Glocal Citizens
Glocal Citizens explores the concept of glocal citizenship, recognizing that we are citizens of both our local communities and the world. Host Florence Amerley Adu interviews inspiring individuals who bridge their local selves with global impact, discussing their personal and professional journeys. The podcast delves into the technical and operational aspects of their work, aiming to create a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world.
Episodes
Episode 338: Creativity in Community with Rahman Ali Bugg Part 2
Greetings Glocal Citizens!
We recorded this two-part conversation in the final days of my summer sojourn to the U.S. While it was a bit shorter than it has been in the recent past, this summer was another one for the books; made possible in large part by community, a consistent theme that I hope you too can appreciate as the way we become us and collectively move humanity forward. My gu
Episode 337: Creativity in Community with Rahman Ali Bugg Part 1
Greetings Glocal Citizens!
We recorded this two-part conversation in the final days of my summer sojourn to the U.S. While it was a bit shorter than it has been in the recent past, this summer was another one for the books; made possible in large part by community, a consistent theme that I hope you too can appreciate as the way we become us and collectively move humanity forward. My gu
Episode 336: Globalizing Gender with Natasha Johnson Part 2
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In this two-part conversation, Natasha Johnson, shares her impressive experience in both the nonprofit and academic sectors. For over two decades, she has been an activist, educator, lawyer, and artist working primarily on intersectional gender justice. She served as the executive director of several nonprofit organizations, as an anti-trafficking legal special
Episode 335: Globalizing Gender with Natasha Johnson Part 1
Greetings Glocal Citizens!
In this two-part conversation, Natasha Johnson, shares her impressive experience in both the nonprofit and academic sectors. For over two decades, she has been an activist, educator, lawyer, and artist working primarily on intersectional gender justice. She served as the executive director of several nonprofit organizations, as an anti-trafficking legal special
Episode 334: Encore Episode | Jumping and Pivoting into Beautiful Spaces with Jackie Edwards-Flowers
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This week’s encore episode revisits a conversation with a fellow teammate and black woman in real estate, motivational speaker, 5-time Olympian representing the Bahamas, and #ChocolateCardinal, Jacqueline "Jackie" Edwards-Flowers.
As an adjunct to our collaboration with Black Women in Real Estate, which, so far taken us from London, via Nigeria and Barbados, t
Episode 333: A Conversation at the Intersection of AI, storytelling, and digital culture with Eric Hamilton
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This week on the podcast storytelling takes center stage with Eric Hamilton, an award-winning AI filmmaker, technology visionary, and innovation leader with over 30 years of experience at the intersection of artificial intelligence, storytelling, and digital culture. Eric and I met during early 2000’s when the recent scaffold of tech innovation was in its infan
Episode 332: Making a Way from Land to Sea as a Global Builder with Rob North
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This week on the podcast we’re getting to know Robert “Rob” North, a U.S. Marine Veteran, All–American, lovable off-the-wall, skilled carpenter that has truly carved out a niche for himself. Born and raised on Chicago's South Side, Rob inviites us through getting to know his story of becoming a Marine, to a TV personality, and an all-around global builder.
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Episode 331: On Investing in Indigenous Knowledge, Innovation, and Youth Empowerment with Amma Boakye-Danquah
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Back in 2013, a spark of inspiration gave light to an initiative that I went on to recruit a handful of friends to join in on the Flirt with the World’s Million Condom Giveaway at locations across Accra on World AIDS Day 2013. As part of our local press tour, I visited a local radio station, 107.9 YFM where I met htis week’s guest Amma Boakye-Danquah--shout out
Episode 330: On Being the Dreamer and the Dream with Mwamba-Salim Wilson
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This week on the podcast we’re visiting points east, west, north and south with my guest who began his professional career as a graffiti artist on the streets of Houston, Texas in the late 1990s at the age of 16. By the 2000s, he had evolved into an acclaimed Primitive Abstract and Primitivism painter, a body of work he calls Living Dreams.
As you’ll here in t
Episode 329: Local in London with Eric Collins, Ayisha Osori, Leye Adenle, Elizabeth Solaru, Robertson Ahomka-Lindsay, Lavinya Stennett
Greetings Glocal Citizens!
