Conscientization 101

James Stone and Zari Sundiata
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Conscientization 101 podcast is a show published on Wednesdays which features workers, writers, artists, and others who are involved in the process of learning to perceive social, political, and economic contradictions, and are taking action against oppressive elements of reality. Each episode provides information and radical analysis that attacks the roots of the oppressive structures we contend with on a daily basis. We place the issues of today within the context of the superstructure. This approach is paramount to developing a deeper understanding of society so limiting situations are brought into focus; which will create true resistance for the purpose of revolutionary transformation. While you are getting an in-depth analysis via Conscientization 101 podcast, we make sure to make our show an enjoyable and distinctly entertaining experience!!

  1. Dr. Amos Wilson on Colonial Education – Part 2 of 3 – Musical Commentaries

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    Dr. Amos Wilson on Colonial Education – Part 2 of 3 – Musical Commentaries

    Ideopraxis, a term coined by renowned African scholar and author Ayi Kwei Armah, means "the translation of ideas systematically embraced into structured behavior and lifestyle. Ideopraxis is the yardstick that separates revolutionary performers from phonies" (Remembering The Dismembered Continent, pg 75-76). With this term in mind, we created our Ideopraxis Series. Part two of our three-part Ideopraxis Series, features Dr. Amos Wilson.

    12 min
  2. Dr. John Henrik Clarke on the Threshold of African Liberation – Part 3 of 3 – Musical Commentaries

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    Dr. John Henrik Clarke on the Threshold of African Liberation – Part 3 of 3 – Musical Commentaries

    Ideopraxis, a term coined by renowned African scholar and author Ayi Kwei Armah, means "the translation of ideas systematically embraced into structured behavior and lifestyle. Ideopraxis is the yardstick that separates revolutionary performers from phonies" (Remembering The Dismembered Continent, pg 75-76). With this term in mind, we created our Ideopraxis Series. Part three of our three-part Ideopraxis Series, features Dr. John Henrik Clarke.

    6 min
  3. Dr. Marimba Ani on African Warriors – Part 1 of 3 – Musical Commentaries

    2 DAYS AGO • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Dr. Marimba Ani on African Warriors – Part 1 of 3 – Musical Commentaries

    Ideopraxis, a term coined by renowned African scholar and author Ayi Kwei Armah, means "the translation of ideas systematically embraced into structured behavior and lifestyle. Ideopraxis is the yardstick that separates revolutionary performers from phonies" (Remembering The Dismembered Continent, pg 75-76). With this term in mind, we created our Ideopraxis Series. Part one of our three-part Ideopraxis Series, features Dr. Marimba Ani.

    9 min

  4. 13/12/2023

    EP.058 MCE: Nationbuilding – Theory and Practice Part 2

    Hip-Hop collective MCE. From left to right: Ced Adamz, Eshmelek Malakyah, and Obafemi Kiensiedilele.   After an arduous and acrimonious dispute with a housing contractor—oh what a crazy summer and fall—we conclude our two-part series with the multi-genius collective, MCE. In part two of this insightful and trenchant series we discuss the following: * The impetus behind the creation of the numinous RBG: The Ep (Red, Black, Green) * How the psychological condition, discerned by the late Dr. Kobi K.K. Kambon–known as cultural misorientation–conditions African people to view “progress” as ascendency within the oppressor’s system; and as such, we ask whether the term “Black” is a priori rendered reactionary when not properly defined within an African-centered context. * How MCE’s acuity and adroitness also extends into the children’s literary arena, with Everyday Is A Sunday, a children’s book written and illustrated by Brother Obafemi and, much more! We also give a blistering, but shrewd and veracious, polemic on housing contractors, and info on MCE’s forthcoming EP Food, Clothes, & Shelter, dropping December 21, 2023. You cannot afford to miss the conclusion to this percipient, sublime, and highly replayable series! This episode features music from: * Conscientization 101 – “Decolonize This? Properly Defining Settlers – Part 1” from our Musical Commentaries collection * MCE from their album Knowledge Of Self Vol.2 Death to White Supremacy: the tracks were “It's A Go ft. Tahir RBG ", and “Liberation”. As well as the singles from RBG: The Ep (Red, Black, Green) MCE’s social media and affiliated websites: Website MCE YouTube MCE SolMuzik Instagram @mcesolmuzik Facebook MCE SolMuzik Bandcamp (search) MCE Amazon (search) MCE

