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  • EP 12 How Did Ona Judge Escape From George Washington | Women And Resistance

    EP 12 How Did Ona Judge Escape From George Washington | Women And Resistance
    2026/11/08
    On the evening of May 21, 1796, while the president's household ate dinner, the woman who served the table walked out. Host Adesoji Iginla welcomes Aya Fubara Eneli, who portrays Ona (Oney) Judge and tells her story in the first person, from her childhood to her lifelong fight for freedom.Takeaways*Her own account: She was born around 1773. In 1845 minister Thomas Adams wrote down her story for the Granite Freedmen, and another minister later sent a letter to The Liberator. She says her story is "a story of a woman who decided she would not be given away."*Law versus freedom: Under the law she remained enslaved, and her children were legally bound through her status. She says she was free because she was a child of God.*Family: Her mother Betty was a seamstress. Her father, Andrew Judge, was an indentured servant who became free but could not free her.*Life in the household: Around age ten, she was brought to the mansion to serve Martha Washington and be a companion to Nellie Custis, available around the clock. She travelled to New York and then Philadelphia, hearing talk of liberty while remaining invisible.*The six-month rule: In Philadelphia, the rule could offer freedom, but an exemption protected members of Congress. Washington's household moved enslaved people out of Pennsylvania to reset the clock.*The decision to leave: In May 1796, as the household prepared to return to Virginia, Martha told her she would be sent to Eliza as a wedding gift. Ona was determined never to be Eliza's slave, left her belongings with friends, and walked out after serving dinner.*Life in New Hampshire: She boarded the Nancy for Portsmouth, found sewing work, and valued being paid for her labour. She married Jack Staines, a free sailor, and had three children. She never saw her mother and siblings again.*Pursuit: Washington's people kept searching. She told the collector she chose to leave for freedom, and Washington rejected her terms for return. She later refused another offer to return.*Later years: Washington died, and she did not mourn him. His will would not have freed her because she belonged to the Custis estate. After her husband died, she was left with three children and no money, put her daughters out to service, and later learned to read.Chapters0:00 - The evening the president's servant walked out: May 21, 17960:57 - Host introduces Women and Resistance and guest Aya Fubara Eneli1:14 - Questions about Ona's background3:45 - "My name is Anna": Ona, Oney, and the spelling of her name4:11 - One Judge in Philadelphia, Anna Staines in New Hampshire5:00 - Born around 1773 and how her story came to be written down6:23 - "My story is not his story": sewing, a pallet by Martha's door7:24 - Enslaved under the law, free as a child of God9:34 - Her mother Betty, a seamstress, and how her parents' status shaped hers11:14 - Her father Andrew Judge, freed but unable to free her12:36 - Revolutionary War escapes to the British show leaving is possible14:58 - At about age ten, serving Martha Washington and Nellie Custis16:14 - Washington becomes president; New York and Philadelphia20:04 - New York's enslaved people, free Black community, and African Free School21:42 - Philadelphia and the six-month rule with its congressional exemption22:39 - Moving enslaved people out of Pennsylvania to reset the clock24:58 - Yellow fever, the loss of her brother Austin, and free Black Philadelphians' care26:56 - Washington signs the Fugitive Slave Act27:27 - May 1796: deciding to escape28:17 - Martha says Ona will go to Eliza as a wedding gift29:17 - Leaving belongings with friends and walking out after dinner30:09 - Hidden by friends, the $10 ad, and the Nancy to Portsmouth32:22 - Never seeing her mother and siblings again32:40 - Paid sewing work in Portsmouth33:11 - A petition by enslaved men in New Hampshire demanding freedom34:23 - Never Caught and the attempts to recapture her36:00 - Telling the collector she chose freedom; Washington rejects her terms38:10 - Marriage to Jack Staines and three children39:07 - Hercules escapes Mount Vernon39:31 - The search continues; another offer refused40:23 - Washington's death41:00 - Why his will would not have freed her41:59 - Widowhood, her daughters in service, and learning to read42:54 - David Walker's Appeal, Maria Stewart, Frederick Douglass, and never ceasing to fight44:13 - End of Ona's account44:16 - How to preserve and tell our own stories45:48 - Passing stories on in many forms and in people's hearts46:52 - Seeing free Black people, and refusing crumbs from the powerful47:26 - Visit the President's House in Philadelphia; audience prompt48:08 - Give children skills for freedom48:49 - Closing and an invitation to weave narratives togetherSend us Fan MailWelcome to Women and Resistance, a powerful podcast where we honour the courage, resilience, and revolutionary spirit of women across the globe. Hosted by Aya Fubara Eneli Esq and Adesoji Iginla... You're listening to Women and ...
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  • EP 11 Maria Firmina Dos Reis - The Black Woman Who Wrote Against Slavery | W.A.R.

