart was not just the strength of her speeches or the passion of her commitments, but her marriage to James Graham Phelps Stokes, the wealthy Episcopalian son of one of the oldest and most elite families in the United States. Over the course of their marriage they lived in an apartment on the Lower East Side, a private island in Long Island Sound, and a townhouse in Greenwich Village. The book Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes by Adam Hochschild (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020) explores her life, her unlikely marriage and the great hopes of the Progressive Era in New York City. Hochschild, a master of deeply researched narrative history, is the author of ten books—among them King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa and Spain In Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War. He has won widespread recognition for his writing and received the Theodore Roosevelt—Woodrow Wilson Award of the American Historical Association. Robert W. Snyder, Manhattan Borough Historian and professor emeritus of American Studies and Journalism at Rutgers University, is co-author of both All the Nations Under Heaven: Immigrants, Migrants and the Making of New York (Columbia) and Metropolitan lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York (Norton/Smithsonian). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

In this episode, host Russell Hillier is joined by John Van Zyl, veteran of the Rhodesian Light Infantry and creator of the Fighting Men of Rhodesia Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDfQx5rjmSc&t=6sJohn talks about growing up in Colonial Africa, the Rhodesian Bush War and what it's like to lose your country.Backgroundin the 1960's Rhodesia was a prosperous country, with high employment, a strong currency and little crime. Ten years later and it was all gone. By 1980, Rhodesia had vanished off the map. History is a demanding teacher and the lesson is that things can fall apart quickly, regardless of what country you call home.  

It's 1987's first sequel! Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold, released January 30th, is the follow-up to a movie called King Solomon's Mines. They're adventure-comedy movies that are adaptations of books from the 1880s, and you can tell. The films we had to watch this week were very hard to get through. Join the Dead Dad Club on Patreon for TWO bonus episodes each month! https://www.patreon.com/oldiebutagoodiepod Follow the show! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oldiebutagoodiepod/  Facebook: https://fb.me/oldiebutagoodiepod Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjfdXHxK_rIUsOEoFSx-hGA  Podcast Platforms: https://linktr.ee/oldiebutagoodiepod  Got feedback? Send us an email at oldiebutagoodiepod@gmail.com Follow the hosts! Sandro Falce - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sandrofalce/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/sandrofalce - Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/SandroFalce/ - Nerd-Out Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nerd-out-podcast  Zach Adams - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zach4dams/ Donations: https://paypal.me/oldiebutagoodiepod Please do not feel like you have to contribute anything but any donations are greatly appreciated! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Si alguna vez se preguntaron si el mal existe, no hay que mirar más allá de la historia del Estado Libre del Congo y lo que Leopoldo II, rey de Bélgica, hizo con él. 10 millones de muertos, atrocidades incontables y la peor de las depredaciones fueron la firma del régimen. Todo fue hecho adrede y bajo la más siniestra de las coberturas como proyecto humanitario. El mundo creía que se estaban haciendo buenas cosas, cuando la realidad era la opuesta. Los dejamos con un estudio del mal en cinco partes, para estremecerse y recordar que el mundo puede ser bastante más terrible de lo que queremos. Desde Radio Camacuá, para todo el mundo, esto es La Tortulia Podcast. Imagen: Arte de Caravantes Fuentes / Textos - HOCHSCHILD, Adam. (1999) King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN: 978-0618001903 Fuentes / Sitios web - Wikipedia Música: El tema de la Tortulia es una versión de Caravan por Oleg Zobachev. El tema original es de Duke Ellington. Bajo licencia Creative Commons. El tema de Rumbo a la Cancha es una versión de Espiral por Joaquín Mancini. La versión original es de Dunne. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Si alguna vez se preguntaron si el mal existe, no hay que mirar más allá de la historia del Estado Libre del Congo y lo que Leopoldo II, rey de Bélgica, hizo con él. 10 millones de muertos, atrocidades incontables y la peor de las depredaciones fueron la firma del régimen. Todo fue hecho adrede y bajo la más siniestra de las coberturas como proyecto humanitario. El mundo creía que se estaban haciendo buenas cosas, cuando la realidad era la opuesta. Los dejamos con un estudio del mal en cinco partes, para estremecerse y recordar que el mundo puede ser bastante más terrible de lo que queremos. Desde Radio Camacuá (http://www.radiocamacua.uy/) , para todo el mundo, esto es La Tortulia Podcast. Imagen: Arte de Caravantes Fuentes / Textos - HOCHSCHILD, Adam. (1999) King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN: 978-0618001903 Fuentes / Sitios web - Wikipedia Música: El tema de la Tortulia es una versión de Caravan por Oleg Zobachev. El tema original es de Duke Ellington. Bajo licencia Creative Commons. El tema de Rumbo a la Cancha es una versión de Espiral por Joaquín Mancini. La versión original es de Dunne.