    2h 20m

  5. 20/07/2023

    EP.057 MCE: Nationbuilding – Theory and Practice Part 1

    Hip-Hop collective MCE. From left to right: Eshmelek Malakyah, Obafemi Kiensiedilele, and Ced Adamz. On this 57th episode of Conscientization 101 podcast, we present part one of a two-part dialogue with a collective of artists whose praxis embodies the definition of nationbuilding, MCE. This series is presented in its Unabridged Interview form, as a thank you to those who value Conscientization 101. Our sincerest thanks! MCE is a collective of multi-talented artists hailing from Pine Bluff Arkansas; and while MCE possess a diverse skill set which ranges from drawing, painting, and the creation of murals, music production is their passion and primary endeavor! Fueled by the lessons learned from our greatest teachers and scholars, MCE’s sound is the life blood of the people; MCE’s music inspires not merely consciousness but critical consciousness, which particularly focuses on people achieving an in-depth understanding of the world, allowing not only for their perception and exposure of social and political contradictions, but inspirational tools to change those contradictions. MCE is comprised of emcees Obafemi Kiensiedilele (Magnum), Ced Adamz and soul singer Eshmelek Malakyah. With exemplary wordsmiths, complemented with melodic, harmonious, and ethereal vocals; MCE’s music is not only a paragon of conscientization in terms of subject matter (the quotidian struggles of African people worldwide), but it is also eloquent and euphonious, thus solidifying their status as a veritable and salient music group! In part one of this perspicacious and epigrammatic series we discuss the following: * The formation of MCE as a collective * How being from Pine Bluff, AK has informed MCE’s praxis * The strategies and tactics MCE developed to combat fatigue accrued through quotidian political struggle and, much more! In addition to our dialogue with MCE, we also discuss Dr. Walter A. Rodney’s invaluable posthumously released books; The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World and Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution. This episode features music from: * Conscientization 101 – “Decolonize This? Properly Defining Settlers – Part 1” from our Musical Commentaries collection * MCE from their album Knowledge Of Self Vol.

    1h 59m

  6. 07/12/2022

    EP.056 Dr. Walter A. Rodney Digitally Remastered Disquisition

    Dr. Walter Anthony Rodney (March 23, 1942 – June 13, 1980) Although it has been over forty years since the cowardly and brutal assassination of our dearly beloved brother Dr. Walter Anthony Rodney (aka Dr. W.A.R.), his intrepid spirit lives on with us today. While the quisling, pelf worshipping assassins succeeded in destroying Dr. Rodney physically, they paradoxically immortalized him. Dr. Rodney’s life was/is the personification of an uncompromised intellectual who committed, what Amilcar Cabral called, class suicide in service of the people. Assiduously devoted to theory and practice, or better said conscientization, the life of Dr. Walter Anthony Rodney, from an African cosmological perspective, can be seen as an orisha or loi. The relevance of Dr. Walter Rodney’s life and work is now an eternal guiding principal or law that future generations can call upon to fortify themselves when in struggle and service to the people. In this episode of Conscientization 101 Podcast, we proudly present a Conscientization 101 digitally remastered disquisition by Dr. Walter Anthony Rodney called Crisis in the Periphery: Africa and the Caribbean. In addition, we also discuss the following: * Walter Anthony Rodney’s magnum opus How Europe Underdeveloped Africa * Cultural hegemony as it relates to the European worldview * The recent passing of novelist, essayist, and poet George Lamming, and his relationship to the work of Dr. Walter Anthony Rodney * The writings of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and how they relate to Dr. Walter Anthony Rodney. Also, the coincidental relationship between us finishing Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s novel Devil on the Cross in 2012, with the release of Akala’s 2013 album The Thieves Banquet and much more, such as our charm, ironic humor, sardonic quips, and wit to boot! You do not want to miss this episode!   This episode features music from: * Cyclonious – “We Back At it” from his album Heroes For Hire 2 * Conscientization 101– "Decolonize This? Properly Defining Settlers – Part 1" from our Musical Commentaries collection * Akala – “The Thieves Banquet” from his album The Thieves Banquet * Raggo Zulu Rebel – “99 Names” from his album God Complex * Cyclonious – “Live Up” from his album Heroes For Hire  Books referenced in this episode: Walter Rodney Speaks: The Making of an African Intellectual by Walter Rodney a href="https://www.amazon.com/Europe-Underdeveloped-Africa-Walter-Rodney/dp/0882580965?crid=XTAQGAD0WF48&keywords=How+Europe+Under...