    EP 11 Maria Firmina Dos Reis - The Black Woman Who Wrote Against Slavery | W.A.R.
    2026/10/31

    Host Adesoji Iginla speaks with Aya Fubara Eneli, who embodies Maria Firmina dos Reis, the 19th-century Brazilian teacher and writer.

    In character, Eneli recounts Maria's life: an illegitimate daughter of a formerly enslaved mother, a public school teacher, and the author of Úrsula, published in 1859.

    Takeaways

    *No verified portrait of Maria survives. A picture of a white woman was once placed on the cover of Úrsula as the author's image.
    *Her birth year is given as 1822 or 1825, in São Luís, Maranhão. She grew up in Guimarães in her mother's sister's house, where a few books were available.
    *She passed a public exam in 1847 for the post of girls' primary teacher in Guimarães. She refused to be carried in a palanquin by enslaved men.
    *Úrsula appeared in 1859 under the pseudonym "Uma Maranhense." Its enslaved characters speak, think and remember Africa, including Túlio and Susana.
    *She also published poems, the story Gupeva, the poetry book Cantos à Beira-Mar (1871), and the story A Escrava.
    *She opened a free mixed-gender school that lasted about two and a half years before pressure forced its closure.
    *After abolition on May 13, 1888, she noted that the Golden Law offered no land, wages or schooling.
    *She died in 1917 at 95, blind and poor.
    *Úrsula was found and republished about 45 years later.

    Chapters

    (0:01) Introduction: slavery, and a Black woman challenging it with a pen
    (1:30) Context: the world Maria lived in
    (2:03) Why no portrait of her exists, and the wrong face on the book cover
    (7:37) Birth and early life: Maranhão, 1822 or 1825, and her mother Leonor
    (10:33) Writing Úrsula, the first novel by a woman in Brazil
    (17:54) São Luís, the tides, and an economy built on enslaved labour
    (27:22) Moving to Guimarães and teaching herself from a few books
    (33:40) The Balaiada revolt and Negro Cosme's school
    (38:38) The 1847 teacher exam
    (42:33) Refusing the palanquin
    (46:16) Her classroom and what she taught the girls
    (49:20) Why she never married, and the children she raised
    (52:11) Úrsula published in 1859, the prologue and the pseudonym
    (58:04) Newspaper writing, Gupeva and Cantos à Beira-Mar
    (62:08) The mixed-gender school
    (65:09) Abolitionist movement and A Escrava
    (66:46) Abolition in 1888 and what the law left out
    (69:22) Death in 1917 and rediscovery of her work
    (71:00) Host reflections
    (72:26) Closing call to action from Maria
    (73:00) Next week teaser

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    Welcome to Women and Resistance, a powerful podcast where we honour the courage, resilience, and revolutionary spirit of women across the globe. Hosted by Aya Fubara Eneli Esq and Adesoji Iginla...

    You're listening to Women and Resistance with Aya Fubara Eneli Esq and Adesoji Iginla—where we honour the voices of women who have shaped history through courage and defiance...Now, back to the conversation.


    That’s it for this episode of Women and Resistance. Thank you for joining us in amplifying the voices of women who challenge injustice and change the course of history. Be sure to subscribe, share, and continue the conversation. Together We Honour the past, act in the present, and shape the future. Until next time, stay inspired and stay in resistance!
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  • EP 10 Isabel de Olvera - The Black Woman Who Demanded Justice in 1600 | Women and Resistance