Louiza "Weeze" Doran is our guest on this week's episode. Weeze is a coach, advocate, podcast host, agent of change, strategist, and educator. She holds a BA in Sociology from Berkeley (Class of 2008!), having parents that were born into Colonial Africa, it is a field that she wanted to study since she was radicalized from a young age.Weeze worked in music and professional sports all the while taking notice of the ways that Black and Brown bodies and culture were used and commodified in popular culture/America. After years working in the corporate and non-profit realms she quickly realized that in order to alter our social reality as a whole, we as people had to shift and thus she began her coaching and educating practice with two distinct branches: Anti-racism & decolonization and empowerment & authentic alignment.Listen in as we chat with Weeze about how anti-racism is a state of being. Follow Weeze and access her resources on Instagram @accordingtoweeze

In Episode 23 of The Bantu Boyz Podcast, we interviewed Judicaelle Irakoze (Afro-Political Feminist, Community Organizer, and founder of Choose Yourself). We discussed her recent article for Essence ["Why We Must Be Careful When Watching Beyoncé's ‘Black Is King'"], how art can be used to decolonize, and much more. Plus, we'll be took live viewer questions. Make sure to like, subscribe and share on Itunes, Spotify, Podbean, Google Podcasts, Youtube, etc! Bantu Boyz -Instagram: @bantuboyz -Email: bantuboyz1960@gmail.com Judicaelle Irakoze Judicaelle's Essence magazine article: https://www.essence.com/entertainment/only-essence/beyonces-black-is-king-criticism/ -Instagram: @judicaelle_irakoze -Twitter: @Judicaelle_ Choose Yourself website: https://www.chooseyourself.website/

In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from Adam Hochschild, a prominent historian, journalist, and a best selling author who wrote King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa, among many other books. He's also a lecturer in Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. Professor Hochschild gives us his take on the efforts around the world to topple statues and other monuments that memorialize historical figures known for their brutality and racism, including the campaign in Belgium to remove statues of their former king, King Leopold II, who plundered central Africa, leading to the deaths of millions of people. For a transcript visit https://belonging.berkeley.edu/whobelongs/adam-hochschild-toppling-statues

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.

From 1880-1920 the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was under the rule of King Leopold II of Belgium. Within that time period, the atrocities committed under his rule led to the loss of 10 million Congolese lives, half of the country's population. In this episode, we explore the lead-up and subsequent rule of King Leopold II and the impact this had on the DRC. Music provided by Free Vibes: https://goo.gl/NkGhTg Warm Nights by Lakey Inspired: https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired/... Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Sources for further reading: BOOK: King Leopold's Ghost: a story of greed, terror, and heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild JOURNAL ARTICLE: On the origin of fear in the world trade system: excavating the roots of the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 by Marjorie Florestal THESIS: King Leopold II's exploitation of the Congo from 1885 to 1908 and its consequences by Steven P. Johnson

A second installment of our discussion on historical capitalism and why we teach it. Historical Capitalism Part 2 Friedrich Engels, Condition of the Working Class in England (1844/45), https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/condition-working-class-england.pdf Christopher Hill, Reformation to Industrial Revolution (1990) Eric Hobsbawm, Industry and Empire: From 1750 to the Present Day (1999), Chapters 1 & 2 Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital, 1848-1875 (1975) Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire, 1875-1914 (1987) Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1990) V.I. Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916), https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ Karl Marx, Capital Vol. 1 (1867), Chapters 27-33, https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch26.htm Thomas Pakenham, The Scramble for Africa (1990) Michael Perelman, The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation (2000) Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation (1944), Chapter 1 Walter Rodney, How Europe Undeveloped Africa (1973), Chapters 5 & 6 E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (1963), Chapters 7-10 Ellen Meiksins Wood, The Origin of Capitalism (1999)

African militaries are working with the U.S., China, Russia, and others in order to address their security concerns. In an increasingly crowded space, are Africans looking for a partner of choice or a choice of partners? Host Judd Devermont sits down with Katie Bo Williams (Defense One), Ryan Cummings (Signal Risk) and Jonah Victor (Author) to discuss African views on U.S. and foreign security assistance. Guests also review Malian President Keita’s negotiations with extremist leaders and the wave of vigilante violence in Zambia. Background Reading African Security: An Introduction - Jonah Victor and John Siko Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa - Luise White Social media claims about Zambia gas attacks linked to riots, lynchings - AFP

Many works of Western literature retrace the exploits of magnificent military heroes. Reading them, well, I often questioned myself on the existence of exploits of African military heroes. Although post-independence African literature has paid great attention to the military phenomenon, it has had relatively little interest in the war itself. And speaking of the military, African writers have evoked the wicked more than the heroes. It is as if antagonism has developed between writers and the military, with the exception of liberation fighters in Northern and Southern Africa. Even a liberation poet like Dennis Brutus in South Africa has ambivalent feelings about "boots, bayonets and belts". We can therefore ask ourselves two questions. Why are there so few literary works on military heroism in postcolonial Africa? And so why are there so many about their villainy?

