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This begins a handful of episodes that will explore the maritime history of Africa. We begin with the fascinating story of African canoemen. African indigenous seafaring canoemen operated as middlemen between European traders and the coastal estuaries, rivers and land of West Africa. The topography of the coast often necessitated their involvement in trade because it was variably rocky, broken by sandbars and shallow waters, or treacherous in other ways to large sailing ships. Canoemen allowed access to trade by using surfboats that could surmount the waves on the coast in ways European boats could not. They often were hired as navigators and pilots on European ships or worked as menial labourers or ordinary seamen on European ships. Canoemen also frequently came alongside European ships to board them and trade goods or enslaved people. As a result, when Europeans began to build trading entrepots, such as Elmina Castle in Ghana, Monrovia in Liberia, or Cap Verde in Senegal, they hired canoemen to contract out trade. To find out more about this little-known aspect of African maritime history Dr Sam Willis spoke with Megan Cructcher, a PhD Student in the Nautical Archaeology Program at Texas A&M University who is looking into the roles, identities, and material culture of these canoemen in West African maritime history, especially during the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What do we do when things fall apart? The way we answer this question shows us the truth of who we are. We all look great when things are comfortable. It's in the times of challenge, when the building is burning down around us, when all that we've held onto dissolves in our arms, that our true allegiance, our true character, our true identity get revealed. Listen as Pastor Clint explores Jeremiah's famous sermon outside the temple gate - as it turns out, true worship of God isn't simply about the words we say in holy spaces, but the lives we live outside of them. Worship without justice isn't worship. Sermon Resources: 1. Elmina Castle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmina_Castle 2. “Whether the issue is marriage and sexuality or morality and care for the poor...the data suggests that in many crucial areas evangelical Christians are not living any differently than their unbelieving neighbors.” -Ron Side, The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience 3. "I hate, I despise your festivals, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them, and the offerings of well-being of your fatted animals I will not look upon. Take away from me the noise of your songs; I will not listen to the melody of your harps. But let justice roll down like water and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." -Amos 5:21-24 4. “Whoever says, ‘I abide in Him,' ought to walk as He walked.” -1 John 2:6 Join or follow us below: Facebook: www.facebook.com/midtownpreschurch Instagram: www.instagram.com/midtown.pres/ Website: www.midtownpres.org/ Community Groups: www.midtownpres.org/community-groups Sunday Services: www.midtownpres.org/
Dr. Paul Kwami, longtime music director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, passed away this weekend. He was 70. Under his direction, the group garnered a Grammy, a Dove Award and the National Medal of Arts. The group was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame and performed at The Apollo, Carnegie Hall and the White House among other venues. Kwami also took the ensemble to Ghana, where he grew up. While there, the singers recorded at Elmina Castle, once a key location in the transatlantic slave trade. On today's episode, we talk with current and former singers to reflect on his life and legacy, and listen back to some of the music performed under his tutelage. We start the hour with our weekly @ Us segment, responding to your feedback. Guests: Jada Spight, Fisk Jubilee Singer Kendall Speaks, Fisk Jubilee Singer Dr. G. Preston Wilson, assistant professor of music education at Rider University and former Fisk Jubilee Singer Dr. MarQo Patton, assistant professor of music business at Belmont University and former Fisk Jubilee Singer More: 150 Years of the Fisk Jubilee Singers
At one time thirty thousand Africans per year were forced through Elmina Castle in Ghana, before they were taken across the world as part of the trans-atlantic slave trade.
Real Talk Show! Mel and Robin are joined by a special guest for their Real Talk: African tour special, Samuel Kweshie Ametewee. The Espresso Talk Team visited Ghana in May. Sammy was our amazing tour specialist. We welcome our homeland brother to have a Real Talk with us. He will tell us what makes Ghana such a special country to visit. He'll also share some Ghanaian history and insights. In short, he will tell us why Ghana is described as the Hidden Paradise. Join us for some Real Talk today!
