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Women And Resistance
"Women And Resistance" is a groundbreaking podcast celebrating the courage, resilience, and revolutionary spirit of women across the globe.
Each episode hosted by Aya Fubara Eneli and Adesoji Iginla will uncover untold stories of resistance against systemic oppression—be it colonialism, racism, sexism, or economic disenfranchisement. Through deep conversations, historical narratives, and contemporary analysis.
The podcast will amplify the voices of trailblazers, freedom fighters, and community builders whose legacies should be known, because many either never got their dues or have faded into obscurity.
From the bold defiance of Winnie Mandela and Fannie Lou Hamer to the activism of modern leaders like Mia Mottley and grassroots organizers like Wangari Maathai,
"Women And Resistance" illuminates the transformative power of women in shaping a more just world.
This is a call to honor the past, embrace the present, and apply the lessons for a more empowered future.
Episodes
84 episodes
EP 7 Rosa Castellanos: A Cuban Health Captain | Women And Resistance
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...
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EP 6 Luísa Diogo's Contested Legacy - The Accountant of the Revolution| Women And Resistance.
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.&...
EP 5 Cécile Fatiman: Lighting the Fire of the Haitian Revolution | Women and Resistance
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 resist...
EP 4 Delphine Zanga Tsogo - A Cameroon Trailblazer | Women and Resistance
This episode features host Adesoji Iginla and co-host Aya Fubara Eneli in conversation with Delphine Tsogo, who reflects on a life shaped by colonial partition, forest-based community knowledge, nursing, politics, and women’s organising in Came...
EP 3 Roberta Flack - The Soul That Would Not Be Silenced | Women and Resistance 🌍
This episode of Women and Resistance celebrates Roberta Flack’s life, music, and political commitments through a wide-ranging conversation that moves from childhood to global activism. Adesoji Iginla frames Flack as an artist who n...
EP 2 Queen Nandi - When Motherhood Made an Empire | Women and Resistance 🌍
This episode of Women in Resistance features Adesoji Iginla in conversation with Queen Nandi, with Aya Fubara Eneli joining the introduction and framing. The discussion traces Nandi’s life from marginalisation and exile to her role as Q...
EP 1 Sarah Rector - Land And the Will to Win | Women and Resistance 🌍
This episode of Women in Resistance centers on Sarah Rector’s life story, from her birth in Indian Territory to the oil boom that made her a national curiosity. Sarah Rector and host Adesoji Iginla trace how race, law, land theft, ...
Sheroes Who Refused to Disappear A Season Review | Women and Resistance
In this episode, we explore the lives and legacies of remarkable women who defied odds, preserved their agency, and inspired future generations. From an assassinated leader to the mathematician behind GPS, from a Montana mail carrier to...
EP 12 Erna Brodber - She Rewrote Jamaica's Soul | Women and Resistance 🌍
In this episode, Erna Brodber shares her journey from Jamaica to becoming a renowned writer and historian, emphasising the importance of community memory, cultural roots, and the creation of spaces for black liberation. She discusses her work i...
EP 11 Gladys West - She Built GPS, Yet No One Knew Her Name | Women and Resistance 🌍
Every time your phone finds your location, you're using math that a Black woman built in secret for four decades.This week on Women and Resistance, Aya Fubara Eneli, Esq. and Adesoji Iginla honour Dr Gladys Mae West, the mathematician w...
EP 10 Agathe Uwilingiyimana - Don’t Talk to Me Like That! | Women and Resistance 🌍
She was a teacher who became Rwanda's first and, to this day, only woman prime minister. On this episode of Women and Resistance, Aya Fubara Eneli, Esq., embodies Agathe Uwilingiyimana in the first person, walking the host, Adesoji Igin...
EP 9 Florynce "Flo" Kennedy - Lawyer and Liberator | Women and Resistance 🌍
She sued her way into law school; let’s start there. Who, why, and where are the questions this week on Women and Resistance.This week, Aya Fubara Eneli, Esq., embodies Florynce "Flo" Kennedy while Adesoji Iginla interviews her across a...