Guest: Jacob Cloete, Former SANDF Peace Keeping Officer Host: Mpho Molotlegi, Weekend Early Topic: The Politics of belonging in Post - Colonial Africa

The Africa Museum in Brussels reopened at the end of 2018 after a 5 year renovation. Tiffany Jenkins and Fiammetta Rocco, culture correspondent at The Economist,  tour the museum with its Director-General, Guido Gryseels, and assess its attempts to come to terms with a horrific past.  The Africa Museum (officially called the Royal Museum for Central Africa) grew out of the Brussels International Exposition of 1897. The Colonial Pavilion, located at King Leopold II of Belgium’s estate, formed the basis of the museum. It was intended to celebrate his achievements in what was then the Congo Free State, which he ran as his private estate. In 1909, when Leopold died, the museum was transferred to the Belgian state, and opened a year later as the Museum of Belgian Congo.  Tiffany, Fiammetta and Guido talk about the museum’s attempt to tell the story of Belgian rule in the Congo, which was unparalleled in its cruelty and mass killing. Under the reign of terror instituted by Leopold, as many as 8 million Africans (perhaps even 10 million, according to Adam Hochschild) lost their lives.  ► GUESTS    Fiammetta Rocco’s article on the Africa Museum The Struggle to Tell the Story of Colonialism  Follow her on Twitter @FiammettaRocco Guido Gryseel’s biography  The website for Africa Museum  Twitter: @africamuseumbe YouTube: channel   ►  FEATURED ARTISTS Take a look at Freddy Tsimba’s website and see more of his artwork:  Here, Aimé Mpane talks about his installation Congo: Shadow of the Shadow (2005), on loan to the LACMA from the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art. The piece uses the play of light and shadow, to explore the re-shaping of power during the colonial period in Congo  ►  FURTHER INFORMATION  Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa is the book on the exploitation of the Congo Free State by King Leopold II of Belgium between 1885 and 1908, as well as the large-scale atrocities committed during that period. ► MUSIC  Signature tune: Nick Vander, "Galaxy I" from the album Black Kopal  1.  "Congo Spirit" (Underscore version) - By Abbas Premjee Licensed from ShockwaveSound.com   2. “Mupepe” from the album Adventures in Afropea Performed by Zap Mama Written by Marie Daulne (p) 1991 Crammed Discs   3. Tim Hart Track 38 - January's Dream Number Five Album: Royalty-Free Music Large Collection - (100+ Tracks)   4. Tim Hart Track 89 - Velvet Carpet Clouding Album: Royalty-Free Music Large Collection - (100+ Tracks)   5. “Mupepe” Performed by Zap Mama Written by Marie Daulne (p) 1991 Crammed Discs    ► PICTURES AND SOCIAL MEDIA  Behind the Scenes at the Museum is on Twitter & Instagram: @BehindtheMuseum  --- Behind the Scenes at the Museum is written and presented by Tiffany Jenkins and produced by Jac Phillimore. 

For Real is sponsored this week by Book Riot Insiders, In the Name of the Children: An FBI Agent’s Relentless Pursuit of the Nation’s Worst Predators by Jeffrey Rinek from BenBella Books and Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom by Ariel Burger. FOLLOW UP Who Was series Holiday Gift Guide Episode! Email kim@riotnewmedia.com by November 20th if you need a nonfiction recommendation for a present, or want a book to put on your own gift list.   NEW BOOKS Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome by Venki Ramakrishnan Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the “Powerless” Woman Who Took on Washington by Patricia Miller Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward by Gemma Hartley A Tale of Two Murders: Guilt, Innocence, and the Execution of Edith Thompson by Laura Thompson First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story by Huda Al-Marashi End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World’s Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals by Ross D.E. MacPhee   Shout-Outs to: Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA by Shane O’Sullivan Beyonce in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery   WEEKLY THEME: Book Awards! Carnegie Award Shortlist: The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantu Longlist: High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing by Ben Austen National Book Award Finalist: Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh Longlist: One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson   SEGMENT THREE: Colonialism King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation by Colin G. Calloway (Oxford University Press) 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann   READING NOW Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War by Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll I’d Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life by Anne Bogel   CONCLUSION Find us on Twitter @itsalicetime and @kimthedork.