Hello from Londontown, where I find myself officially starting my summer antics for the 2026 season. And where I’ve found inspiration for this week's compilation episode. From an early episode with crime writer, Leye Adenle, to last year’s conversation with activist and social entrepreneur, Lavinya Stennett, we’ll hear a range of Pan-African perspectives on ho
Episode 328: Digitizing a More Representative Democracy with Ramon Perez
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This past spring, a volunteer from the Digital Democracy Project reached out to me about its founder and this week’s guest, Ramon Perez. I’d never heard of the project and as a podcast about the many dimensions of citizenship, this was a very necessary conversation exploring innovative ways to enhance citizen participation and reform democracy using technology
Episode 327: Youth Advocacy Voice Amplifiers with Augusta Barlow
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This week, as the summer heat inches up across the northern hemishphere, we’re hosting our youngest guest yet on the podcast. Augusta Barlow is a 14-year old change agent. Born and raised in Maryland in the United States, with family roots in Cape Verde, she believes in assistance through advocacy and service through sharing. She recently completed her freshman
Episode 326: Thoughts on Reclaiming Your Community with Majora Carter
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This week in our continuing Glocal Citizens x Black Women in Real Estate and Green For All, and in 2017 opened the Boogie Down Grind — a hip-hop-themed coffee and craft beer spot, the first commercial "third space" in Hunts Point since the mid-1980s. Her 2022 book, Reclaiming Your Community: You Don't Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better On
Episode 325: Encore Episode | Modeling a Life of Art and Experiences with Liz Campbell
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This week on the podcast, we re-presenting an episode that first posted nearly five years ago in the summer of 2021. At the time, my guest, Elizabeth Ann [Campbell Parks] Rollins-Moskowitz, Liz Campbell for short, was empty nesting and remote grandmothering while diving ever deeper into her art using her Mill Valley, California setting as a constant muse. Today
Episode 324: Food for Thought with Mawuli Dzansi
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This week, Chef Mawuli Dzansi allows us the honor of being his first podcast appearance. And we definitely count that as a win with this rising start in the Ghana food movement.
Rooted deeply in his Ghanaian heritage, his passion for food grew as he explored flavors, techniques, and ingredients he discovered while living with his Aunt in Accra. Chef Mawuli’s e
Episode 323: Encore Episode | Real Egypt with Samir Abbass
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This week we have an encore episode inspired by the many pitch decks that I’ve been reviewing from companies based in Egypt as part of my Dream VC Investor Accelerator Fellowship. Back in 2020, while we were still in the thick of the pandemic, I connected with Samir Abbass. I connect with my guest, Samir Abbass, while he was studying in Spain and when tours of
Episode 322: The Nubuke Foundation @ 20: A Conversation about Building and Sustaining an Arts Institution for Ghana to the World with Odile Tevie
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Exiting news…according to the Million Podcasts database platform We’re ranked #25 among change agent podcast thanks to listeners like you!
In this week’s change agent conversation we’re visiting with Odile Tevie, co-founder and director of Nubuke Foundation, a visual arts and cultural institution, based in Accra and Wa in Ghana.
