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Most people think Japan attacked Pearl Harbor out of pure aggression. The real story is far more complex — and far more disturbing. It's a story about oil, humiliation, economic warfare, and a nation backed into a corner with no way out.
In this video, we trace the full chain of events that led to December 7th, 1941 — from Japan's forced opening by American warships in 1853, through the Meiji Restoration, imperial expansion, the brutal war in China, and the devastating U.S. oil embargo that cut off 94% of Japan's fuel supply almost overnight. We explore the internal power struggles within the Japanese government, Admiral Yamamoto's desperate gamble, the collapse of diplomacy with the Hull Note, and the silent two-week voyage of six aircraft carriers across the North Pacific toward Hawaii.
This isn't the simplified version you learned in school. This is the full picture — the geopolitics, the economics, the psychology, and the tragic irony of sanctions designed to prevent a war that ended up making war inevitable.
Sources and references drawn from the National Archives, Smithsonian, Imperial War Museum, Britannica, the Hoover Institution, and declassified U.S. diplomatic records.
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The Reimagining Queen Nanny Documentary
Official Logline: Reimagining Queen Nanny – Chieftess of Blue Mountain’s biodiversity, forests and waters.
Director: Udemba McLean
Co-Writer/Narrator: Marcia B. Douglas (Ph.D.)
This documentary, written and produced by Jamaican Professor at NYU Leo Douglas, seeks to retell the story of Queen Nanny of the Maroons, national heroine of Jamaica. Traditionally Nanny has been portrayed through a lens of mountain guerrilla warfare, but here she is represented in what some scholars of the Black Atlantic and Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade believe to be a more accurate and broader reality – an early Afro-Caribbean ecologist, a protector of the forests and watersheds, as the quintessential Black conservationist and environmental justice leader, and scholar of the sacred things and places of the mountains of eastern Jamaica.
According to Professor Douglas, “the documentary highlights the untold herstories of Queen Nanny as a fundamental means of deepening our understanding of the leadership of Afro-descendant women on whose shoulders we stand as natural history scholars and as members of the environmental movement.” The documentary is positioned as a fresh and informative retelling of community and ancestral cultural preservation on Jamaica, including a description of a rich pantheon of West African knowledge and traditional practices about wild birds, plants, herbal healing and the conservation of the natural world.
The documentary focuses on Akan/Ashanti continuations, gendered-roles, sacred plants, and Twi names that Jamaicans still use to describe things in the natural world today. Knowledge and experiences that are largely unrecognized or undiscussed in Jamaican culture as being of West African origin. By positioning Nanny as one of the island’s first naturalists, and as a central and early Afro-Caribbean eco-spiritual leader of renown, the documentary also explores questions about the intersection of racial identity, gender, sexuality, and religious racism in relation to womanhood and how Afro-Caribbean women are (and have been) perceived - if and when they choose to work on the land, be it as farmers, herbalists, eco-spiritual leaders or as environmental protectors.
Award-winning Jamaican Professor Marcia Douglas of the University of Colorado - Boulder, who portrays Queen Nanny in the documentary feature, said she felt that “Queen Nanny would have believed that nature was life, that it was spirit, and that the essence of our being remained around us, in the things that grew in the Mountains of Jamaica, even after death. That the natural world was also a spiritual world, a world of unseen and immeasurable powers, saturated with the energy and wisdom of our Afro-indigenous fore-parents, that all life was sacred, spiritual and full of teachable wisdom.”
The “Reimagining Nanny: Her Sword – A Seed Documentary” is part of a larger project which includes an original vocal composition about Nanny of the Maroons and five (5) large-scale winning visual arts representations of Queen Nanny which were exhibited at the Institute of Jamaica (IOJ) between 2022 and 2024 – commissioned for Jamaica’s 60th year of independence from Great Britain.
Core partners are the Natural History Museum of the Institute of Jamaica (IOJ), BirdLife Jamaica, and the Jamaica Conservation and Development Trust (JCDT). The Jamaica Conservation and Development Trust (JCDT) is a non-governmental organization and charity with a mandate to advance environmental conservation and sustainable development with a focus on the Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Overwhelming funding for this project was from private Jamaican citizens. The artwork created as part of this documentary project - “Moonlight Meditations of Mama Nanny” by Jamaican artist, Richard Nattoo - was donated to the Institute of Jamaica (in public trust). Additional support was provided by New York University (NYU) through its College of Arts and Sciences, Liberal Studies, and the NYU Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS).