EP 8 Sylvia del Villard - Puerto Rico Said What? | Women and Resistance 🌍
In this episode, Sylvia Del Villard shares her inspiring journey from Puerto Rico to international stages, emphasising the importance of cultural identity, resilience, and living authentically. Discover how her life and work challenge s...
EP 7 Ida Gray - Hands That Healed | Women and Resistance 🌍
In this episode of Women and Resistance, hosts @Aya Fubara Eneli, Esq., and Adesoji Iginla sit down with the embodied voice of Dr Ida Gray Nelson Rollins, the first African American woman to earn a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree in the United ...
EP 6 Dada Masiti - From Bondage into Sainthood | Women and Resistance 🌍
Abducted as a teenager, held in conditions her own poetry calls slavery for a decade, and rescued by a cousin who crossed the Indian Ocean to find her. A century later, she was East Africa's most revered female Islamic scholar, and the reason Q...
EP 5 Josephine Baker - The Black Pearl Who Refused to Bow | Women and Resistance 🌍
This conversation delves into the life and legacy of Josephine Baker, exploring her journey from a challenging upbringing in St. Louis to becoming a cultural icon in France. The discussion highlights her struggles with racism, her reinv...
EP 4 Mary Fields - Freedom Personified | Women and Resistance 🌍
This episode features the inspiring story of Mary Fields, also known as Stagecoach Mary, an African American woman born enslaved who became a legendary mail carrier in Montana. She defied racial and gender barriers, showcasing resilience, loyal...
EP 3 Elizabeth of Tooro - The Odyssey of a Princess | Women and Resistance 🌍
She was a princess, a Cambridge-trained lawyer, the first Black woman on the pages of Harper's Bazaar, a foreign minister under one of Africa's most feared dictators — and she said NO when that dictator demanded she marry him. This week on Wome...
EP 2 Monemia McKoy - A Mother's War | Women and Resistance 🌍
This is a story about Black motherhood as resistance. About the legal limits of so-called “freedom.” About the Freedmen’s Bureau — what it promised, what it delivered, and where it catastrophically failed. And it’s about the unbroken thread tha...
EP 1 Mbokomu - She Who Troubles Heaven | Women and Resistance 🌍
Mbokomu, the Ancestor Goddess of the NgombeWhat if the first woman on Earth wasn’t a passive creation — but a divine disruptor? What if she were sent down not because she was weak, but because she was too powerful to be contained?
Season 4 Review - 12 Voices That Refused To Be Silent | Women and Resistance 🌍
🎙️ SEASON 4 REVIEW | Women & Resistance PodcastThey resisted empires, fought colonial armies, rebuilt broken communities, and wrote words that outlived every system that tried to erase them. In this special review episo...
EP 12 Sarah Baartman - She Was Never Just a Body | Women and Resistance 🌍
What does it mean to resist when the whole world has decided your body is a spectacle? In this episode Aya Fubara Eneli, Esq. and Adesoji Iginla sit with one of the most shattering stories in the long history of Black women’s resis...
EP 11 Ellen Kuzwayo : Mama Soweto & Grammar of Resistance | Women and Resistance 🌍
She was a teacher who refused to teach poison. A social worker who went to prison for housing rights. A writer who threw stones with her mouth. A politician who entered Parliament at 79. Her name was Ellen Kuzwayo — and the world called her Mam...
EP 10 Sarah Parker Remond - Carried Freedom Across Oceans | Women and Resistance 🌍
She crossed the Atlantic in a winter storm. She was pushed down a staircase for sitting where she chose. She was denied a visa, expelled from schools she'd passed the entrance exams to enter, and told — by an entire nation — that her skin made ...
EP 9 La Mulâtresse Solitude: No Half Measures | Women and Resistance 🌍
She was pregnant when she fought. She was pregnant when they captured her. She gave birth in a prison cell. The next morning, they hanged her!Her name was Solitude. And she chose that name herself.In this week's episode of Women...