
THE AIEJ THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Books, Essays, Keynotes, Theatre, Video, Podcasts
ON RETURNING: NANA AMOAKO-ANIN & MAAME ADJEI
ON CIVICS EDUCATION: KATHLEEN ADDY
YEAR 3: 2019
#AfricanWomanDay: Social Media Campaign





THEATRE
EAA Media Productions engaged and developed Theatre as a Creative Tool to deliver and explore Emotional Justice ideas to global audiences.
ACCRA
August 2018
#safeCARGO
Written & Directed by Esther Armah
Featuring: Pearl Korkey Darkey
Featuring: Kwaku Ankomah
Accra’s British Council is transformed into a black box theatre.

NEW YORK & CHICAGO
March 2014 & October 2011
SAVIOUR?
Written by Esther Armah
Directed by Passion
Dwyer Cultural Center, Manhattan & etaCREATIVE ARTS, Chicago.
Post-perfromance discussion: Lynn Nottage - Pulitzer-Prize winner; Marc Lamont Hill – BET & CNN Commentator; Moderator – Zerlina Maxwell – MSNBC Commentator

NEW YORK
June 2009
Forgive Me?
Written by: Esther Armah
Directed by: Trezana Beverley
Featuring: Beverley Prentice
Featuring: Gilbert Glenn
Manhattan International Theater Festival & Dwyer Cultural Center

NEW YORK
June 2009
ENTITLED!
Written by Esther Armah
Directed by: Petronia Paley
Dwyer Cultural Center

New York
2007
CAN I BE ME?
Written by Esther A Armah
The Roger Furman Play-reading Series

2013 - 2009 NEW YORK
EJconvos
These were an annual season of intimate public conversations held in New York. We brought together high-profile contributors from the worlds of art, activism, academia, and journalism. EJconvos were held at The Brecht Forum in Manhattan and The Cultural Center in Harlem.





In The AIEJ’s Thought Leadership, the Emotional Justice roadmap is explored, contextualized and connected through topical issues and presented to a global audience.

BOOKS
EMOTIONAL JUSTICE: a roadmap for racial healing
Published: October 11th 2022
Currently available for pre-order
#1 NEW RELEASE ON AMAZON
EMOTIONAL JUSTICE: a roadmap for racial healing has been a #1 New Release on Amazon in the category, General Sociology of Race Relations for five straight weeks. It is now a #1 New Release in the category, Cultural Anthropology.

BOOK ENDORSEMENTS



GLOBAL BOOK TOUR
Esther will be going on global book tour with this work to three cities in three countries on three continents: New York, London and Accra. Below are her book tour dates.

BOOK TOUR STOP 1
NEW YORK NEW JERSEY
LONDON
GHANA



PANELS
June 2020
Converging Pandemics: Black Life In A State of Emergency
Convened by: Dr. Joshua Bennett, Dept. of English and Dr. Monica Ndounou, Dept. of Theatre, Dartmouth College
Featuring speakers: Professor Ruha Benjamin – Princeton; Esther Armah - The AIEJ; Che Gossett, Writer
The Future is Emotional Justice by Esther Armah, CEO, The Armah Institute of Emotional Justice.
2014
Women & Power
Omega Women’s Leadership Centre
AIEJ Executive Director brings Emotional Justice to the Omega Centre for Holistic Studies
2014
Women & Power
Omega Women’s Leadership Centre
AIEJ Executive Director Esther Armah is an Omega Women’s Leadership Fellow.
Expanding our Notion of Culture. Emotional Justice within Diversity & Inclusion
2014
Mandela: The Man, The Movement, and Correcting the White Gaze
All In With Chris Hayes
MSNBC
2011
I Am A Man : Masculinity summit
Rev. Al Sharpton Action Network
AIEJ Executive Director Esther Armah was invited to explore Emotional Justice in the framework of Black masculinity at this July 2011 summit. On panel were also: Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, Dr. L’Hereux Lewis and Cleo Manago.
KEYNOTES
UK KEYNOTES
OCTOBER 2021
EMOTIONAL JUSTICE in a time of COVID
A Presentation to UK Chief Nurses

OCTOBER 2021
BUILDING OUR NEW NORMAL
Work & Emotional Justice
A Keynote to UNISON


ESSAYS
BOOKS
Emotional Justice essays have been published in the following books:-
‘The Black Immigrant’
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019
Edited by Dr. Ibram X Kendi & Dr. Keisha Blain

