MJoTAtalks: Art Bearing Witness
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Listen live:
1. Call (323) 443-7440 when the chat is ready to be recorded and listen to the program through your phone.
Listen later:
1. Go to the page for Omenihu's guest and click on the audio icon.
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Episode 11.
Host Omenihu Amachi painted a portrait of his guest, American gospel singer Constance Chisom Orji who praises God in her Igbo language. She talks about her music, and her life as a child growing up in an Igbo family in Nigeria, and her life in the United States as a singer. To see her portrait, read her story, listen to her singing and listen to the MJoTAtalks interview, click here.
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Episode 10.
Mr Omenihu Amachi talks with the pilot who commanded the Biafran airfoce, and flew the first plane in and the last plane out of Biafra. Captain August Okpe was young, very young, and after the war, after imprisonment by the Nigerian military for one year, he had a successful career in aviation in Nigeria and Canada. To read about Captain Okpe and the book he has written, and listen to the interview, click here.
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Episode 9.
Memorial for General Ojukwu in New York. Recording of talks from Igtbo Cultural Center in New York, and discussion between host Omenihu Amachia and High Chief MC Orji. To listen to the recording, and read more about the memorial ceremony, click here.
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Episode 8.
Mr Omenihu Amachi talks to a political scientist who is an associate professor at Lincoln University, Dr Chieke Ihejirika, click here for information about him and to listen to the recorded episode after the live show. They will be talking about the crisis in Nigeria and why the Biafran War taught them that war must be avoided now.
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Episode 7
American artist Omenihu Amachi talks with Dr Ngozi Achebe,click here, about
growing up in Nigeria, her medical training in the UK and the US, and
her published book, "Onaedo -The Blacksmith's Daughter". To listen to the interview, and read more on Dr Achebe, click here.
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Episode 6
Omenihu talks with Councilmember Sunday Nwegbo and about the picture, Peace and Justice and Occupy, Mr Nwegbo has had a long career caring about people. Listen to him talk about injustice in Nigeria when he was small, in the US, and in Nigeria now. A spirited discussion on Occupy Nigeria and its causes, to listen, click here.
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Episode 5
Omenihu talks with Okey Ndibe PhD. Dr Okey Ndibe was a child during the Biafran War. Finding an essay he wrote put MJoTA publisher on a path to learn more about the Biafran War, which lasted from 1967 to 1970.
To read articles by and about Dr Ndibe, click here
To listen to the episode, click here. And look at the painting Mr Amachi discussed, see below the audio.
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Mr Amachi interviews Dr James Enwereji, a Philadelphia educator, whose
undergraduate, masters and doctorate were all awarded by US institutions
(Cheyney University, Temple University). Dr Enwereji also has the title
of Chief in his community. To read more about Dr Enwereji and listen to the interview, click here.
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Episode 3
Mr Amachi interviews engineer Mr Malachy Orji, known also as High Chief MC Orji. To listen to the interview, and read about the High Chief, click here.
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Episode 2
Omenihu talks to Chief Anthony Ike Okorji who was a broadcaster and director at Anambra Radio Broadcasting Corporation in Nigeria and was also a friend of Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu.
They discussed the picture Omenihu painted, the Kolanut Presentation.
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Episode 1
Mr Omenihu Amachi talks about himself, what it was like being caught in the middle of a civil war after genocide of Igbos had led to a young man declaring the independent nation of Biafra.
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this first show, Mr Amachi talks about a painting that came from his
memories of his mother feeding starving villagers during the Biafran
War. His mother, who was a food economist and cook, was given food by the Red Cross to distribute to the villagers, see the painting below.
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Artist Omenihu Amachi is the host of MJoTAtalks: Art Bearing Witness. More on Mr Amachi and how to buy a painting, click here.
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