In the early 2000’s she set up
Episode 321: On Being a Benevolent Savage with Remi Adeleke
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This week we commemorate Africa Day across the African Diaspora. Reflecting on the journeys of liberation that Black people have endured in trial and triumph, I am ever reminded that those that laid the groundwork will never in my heart, mind or acts have done so in vain. As the pillars of imperialism are finally weakening--though, not without reverting to its
Episode 320: On the State of the Africa Diaspora with Dr. Ashley D. Milton
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This week on the podcast I’m back in Accra, back on the Continent, just in time to commemorate African Liberation Day--Africa Day 2026. Last year around this time, my guest and I were preparing for our respective sessions at AfroTalks 2025 @ University of Ghana-Legon where we shared stories and proposed solutions centering the theme "HOW?" aimed at fostering cr
Episode 319: Embracing Multiple Talents as Activism with Bryonn Bain
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This week on the podcast it’s an NYU affair with a side of Columbia University, Harvard University and UCLA. I first met my guest as fellow New York University students/alumni in the late 1990’s, at a time when slam poetry was beginning to reaching global audiences with influences from hip hop music and other activist movements. Fast foward after more than 20 y
Episode 318: Building Bridges Between Capital Investment and Culture with Nioki Doggett
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This week on the podcast we have another installment of Glocal Citizens x Black Women in Real Estate collaboration--Borderless Building. Throughout the year, we’re hosting conversations with BWRE members showcasing the personal and professional journeys of Black women in the real estate industry across tthe global. We’re highlighting how Black women in the indu
Episode 317: Impact-Driven Fintech Solutions with Jemima Lewis
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This week’s conversation with Adedayo Jemima Lewis, Senior VP Commercial & Growth at Fincra, offers great insights into process and realities of realizing your passion in a new local. From applying and receiving a Global Talent Visa to sharpening her impact-driven career lens, Jemima is one to watch, particularly in the African Fintech space. As a commercia
Episode 316: Building Community Assets Grounded in Love with Bakajika Tshinanga
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This week on the podcast community builidng is a central theme. For twenty years, my guest, Bakajika Tshinanga, has operated at the exact intersection where culture generates economic value.
His journey started in 2004, when he founded a student-led program at the University of Georgia Atlanta. Georgia Daze still runs today and has improved enrollment yield co
Episode 315: Preserving our Sweet Roots and our Archiving Imperative with Maame Adjei
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I’m sure many of you remember the groundbreaking web series An African City. We’ve even hosted a panel featuring creator of the series Nicole Amarteifio in our writing as activism series. My guest this week launched her creative career as a cast member on the series and she hasn’t looked back since. Maame Adjei is a Ghanaian storyteller, producer, director, ent
Episode 314: Encore Episode | Going with Grace with Alua Arthur
Heartfelt Greetings, Glocal Citizens.
This week’s encore episode is a salve for my heavy heart. I’m resharing it as a reminder of life’s certainties; because it reflects some of the roots experiences that my guest, Global Ghanaian, death doula and author of Briefly Perfectly Human, Alua Arthur and I share; and because care for the aging has become a feature focus of my life story, partic
Episode 313: Reclaiming Wellness with Nana Amoako-Anin
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This year our Women’s Herstory Month series has taken us for the first time to Botswana and Norway; we stopped in the UK, picked up flavors from Nigeria, Sudan, Zambia, Netherlands, Philippines, Belgium, Brazil and South Africa; went on a future forward mission in Kenya, and we’re landing home in a flashback forward conversation with fellow Ghanaian-American an
Episode 312: World Making Art, Science and Practice with San’aa Njeeri
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This week our Women’s Herstory Month series takes us back to Kenya--to a place called Area Nyaga. Our guide is futurist, artist, and creative synthesist reimagining African futures, San’aa Njeeri. Distilling over a decade of global interdisciplinary practice, she positions art as a tool for education, translating complex ideas into accessible experiences that a
Episode 311: Ela-vating the Entrepreneurship Mindset with Sarah Osman
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This week in our continuing Women’s Herstory Month series, we’re in another new country--from southern Africa last week we’re landing in Scandinavia on our first trip to Norway via Sudan, Zambia, The Philippines, Netherlands, Ghana and South Africa--all places my guest this week has called home. Sarah Osman is a cognitive psychologist, global development specia
Episode 310: From Diamonds in the Rough to Polished Gems of Culture with Caroline Modise
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Next up in our Women’s Herstories Month series is our first trip to Botswana. I met this week’s guest, a native Motswana and globe trotter--Caroline Modise, in Accra earlier this year representing in her role as the Sustainability Engagements Manager at De Beers Group. At De Beers she plays a key role in socialising and amplifying the company’s social impact pr
Episode 309: Creating Spaces for Black Women in Real Estate with Hanna Afolabi
Women’s Herstory Month Greetings Glocal Citizens!
