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24 February 2007
MOJ OF THE ANTARCTIC
John McCarthy is joined by Mojisola Adebayo, theatre performer, writer and director who is currently performing in a play based partly on the biography of Ellen Craft, a 19th century African-American slave woman who escaped to freedom by disguising herself as a white man.
Moj’s character finds work as a sailor on a whaling ship bound for the Southern Seas. Eventually the ship arrives in Antarctic waters for the gruesome task of whaling, and Moj becomes the first Black woman to step foot Antarctica.
KASHMIR
The Mughals called Kashmir ‘Paradise on Earth’. Jammu and Kashmir, which incorporates Ladakh is the northern-most state of India, lying mostly in the Himalayan mountains. The region is a disputed territory and currently controlled by India, Pakistan and China. It shares a border with Himachal Pradesh to the south, Pakistan to the west and People's Republic of China to the north and the east.
Navnita Chadha Behera, Professor of Peace and Conflict Resolution at Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi is the author of State, Identity and Violence: Jamma, Kashmir and Ladakh.
Professor Chadha Behera talks about her new book Demystifying Kashmir in which she argues that only by recognizing the multifaceted nature of the place rather than seeing it as a political battle of state-making between India and Pakistan can the long standing problems begin to be resolved.
Presented by John McCarthy
Photo: Leh Palace and surrounding landscape, Ladakh, India
This week's guests:
Mojisola Adebayo is a freelance theatre performer, writer, director and workshop leader.
Moj of the Antarctic is an original idea, which draws its inspiration from a variety of historical sources including: Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, the true life story of Ellen Craft and A Negro Explorer at the North Pole, the autobiography of Matthew Henson. Having decided to include the fictional journey to Antarctica Moj decided to make the trip there herself, partly to experience it and partly to get the photographs she needed for the stage production. She went dressed as a 19th century man as Ellen had done.
Moj of The Antarctic - An African Odyssey
peformed byMojisola Adebayo and the Antarctic Collective
Oval House Theatre
52-54 Kennington Oval, London SE11 5SW
Tel: 020 7582 0080
Wednesday 7th March 2007 - Saturday 24th March 2007 7.45PM
Saturday 24th March 2007 3.00PM
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
William and Ellen Craft
(available from the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library)
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
the autobiography of Matthew Henson
Publisher: Invisible Cities Press, US
ISBN-10: 1931229015
ISBN-13: 978-1931229012
Navnita Chadha Behera, Professor of Peace and Conflict Resolution at Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi and is a former visiting scholar in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution where she did extensive research on South Asia. Navnita is from the Punjab, but has been studying and travelling in the region for sixteen years.
Demystifying Kashmir
Publisher: Brookings Institution, U.S.
ISBN-10: 0815708602
ISBN-13: 978-0815708605
State Identity and Violence: Janmu, Kashmir and Ladhak
Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
ISBN-10: 8173043604
ISBN-13: 978-8173043604
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