ASC seminar by Florence Bernault (Sciences Po)

https://www.bittermedicineblogs.com – On today’s show we have a discussion with Karl Hezekiah, Curator of the Bitter Medicine Book Club, about the June reading “King Leopold’s Ghost” by Adam Hochschild. About the Book: King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998) is a best-selling popular history book by Adam Hochschild that explores the exploitation of the Congo Free State by King Leopold II of Belgium between 1885 and 1908, as well as the large-scale atrocities committed during that period. The book succeeded in increasing public awareness of these Belgian colonial crimes. –Wikipedia You can still join the discussion! Purchase the book on Amazon: Paperback: https://amzn.to/2Kp8KzP Kindle: https://amzn.to/2z0Z4pK Listen to learn more. DONATE 2 THE SHOW: https://goo.gl/pTFiAC Follow Us on: Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/bittermedz Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BitterMedicineShow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bittermedicine Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/bittermedz Website: https://goo.gl/DywnPr Follow KWAZ RADIO: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KWAZRADIO/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kwazradio Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kwazradio YouTube: https://goo.gl/a6eXJZ Website: https://www.kwazradio.com

I argued in the last podcast that medical theories in colonial Africa had a strong racial element to them, which buttressed colonialism. In this final podcast of my mini-series I’m going to explore how these ideas related to the actual practice of psychiatry in colonial Africa. I broaden my perspective to include not only Malawi, but also Natal and Uganda. I try to nuance some of cruder understandings of colonial psychiatry by suggesting that clinicians could adopt perspectives and treatments that focused on suffering human beings, rather than racial stereotypes. Psychiatry on the ground was different: it always is when interacting with real-life patients. I conclude by looking at the way forward for psychiatry in sub-Saharan Africa. Image: Nurse and patient, Malawi. Copyright Daniel Maissan www.danielmaissan.nl

Hometown is a podcast from Episcopal Migration Ministries and is part of the Good Book Club. This week’s Good Book Club scripture readings: Luke 1- Luke 4:13 Welcome to Hometown! On the debut episode, we introduce what the podcast is all about, reflect on scripture together, and learn about the global refugee crisis and the specific refugee crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Reflection author: The Rev. Laurie Brock, rector of the Episcopal Church of St. Michael the Archangel in the Diocese of Lexington (Kentucky). Mother Laurie is co-author of Where God Hides Holiness, and is the author of the forthcoming book Horses Speak of God: How Horses Can Teach Us to Listen and Be Transformed, available for pre-order on Amazon.com. She blogs at www.revlauriebrock.com. Information on the global refugee crisis is largely from the UNHCR Global Trends report: http://www.unhcr.org/globaltrends2016/ Information about the Congolese refugee crisis is largely from the Center for Applied Linguistics Backgrounder on Refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo: http://www.culturalorientation.net/learning/populations/congolese-refugees For further reading on the DRC, we recommend: Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa by Jason Stearns King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild Upcoming Event! EMM is offering our Love God, Love Neighbor training in Atlanta, GA May 2-4, 2018. www.episcopalmigrationministries.org/lgln Our theme song was composed and recorded by Abraham Mwinda Ikando. Find his music at www.abrahammwindamusic.com ------------------------------------------------- Hometown is a podcast from Episcopal Migration Ministries and is part of the Good Book Club. Episcopal Migration Ministries: www.episcopalmigrationministries.org, www.facebook.com/emmrefugees, Twitter & Instagram, @emmrefugees Good Book Club: www.goodbookclub.org, www.facebook.com/thegoodbookclub

In this episode of Birkbeck Voices, we're joined by Dr David Brydan, Lecturer in Modern European History, to discuss his latest article examining leprosy and rebellion in Spanish colonial Africa during the 1940s and 50s. The article is available on open access: https://academic.oup.com/shm/advance-article/doi/10.1093/shm/hkx094/4590150 Dr Brydan is a member of the Reluctant Internationalists research group, based in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck. Find out more about the project: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/reluctantinternationalists Dr Brydan is also a member of the Centre for the Study of Internationalism - https://centreforthestudyofinternationalism.wordpress.com Birkbeck Voices, the podcast series from Birkbeck, University of London, brings you interviews with our academics, students, alumni and wider community. We cover the latest research and inspiring events taking place at the College and find out more about the people who make Birkbeck the place that it is. Listen to the #BirkbeckVoices SoundCloud playlist - soundcloud.com/birkbeck-podcasts/sets/birkbeck-voices .