If it’s March then it’s that time again for a month of conversations centering women’s stories and experiences. This week, we’re also kicking off the series with the launch of our Glocal Citizens x Black Women in Real Estate collaboration--Borderless Building. Founded in 2019, Black Women in Real Estate (BWRE) is an organization that aims
Episode 308: Mobilizing Innovation Infrastructure in Haiti and Beyond with Marc Alain Boucicault
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This week, though Black History Month in the Americas is winding down, here on the podcast we’re consistently aiming to learn, grow and inspire our sustained consciouness around #PanAfricanProgress and we’re deep diving with a son of the country that is at the foundation of liberation across the global Black Diaspora - Haiti.
Marc Alain Boucicault is a social
Episode 307: Around the Globe and Back Home Again with Nana Asomani-Poku
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I met this week’s guest, Nana Asomani-Poku in Jamestown, Accra during a walking tour through featuring stories told in images by Glocal Citizen, James Barnor. It was during the James Barnor @95 celebration in 2024. Nana, a UK-born Ghanaian legal professional, filmmaker, and community engagement specialist based in Australia was back in Ghana for a family celeb
Episode 306: Digital Asset Evolution in Africa with Mimi Kufuor
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My guest this week is building the financial infrastructure that Africa deserves. As Chief Operating Officer of KoinKoin and CEO + Country Manager of KoinKoin Ghana Ltd, a leading African digital asset exchange, Mimi Kufuor is creating digital assets solutions that work for real people. She comes to this work after spending 15 years navigating the most complex
Episode 305: How to Build Emergency Response Infrastructure in Africa with Folake Owodunni
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For those listeners in North America, February is Black History Month. Week in and week out on this podcast, we’re all about how our Black present syncs with our history and all things forward for people of the Black diaspora worldwide. This week’s conversation zooms in on a healthcare infrastrucutre solution that has the potential to transform how emergency re
Episode 304: When Lineage Meets Craft and Other Notes on Community with Tai Allen Part 2
This week the US commemorates the MLK Day holiday - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. He would have been 97. The third Monday of January has stood as the official holiday for 40 years, and no matter what the current US administration attempts at erasure, the Black American Diaspora will never forget. I remember growing up, before 1986 when the day became an official holiday, the majo
Episode 303: When Lineage Meets Craft and Other Notes on Community with Tai Allen Part 1
This week the US commemorates the MLK Day holiday - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. He would have been 97. The third Monday of January has stood as the official holiday for 40 years, and no matter what the current US administration attempts at erasure, the Black American Diaspora will never forget. I remember growing up, before 1986 when the day became an official holiday, the majo
Episode 302: Infrastructure, Policy and the AI of Things in Africa with Oswald Osaretin Guobadia
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This week on the podcast, I was thrilled to have been able to take advantage of the fact that this week’s guest and I were on the same timezone because he’s literally moving and shaking across Africa and the Middle East full time. Since he last joined us in early 2020, Oswald Osaretin Guobadia has stepped into multiple new roles on top of being an entrepreneur.
Episode 301: Pubic Interest Media and Other Public Goods with Makmid Kamara Part 2
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This week’s conversation is a milestone coming to you in two parts. We're 300+1! And my guest is a return voice with serious currency in the public service media and reparatory justice movements. Born in Sierra Leone, Makmid Kamara is a human rights leader, reparatory justice advocate, and development communications practitioner, with almost 20 years’ experienc
Episode 300: Pubic Interest Media and Other Public Goods with Makmid Kamara Part 1
Greetings Glocal Citizens!
