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Self Reflection Podcast
Beyond Religion: Unveiling the Power of African Spirituality with Dr. Kwasi Konadu
Send us a textFeeling lost and searching for a spiritual path outside of organized religion? This episode of Self-Reflection Podcast might be the answer you've been looking for. This dives deep into African spirituality with Dr. Kwasi Konadu, uncovering its core practices and philosophies was originally conducted and aired on “I never knew Tv” on YouTube.Dr. Konadu emphasizes the distinction between religion and spirituality. Religion, he explains, often relies on dogma and strict belief systems, whereas African spirituality is a practice that fosters a direct connection with the...
2024-07-11
17 min
Dis a fi mi History Podcast
Enslaved Africa Names - Professor Kwasi Konadu
This episode discusses the names of Enslaved Africans on Baptism & Slave Registers and what the importance and the meaning behind why they were name and what is represents. Professor Kwasi Konadu - Bio Kwasi Konadu is an author, scholar, educator, writer, editor, and historian. Currently Kwasi Konadu is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Endowed Chair and Professor at Colgate University, where he teaches courses in African history and on worldwide African histories and cultures. With extensive archival and field research in West Africa, Europe, Brazil, the Caribbean, and North America, his writi...
2023-09-24
39 min
New Books in Women's History
Kwasi Konadu, "Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire" (Hurst, 2022)
Kwasi Konadu's book Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire (Hurst, 2022) presents rare evidence about the lives of three African women in the sixteenth century--the very period from which we can trace the origins of global empires, slavery, capitalism, modern religious dogma and anti-Black violence. These features of today's world took shape as Portugal built a global empire on African gold and bodies. Forced labor was essential to the world economy of the Atlantic basin, and afflicted many African women and girls who were enslaved and manumitted, bapti...
2022-11-28
1h 55
New Books in Economic and Business History
Kwasi Konadu, "Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire" (Hurst, 2022)
Kwasi Konadu's book Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire (Hurst, 2022) presents rare evidence about the lives of three African women in the sixteenth century--the very period from which we can trace the origins of global empires, slavery, capitalism, modern religious dogma and anti-Black violence. These features of today's world took shape as Portugal built a global empire on African gold and bodies. Forced labor was essential to the world economy of the Atlantic basin, and afflicted many African women and girls who were enslaved and manumitted, bapti...
2022-11-28
1h 55
New Books in Gender
Kwasi Konadu, "Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire" (Hurst, 2022)
Kwasi Konadu's book Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire (Hurst, 2022) presents rare evidence about the lives of three African women in the sixteenth century--the very period from which we can trace the origins of global empires, slavery, capitalism, modern religious dogma and anti-Black violence. These features of today's world took shape as Portugal built a global empire on African gold and bodies. Forced labor was essential to the world economy of the Atlantic basin, and afflicted many African women and girls who were enslaved and manumitted, bapti...
2022-11-28
1h 55
New Books in African Studies
Kwasi Konadu, "Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire" (Hurst, 2022)
Kwasi Konadu's book Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire (Hurst, 2022) presents rare evidence about the lives of three African women in the sixteenth century--the very period from which we can trace the origins of global empires, slavery, capitalism, modern religious dogma and anti-Black violence. These features of today's world took shape as Portugal built a global empire on African gold and bodies. Forced labor was essential to the world economy of the Atlantic basin, and afflicted many African women and girls who were enslaved and manumitted, bapti...
2022-11-28
1h 55
New Books in Early Modern History
Kwasi Konadu, "Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire" (Hurst, 2022)
Kwasi Konadu's book Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire (Hurst, 2022) presents rare evidence about the lives of three African women in the sixteenth century--the very period from which we can trace the origins of global empires, slavery, capitalism, modern religious dogma and anti-Black violence. These features of today's world took shape as Portugal built a global empire on African gold and bodies. Forced labor was essential to the world economy of the Atlantic basin, and afflicted many African women and girls who were enslaved and manumitted, bapti...
2022-11-28
1h 55
New Books in Iberian Studies
Kwasi Konadu, "Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire" (Hurst, 2022)
Kwasi Konadu's book Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire (Hurst, 2022) presents rare evidence about the lives of three African women in the sixteenth century--the very period from which we can trace the origins of global empires, slavery, capitalism, modern religious dogma and anti-Black violence. These features of today's world took shape as Portugal built a global empire on African gold and bodies. Forced labor was essential to the world economy of the Atlantic basin, and afflicted many African women and girls who were enslaved and manumitted, bapti...