Belly gazing about movies, books and television, Jim, Peggy and John are interview-free this week and discuss their podcast and current subjects of their reading, watching and listening. Hitting high and low culture, the list of mentionable include: Provenence, Mark Maron, Shania Twain, The Sellout, Paul Beatty, Roxanne Gay’s Hunger, Bad Feminist, Anne Hornaday’s Talking Pictures, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, Battle of the Sexes, Thor Ragnoroc, Life with Jake Gyllenhaal, Hacksaw Ridge, Saving Private Ryan, New York Times, New Yorker, Evicted, Nickled and Dimed, Errol Morris, Frederick Weissman, All the Light We Cannot See, Postwar, Blade Runner 2049, Metacritic.com, Dunkirk, Point Blank. Lee Marvin, The Dirty Dozen, Lee Marvin, Dover Castle, The Big Sick, Mad Max Thunder Road, Mozart in the Jungle, Amazon, Search Party, TBS, The Original Blade Runner, Aliens, The Tick, Narcos, Victoria, The Crown, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, Adam Hochschild, House of Cards and David Fincher. 

Terry and economic developer Marvin J. Price discuss the atrocities committed by King Leopold II of Belgium in the Congo during their sobering discussion of  King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by  Adam Hochschild. Please leave us a rating and review. We love to hear from our listeners. If you have a suggestion for a book please let us know!  Follow Us! Twitter: @BlackandReadPod Facebook: @BlackandReadPod E-mail: BlackandReadPodcast@gmail.com