This week’s conversation is a milestone coming to you in two parts. We're 300+1! And my guest is a return voice with serious currency in the public service media and reparatory justice movements. Born in Sierra Leone, Makmid Kamara is a human rights leader, reparatory justice advocate, and development communications practitioner, with almost 20 years’ experienc
Episode 299: Creating Ecosystems at the Intersection of Artistry and Technology with Derrick Ashong
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I met this week’s guest, Derrick N. Ashong, earlier this year in Nairobi at the Charter Cities Institute, 2025 New Cities Summit. At the summit, we connected as storytellers that share Ghanaian heritage and formative years spent in Brooklyn, New York. In a glocal citizenship twist, we later came to find that we met virtually years prior through mutual
Episode 298: Where HIStory ends and People Power Begins with Anna Malaika Tubbs
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The final stretch of 2025 is upon us and along with winding down our year-long Glocal Citizens @5 commemoration, this flashback forward episode is right on time for many reasons. In her new book, Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us, my returning guest, Anna Malaika Tubbs not only prompts readers (and listeners) to connect the many dots that enci
Episode 297: On Congo Love and Pan-African Feminism with Patricia Lokwa Servant Part 2
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I met this week’s guest Patricia Lokwa Servant last November in Accra at a Forge: Harnessing Creative Arts for Reparatory Justice. The convening turned out to be a mini Glocal Citizens summit for us Accra-based peeps lead by Makmid Kamara in his new role leading Reform Initiatives, with Esther Armah and Nyamal Tutdeal participating as facilitators and storytell
Episode 296: On Congo Love and Pan-African Feminism with Patricia Lokwa Servant Part 1
Greetings Glocal Citizens!
I met this week’s guest Patricia Lokwa Servant last November in Accra at a Forge: Harnessing Creative Arts for Reparatory Justice. The convening turned out to be a mini Glocal Citizens summit for us Accra-based peeps lead by Makmid Kamara in his new role leading Reform Initiatives, with Esther Armah and Nyamal Tutdeal participating as facilitators and storytell
Episode 295: On Relocations and Reflections with Baze Mpinja
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This week on the podcast returning guest, Baze Mpinja takes us nearly five years to the date on a flashback forward journey to her new now as a podcaster and Phoenician. Her new podcast, Reflections with Baze Mpinja comes at a time when she’s now calling one of her childhood hometowns home again and she’s finding a new sense of home in the work of translating a
Episode 294: The Business of Land Matters: Food Systems, Land Stewardship and Community with Luther Lawoyin, Nana Opoku Ageyman-Prempeh, Wellington Baiden and Asmeret Berhe-Lumax
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This week on the podcast as I’m easing back into the flow of life in Accra after a whirlwind trip across the US via London. My experiences in the US inlcluded much needed R&R in Hawaii, where I met some amazing new connections--stay tuned for those conversations early next year. Next, I revisited my alma mater, Stanford University for reunion-homecoming week
Episode 293: The Making of a Global Fusionist with Aretha Amma Sarfo-Kantanka
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Last week, Ghana lost another living legend, the first lady of the 4th Republic, Madam Nana Konadu Ageyman Rawlings. As we mourn this loss, I can’t help but to take note of how 2025 has been a year punctuated with transitions of many of Ghana’s cultural icons as well as civic leaders--all passionate about not only their crafts, but forward movement, Ghana’s pro
Episode 292: Encore Episode | Soul Food and Black Smoke Storytelling with Adrian Miller
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This week’s encore episode is a timely flashbackconnection with my guest, the Soul Food Scholar, Adrian Miller. Adrian and I went to primary and secondary school in the same school district—Denver Public Schools, and we also both attended Stanford University. I selected this episode to revisit this week because it represents two locals that have been integral t
Episode 291: Pan-Africanism for the Win with Martin Kimani
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This week’s conversation dovetails themes that have become very present in my perspectives in the past year. Our conversation takes place in one of my locals, which happens to be a new-ish local for my guest--Brooklyn, New York. My guest, Ambassador Martin Kimani is a native of a soon-to-be local for me--Kenya. And we are both decidedly on a #PanAfricaProgress
Episode 290: Design Thinking in Teaching and Learning with Kalimah Fergus Ayele
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We’re talking about the business of teaching and learning from a design thinking perspective with my guest, fellow Stanford University alum, visionary educational leader and the founder and CEO of Roundtrip Ticket Home, an organization dedicated to helping educators reimagine school systems through design thinking, Kalimah Fergus Ayele. With almost 30 years of
Episode 289: When Activism Writes the Story with Myra Vahighene