2022-11-28
1h 53
The Forum
Kwame Nkrumah: Ghana’s Pan-African idealist
Kwame Nkrumah was considered by some as a visionary hero who urged would-be leaders in Africa to embrace the idea of unity for the continent, and led Ghana to independence from British colonial rule in 1957.But in becoming Ghana’s first prime minister, and then president, he was criticised for his autocratic style of government and the way in which he pursued his Pan-African ideology seemingly at the expense of his own people. In 1966 Nkrumah was removed from power in a coup, and never returned to Ghana. Bridget Kendall’s guests include Ghanaian journalist-turned-historian, AB Asse...
2022-04-14
39 min
Black History for White People
Modern Day Convict Slavery with Dr. Kwasi Konadu
We interview Dr. Kwasi Konadu about a recent article he wrote entitled "The 13th Amendment’s fatal flaw created modern-day convict slavery."Kwasi Konadu is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Endowed Chair and Professor at Colgate University, where he teaches courses in African history and on worldwide African histories and cultures. With extensive archival and field research in West Africa, Europe, Brazil, the Caribbean, and North America, his writings focus on African and African diasporic histories, as well as major themes in world history. Our Own Way in This Part of the World: Biography of...
2022-03-02
58 min
African Studies Centre
Our Own Way in This Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation
For this seminar today we hosted Kwasi Konadu (Colgate University). Professor Konadu, Colgate University, spoke about his book, Our Own Way in This Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation.
2020-10-23
55 min
13
Ghana, a traditional healer's legacy, and the transatlantic slave trade
Join the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Endowed Chair of Africana and Latin American Studies Kwasi Konadu as he discusses the influential history of a traditional healer in Ghana, the problem with official statistics related to the slave trade, and the legacy of a community center in Brooklyn called, The East.
2020-06-22
1h 03
New Books in African Studies
Kwasi Konadu, "In Our Own Way In this Part of the World" (Duke UP, 2019)
In his new book In Our Own Way In this Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture and Nation (Duke University Press, 2019), Kwasi Konadu tells the story Kofi Donko (1913-1995) and the many communities he served as a blacksmith, healer, farmer, leader and intellectual. The book starts by describing the ontological universe that gave historical and social substance to the work of Kofi Donko, and traces the ways in which this universe remained central to the wellbeing of many communities in the Gold Coast (later Ghana) as they faced ecological degradation as well as social and...
2020-05-07
1h 02
Afrika's Reascension
Lecture-SANKOFA2014 Maroonage: A Successful Model of ReAfrikanization
www.lulu.com/kamau301 HOW TO MAKE A NEGRO CHRISTIAN THIS IS A PRE-RECORDED SHOW!!! This is a workshop from the 25th annual SANKOFA CONFERENCE 2014. The topic was Maroonage: A Successful Model of ReAfrikanization; Defined & Refined The facilitator was Nana Kwabena Frempong. The presenters, in order of appearance were sister Neico Sa Ra then her husband Kokhayi Sa Ra, followed by Bro. Kwasi Konadu, and then Bro. Sekou Olayinka (who was also on our INTERVIEW W/ 3 GRADUATES OF R.A.S show) and lastly Baba Agyei Akoto (one of the founders of said SANKOFA CONFERENCE), HUGELY POWERFUL PRESENTATION DOESN'T EVEN...
2015-02-22
2h 17
Afrika's Reascension
SANKOFA CONFERENCE 2013-MY PANEL PRESENTATION
PLEASE SUPPORT US-- WWW.CAFEPRESS.COM/KAMAU301 April 5-7th 2013 (gregorian calendar), I was finally given the opportunity to present at the MAGNIFICENT SANKOFA CONFERENCE. This conference, which has been around for 23 years is theeeeeeeee most unapologetic & most uncompromisingly Afrikan centered in the u.s. and I have been in attendance for at least 10-11 of them. I was placed on the NATIONBUILDING workshop track C with 2 other brilliant 'new jack' scholars: Dr. Kwasi Konadu (author of numerous books, most recently THE AKAN DIASPORA IN THE NEW WORLD) his website is dafricapress.com and Dr. Kimathi Carr (who we interviewed...
2013-05-06
1h 46