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National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts heads to Africa, her ancestral homeland. She visits Doors of No Return, walks the slave trail in Benin, and learns about the long legacy of African free divers who excavated ships all over the world as far back as the 16th century. After an initial burst of Afro-joy, Tara soon realizes she's viewed largely as American rather than Black on the continent. Her understanding of self, Blackness, and Africa are turned upside down. But later, while dancing to South African house music under the stars, she finds a connection once again. Want more? Check out our Into the Depths hub to learn more about Tara's journey following Black scuba divers, find previous Nat Geo coverage on the search for slave shipwrecks, and read the March cover story. And download a tool kit for hosting an Into the Depths listening party to spark conversation and journey deeper into the material. Also explore: If you're interested in the history of Black aquatic culture, historian Kevin Dawson lays out the connections between African people and the water in his book Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Cultures in the African Diaspora. Read the powerful account of Kossola, also known by the name Cudjo Lewis, in author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston's book, Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo.' Find out more about the many “doors of no return” that dot Africa's west coast, including the sites at Ouidah and Elmina Castle, which has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Demi visits Elmina Castle; Maya Angelo is good money; the untelivised Golden Globes; the new (Kan)Ye + jeen-yuhs; the Insecure finale; Jill Scott's sex tape.Check out my website: http://www.demetrialucas.com/about/.Follow me: IG: demetriallucas.Twitter: demetriallucas.FB: demetriallucas.YouTube: demetriallucas.More about the Show: Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or using this link: http://bit.ly/RatchetRespectablePodcast.Thanks to our sponsors: With Acorn TV, I always get my British fix – and you can too! Try Acorn TV free for 30 days by going to acorn.tv and using my promo code ratchet. Right now, Thesis is offering our listeners 10% off your first starter kit when you visit takethesis.com/RATCHET. Make your first good decision of the new year, and join over 10 million people using Chime. Sign up takes only two minutes and doesn't affect your credit score. Get started at chime.com/ratchet.I love how my smile feels and looks and I know you'll love Lumineux as much as I do, too! Get fifteen percent off your order today by going lumineuxhealth.com/ratchet. Download June's Journey free today on the Apple App Store or Google Play!Ship more in less time with ShipStation. Just go to ShipStation.com, click on the microphone at the top of the page, and type in RESPECT to get a 60-day free trial.Find out how Upstart can lower your monthly payments today when you go to upstart.com/RATCHET.Get 30% off your Betabrand order when you go to Betabrand.com/RATCHET. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Demi visits Elmina Castle; Maya Angelo is good money; the untelivised Golden Globes; the new (Kan)Ye + jeen-yuhs; the Insecure finale; Jill Scott's sex tape. Check out my website: http://www.demetrialucas.com/about/. Follow me: IG: demetriallucas. Twitter: demetriallucas. FB: demetriallucas. YouTube: demetriallucas. More about the Show: Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or using this link: http://bit.ly/RatchetRespectablePodcast. Thanks to our sponsors: With Acorn TV, I always get my British fix – and you can too! Try Acorn TV free for 30 days by going to acorn.tv and using my promo code ratchet. Right now, Thesis is offering our listeners 10% off your first starter kit when you visit takethesis.com/RATCHET. Make your first good decision of the new year, and join over 10 million people using Chime. Sign up takes only two minutes and doesn't affect your credit score. Get started at chime.com/ratchet. I love how my smile feels and looks and I know you'll love Lumineux as much as I do, too! Get fifteen percent off your order today by going lumineuxhealth.com/ratchet. Download June's Journey free today on the Apple App Store or Google Play! Ship more in less time with ShipStation. Just go to ShipStation.com, click on the microphone at the top of the page, and type in RESPECT to get a 60-day free trial. Find out how Upstart can lower your monthly payments today when you go to upstart.com/RATCHET. Get 30% off your Betabrand order when you go to Betabrand.com/RATCHET. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
C4C member Julian Assibey is an assistant coach at Florida women’s basketball. He joined the final episode of season 1 to speak about his experiences as an immigrant who came to the United States from Ghana. How has his relative life of privilege compared to his early days in Ghana shaped his views on race relations and systemic racism in the US? Other show highlights include: - How Julian came to look at himself as a bridge-builder within white communities - His recent return to Ghana, during which he visited Elmina Castle, a former hub of the Atlantic slave trade - The "Listen, Learn & Act" initiative at UF coaches4change.org Twitter Instagram The Coaches 4 Change Podcast: Leading voices in the coaching world discuss the change they are helping to create. Drawing up a blueprint for social activism in the coaching community. Host: A.J. Kanell
Padmore Cobbinah, whom Tom met in 2005 outside Elmina Castle in Ghana, joins thousands of sub-Saharan Africans who've paid to brave the Tuareg and the Libyan bandits and military to board a flimsy balloon boat and motor north toward Italy. Join my third podcast to learn something about Ghanaian village life and about the story of this brave young man!Questions? Contact Tom Neuhaus, twneuhaus@gmail.com
Vandaag is het de vijfde zondag van de vastentijd en neem ik je mee naar een populaire toeristische trekpleister in Ghana, Elmina Castle. Het is een prachtige plek maar het heeft een donkere geschiedenis. Elmina Castle was één van de grootste handelsposten voor slaven in de trans-Atlantische slavenhandel eeuwen geleden.