    EP 10 Isabel de Olvera - The Black Woman Who Demanded Justice in 1600 | Women and Resistance
    2026/10/25
    This episode centers on Isabel de Olvera, an Afro-Indigenous free woman from Mexico who asked a Spanish official to document her freedom before travelling north in 1600. Her story shows how freedom had to be proven, protected, and fought for in colonial systems that could erase identity at will. Adesoji Iginla speaks with Aya as Isabel de Olvera, who shares her background, the legal dangers she faced, and why her declaration still resonates in conversations about papers, borders, race, gender, and power.Takeaways *Isabel was born in Querétaro, Mexico, to a Black father, Hernando, and an Indigenous mother, Magdalena.*Her freedom came through her mother’s legal status under Spanish law, but her Blackness still made her vulnerable in the colonial caste system.*In 1600, Isabel asked a Spanish official to document her freedom, unmarried status, and legitimacy, with witnesses and an official seal.*She explains that freedom was layered: being born free did not guarantee safety, mobility, or legal recognition.*The episode explores the caste hierarchy in Spanish Mexico and the rules attached to categories such as mullatto and mestiza.*Isabel outlines restrictions imposed on free Black and mullatto women, including tribute taxes, household service, dress restrictions, and limits on speech and prayer.*She contrasts two paths to freedom: fleeing into the mountains like Yanga, or using the law to demand protection.*The journey north spanned more than 1,000 miles along the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro.*The story of Juan de Oñate and the violence at Acoma shows how conquest, punishment, and forced labour could be presented as law.*Isabel explains how she turned fear into evidence in her declaration—and how the document could offer protection, even if it could not guarantee justice.*The conversation connects her story to modern questions of documentation, border enforcement, racial targeting, women’s rights, and historical recognition.Isabel’s closing message: no one gets free alone, and even small acts of resistance can spark wider change.Chapters00:00 - Isabel de Olvera’s declaration of freedom before a dangerous journey01:20 - Why her story matters to Women and Resistance02:18 - Isabel’s origins in Mexico and her family background04:01 - Being free, unmarried, and still vulnerable05:36 - Why she asked for a written record, witnesses, and an official seal07:19 - The story’s path: origins, rules, journey, and legacy08:45 - Freedom as something that had to be proven10:06 - Black labour, slavery, and erased family histories in Mexico12:14 - Her father’s marriage and her legitimacy13:56 - Her mother’s freedom and the legal status of children15:23 - Querétaro, forced labour, and the thin line between freedom and enslavement18:00 - Why a free woman still needed protection on paper20:14 - Rules imposed on free Black and mullato women23:21 - Dress codes, hair, and social control24:03 - The Inquisition and the policing of speech and belief25:24 - Kidnapping and the danger of being far from home27:31 - Yanga and another path to freedom through resistance28:48 - Free did not mean safe30:23 - Who bears the stigma of slavery and conquest32:29 - Oñate’s conquest of what became New Mexico33:55 - Acoma, retaliation, and brutal punishment37:47 - Recruiting people for the journey north40:05 - Remembering women by saying their names42:42 - Holding complexity: freedom alongside complicity in conquest43:03 - Isabel’s declaration and the witnesses who supported her45:44 - The court record and the power of testimony48:09 - Turning fear into evidence49:32 - Carrying the certified paper and using the system’s tools50:08 - The long journey north on the royal road51:54 - The official count—and who was left out53:22 - Arrival at San Gabriel on Christmas Eve, 160055:36 - Hunger, tribute, and the taking of Pueblo resources57:00 - The people of Acoma living under imposed sentences58:32 - Law versus justice59:02 - Fear, terror, and the use of Black bodies by colonial power61:20 - What Isabel’s paper could—and could not—do62:19 - What the historical record leaves unknown about her later life64:30 - How Isabel’s story changes the timeline of Black history in the U.S.65:51 - Black Mexico, erasure, and recognition67:11 - Being counted as a condition of visibility and safety68:09 - Isabel’s whole identity and the idea of intersectionality69:05 - Claiming bodily autonomy and the right to belong to herself70:35 - A closing call to learn history, fight for freedom, and say her nameSend us Fan MailWelcome to Women and Resistance, a powerful podcast where we honour the courage, resilience, and revolutionary spirit of women across the globe. Hosted by Aya Fubara Eneli Esq and Adesoji Iginla... You're listening to Women and Resistance with Aya Fubara Eneli Esq and Adesoji Iginla—where we honour the voices of women who have shaped history through courage and defiance...Now, back to the conversation. That’s it for ...
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  • EP 9 Yelena Khanga - The Journalist Who Challenged Race, Identity And Taboo | Women and Resistance