The documentary, completed in October 2023, was released publicly on December 1, 2025.
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For further information or to schedule an interview contact:
Film Maker - Leo R Douglas
Email: LRD8@NYU.EDU
https://www.instagram.com/reimagining_nanny/
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Documentary Director - Udemba McLean
Email: imagebyultra@gmail.com
https://www.instagram.com/fulltimejamaican/
What happens when the history of an African people is interpreted primarily through outside influences rather than through their own cultural memory, language, traditions, and historical experience?
In this UWP Scholar Spotlight, Tarik Richardson, Ph.D., of Xavier University of Louisiana, discusses his chapter, “Swahili Asili: Dismantling Exceptionalism and Revisiting the African Origins of Swahili Ontology through the Folkloric Tradition,” in Transcendental Africanity: The Key to Defeating Afrophobia and Reclaiming Global Africa, edited by Mohamed Saliou Camara, Ph.D.
Dr. Richardson examines debates surrounding the origins of Swahili culture and how those narratives shape understandings of culture, Blackness, identity, and Africanity on the East Coast of Africa. His chapter considers Afrophobia and cultural memory, confronts narratives of cultural exceptionalism, and examines Swahili language, spiritual thought, history, folklore, and cultural traditions through an Afrocentric theoretical framework that centers Swahili people within their own history.
The chapter also places Swahili culture into a wider African conversation. Richardson examines shared histories and cultural relationships with other African peoples while interrogating interpretations that position outside influences as foundational to Swahili identity.
This is precisely what the UWP Scholar Spotlight Series is designed to make visible: not simply who contributed to an edited volume, but what that scholar is asking, challenging, recovering, and contributing to the field.
ABOUT THE CHAPTER
Chapter 7: “Swahili Asili: Dismantling Exceptionalism and Revisiting the African Origins of Swahili Ontology through the Folkloric Tradition”
The chapter begins from the significance of Swahili as a language that has facilitated interethnic and international solidarity among African peoples on the continent and throughout the Diaspora. Richardson notes its historical importance to African-descended communities beyond East Africa while examining the complicated relationship among Swahili identity, Blackness, Africanity, and competing narratives of Swahili origins.
At stake is a larger epistemic question:
Who gets to explain an African people's origins, identity, and cultural meaning?
ABOUT TRANSCENDENTAL AFRICANITY
Transcendental Africanity: The Key to Defeating Afrophobia and Reclaiming Global Africa brings together ten chapters examining Africanity and Global Africa through questions of identity, culture, music, belonging, coloniality, language, ontology, Black nihilism, freedom, resistance, and African self-determination.
The volume offers interdisciplinary relevance for African Studies, Africana Studies, Black Studies, African Diaspora Studies, Africology, History, Linguistics, Cultural Studies, Folklore Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and related fields.
FOR FACULTY, STUDENTS, LIBRARIANS & RESEARCHERS
For faculty, this Spotlight provides an entry point for conversations about Swahili identity, African-centered knowledge production, cultural memory, language, historiography, and the politics of interpreting African civilizations.
For students and researchers, Richardson's chapter demonstrates what becomes possible when received historical narratives are interrogated and African peoples are repositioned as subjects and interpreters of their own histories.
For librarians, the chapter demonstrates the interdisciplinary reach of Transcendental Africanity across African and Africana Studies, language and culture, history, Diaspora Studies, and Black intellectual thought.
📚 BOOK INFORMATION
Transcendental Africanity: The Key to Defeating Afrophobia and Reclaiming Global Africa
Editor: Mohamed Saliou Camara, Ph.D.
Publisher: Universal Write Publications
Publication Date: September 29, 2026
Print ISBN: 978-1-942774-35-8
eBook ISBN: 978-1-942774-34-1
LCCN: 2026902889
DOI: 10.65724/DWCO4934
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Through conversations with UWP authors, editors, and edited-volume contributors, the series creates a growing digital archive of the people, ideas, research, and intellectual traditions advancing Black scholarship and interdisciplinary inquiry.
For contributors to edited volumes, Scholar Spotlight provides dedicated visibility for their individual research, connecting their chapter to the larger intellectual conversation of the book while extending the discoverability and scholarly life of their work beyond the printed page.
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