Lobbying and Advocacy for Entrepreneurs: The Business Case Lobbying and advocacy is not necessarily something that most entrepreneurs think about when they venture out on their own. Despite the fact that my business focuses on tech policy, when I launched WashingTECH.com,  lobbying and advocacy couldn't have been further from my mind. I was more concerned with the minutiae: configuring and registering domains, setting up my workflow, designing my own site, etc. While I intended to include lobbyists on the podcast, I was more concerned with lobbying and advocacy issues as content. I did not remotely consider that a small business like mine would have any pull amidst the many "white shoe" lobbying firms up and down K St.: The big guns were for huge corporations, not businesses like mine. But as I have progressed and interviewed 100 guests, I have learned that these issues indeed affect me. For example, I conduct most of my interviews via Skype. Buffering issues that I encounter during my guest interviews affect the quality of my work product, and thus my bottom line. That is a net neutrality issue. This is not "ivory tower" net neutrality. This is net neutrality from the perspective of how it affects my business. How Regulations Can Affect Your Business There are literally hundreds of laws and regulations, in addition to net neutrality, that could potentially affect your business. Changes to intellectual property frameworks like trademarks, copyright and patents are federal policy issues. If you operate an online business, you are subject to all federal regulations regarding how you collect and utilize customer data, register email subscribers, and many other consumer regulations. Differences and conflicts between U.S. regulations and those abroad could affect your business to the extent that you engage with international customers. The number of regulations, new and old, that you could be affected by are essentially limitless. Congress and the federal agencies are continuously introducing and revising policies that could directly impact your profits. Joining Forces: The Power of Strength in Numbers The sheer number of entrepreneurs complicates our ability to organize and respond collectively to policy issues affecting out interests. However, just as the end of World War II brought with it the need for labor organizations to advocate on behalf of the workforce, the need for effective lobbying and advocacy on behalf of entrepreneurs will also grow. These advocates must be at least as effective at representing entrepreneurs' interests as those post-war labor advocates who preceded them. Consider the growing number of Americans who are pursuing entrepreneurship as either a supplement to or substitute for full-time income. According to the U.S. Census's 2015 Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs released in July of this year: the number of minority-owned employer firms grew by 4.9% (from 949, 318 in 2014 to 996, 248 in 2015). firms owned by women increased by 3.0% since 2014 to approximately 1.1.million. veteran-owned firms totaled approximately 398, 453. most firms in the U.S. (78.2%) have fewer than 10 employees. Start-up entrepreneurs also need a place to belong. Networking and developing the right relationships is a breeze for powerful corporations. Small businesses are powerful in scale, but not as powerful in scope in terms of the expansiveness of their networks. Melissa Blaustein is working to change all that by leading lobbying and advocacy efforts for startup firms around the world. I hope you'll consider joining her in her efforts. BIO Melissa Blaustein (@MentionMelissa) is the Founder of Allied for Startups, a global network of startup policy associations whose goal is to make the voice of startups heard in government. Allied for Startups counts more than 19 countries on four continents as members, including 13 in the EU alone. Her background in digital policy and advocacy spans the local, national, and international levels, having held roles at The White House, UN Women, the UNEP, the G20 Research Group, with Fmr. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and on the team of many San Francisco politicians. Melissa's entrepreneurial spirit has led her to take on challenges in the startup and technology space, including advising the French government on a taxation structure for the digital economy, serving as an ambassador at an accelerator in Paris and working at the Vice President of International Outreach at France Digitale, an association dedicated to lobbying the government on behalf of startups in France. Blaustein holds a Masters Degree Cum Laude from Sciences Po in Paris and an undergraduate degree with honors from UC Berkeley. She speaks four languages and has lived in four countries. RESOURCES Allied for Startups--The Voice for Startups in Politics and Government King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild    NEWS ROUNDUP House Panel Green-lights Self Driving Car Legislation The  54-member House Energy and Commerce Committee voted unanimously to advance legislation to speed the commercialization of self-driving cars. The legislation would clear the way for the sale of up to 100,000 self-driving cars. It would also pre-empt state laws dealing with performance standards. States would continue to regulate things like licensing, liability, safety and insurance. David Shepardson has the story in Reuters. Lyft announced last week that it too has created a self-driving car division. Read more from Heather Somerville in Reuters. Congress seeks more government data on Kaspersky Labs Members of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology,  have asked some 22 cabinet-level government agencies for any information they have on Kaspersky Labs. Kaspersky is the Moscow-based cybersecurity firm. Several U.S. officials and members of Congress don't trust Kaspersky. They allege that Kaspersky could be a front that Russian officials use to spy on the U.S. It's an assertion that Kaspersky has vehemently denied. Dustin Voltz reports in Reuters. Russian Citizen Indicted for Bitcoin Laundering The Department of Justice has indicted a Russian citizen for money laundering. The DOJ alleges that Alexander Vinnick laundered $4 billion through the digital currency Bitcoin to fund drug trafficking, identity theft and hacking. Ali Breland at the Hill reports that Vinnick was arrested in Greece for allegedly using BTC-e--one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges--to carry out the crimes. Is FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's FCC 'Full of Sh*t'??? Remember when the FCC's site went down after John Oliver urged his viewers to submit comments regarding net neutrality? Ajit Pai claimed it went down because of a DDos attack. Gizmodo said, "Yeah right" and filed a FOIA request asking the FCC to provide documentation showing it was indeed caused by a DDos attack. Well, thus far, the FCC has apparently failed to corroborate the Chairman's story. So Oregon Senator Ron Wyden took the FCC to task last week, accusing the FCC of playing "word games". Wyden also suggested the FCC may be violating the Freedom of Information Act by failing to provide the information Gizmodo seeks. If there was indeed a 3,000 percent increase in network traffic at the FCC as FCC Chair Ajit Pai claimed, why wasn't anyone at the FCC freaking out??? Surely there would have been emails. But Gizmodo hasn't found emails, or anything else for that matter, to suggest that Chairman Pai was telling the truth. The FCC's net neutrality docket has thus far received over 10 million public comments. Jon Brodkin has the story in Ars Technica. Tech Earnings Reports Off-Target Major tech stocks showed lower than expected results in the second quarter. Amazon took a 77% hit to profits even though its sales were up. Google's parent Alphabet's profit fell 28%. The Wall Street Journal attributes the shortfall to the $2.74 billion fine the EU levied against Google last month for allegedly pumping its own search results. And while the number of clicks per ad were up at Google, revenues per click were down. Further, Twitter's stock dropped 12%. The company also reported flat user growth, which is stuck at 328 million, and a $116 million loss. Foxconn to build a U.S. plant in Wisconsin President Donald Trump indicated that Foxconn -- the  iPhone component maker-- would be spending $10 billion to build a Wisconsin plant. The president claims the plant would create 3,000 jobs.  Foxconn CEO Terry Gou did join Trump, Vice President Pence, House Speaker  Paul Ryan, and Wisconsin Senators Walker and Johnson at the White House. But it's not clear exactly what was discussed. Walker claims that the average job created by the plant will pay $53,000 per year. Google to Spend $50 million to help displaced workers Google announced last Wednesday that it would be spending $50 million to help workers displaced by technology to find new jobs. The company's head of philanthropy, Jacqueline Fuller, made the announcement in a blog post last week. Ali Breland has more details in the Hill. In other Google news, Google CEO Sundar Pichai has joined the board of Google's parent company Alphabet. The move comes as Alphabet seeks to accelerate many of the other initiatives it has been working on, such as Fiber X and self-driving cars. Dieter Bohn has the story in the Verge.   Will Amazon's Whole Foods Alleviate or Promote Food Deserts? New Jersey Senator Cory Booker and 11 members of Congress are asking the DOJ and FTC to investigate the Amazon-Whole Foods merger. The lawmakers are concerned about how the merger would affect underserved-communities' ability to access quality groceries. Many consumers live in so-called "food deserts"leaving them isolated from quality supermarkets. Airbnb and NAACP Team Up Airbnb and The NAACP have teamed up to open up the Airbnb platform to underserved communities. The company has come under fire for helping to facilitate an environment in which hosts routinely refuse to rent to people of color. Some cases are more explicit than others. In California in recent weeks, a host was fined $5,000 for explicitly refusing to rent to an Asian woman for no other reason other than the fact that she's Asian. The host will also have to take a college-level racial sensitivity course. The NAACP will work with Airbnb to identify underserved areas in which residents can learn more about how Airbnb can generate extra needed income. NAACP will be compensated 20% of all revenues that come from this initiative. No word yet on how much of that extra revenue will go to fund local schools and other need services. Nick Statt has the story in The Verge.