    EP 9 Yelena Khanga - The Journalist Who Challenged Race, Identity And Taboo | Women and Resistance
    2026/10/18
    Adesoji Iginla and Aya Fubara Eneli trace the life of Yelena Kanga, the Black Russian journalist, television presenter, and author whose family story spans Mississippi, Moscow, Zanzibar, and Uzbekistan. The episode explores resistance not only as protest but also as land ownership, education, survival, storytelling, and refusal of the roles history assigns you. Aya frames Yelena’s life as part of a larger generational struggle, while Adesoji guides the conversation through the historical arc and the meaning of its turning points.Takeaways*Yelena Kanga introduces herself as Yelena Abdoulayevna Kanga, born in Moscow on May 1, 1962, to a family shaped by African American, African, Jewish, and Soviet histories.*She describes growing up as a Black child in Moscow, where she was often treated as a symbol of Soviet international brotherhood.*The episode follows four generations of family resistance across race, religion, nation, and politics.*Her great-grandfather, Hilliard Golden, was born enslaved in Mississippi, bought land after emancipation, and made land ownership an act of resistance.*After the Ku Klux Klan burned the family’s land twice, they were forced to leave Mississippi for Alabama.*Oliver and Bertha Biollet, a Jewish labour activist from an immigrant family, met in New York and eventually moved to the Soviet Union.*In Uzbekistan, Oliver worked as a scientist on cotton development, taught at an institute, and served on Tashkent’s city council.*Yelena’s mother became a pianist, tennis champion, historian, and scholar of African American history, publishing more than 100 articles on Africans in Russia and African music.*Her father, Abdullah Kasim Khanga, was a Zanzibari political figure and the first and only prime minister of the People’s Republic of Zanzibar and Pemba before his arrest and execution in 1969.*Yelena discusses how tennis gave her a space where performance mattered more than colour, and how journalism became her path in Soviet media.*She reflects on glasnost and a provocative sex-education program that addressed AIDS, homosexuality, and domestic violence.*A 1991 American television feature helped reconnect her with Black Golden relatives in the United States.*She also reconnects with Bertha’s Jewish relatives, restoring another part of the family story.Chapters(00:00) Opening the story of a Black Russian family across continents(03:32) Yelena Kanga introduces her full name and Moscow birth(04:35) Growing up as a Black girl with a Soviet accent(06:05) The family tree stretching from Zanzibar to Mississippi and New York(08:17) Four generations crossing racial, religious, and political lines(10:45) Being used as Soviet proof of racial brotherhood(12:45) Why Soviet anti-racism was real and incomplete(16:56) Hilliard Golden, slavery, and the fight to own land(22:23) Why land ownership was resistance in post-slavery Mississippi(23:30) The Klan burns the Golden family out of Mississippi(27:37) Standing on family land in the American South as a Soviet journalist(30:42) Oliver Golden, Tuskegee, and learning through George Washington Carver(31:58) Fighting in World War I and coming home to Red Summer violence(33:17) Great Migration to Chicago and the limits of Black opportunity(34:07) Communist organising as one of the only paths to equality(35:11) Studying in Moscow at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East(36:39) Meeting Bertha Biollet in jail and building an interracial political family(38:58) Moving to Soviet Uzbekistan for cotton, work, and survival(41:22) Oliver as scientist, teacher, and city council member in Tashkent(42:31) Visitors like Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Paul Robeson in the family orbit(43:53) Yelena’s mother is born in Tashkent and grows up through Stalin’s terror(45:58) Her mother’s piano, tennis, and scholarship career(47:01) Studying African American history in Moscow to find her father through archives(48:31) Yelena’s father Abdullah Kasim Hanga and Zanzibar’s political struggle(49:37) Zanzibar revolution, short-lived power, and the rise of repression(51:21) Her father’s arrest and execution in 1969(54:02) American Black freedom icons seen from Moscow, and tennis as escape(55:16) Journalism at Moscow State University and work at Moscow News(56:39) Glasnost opens the door to freer reporting(57:05) Boston, Black America, and seeing race from a new angle(60:22) Breaking taboos on Soviet television with sex, AIDS, and domestic violence(61:20) A TV broadcast helps reunite her with Golden relatives in the U.S.(63:03) Reconnecting with Bertha’s Jewish family and recovering the full story(64:19) Soul to Soul and her mother’s memoir My Long Journey Home(66:06) Yelena reflects on a lifelong family legacy of resistance and resilience(68:24) Aya’s closing reflection on Black excellence, survival, and breaking ground(71:09) Final takeaway: turn hardship into advantage and live fullySend us Fan MailWelcome to Women and ...
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  • EP 8 Valaida 🎺 🎺 🎺 Snow - The Black Woman Who Took Jazz Around The World | Women And Resistance

    EP 8 Valaida 🎺 🎺 🎺 Snow - The Black Woman Who Took Jazz Around The World | Women And Resistance
    2026/10/11

    In this episode of Women and Resistance, Adesoji Iginla and Aya Fubara Eneli spotlight the extraordinary life of Valaida Snow, a Black woman performer who used music, performance, travel, and self-reinvention as acts of survival and refusal.