Karen talks about her visit to the Elmina Castle where a thousand Africans a month for more than 200 years passed through the Doorway of No Return into a horror the world had never known.
Richmond is a Ghanaian who wears many hats wears many hats: - Commissioner, DC Mayor's Office on Africa Affairs - Vice Chair, Agric Sector- Pan African Diaspora Youth Association - Lecturer @ Howard University - Member, African Union Mission We talk Ghana + Africa on this episode. Richmond explains how people are named in Ghana, the difference between Tribes, Kingdoms and Nations, why Ghanaian funerals are mostly celebratory and what the Elmina Castle represents. We also talk about the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement and why the African Diaspora need to join forces with people on the continent. Of course the conversation wasn't complete without deliberating who has the better Jollof (Nigeria or Ghana). You might want to listen to this one on (x-1.5) reduced speed cos we were spitting hot fire. Lol AUM Website: https://auwashingtondc.org/
#GBTYC goes international because we record from Accra, Ghana this week! I'm joined by Michelle the DOCTOR (insta: @mdmistry) and after a visit to Elmina Castle we get into unpacking our thoughts and feelings on the trip. Along the way we do up Nigeria vs Ghana wars and question what our responsibility as young, educated, diasporans to the continent.
Sargrenti is the name by which Major General Sir Garnet Wolseley, KCMG (1833 – 1913) is still known in the West African state of Ghana. Kofi Gyan, the 15-year old boy who spits in Sargrenti's eye, is the nephew of the chief of Elmina, a town on the Atlantic coast of Ghana. On Christmas Day, 1871, Kofi’s godfather gives him a diary as a Christmas present and charges him with the task of keeping a personal record of the momentous events through which they are living. This novel is a transcription of Kofi's diary. Elmina town has a long-standing relationship with the Castelo de São Jorge da Mina, known today as Elmina Castle, built by the Portuguese in 1482 and captured from them by the Dutch in 1637. In April, 1872, the Dutch hand over the unprofitable castle to the British. The people of Elmina have not been consulted and resist the change. On June 13, 1873 British forces punish them by bombarding the town and destroying it. (It has never been rebuilt. The flat open ground where it once stood serves as a constant reminder of the savage power of Imperial Britain.) After the destruction of Elmina, Kofi moves to his mother’s family home in nearby Cape Coast, seat of the British colonial government, where Sargrenti is preparing to march inland and attack the independent Asante state. There Melton Prior, war artist of the London weekly news magazine, The Illustrated London News, offers Kofi a job as his assistant. This gives the lad an opportunity to observe at close quarters not only Prior but also the other war correspondents, Henry Morton Stanley and G. A. Henty. Kofi witnesses and experiences the trauma of a brutal war, a run-up to the formal colonialism which would be realized ten years later at the 1885 Berlin conference, where European powers drew lines on the map of Africa, dividing the territory up amongst themselves. On February 6, 1874, Sargrenti's troops loot the palace of the Asante king, Kofi Karikari, and then blow up the stone building and set the city of Kumase on fire, razing it to the ground. Kofi’s story culminates in his angry response to the British auction of their loot in Cape Coast Castle. The loot includes the solid gold mask shown on the front cover of the novel. That mask continues to reside in the Wallace Collection in London. The invasion of Asante met with the enthusiastic approval of the British public, which elevated Wolseley to the status of a national hero. All the war correspondents and several military officers hastened to cash in on public sentiment by publishing books telling the story of their victory. In all of these, without exception, the coastal Fante feature as feckless and cowardly and the Asante as ruthless savages. The Boy who Spat in Sargrenti's Eye tells the story of these momentous events for the first time from an African point of view. It is told with irony and with occasional flashes of humor. The novel is illustrated with scans of seventy engravings first published in The Illustrated London News. This book won a Burt Award for African Literature which included the donation by the Ghana Book Trust of 3000 copies to school libraries in Ghana. In 2016, at the annual conference of the African Literature Association held in Atlanta, GA, it received the ALA’s Creative Book of the Year Award. Prof. Kwesi Kwaa Prah writes:“The Boy who Spat in Sargrenti's War takes history out of the recesses of memory and obscurity, and expresses it in vivid and dazzling light.” The Boy who Spat in Sargrenti's Eye is a story for adults of all ages, both young adults and those no longer so young. Link to the book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2GS7m7s