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In case you missed us last week there’s good reason. My glocal speak for the week was #UNGA80. The streets and sounds of NYC all pointed to the United Nations General Assembly and myriad sideline events. My week was about all thing #PanAfricanProgress and I look forward to sharing stories from the ground in the coming months. One thing is for sure, the giant th
Episode 288: ENCORE Episode | Storytelling for Structural Change with Esther Armah
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This week we continue to reflect on GlocalCitizens@5 and we’re flashing back to our Womens' Herstory series in March 202. Ghana-based, London-born international award-winning journalist, playwright, global public speaker and entrepreneur, Esther Armah – a self-described ‘global black chick’ – has lived, worked, loved, and created across three cities in three co
Episode 287: The Fight for Equity in Teaching, Learning and Leading with Dr. Elaine Ruiz Lopez
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As the season of academic studies begins in many institutions across parts of the world, including New York City where I have spent many years working with charter schools to open their doors to children and families, it’s a flashback moment for my guest and me to the days when she was first granted a charter to begin her social enterpreneurship journey as a sc
Episode 286: Reloading Life in Relocation and Retirement with Serene Lewis Lyles
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This week’s interview was recorded while my guest and I were on the same time zone in Western Europe--she in Portugal and the UK for me. My guest, Serene Lewis Lyles spent most of her 30-year career making complex things simple. She was on the forefront of launching technologies that, today, are foundational to our lives including digital video recording (the p
Episode 285: Where Palm Wine Meets Music and Digital Transformation with Emmanuel Agbeko Gamor
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This week on the podcast we’re flashing back to June 2020 when we first met Emmanual Agbeko Gamor while he was based in South Africa attending Wits Business School. Now glocal in his native Ghana and South Africa he continues to evolve on the personal and professional fronts. Widely known as Palmwine DJ, Emmanuel is a trailblazer in Ghana’s music scene, a digit
Episode 284: Learning to Relearn with Kwame Sarfo-Mensah Part 2
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This week on the podcast we have Part 1 of a two-part conversation centering a favorite topic of mine - education. The effectivenss of LinkedIn and it’s networkinng superpower facilitated our connection through common connects, Adja Maymouna Sakho and Laureen Adams.
My guest, fellow educator Kwame Sarfo-Mensah holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and a Mas
Episode 283: Learning to Relearn with Kwame Sarfo-Mensah Part 1
Greetings Glocal Citizens!
This week on the podcast we have Part 1 of a two-part conversation centering a favorite topic of mine - education. The effectivenss of LinkedIn and it’s networkinng superpower facilitated our connection through common connects, Adja Maymouna Sakho and Laureen Adams.
My guest, fellow educator Kwame Sarfo-Mensah holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and a Mas
Episode 282: Leading Beyond Burnout with Hawa Kombian
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The spirit of summers past visits with us this week; it’s another Glocal Citizens @5flashback forward episode. In 2023, my guest this week, Hawa Kombian joined us for a two part conversation while she was based in her adopted home country, Canada. Today she's back in Ghana spreading new wings as a leadership strategist, resilience coach, and organizational adv
Episode 281: Roots, Routes and Returns with Osei Alleyne Part 2
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This week on the podcast we have another gift from the Glocal Citizens community. In this two part conversation we meet Dr. Osei Alleyne. A joint PhD in Anthropology and Africana Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and former inaugural postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Experimental Ethnography at Penn, Dr. Osei also holds an MA in Communications fro
Episode 280: Roots, Routes and Returns with Osei Alleyne Part 1
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This week on the podcast we have another gift from the Glocal Citizens community. In this two part conversation we meet Dr. Osei Alleyne. A joint PhD in Anthropology and Africana Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and former inaugural postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Experimental Ethnography at Penn, Dr. Osei also holds an MA in Communications fro
Episode 279: On Being a Venture Catalyst with Tina Mbachu Obodozie
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This week’s guest, Tina Mbachu Obodozie first joined me in conversation in 2021, thanks fo the #BWiD Connect Whatsapp group. Since our first chat, she has shifted to a bi-continental lifestyle, based mostly in Nigeria as the new Exectuive Director of the Innovate Africa Foundation, while also managing her business activities in Canada. As a business and sustain
Episode 278: Designing Love-centered Learning with Laureen Adams
Republic Day Greetings Glocal Citizens!