    Valaida shares how talent, education, and style became tools for resisting racism, sexism, and erasure across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

    We discuss her childhood in a travelling performance family, her mastery of multiple instruments, her public reinventions, and the way she was overlooked in American music history despite her acclaim and influence.

    Takeaways

    *Valaida Snow explains why her life story contains shifting details, and how show business often required reinvention and performance as protection.
    *She describes growing up in a family of musicians and performers, with her mother Etta Snow teaching literacy, music, and discipline on the road.
    *Valaida reflects on being on stage from age five, mastering ten instruments by age fifteen, and turning education into a portable survival skill.
    *She discusses the racism built into early 20th-century entertainment, including minstrel traditions and segregated travel.
    *She explains how playing trumpet—a so-called man’s instrument—challenged gender norms, and how she paired it with glamorous stagewear.
    *She recalls touring Europe and Asia, finding opportunities abroad while recognising that Europe was far from free of prejudice.
    *The conversation touches on Harlem, Chicago, Broadway, and figures including Josephine Baker, Louis Armstrong, W. C. Handy, Earl Hines, and Ethel Waters.
    *Valaida describes the erasure of her contributions from credits and biographies, despite her work as a bandleader and performer.
    *She reflects on an abusive early marriage and leaving with the skills to support herself.
    *The episode addresses conflicting accounts of her wartime detention in Copenhagen and the ways stories about Black women performers can be distorted or simplified.

    Chapters

    00:00 - What happens when a Black woman’s talent resists society’s categories
    03:19 - A family of performers and the making of a musical childhood
    05:41 - The Piccanini Troubadours and performing inside racist systems
    07:25 - Recognition abroad and neglect at home
    10:00 - Surviving life on the road and in the spotlight
    11:16 - Resistance through gender defiance, travel, and reinvention
    14:56 - Valaida's death, then the story rewinds to the beginning
    17:23 - Chattanooga and slavery as living memory
    20:59 - The handcuff act and childhood fame
    25:23 - Learning ten instruments without music school
    29:01 - Why the trumpet became her instrument of refusal
    33:24 - Child marriage, abuse, and choosing to leave
    36:01 - Joining Holiday in Dixieland and beginning a career on her own terms
    38:38 - Harlem, Broadway, and the rise of Valaida Snow
    41:31 - Josephine Baker, Banville, and Black stardom
    44:35 - Europe as an imperfect refuge
    46:22 - Touring Shanghai, Singapore, Calcutta, and Batavia
    50:02 - Chicago jazz, Louis Armstrong, and the Sunset Cafe
    52:03 - The seven-pairs-of-shoes act and its global symbolism
    55:11 - Louis Armstrong’s influence and the double standard of being called a mimic
    58:58 - Conducting Rhapsody in Black and being left out of the credits
    60:39 - Copenhagen, wartime detention, and conflicting accounts
    64:20 - Love, scandal, and film work in Europe
    67:14 - Returning to Harlem and rebuilding her career
    68:12 - Wrigley Field, Town Hall, and late-career recognition
    69:35 - Her final performance at the Palace Theatre and burial in Chattanooga
    73:19 - Valaida’s closing message: embrace everything in you and do it all

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    Welcome to Women and Resistance, a powerful podcast where we honour the courage, resilience, and revolutionary spirit of women across the globe. Hosted by Aya Fubara Eneli Esq and Adesoji Iginla...

    You're listening to Women and Resistance with Aya Fubara Eneli Esq and Adesoji Iginla—where we honour the voices of women who have shaped history through courage and defiance...Now, back to the conversation.


    That’s it for this episode of Women and Resistance. Thank you for joining us in amplifying the voices of women who challenge injustice and change the course of history. Be sure to subscribe, share, and continue the conversation. Together We Honour the past, act in the present, and shape the future. Until next time, stay inspired and stay in resistance!
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  • EP 7 Rosa Castellanos: A Cuban Health Captain | Women And Resistance