In This Episode: When you speak of Tourism in Africa, some of the first places that come to your mind are South Africa, Morocco or Kenya, but there are so many other beautiful places to visit. Ghana is one of my favorite destinations in Africa. Even though I am originally from Nigeria, Ghana has always been a second home to me. It’s a beautiful place, full of beautiful people and it is most definitely a tourist destination worth visiting.If you enjoy traveling and exploring new places, then this episode is for you because I would be telling you about some of the most amazing monuments, markets, hotels, food, fashion, and lifestyle in the wonderful country called Ghana. Mentioned In This Episode: 1. Ghana - www.ghana.gov.gh/ 2. Kwame Nkrumah - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Nkrumah 3. Elmina Castle - www.elminacastle.info/ 4. Transatlantic Slave Trade - www.britannica.com/topic/transatlantic-slave-trade 5. Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum & Memorial Park - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Nkrumah_Mausoleum 6. National Theatre - nationaltheatreghana.com/ 7. Jamestown - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown/Usshertown,_Accra 8. Makola Market - www.viewghana.com/famous-makola-market-accra/ 9. Labadi Beach - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labadi_Beach 10. Aburi Village - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aburi 11. International Emmy Awards - www.iemmys.tv/ 12. Melanie Crane Couture - www.melaniecranecouture.com/ 13. Labadi Beach Hotel - labadi-beach.accra-hotels-gh.com/en/ 14. Movenpick Ambassador - www.movenpick.com/en/africa/ghana/…w/overview-2017/ Click on the link to view more 'Mentioned in this Episode': http://www.excusemyafrican.com/2017/11/ep-10-ghana-my-second-home.html Connect: Email: excusemyafrican@gmail.com Website: www.excusemyafrican.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/excusemyafrican/support
Hi, everyone, and welcome to episode 7 of my podcast Leading A Double Life. I’m Kwei Quartey, a physician and author of the Inspector Darko Dawson novels. On my podcast, reflections on being a medical doctor and a writer. This episode, part one of a series on African Literature African Literature: What is it? African literature has been much written about. There is still debate about what it really is, its themes and its style and content. A notable aspect is that it includes both the oral and written literatures. The etymologic definition of literature is “writing formed with letters,” from the Latin littera (letters). Therefore, Pio Zirimu, a Ugandan scholar, suggested the word orature to replace the self-contradictory “oral literature.” Despite the ingenuity of the name, it didn’t really take hold, and “oral literature” is still the more popular term among scholars. Included in oral African literature is the African heroic epic. A prime example is the Sunjata (or Sundjata/Sundiata) Epic of the Mendeka peoples, relating the legend of Sunjata, the 13th century king of the Mali Empire. What is the stereotype about written African literature? The oral form of African literature is frequently mentioned and acknowledged in papers and books, but even supposedly knowledgeable scholars hold the view that written African literature barely made any appearance before the 1950s (as a result of colonization). In other words, before Chinua Achebe’s famous Things Fall Apart and other African writers’ works of that era, there was no good African literature to be found. TFA was one of the first African novels to garner international critical acclaim, but was that all there was? No, says Princeton professor of medieval, early modern, and modern African literature, Wendy Laura Belcher. She notes in her paper on African Literature, An Anthology of Written Texts from 3000 BCE to 1900 CE that while historians labor to overturn privailing misconceptions that Africa is a place without history, literary critics have done little to overturn a mistaken view that Africa has no literature. Some Westerners believe that writing on the continent was not done by Africans or in African languages. Belcher emphasizes, and others back her up, that in fact there is an at least 3000-year history of African writing. Why has some African literature escaped notice (or been ignored)? Much of African literature