Isidore Bakanja
Faithful, No Matter the Cost
The Congo. 1909. In the rubber colonies of Central Africa, workers can be beaten and killed with no legal consequence. Until one case slips through. At its heart is a brave young man who refuses to deny his faith. This is the story of Isidore Bakanja..… an original audio drama series from The Merry Beggars.
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Isidore Bakanja's death is tried before a colonial court, and witness testimony reveals a young man who embraces the Catholic faith, commits to wearing his scapular, and holds to that promise despite an overseer's threats. His steady courage, joy amid suffering, and forgiveness of his killer model fortitude, charity, and total trust in God.
This series portrays the brutalities of colonial forced labor, including dehumanizing language about the Congolese workers from the overseer and defense counsel. Isidore is seized and whipped for refusing to remove his scapular; the beating is heard, not graphically described, through repeated whip-crack sound effects and cries of pain. He is then chained in a dark shed with untreated wounds, denied food, water, and medical care, and the overseer threatens his life outright. Isidore's death is the subject of the trial throughout and is confirmed in the finale, though never directly portrayed.
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Cast & Crew
Cast
Isidore - Daniel Ajak
Inyuka - LaKecia Harris
Iyonzwa - CJ Richmond
Judge De Vos - Jonathan Wainwright
Reyniers - Demetrios Troy
Delcroix - Gabriel Fries
Van Cauter - Edward Dzialo
Linganga - Enrique Villanueva
Fr. Hubert - Lucas Schuneman
Kiala - Mpho Osei-Tutu
Iyongo - Reese James Whitte
Young Isidore - Benjamin Alexander Swint
Writing & DIrection
Writer - David Conley
Director - Margaret Smith
Script Development
Script Producer - Kiley Lawrence
Script Consultant - Buzz McLaughlin
Research Consultant - Lisa Lickona
Script Doctor - Guadalupe Granados
Casting
Casting Director - Ariel Gade
Production
Studio Producer - Elena Stonehouse
Dialect Coach - Susan Cameron
Line Producer - Julianna Hartke
Board Operator - Matt Goto
Sound
Audio Director - Michael Spina
Sound Designer - Juan Apesteguia
Music Designer - Jacob Brusseau
Audio Reviewer - Jacob Brusseau
Audio Packaging Producer - Scott Hermenau
Audio Assembler - Christina Hiromoto
Producers
Executive Producer - Peter Atkinson
Creative Producer - Kevin Collins
Associate Producer - Kiley Lawrence
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