    EP 7 Rosa Castellanos: A Cuban Health Captain | Women And Resistance
    2026/10/04
    In this episode of Women and Resistance, Adesoji Iginla and Aya Fubara Eneli center the life of Rosa Maria Castellanos Castellanos, also known as La Bayamesa, a formerly enslaved Cuban healer, field surgeon, hospital founder, and captain in the Cuban Liberation Army. Her story becomes a larger meditation on freedom, women’s labour in war, and how historical memory erases Black women’s leadership.The conversation moves through slavery, the Ten Years’ War, improvised battlefield medicine, and the hidden networks of women who sustained the Cuban struggle. Rosa’s final reflections sharpen the episode’s core arguments: peace without freedom is not peace, and kindness without watchfulness can be fatal.Takeaways *Rosa Maria Castellanos explains that she was born into slavery in Cuba and was later known as La Bayamesa, a woman from Bayamo.*She describes becoming a healer, field surgeon, and founder of hospitals for wounded Cuban fighters in the mountains.*The episode places her life in the context of Cuba’s sugar economy, slavery, and Spanish colonial rule.*Rosa recounts her mother’s plant knowledge, showing how healing traditions were passed through enslaved Black women.*She explains how she used green wood ash, heated metal, leaves, bark, and poultices to treat battlefield wounds when no formal medicine was available.*Her husband, Jose Florentino Varano Estrada, is named as a crucial partner who helped restrain wounded men during treatment and fought beside her.*The episode highlights the burning of Bayamo by its own people rather than surrendering it back to Spain, framing it as an act of collective resistance.*Rosa details her work in the Sierra Maestra, where she carried messages, gathered food, mended clothes, made shoes, and treated soldiers without ever being officially appointed.*The episode emphasises that women in the Cuban wars were not passive supporters but cooks, spies, nurses, couriers, and combatants whose names were often lost.*Rosa reflects on being called “property” by enslavers and “Capitana” by General Máximo Gómez, underscoring how language tracks power and liberation.Chapters00:00 — Introducing Women and Resistance and the mission of recovering erased women’s histories02:47 — Rosa questions how her story will be told without Spanish and begins her own account04:59 — Born into slavery, renamed, and shaped by Cuban colonial violence08:33 — Green wood ash, heated iron, and battlefield medicine under impossible conditions11:27 — Why Rosa was called La Bayamesa and later Capitana12:36 — The barracoon, slavery’s daily violence, and why birth dates were lost18:46 — Her parents’ forced renaming and the memory carried through her mother’s hands20:13 — Plant medicine, Indigenous knowledge, and healing learned from women and elders24:13 — Childhood labour, cane fields, and the realities of Cuba’s sugar economy28:29 — Cuba, Spain, and the long survival of slavery after abolition elsewhere31:40 — Flowers in her hair as an act of defiance against enslavement33:30 — Love with Jose Florentino Varano Estrada as a form of freedom36:13 — The 1868 uprising, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, and the start of the Ten Years’ War41:13 — Bayamo burned rather than surrendered, and the meaning of choosing freedom44:26 — Women’s hidden work in rebel camps and Rosa’s many roles beyond nursing50:32 — Building hidden field hospitals and feeding starving wounded fighters53:30 — Catching a Spanish spy and the moral complexity of war56:24 — Máximo Gómez visits the hospital and names her Capitana58:15 — The Pact of Zanjón and the limits of freedom after the war61:07 — Martí’s vision of Cuba, the funding of another war, and Rosa returning at 6063:38 — The Spanish-American War, U.S. intervention, and Cuba’s compromised independence67:19 — Her godson Nicolás Guillén, her will, and her final legacy68:42 — Rosa’s death, military honours, and a street renamed in her memory71:44 — Final lessons: peace without freedom is not peace, and kindness requires watchfulnessSend us Fan MailWelcome to Women and Resistance, a powerful podcast where we honour the courage, resilience, and revolutionary spirit of women across the globe. Hosted by Aya Fubara Eneli Esq and Adesoji Iginla... You're listening to Women and Resistance with Aya Fubara Eneli Esq and Adesoji Iginla—where we honour the voices of women who have shaped history through courage and defiance...Now, back to the conversation. That’s it for this episode of Women and Resistance. Thank you for joining us in amplifying the voices of women who challenge injustice and change the course of history. Be sure to subscribe, share, and continue the conversation. Together We Honour the past, act in the present, and shape the future. Until next time, stay inspired and stay in resistance!
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  • EP 6 Luísa Diogo's Contested Legacy - The Accountant of the Revolution| Women And Resistance.