over the last millenia has disappeared from view because it has not survived, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, but extant texts refer to these ancient documents as having existed. Second, many works were not published and therefore went unknown. Third, very few were translated from African languages into European languages, and they were therefore ignored. As much as scholars probe and dissect shining examples of twentieth century African literature, Belcher points out there are historical precedents to the works of the prominent modern-day African writers. For example, it could be argued that the pidgin English works of Amos Tutuola (The Palm-Wine Drinkard), (which Dylan Thomas called “fresh, young English”), Ken Saro-Wiwa (Sozaboy), and Uzodinma Iweala (Beasts of No Nation) were well preceded by Antera Duke‘s eighteenth century diary, which was written in Nigerian pidgin English and carried to Scotland by a Scottish missionary. Where is that ever mentioned in popular analysis? Historical categories of African literature One subsection of African literature emerged from the writings of Africans living outside of Africa– both slaves and African youths whom European colonists sent to study in England, France, Portugal, Italy, Holland and Germany. The Interesting Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789), was written by former slave Olaudah Equiano, who described the awfulness of slavery and the slave trade. Equiano was in the forefront of the movement in Britain to abolish slavery. His book was highly influential in bringing the trade to an end. Written in English, Equiano’s narrative received much attention, but another group of Africans in Europe had writings in Latin. Those have not commanded as much close examination. What are the ancient forms of African literature? The Arab expansion in the Sahel spread Islam to the region, and the 11th-century Berber-led Almoravid invasion of the Empire of Ghana (not to be confused with modern Ghana) brought with it a Kufic-derived Arabic script. Mali, Sudan, and Nigeria developed different styles of Kufic-derived calligraphy. The role of Arabic writing and literature in West Africa has been long underestimated. Ajami is an African-adapted Arabic script found in the Swahili, Hausa, Wolof, and Yoruba. It is 300 t0 500 years old. Another ancient written form in Nsibidi, which is an ideographic script with a system of symbols that was indigenous to what is now southeastern Nigeria. It dates back to at least 2000 BC. Many people don’t realize that the much-commercialized Adinkra symbols of Ghana also represent old, ideographic writing. It dates back to at least 1817, when the Englishman Thomas Edward Bowdich collected a piece of Adinkra cloth in 1817. The next oldest piece of Adinkra textile was sent in 1825 from the Elmina Castle to the royal cabinet of curiosities in The Hague. Lybico-Berber or Tifinagh script dates back to 3000 BC at least, and is the ancient writing of the Tuareg and other peoples in Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, Egypt, Chad and Niger. The Egyptians invented three different types of scripts–hieroglyphic, hieratic and demotic; and yes, like it or not, Egyptians are Africans. Vai script (3000 BC to present) is a particularly lovely form of writing indigenous to Liberia and a small portion of Sierra Leone. It is a set of symbols representing syllables Other languages with syllabaries include Japanese. Summary Clearly, there is much more to learn about African literature. In reference to Ajami, Serigne Kane notes, “the writings of black African authors have long been neglected due to prejudice, as both Europeans and Arab scholars with the necessary linguistic competence to study their works have often deemed their insights of little or no scholarly interest or benefit, and most assume that sources of knowledge on Africa are either oral or written in European languages,” (quote from Fallou Ngom.) Much the same applies to other forms of African writings. Even the word “literature” seems to have been captured and held hostage by Eurocentric exceptionalism as its rightful and exclusive property. African literature has been viewed as that which developed as a result of the “civilizing influences” of invading Europeans. It’s time to take the blinders off and open up the mind. That’s all for this episode. Again, thank you for listening. If you’re hearing this on iTunes, please also check out my website, kweiquartey.com. That’s k-w-e-i-q-u-a-r-t-e-y dot com. The podcast episodes are also available there. I’m on Twitter as @doublekwei, one word. Until next time, be happy and healthy.
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