Change is part of life. Some changes are easy, others much less so. And when cultures collide, change is often dangerous, violent, and destructive. From the opening scenes of Danai Gurira’s astonishing period drama "The Convert" - set in Colonial Africa in the late 1800s - we are plunged into the middle of such a change, as the brutal dominance of the British Empire and the aggressive forward thrust of Christianity brings civilization to the people of Africa - whether they want it or not. The absorbing and emotionally powerful play - presented with sensitivity and passion by Marin Theatre Company in Mill Valley - follows a young Shona woman, whose conversion to Catholicism puts her at the precarious center of her country’s increasingly violent cultural divide. As the occupying English government imposes its rule, one of its tools of dominance is, of course, the church, its leaders waging war on local “pagan” practices, forcing codes of dress and behavior that seem bizarre to the locals, at the very least, and in some cases, represent a betrayal of centuries of local custom and religious tradition. In a transcendent performance by Katherine Renee Turner, young Jekesai - speaking no English, having never set foot inside a house with an actual floor of cement or wood - has sought shelter at the home of Mr. Chilford, a pro-English Shona convert who lives in the rapidly colonializing country of Rhodesia. Bare-breasted and terrified, Jekesai hopes to escape a forced marriage to an elderly villager who has purchased her to join his other wives, by trading a goat to her cruel uncle, played by L. Peter Callender with comically menacing perfection. Mr. Chilford has willingly traded in his native name and style of dress for proper Victorian substitutes. As a result, he’s incurred the suspicions of the locals, who call him bafu, or “traitor.” His chief allies are the well-tailored Chancellor - played with relish by Jefferson A. Russell - and Chancellor’s educated fiancée Prudence, an amazing character brought to life by the sensational Omoze Idehenre. Fond of the benefits of British culture they’ve adopted, they are only gradually realizing that they will never be treated as equal to the wealthy whites who are coming to their country in droves, and are rapidly losing the connection to their own people. And then there’s Jekesai. Her resourceful aunt Mai Tamba, a wonderful Elizabeth Carter, works as a servant to the deeply Catholic Mr. Chilford. It’s a job Mai Tamba keeps by feigning conversion to Christianity, half-reciting her prayers - “Hail Mary, full of ghosts!” - while secretly maintaining her old customs, hiding charms in the house, reciting prayers to her ancestors. She encourages Jekesai, whose quickly been dressed in “proper” attire and renamed Ester, to follow her example, never guessing the young woman will quickly take to Christianity with a passionate fervor surpassing even Chillford’s. As local anger against the British grows, Ester’s faith is put to increasingly impossible tests, her love of Jesus competing against her commitment to her family, her country and her most basic sense of identity. "The Convert," three hours long, told in three riveting acts, is gorgeously written by Gurira, best-known as an actress. She plays Michonne in the TV series The Walking Dead. This stunningly well-done production is directed with exceptional skill by director Jasson Minadakis. The story only stumbles in its final moments, with a perplexing twist that seems less the result of previous actions, and more a calculated attempt at giving the play some shock value. It’s a tiny issue in a play of monumental power and insight. The power of "The Convert," a must-see if ever there was one, is how it illustrates, with impeccable beauty, how the changes we experience can affect more than just ourselves. When who we are shifts, we also change our families, our communities, and sometimes, violently or peaceably, for good or for bad, we end up changing the whole world. "The Convert" runs Tuesday–Sunday through March 15 at Marin Theatre Company, marintheatre.org