‘Black Bodies, White Terrorism – A Global ReImagining of Forgiveness’
Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism & Racial Violence
Edited by: Drs. Chad Williams, Kidada Williams, Keisha Blain

‘Emotional Justice’
Black Cool: One Thousand Streams
Edited by Rebecca Walker

EMOTIONAL JUSTICE WRITING SERIES
EMOTIONAL JUSTICE IN AFRICA
BUSINESS & FINANCIAL TIMES
2022 – PRESENT
Africa Needs Emotional Justice
https://thebftonline.com/2022/08/02/africa-needs-emotional-justice/

THE TROUBLE WITH GLOBAL DIVERSITY
https://thebftonline.com/2022/08/09/the-trouble-with-global-diversity/

EMOTIONAL JUSTICE in the WORLD OF DIPLOMACY
https://thebftonline.com/2022/08/23/emotional-justice-in-the-world-of-diplomacy/

EMOTIONAL JUSTICE
The new racial healing model
https://thebftonline.com/2022/09/27/emotional-justice-the-new-racial-healing-model/

WARSCAPES
2016 – present
WARSCAPES is an independent online magazine, a portal publishing critical work by writers, thinkers, academics, activists providing lens on conflicts across the world. The Emotional Justice Writing Series connects conflict to the Emotional Justice roadmap.
PUBLICATIONS
Exploring Emotional Justice through issues from popular culture, to current affairs in global publications in the US, the UK and Ghana including The Guardian, AlterNet, Essence, Ebony, Global Grind, Business & Financial Times.


Beware! Statementism and Tweak-o-nomics - July 2020
http://www.warscapes.com/column/esther-armah/beware-statementism-and-tweak-o-nomics
‘Armed, White & Deadly; Unarmed, Black & Dead – June 2020
http://www.warscapes.com/column/esther-armah/armed-white-deadly-unarmed-black-dead
How To Talk About Racism In Britain - March 2020
http://www.warscapes.com/column/esther-armah/how-talk-about-racism-britain
From I Can’t Grieve to I Can’t Breathe: Black Grief Matters – July 2019
http://www.warscapes.com/column/esther-armah/i-can-t-breathe-i-can-t-grieve-black-grief-matters
Haunted & Hunted: Emotional Justice for #TheExoneratedFive – March 2019
http://www.warscapes.com/column/esther-armah/haunted-and-hunted-emotional-justice-theexonerated5
Jay Z 4:44 Intimate Reckoning
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jay-z-444-intimate-reckoning_us_5a38ebdee4b0c12e6337b097
What Black women want and need
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/03/emotional-justice-what-black-women-want-and-need
‘Birthdays. Legacies, Love, Leadership:
Letter to Winnie Mandela – Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-armah/letter-to-winnie-mandela_b_1684393.html
The Missionary’s Position – Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-armah/the-missionarys-position_b_4417227.html
On Boston & Violence – an Intimate Relationship – Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-armah/on-boston-violence_b_3096145.html
Black Bodies, White Terrorism – A Global ReImagining of Forgiveness
http://gawker.com/black-bodies-white-terrorism-a-global-reimagining-of-1715637306
SELMA: The Beautiful, Complicated, Connected Histories of Global Black Folk – Gawker
http://review.gawker.com/the-beautiful-complicated-connected-histories-of-blac-1679342925




