Episode 95: Fighting for Honor with Dr. T.J. Desch-Obi Part 1 - a podcast by Florence Adu

Greetings Glocal Citizens!
For this two part conversation we're continuing on a narrative transformation path in conversation with another writer, author and researcher--meet Dr. T.J. Desch-Obi author of Fighting for Honor: The History of African Martial Arts in the Atlantic World (https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B08N6VLKZC&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref=cmswrkbdpS75EHRXY70VDFPR4FAB0&tag=glocalcitiz0e-20). Currently based in Columbia, T.J. is of West African--NIgerian and Liberian parentage and grew up in the Midwestern United States. He received his doctorate in African history from the University of California Los Angeles and is currently a visiting professor at Universidad ICESI’s Centro de Estudios Afrodiaspóricos in Cali, Colombia. He specializes in the historical ethnography of pre-colonial Africa and the African Diaspora with a focus upon martial arts, physical culture, religion, sport, historical linguistics, and military history. His current research focuses on the social history of the machete and the Afro-Colombian machete fighting from 1848 to 1960, and twentieth century prison boxing. Dr. Desch-Obi is a permanent member of the history department at the City University of New York’s, Baruch College, where he also teaches in the Blackand Latino Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Departments.
I hope you enjoy this journey with T.J. across continents and through a world history often obscured!Where to find T.J.?
Selected research (https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/T-J-Desch-Obi-2078445331)On YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aes-OSwEs1s)
What's T.J. reading?The Way of a Pilgrim (https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B001SAR5B8&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_045FWGCDFQAV7ABMM23N&tag=glocalcitiz0e-20)
Other topics of interest:Filipino Kali (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnis)
Robert Farris Thompson (https://arthistory.yale.edu/people/robert-farris-thompson)Beni Hasan Tomb (https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2016/07/the-beni-hasan-tomb-painting-and-scholarship-of-the-southern-levant/)
Nsibidi script of Nigeria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nsibidi)N'Golo (https://dbpedia.org/page/Engolo)
Holocene Climactic Optimum (http://www.atmo.arizona.edu/students/courselinks/fall12/atmo336/lectures/sec5/holocene.html)Jan Vansina (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0067270X.2017.1331542)
Christopher Ehret (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Ehret)La Violencia (https://www.e-ir.info/2013/03/20/colombias-la-violencia-and-how-it-shaped-the-countrys-political-system/)
Phillip Zarrilli (https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/theatre/tribute-phillip-zarrilli-1947-2020-the-mindful-thespian/article31649210.ece)Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave (https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B08MLJSK2L&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_J7ZJ3QYTHDW4DQ2TV048&tag=glocalcitiz0e-20) by Frederick Douglass
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