With elegant and accessible prose, Catherine Higgs takes us on a journey in Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa (Ohio University Press, 2012). It is a fascinating voyage fueled by the correspondence of Joseph Burtt, a man who had helped found a utopian commune before being sent by the chocolate magnate William Cadbury in the early 1900s to investigate labor conditions on cocoa plantations in Africa. For almost two years, Burtt observed and wrote and fevered his way to the large Portuguese colony of Angola, to Mozambique in Portuguese East Africa, and finally to Transvaal in British southern Africa. Higgs's wonderfully evocative account uses Burtt's journey to tell a much larger story about competing British and Portuguese colonial interests in Africa that was fueled, in part, by tensions over very different notions of “labor” and “slavery.” It is a story of the co-creation of two vital commodities of the twentieth century – chocolate and human beings – that invites readers into the hospitals, roads, ships, and plantations that were such crucial sites of negotiation over the basic components of a free human life. It is an engaging and assignable book built on archival work that will satisfy both academic historians and a general audience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With elegant and accessible prose, Catherine Higgs takes us on a journey in Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa (Ohio University Press, 2012). It is a fascinating voyage fueled by the correspondence of Joseph Burtt, a man who had helped found a utopian commune before being sent by the chocolate magnate William Cadbury in the early 1900s to investigate labor conditions on cocoa plantations in Africa. For almost two years, Burtt observed and wrote and fevered his way to the large Portuguese colony of Angola, to Mozambique in Portuguese East Africa, and finally to Transvaal in British southern Africa. Higgs’s wonderfully evocative account uses Burtt’s journey to tell a much larger story about competing British and Portuguese colonial interests in Africa that was fueled, in part, by tensions over very different notions of “labor” and “slavery.” It is a story of the co-creation of two vital commodities of the twentieth century – chocolate and human beings – that invites readers into the hospitals, roads, ships, and plantations that were such crucial sites of negotiation over the basic components of a free human life. It is an engaging and assignable book built on archival work that will satisfy both academic historians and a general audience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With elegant and accessible prose, Catherine Higgs takes us on a journey in Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa (Ohio University Press, 2012). It is a fascinating voyage fueled by the correspondence of Joseph Burtt, a man who had helped found a utopian commune before being sent by the chocolate magnate William Cadbury in the early 1900s to investigate labor conditions on cocoa plantations in Africa. For almost two years, Burtt observed and wrote and fevered his way to the large Portuguese colony of Angola, to Mozambique in Portuguese East Africa, and finally to Transvaal in British southern Africa. Higgs’s wonderfully evocative account uses Burtt’s journey to tell a much larger story about competing British and Portuguese colonial interests in Africa that was fueled, in part, by tensions over very different notions of “labor” and “slavery.” It is a story of the co-creation of two vital commodities of the twentieth century – chocolate and human beings – that invites readers into the hospitals, roads, ships, and plantations that were such crucial sites of negotiation over the basic components of a free human life. It is an engaging and assignable book built on archival work that will satisfy both academic historians and a general audience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With elegant and accessible prose, Catherine Higgs takes us on a journey in Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa (Ohio University Press, 2012). It is a fascinating voyage fueled by the correspondence of Joseph Burtt, a man who had helped found a utopian commune before being sent by the chocolate magnate William Cadbury in the early 1900s to investigate labor conditions on cocoa plantations in Africa. For almost two years, Burtt observed and wrote and fevered his way to the large Portuguese colony of Angola, to Mozambique in Portuguese East Africa, and finally to Transvaal in British southern Africa. Higgs’s wonderfully evocative account uses Burtt’s journey to tell a much larger story about competing British and Portuguese colonial interests in Africa that was fueled, in part, by tensions over very different notions of “labor” and “slavery.” It is a story of the co-creation of two vital commodities of the twentieth century – chocolate and human beings – that invites readers into the hospitals, roads, ships, and plantations that were such crucial sites of negotiation over the basic components of a free human life. It is an engaging and assignable book built on archival work that will satisfy both academic historians and a general audience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With elegant and accessible prose, Catherine Higgs takes us on a journey in Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa (Ohio University Press, 2012). It is a fascinating voyage fueled by the correspondence of Joseph Burtt, a man who had helped found a utopian commune before being sent by the chocolate magnate William Cadbury in the early 1900s to investigate labor conditions on cocoa plantations in Africa. For almost two years, Burtt observed and wrote and fevered his way to the large Portuguese colony of Angola, to Mozambique in Portuguese East Africa, and finally to Transvaal in British southern Africa. Higgs’s wonderfully evocative account uses Burtt’s journey to tell a much larger story about competing British and Portuguese colonial interests in Africa that was fueled, in part, by tensions over very different notions of “labor” and “slavery.” It is a story of the co-creation of two vital commodities of the twentieth century – chocolate and human beings – that invites readers into the hospitals, roads, ships, and plantations that were such crucial sites of negotiation over the basic components of a free human life. It is an engaging and assignable book built on archival work that will satisfy both academic historians and a general audience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices