Africa Listen Podcast
By Africa Listen Podcast
Hosted by @chapmuna and @casspertheblaqgod
Africa Listen PodcastOct 01, 2021
RAW AND UNCUT 3
Exploring mindfulness with “visual artist” Oscar ukonu
A chat with renowned ball pen hyper realistic artist “Oscar Ukonu “ , and casspertheblaqgod dash’s out some perspective of the topic
Song by purrple cat
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Once upon a time in the ZOO | #nigeriaat61 EP4
credits:
19keys, Malanda Jean Claude, Slide, Spectacular smith
The Truth | The Pre-1940's history, Indigenous culture and heritage of the Igbo and their neighbors
"An injury to one, an injury to all" is the predominant philosophy that informed Africa's continent. In our coexisting community, a child is being raised by the parents and by the people. And despite all cultural differences among the people, the mastery of the water in West Africa as everywhere else was an important development for early man's knowledge of the rest of his environment. The many rivers, the incredible lagoons, and even the stormy ocean offered livelihood and communication.
The Trans-Atlantic slave trade took a passage through PANYA — [ Fernando Po’ (The Spanish plantation island) now known as "Malabo" the capital of Equatorial Guinea ] — into the Bight of Biafra (Eastern Nigeria) in search of labour, as the shortage and coercive recruitment of labour was particularly intense on the Spanish plantation island. [ The so-called "Labour Question" A well-known obsession pervading the archives of Africa was posed by colonial rulers as a calculated question of scarcity and coercion ]
However, the labour recruitments were said to be successfully constructed by the aligned "Mediators” of kinship, ethnicity, money, law, commodities, and administration."
In this episode, we interviewed a historian in Calabar who gave anecdotes on;
- Domestic slavery; a medium of exchange where families willingly gave out their sons to another for a given period to repay specific debts.
- Why the "Union Jack" took over Fernando Po' from preceding colonial authorities.
- Why our skin color should be our center point for self-mastery, tracing our heritage, and understanding our uniqueness.
- The idea of Christianity and how it was able to gain popularity over many African traditions and beliefs.
- The Nsibidi; A developing system of writing and communication created by the "Ekpe" society in Pre-1940's
Sources:
The Canoe in West African History
Clandestine Recruitment Networks in the Bight of Biafra
Other useful resources;
The Journey | #Fixthecountry
The practical demands of the young Ghanian youths, finds common ground in the current era of rebirth in the continent of Africa as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the average Millennial and succeeding generations of our time.
Many of the answers we seek lie in reflecting on the past, then tacking and solving the mistakes that the preceding generations made.
The challenges facing the current political, social and economic structure of Africa has it effects on the young generations, which can not be countered by repeating the present or copying the past but embracing new ideas, creativity, and potentials of the future, which lies in every young educated and uneducated African.
Join us as we begin our first podcast series: “The Journey” (what young Africans think about their situations) Follow us on IG @afrenaisssance