    EP 6 Luísa Diogo's Contested Legacy - The Accountant of the Revolution| Women And Resistance.
    2026/09/27
    This episode profiles Luisa Diaz Diogo, Mozambique’s first woman Minister of Planning and Finance and first woman Prime Minister, in a wide-ranging conversation about nation-building under colonialism, war, structural adjustment, and recovery. She explains why economics is inseparable from liberation, and why peace must be funded, coordinated, and protected.The conversation also connects her personal life to national history, from being born in a rice field in colonial Tete to raising a family while helping steer Mozambique through war, debt, famine, floods, and AIDS.TakeawaysLuisa Diogo’s early life in Tete, Mozambique, and how her mother’s labour in a rice field shaped her worldviewColonial rule in Mozambique, including forced labour, assimilado status, and the extraction of African wealth and labourHer mother as her first economics teacher, and the lesson that girls must develop “twice the capacity” to be valued in societyWhy she chose accounting and budgeting as tools of liberation: no money, no schools, no health care, no developmentThe transition from independence struggle to state-building, including literacy campaigns, nationalisation, and socialist planningMozambique’s civil war, foreign-backed destabilisation through RENAMO, and the real human costs of roads mined, schools burned, and a million deathsStructural adjustment, IMF and World Bank negotiations, and her argument that you have to understand global institutions in order to protect national interestsPeacebuilding as a budgeted process: demobilisation, reintegration, reconstruction, and the idea that “if you do not pay for the peace, the war will come back to collect”Her leadership roles as Deputy Minister, Minister of Planning and Finance, and later Prime Minister, including balancing reconstruction with macroeconomic stabilityHIV and AIDS policy, women’s rights, reproductive health, and her push for more women in leadership across AfricaChapters(00:00) Why Luisa Diogo matters in the Pan-African struggle(01:49) Asking about her upbringing and path into numbers(04:41) The Mozambican woman as a symbol of survival and improvisation(06:01) “I governed the way my mother cooked”(08:21) Born in a rice field during colonial Mozambique(11:24) What Portuguese colonialism looked like on the ground(14:11) Forced labour, cotton, and labour extraction across southern Africa(17:56) Her mother’s lessons: housework, discipline, and survival for girls(22:06) Cahora Bassa, colonial permanence, and resistance politics(23:57) Mueda, Frelimo, Samora Machel, and the road to armed struggle(26:23) Why voting and political participation are matters of life and death(28:21) Commercial school, bookkeeping, and the power of numbers(33:38) Independence and the collapse of Mozambique’s trained administrative class(35:03) Building a new state: schools, literacy, vaccination, socialism(36:45) Supporting neighbouring liberation movements and paying the price(38:18) Joining the Ministry of Finance and studying while working(41:14) War, famine, drought, and Operation Production(43:21) Nkomati Accord, IMF entry, and managing scarcity(45:03) Rising through the finance ministry during structural adjustment(47:42) Multiparty politics, a new constitution, and studying financial economics(49:04) Demobilising soldiers and planning for postwar reintegration(51:34) “Peace has a budget”(53:14) Rebuilding Mozambique through a coordinated national project plan(55:02) Learning the World Bank from the inside(56:21) Drafting the first postwar five-year program(58:10) Cutting inflation from 75 per cent to 5 per cent(59:23) Debt, donors, and refusing rule by “40 masters”(60:52) Corruption, the Banco Comercial de Mozambique case, and Carlos Cardoso’s murder(62:30) The 2000 floods and rebuilding after total devastation(63:57) Becoming Prime Minister and the limits of growth statistics(64:37) HIV and AIDS, women’s vulnerability, and speaking openly about sex(66:17) The Maputo Plan of Action and organising women’s leadership(67:40) UN reform, one country-one program logic, and system-wide coherence(68:33) The personal cost of public service(70:14) Running for president, losing, and passing the baton(71:42) Leadership as responsibility, not privilege(72:45) Her final message: “Compriste” - you completed your workClosing takeawayLuisa Diogo’s story argues that liberation is not only fought on the battlefield. It is also fought in budgets, institutions, public health, and the long, unglamorous work of keeping a country alive.Send us Fan MailWelcome to Women and Resistance, a powerful podcast where we honour the courage, resilience, and revolutionary spirit of women across the globe. Hosted by Aya Fubara Eneli Esq and Adesoji Iginla... You're listening to Women and Resistance with Aya Fubara Eneli Esq and Adesoji Iginla—where we honour the voices of women who have shaped history through courage and defiance...Now, back to the conversation. That...
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  • EP 5 Cécile Fatiman: Lighting the Fire of the Haitian Revolution | Women and Resistance

