Making the Toussaint Louverture Graphic Novel w/ Sakina Karimjee & Nic Watts

Guerrilla History

Henry

Education, History

4.8 • 669 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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In this great episode of Guerrilla History, we are joined by the creative team behind the new graphic novel Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History! This tremendous work is the graphic novelization of a long lost CLR James play about the Haitian Revolution (which, incidentally, starred the great Paul Robeson the only time it was staged). In this conversation, we talk about this play and the process of adapting it, as well as the objectives behind doing so. A great discussion about how to make subjects like the Haitian Revolution more accessible to broad audiences!

Sakina Karimjee is a theatre designer and draughtsperson, an activist and socialist and co-creator of graphic novels with her partner Nic Watts.

Nic Watts is an illustrator, activist and socialist. He has created artwork for numerous fiction and non-fiction books for children and adults, as well as other publications, websites, political campaigns and newspapers. He is the co-creator of graphic novels with his partner Sakina Karimjee. You can follow him on instagram @nicwatts_illustrator

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0:00.0	You remember Den Van Boo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:14.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:27.1	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.
0:37.1	I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Huckimacki, joined, unfortunately, by only one of my two
0:41.9	usual co-hosts today. We are joined by Professor Adnan Hussein, historian director of the
0:46.8	School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing
0:50.6	today? Hi, Henry. I'm doing great. I'm really looking forward to our
0:54.3	conversation today. As am I. Unfortunately, we're not joined by our other usual co-host, Brett O'Shea, who of course is host of Revolutionary Left Radio, as he had some family stuff come up at the last minute. That's the essence of having children, I guess. But in any case, before I introduce the work that we're going to be talking about in our guests, I would like to remind the listeners
0:52.8	that you can help support the show and allow us to continue making episodes like this by going to patreon.com forward slash guerrilla history. That's G-U-E-R-R-I-L-A history. And you can also keep up to date with everything that the show is putting out as well as
1:28.6	what each of the co-hosts is putting out individually by following us at Gorilla underscore
1:33.7	pod. Again, G-U-E-R-R-I-L-L-A underscore pod. Now, today we have a really interesting work and a really
1:40.7	interesting conversation ahead of us with two guests. We're going to be talking about the graphic novel, which I will admit, despite being the youngest
1:50.6	of the co-hosts by some distance on this show, I have never read a graphic novel before.
1:55.6	I'm just as my wife says, I'm ancient at heart, not old at heart, ancient.
2:00.6	But we have a graphic novel, which was illustrated by our two guests, Sakina Karimji
2:06.3	and Nick Watts.
2:07.4	Hello, the two of you.
2:08.6	It's nice to have you on the show.
2:10.2	All right.
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