theSWAGspot: Intimate Public Space to Talk Love, Lessons and Legacy With Men for Men
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-armah/theswagspot-intimate-publ_b_3399877.html
The Other National Conversation? White Privilege
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-armah/the-other-national-conver_1_b_3660742.html
Lil Kim: Diary of a Mirror
http://www.ebony.com/wellness-empowerment/essay-lil-kim-diary-of-a-mirror
https://www.theroot.com/lil-kim-and-our-relationship-with-beauty-1790892818
Lupita: Black Beauty’s Intimate Revolution
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-armah/lupita-back-beautys-intim_b_4979518.html
Emotional Justice: On ‘Perfect’ Victims and ‘Ideal’ Predators
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-armah/emotional-justice-on-perf_2_b_3968774.html
The Empathy Exodus
http://warscapes.com/column/esther-armah/empathy-exodus
An Open Letter to Ice Cube
http://warscapes.com/column/esther-armah/open-letter-ice-cube-and-all-brothers-supporting-him
Africa Emotional Justice Writing Column
Business & Financial Times - Ghana
AMIDU and RAWLINGS: the lionized and the bastardized
Unconscious bias: rethink & reject
https://thebftonline.com/05/11/2020/unconscious-bias-rethink-reject-by-esther-armah/
UNMASKED: external shine, internal struggle
https://thebftonline.com/29/10/2020/unmasked-external-shine-internal-struggle/
RAYE, RETURN and a RECKONING
“I am Queen Mother of Ghana!” said Lisa Raye, an African-American actress, philanthropist, and the former First Lady of Turks and Caicos on The Wendy Williams Show. Raye explained on the US-television show she was using her platform to work on issues of education in Ghana, build a small school there and raise peace and awareness. The audience cheered enthusiastically. ‘Good for you’, said Wendy Williams.
The Wendy Williams show is watched by an average of 1.6 million people daily. Raye’s ‘Queen Mother’ naming ceremony news has made global headlines, garnered controversy, and has been the focus of discussion, derision, anger, ridicule and hurt. I was in Philadelphia watching this. It was still a point of discussion when I landed back home in Accra...
https://thebftonline.com/2019/features/raye-returnees-and-a-reckoning/
BROTHERHOOD of SILENCE
“I witnessed a rape at 17 years old. The girl was 14 years, the younger sister of a friend. There were 8 to 10 guys there. I felt helpless and guilty. I did nothing. We all feared the rapist. I felt terrible. That moment is seared into my memory. This is an experience I regret to this very day. I learned to speak up. I had to unlearn silence,” says Kwesi, a Ghanaian man in an interview for #IAmUNLEARNING, a groundbreaking three-year project on African manhood and masculinity here in Ghana...
https://thebftonline.com/2019/features/brotherhood-of-silence-your-silence-will-not-save-you/

PODCASTS
THE SPIN #smartISsexy 2019 – 2014

EAA Media Productions produces The Spin: a global podcast on Soundcloud and iTUNES. It also airs on radio stations across the US, in London, Ghana and Nigeria.
The Spin features global women of color from the worlds of Journalism, Activism, Art and Academia, exploring the world of policy, politics, power, leadership, sex.
The Spin has been recorded at NPR New York, NPR Washington, BBC Ghana.
Listen to The Spin content here:- https://soundcloud.com/thespin1
Join The Spin Facebook community:- https://www.facebook.com/TheSpin1/








#reImaginingAFRICA on THE SPIN: May 2018
This 3-part special invites us to reimagine a Continent that centers visionary leadership of African women across the sectors: PHILANTHROPY, EDUCATION, LEADERSHIP, TECHNOLOGY in May 2018. May 25th honors the founding of the Organization of African Unity that became the African Union.


#reImaginingAFRICA: LEADERSHIP with Lucy Quist and Taaka Awori
https://soundcloud.com/thespin1/reimaginingafrica-leadership-may-17th-2020
#reImaginingAFRICA: EDUCATION with Dr. Mary Ashun
https://soundcloud.com/thespin1/reimaginingafrica-education-may-24-2019
#reImaginingAFRICA: TECHNOLOGY with Akosua Annobil and Ethel Cofie
https://soundcloud.com/thespin1/reimaginingafrica-technology-may-3rd-2019
#reImaginingAFRICA: PHILANTHROPY with Anatu Ben Lawal
https://soundcloud.com/thespin1/reimaginingafrica-philanthropy
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AFRICAN WOMAN DAY: 2019 – 2017
July 31st is Pan-African Woman Day. It was named by the African Union in 1962,
Dar Es Salaam. The day is set aside to celebrate African Woman.
EAA Media Productions created and completed a three-year multi-media project marking AFRICAN WOMAN’s DAY using a mix of stills, video, podcast.
YEAR 1: 2017
#AfricanWomanDay: Discussion & Video





ClassFM
Executive Producer: EAA Media Productions
Host: Anita Erskine
Contributor: Toun Okenwale Sonaiya - CEO WFM91.7
Contributor: Jessica Horn - Programmes Director AWDF
Contributor: Nafisa Mohammed and Hawawu Suleimana - Zongo Muslim women in the world of Media
Music from: Wiyala, Miriam Makeba, Angelique Kujo,
LISTEN:
PART 2: TOUN OKENWALE SONAIYA on SUCCESS
PART 3: JESSICA HORN on GENDER is NOT A CARD
PART 4: ZONGO MUSLIM WOMEN - MUSLIM, MEDIA, MEN and MAKING A WAY
PART 5: ANITA ERSKINE & ESTHER ARMAH - THE AFRICAN WOMAN IN THE MIRROR
YEAR 2: 2018
#AfricanWomanDay: Podcast & PhotoShoot