    EP 5 Cécile Fatiman: Lighting the Fire of the Haitian Revolution | Women and Resistance
    2026/09/20
    This episode centers on Cecile Fatiman, the Haitian mambo whose role in the Bois Caïman uprising helped ignite the Haitian Revolution. Adesoji Iginla and Aya as Cecile Fatiman use storytelling, history, and spiritual teaching to show how resistance lives in memory, ritual, ancestry, and joy. We discuss how colonial power tried to erase African spiritual knowledge, why Vodou is a structured faith rather than a horror-story stereotype, and how liberation requires both strategy and spiritual grounding. The conversation closes with a practical reader-style spiritual exercise and a reminder that joy itself can be a form of resistance.Takeaways*In this episode: why Cecile Fatiman matters to Haiti, the Atlantic world, and Black liberation history.*The debate around Fatiman’s origins and why women’s histories are so often under-documented or questioned.*Saint-Domingue as the “richest colony in the world,” built on the labour of hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans.*How colonialism functioned as theft not just of land and labour, but of cosmology, language, medicine, and memory.*Vodou as spiritual lineage, ancestral connection, and a way of remembering peoplehood after enslavement.*The night of August 14, 1791, at Bois Caïman, where Fatiman, Dutty Boukman, and others gathered in secrecy to organise revolt.*The role of ritual, blood oath, drums, call-and-response, and collective planning in turning resistance into action.*Why the drum was treated as dangerous by empire: not just as music, but as communication, coordination, and survival technology.*The idea that Black spiritual systems were disguised inside Catholic imagery, songs, and everyday practice to preserve them under colonial rule.*A closing message on joy, self-love, and emotional freedom as part of breaking generational chains.Chapters00:00 - Opening the show and framing women’s resistance as living history01:01 - Introducing Cecile Fatiman and the significance of Haiti02:16 - Fatiman on origin stories, uncertainty, and historical erasure05:41 - Fatiman identifies herself as a mambo and priestess of Vodou06:27 - Why liberation begins by returning to ancestors and spirit08:16 - Saint-Domingue’s wealth, sugar, coffee, and indigo built on slavery09:59 - Half a million enslaved Africans and the violence behind the word “enslaved”11:47 - Motherhood as resistance under slavery12:43 - “Cruelty” as the economic policy of slavery13:09 - What slavery could not take: drums, songs, and spiritual inheritance15:14 - Vodou as continuity, memory, and a way to remain, people16:09 - Fatiman explains being chosen as a mambo16:36 - The night of August 14 and the gathering in Bois Caïman18:01 - Secrecy, safe spaces, and 200 men risking their lives to organise19:33 - Calling the Iwa and the arrival of Erzuli Danto21:12 - The black pig sacrifice and the oath to die free rather than enslaved23:51 - Dutty Boukman’s words and the logic of call-and-response25:44 - The uprising begins eight days later in northern Saint-Domingue26:17 - Why colonisers reduced the revolution to folklore27:43 - Colonialism as theft of land, labour, and cosmology32:57 - Ancestors, drums, and inherited intelligence as revolutionary technology36:53 - Frantz Fanon on colonialism distorting the past and future38:06 - Why empire fears the drum more than the machete39:05 - Haiti becomes the first Black republic and what freedom still demands40:54 - Vodou explained as a structured faith, not superstition42:21 - The Iwa, the Orishas, and shared spiritual lineages45:27 - Ritual as protocol, apprenticeship, and resistance in camouflage46:51 - A warning against treating spiritual traditions like costumes or aesthetics48:36 - Why women’s histories are disputed and how records get written without women holding the pen49:34 - Fatiman’s life details: marriage, age, and later generations preserving her testimony53:05 - A spiritual question and pendulum demonstration58:58 - Closing guidance on joy, self-love, and refusing shame63:23 - Farewell and teaser for the next Women in Resistance episodeSend us Fan MailWelcome to Women and Resistance, a powerful podcast where we honour the courage, resilience, and revolutionary spirit of women across the globe. Hosted by Aya Fubara Eneli Esq and Adesoji Iginla... You're listening to Women and Resistance with Aya Fubara Eneli Esq and Adesoji Iginla—where we honour the voices of women who have shaped history through courage and defiance...Now, back to the conversation. That’s it for this episode of Women and Resistance. Thank you for joining us in amplifying the voices of women who challenge injustice and change the course of history. Be sure to subscribe, share, and continue the conversation. Together We Honour the past, act in the present, and shape the future. Until next time, stay inspired and stay in resistance!
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