This week’s guest is another Glocal Citizens connection. In spring 2024, Amma Gyampo reached out to me me about connecting me with a like mind in education. That was the beginning of ongoing conversations with Laureen “Laury” Adams. With over 20 years of experience spanning both international and U.S. contexts as a classroom teacher, school leader,
Episode 277: Building Biotech Ecosystems for Africans with David Hutchful
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I met this week's guest last month as a fellow AfroTalks 2025 speaker. Our collective charge for the event was to present our ideas about the "how" of Pan-African progress from mindset, to skills development to migration policy and the future of work. While I shared insights from the future of work salon series, our guest this week, David Hutchful participated
Episode 276: On Visual Storytelling as a Language for Activism with Michael Soi
Greetings from East Africa Glocal Citizens!
Well, kind of…this conversation was recorded last weekend from Nairobi on the eve of Father’s Day and a day after the opening of my guest, Michael Soi’s current group exhibition, The Print Press, an exhibit of woodcut prints by various Nairobi based artist at the Alliance Française de Nairobi 13th - 29th of June. I met Michael in his studio at
Episode 275: Telling Omitted Truths with Lavinya Stennett
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We’re picking up more momentum toward African progress sharing the stories of dynamic diasporans making impact in the reparatory justice space. On the eve of Africa Day, I attended the premier screening of Omitted, a short film exploring reparatory justice and the legacies of colonialism by Lavinya Stennett, founder of The Black Curriculum. Raised in the UK wit
Episode 274: Navigating Creativity with Wana Udobang
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As we hit the halfway mark on 2025 our treat this week is a thought-provoking conversation with Wana Udobang, a multifaceted writer, poet, performer, curator, and storyteller based in Lagos, Nigeria. I met Wana last year during the Pa Gya! Literary Festival in Accra where she faciliated her own unique writing workshop - “Comfort Food” a storytelling and poetry
Episode 273: Pan-African Narratives: Storytelling for High Impact with Ivy Prosper
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This week we have another flashback forward episode with experienced television host, reporter, producer, public speaker, published writer, and returning guest, Ivy Prosper. Since leaving her role working with the Ghana Tourism Authority she’s laser focused on her creative media company, Prosper Creative Group, which produces content, consults with clients and s
Episode 272: Climate Reparations: A Critical Issue at the Intersection of Racial, Climate and Economic Justice with Hélène Himmer
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This week Hélène Himmer, a French national with roots in the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, now based in Portugal joins me in conversation about her current work at African Futures Lab (AfaLab) leading a project on climate reparations. I met Hélène last November at FORGE: Harnessing Creative Arts for Reparatory Justice, a convening of artists, media, cultural
Episode 271: Empowering Youth for Pan-African Progress with Hamzat Lawal
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This week’s guest is a dynamic activist that I had the pleasure of working with while distributing a documentary (see other topics of interest) featuring the work that has become his origin story in the world of Pan-African development. Hamzat “Hamzy!” Lawal is a global citizen, community organizer, an award-winning advocate and humanitarian who has successfull
Episode 270: Uncovering African Histories and Elevating African Stories with Yasmina Fagbemi
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This week returning guest, Yasmina Fagbemi, is flashing forward with us with an update on her latest projects and evolving glocal citizenship. Having emigrated to the United States in the 1990s, she began her career in marketing with major international corporations. Building on this experience, she developed her network to fuel her passion for cinema. She prod
Episode 269: ENCORE Episode: On Mythology and Humanity's "Ever Fonky Lowdown" with Wynton Marsalis
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This week on the podcast, after the inspiring conversation in our last episode with Wesley Watkins about The Jazz & Democracy Project and more, I couldn’t resist giong back into the GC archives for an encore presentation of my conversation with Maestro Wynton Marsalis. We recorded this conversation when the podcast was just a toddler, back in the days when
Episode 268: Why Jazz & Democracy Matter with Wesley Watkins Part 2