    2h 47m

  7. 20/04/2022

    EP.055 Raggo Zulu Rebel Emeritus: The Eloquence of a Scribe Part 2

    On the long-awaited conclusion of our two-part series, Raggo Zulu Rebel Emeritus: The Eloquence of a Scribe, we discuss the following with Raggo Zulu Rebel: * An in-depth analysis of Raggo’s album Necromancy * The importance of understanding political economy, specifically understanding the superstructure as it pertains to Africanity/Blackness in Western societies * The comfort in the malaise and isolation people experience due to social media and how that relates to Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle * A critical critique of hashtag movements. and, much more! In addition to and in conjunction with the dialogue with Raggo, we discuss how Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Ayi Kwei Armah’s Two Thousand Seasons, and Anthony Sampson’s Black & Gold Tycoons, Revolutionaries and Apartheid work elucidates the necessity of imperialism (via colonial domination) to foster divisions amongst the colonized population. The divisions created by the colonizer are merely the first tools of ideological and psychological domination of the colonized, for the goal of the colonizer is cultural hegemony. The apogee of this phenomena is apparent when the colonized internalize the colonizer’s most potent ideological weapon…INDIVIUALISM!!! This episode features music from: * Raggo Zulu Rebel – Garden of Afrika * Fela Kuti – “Confusion Break Bones” from his album Underground System * Raggo Zulu Rebel: the tracks are “Elevator Musak", “First Stone”, and “Mac Cheez” from his album Necromancy * Raggo Zulu Rebel: the tracks are “Where You Going” and “...

    1h 50m
  8. Raggo Zulu Rebel Emeritus: The Eloquence of a Scribe – Part – 2 Unabridged Interview

    20/04/2022 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Raggo Zulu Rebel Emeritus: The Eloquence of a Scribe – Part – 2 Unabridged Interview

    In the conclusion of our two-part series, we dive deeper into discussing Raggo Zulu Rebel’s album, Necromancy. In addition to further discussion of the themes highlighted on the podcast episode, we also talk about becoming an adult and learning more about social phenomena, cultural issues that arise regarding Africanity/Blackness in Western art and theatre, liberal philanthropists, and think tanks. If you heard the podcast, you definitely want to listen to the unabridged conclusion of this salient and sapient series.

    1h 38m
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Conscientization 101 podcast is a show published on Wednesdays which features workers, writers, artists, and others who are involved in the process of learning to perceive social, political, and economic contradictions, and are taking action against oppressive elements of reality. Each episode provides information and radical analysis that attacks the roots of the oppressive structures we contend with on a daily basis. We place the issues of today within the context of the superstructure. This approach is paramount to developing a deeper understanding of society so limiting situations are brought into focus; which will create true resistance for the purpose of revolutionary transformation. While you are getting an in-depth analysis via Conscientization 101 podcast, we make sure to make our show an enjoyable and distinctly entertaining experience!!

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  • Creator
    James Stone and Zari Sundiata
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2024
  • Episodes
    117
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2013-2024 CONSCIENTIZATION 101, LLC
  • Show Website
    Conscientization 101
  • Provider
    James Stone

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