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This week’s conversation comes in two parts. Like it’s geographical spread, northern hemisphere to southern hemisphere, think of this two part discussion as a way of engaging both hemispheres of your brain--the creative and the analytic. My guest is fellow Stanford alum and founder of The Jazz & Democracy Project® (J&D), Wesley “Dr. Wes” J. Watkins. Aft
Episode 267: Why Jazz & Democracy Matter with Wesley Watkins Part 1
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This week’s conversation comes in two parts. Like it’s geographical spread, northern hemisphere to southern hemisphere, think of this two part discussion as a way of engaging both hemispheres of your brain--the creative and the analytic. My guest is fellow Stanford alum and founder of The Jazz & Democracy Project® (J&D), Wesley “Dr. Wes” J. Watkins. Aft
Episode 266: Defining and Delivering for Women’s Needs in the Fourth Phase with Nana Eyeson-Akiwowo
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On this first day of April, we are trying to fool you, but just slightly. Though herstories month has just ended, we have the treat of catching up with one of featured voices from last week’s compilation episode. Returning with an update on Fourth Phase which was in the launch phase when last we caught up in 2020, is co-founder Nana Eyeson-Akiwowo. Nana is a de
Episode 265: Showing and Telling Herstory with Yaliwe Clarke, Nana Eyeson-Akiwowo, Daisry Obal, Tiambi Simms and Aissata Sidibé N'dia
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Every March since launching the podcast, we dedicate the month to women - it’s our Women's Herstory Month series. Closing out this year’s series are excerpts from conversations over the years with Glocal Citizens working to empower, develop, support and uplift women in Africa and beyond.
We’ll hear social development scholar, author and facilitator, Yaliwe Cla
Episode 264: Find Your Voice with Coach Vuyanzi Rodman
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This week, Women’s Herstories Month takes me back to my recent journey to Nairobi, Kenya where the Glocal Citizens community came through in full effect. While in Nairobi I hosted the final session in the Glocal Citizens Future of Work Solutionscape and Stretch Salon Series--stay tuned for the full podcast series coming in May, and caught up with past guests, i
Episode 263: Diaspora-led Humanitarian Solutions with Elvina Quaison
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Over the week/weekend just passed, the world recognized International Women’s Day as well as Ghana’s 68th Independence Day. Both happenings inspire thoughts, reflections, and movement in my heart and mind especially as I, we sit in constant review of the world we are making, remaking and re-imagining for our now. My conversation this week, in our continued Marc
Episode 262: Keeping the Human in the Loop with Stacy Kirk
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As is our tradition, this month is all about herstories. Kicking it off is fellow Stanford Cardinal and return guest, Stacy Kirk. Stacy has over 15 years of experience helping organizations and entrepreneurs achieve their visions through technology and process optimization. She specializes in strategies that drive sustainable growth and scalability, with a pass
Episode 261: Reflections on Movement, Intention and Freedom with Winston Benons, Jr.
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This week’s episode has been in the making since Episode 122 guest, Natasha Moore. I’m joined by interdisciplinary artist, choreographer, scholar and educator, specializing in dance forms of the African Diaspora, Winston Benons, Jr. He has extensive training in Afro-Cuban, Haitian, Afro-Brazilian, and Bomba dance, complemented by studies in Horton and Dunham mo
Episode 260: Bitcoin Solutions for African Challenges with Femi Longe
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As I head back to the Continent, I can’t help but to train my mind on what it takes to seed and sow solutions in Africa’s best interest. This week’s guest has been invested in these types of solutions for his entire career. A serial social entrepreneur, innovation consultant, service designer, learning scientist and startup coach, Femi Longe is passionate about
Episode 259: Creating New Paths to Plant Medicine with Akua Ofosuhene Part 2
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It’s the eve of the Lunar New Year - the year of the Wood Snake, which in combination represent growth, flexibility, tolerance, wisdom, intuition, mystery, and cunningness with hints of furtiveness. These themes are a fitting context for this two-part conversation with Ghanaian-Brit, Akua Ofosuhene. Akua is an active and vocal plant medicine advocate and a psyc
