Glocal Citizens

Florence Amerley Adu
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Glocal Citizenship is the recognition that we are simultaneously citizens of our local communities and of the world as a whole. It's about understanding how local actions have global impacts and how global issues affect our local communities. As Glocal Citizens, we strive to be informed, engaged, and responsible individuals who work to create a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. Explore the intersection of local and global impact with Glocal Citizens! Hosted by Florence Amerley Adu, this podcast delves into the experiences of inspiring individuals bridging their local selves with the wider world. Through engaging conversations with Dynamic Diasporans, Florence explores the personal and professional journeys that define Glocal Citizenship. Along the way, get to know more about the business of their business, including the technical and operational aspects involved in the work of manifesting a new world. Go beyond the headlines and discover how individuals are shaping a more just and sustainable world, both in their own communities and on a global scale.

  1. Episode 320: On the State of the Africa Diaspora with Dr. Ashley D. Milton

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    Episode 320: On the State of the Africa Diaspora with Dr. Ashley D. Milton

    Greetings Glocal Citizens! 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 critical introspection, sustainable community impact, and the amplification of African stories by Africans. I shared insights taken from our Future of Work salon series and featured Glocal Citizens specifically engaged in impact-driven solutions for us by us. My guest, Dr. Ashley D. Milton was part of a duo presenting The Triangle Offensive Policy. She joins us a year later to share how her work has progressed and her consortium prepares to release the The State of the Africa Diaspora Report, a first-of-its-kind continental grounding document examining how Africa and its global diaspora connect across mobility, investment, culture, skills, governance, technology, and development systems. The report brings together policymakers, researchers, entrepreneurs, creatives, and community stakeholders across Africa and the diaspora to shape a more coordinated and regenerative future. As a strategist, researcher, and systems builder working at the intersection of Africa, its global diaspora, and the future of regenerative economic development she is the Founder and Managing Director of She Grows It™ (SGI), a Pan-African consulting and investment migration advisory firm. Ashley leads work across green infrastructure, trade and industry, tourism and hospitality, diaspora engagement, governance strategy, and emerging technology systems designed to support long-term African growth and resilience. She has advised on projects ranging from IFC EDGE green building certification and sustainable development strategy to diaspora policy frameworks, investment positioning, and institutional ecosystem development. Her work consistently centers one core question: how do we build systems that allow African people, businesses, and communities to thrive across generations? Where to find Dr. Ashley? The Africa Diaspora Report On LinkedIn On Instagram What’s Ashley watching? The Eyes of Ghana When Malcolm Smiled a film by Glocal Citizen Muhammida el Muhajir Other topics of interest: Africa Day Accountability and the March 2026 UN Resolution How the US justifies it’s denial of the gravest crime against humanity. Kwame Nkrumah, books on Pan-Africanism About the long history of smog in Los Angeles About FAMU, a top ranked HBCU About the book, White Malice by Susan Williams Nautilus Diving - Dakar Special Guest: Ashley D. Milton.

    48 Min.
  2. Episode 319: Embracing Multiple Talents as Activism with Bryonn Bain

    12. MAI

    Episode 319: Embracing Multiple Talents as Activism with Bryonn Bain

    Greetings Glocal Citizens! 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 years to earlier this spring when our paths crossed again at an event hosted by fellow Glocal Citizen and Director of NYU Accra, Chiké Frankie Edozien - The Labone Dialogues. Bryonn is a poet, actor, prison activist, playwright, scholar, author, hip hop artist and professor of African American Studies, Theater, Film & Television, and World Arts & Cultures in the School of the Arts and the School of Law at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Playing over 40 characters, his one-man show, LYRICS FROM LOCKDOWN, won “Best Solo Performance” from the LA Weekly and the NAACP. Executive produced by the late and great, Harry Belafonte, the show tells stories of wrongful incarceration through spoken word poetry, hip hop theater, calypso, comedy and classical music. He founded the Prison Education Program at UCLA in 2015 and in 2019, the program and his performances at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts were featured on the debut episode of LA Stories, which won an Emmy Award. His work has been featured on a diverse range of stages including the Apollo Theater, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Public Theater (NYC), National Black Theatre (Harlem), NJ PAC, The Actor’s Gang Theater (Culver City), Los Angeles Theater Center (LATC), Festival de Liege (Belgium), M-1 Theater Festival (Singapore), Universidad de las Americas (Mexico) and Muteesa Royal University (Uganda), Rikers Island (New York), Marion Prison (Ohio), TEDX at Ironwood State Prison and Sing Sing Prison. He has performed at over 250 colleges and prisons in the U.S., Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe. And soon in Ghana! Where to find Bryonn? https://www.bryonn.com On LinkedIn On Instagram What’s Bryonn reading? A Survey of Muhammad Ali Biographies What’s Bryonn watching? Concerning Violence What’s Bryonn listening to? Blues Women Other topics of interest: What is a Calypsonian About Veteran Black Panther Jamal Joseph About Akuse Prison in Ghana 90’s music roll-call - The Fu-Schnickens, Digital Underground, Tupac Shakur About Pedro Noguera About Delroy Lindo Sinners the film About Michael A. Jordan Special Guest: Bryonn Bain.

    57 Min.
  3. Episode 318: Building Bridges Between Capital Investment and Culture with Nioki Doggett

    5. MAI

    Episode 318: Building Bridges Between Capital Investment and Culture with Nioki Doggett

    Greetings Glocal Citizens! 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 industry invest and structure value in/around land/property across global markets; and how we are offering valuable insight into the business/operational functions in the real estate industry to inspire a spirit of land stewardship. You’ll hear this and more in this week's conversation. My guest, Nioki Doggett comes to us from the UK by way of her Bajan roots in Barbados. Throughout her career, she’s helped institutional investors across the globe navigate complex real estate markets and find high-conviction opportunities, building the kind of trust that turns one-time conversations into decade-long partnerships. As Lead Business Development and Investor Relations Director for M&G Real Estate's European Platform, she drives capital growth and delivers tailored investment solutions for global institutional investors. Her work sits at the intersection of relationship management, market insight, and strategic advisory. Beyond her core role, Nioki is actively involved in shaping the broader real estate and investment community as a Committee Member of the INREV DDQ Committee, the Guild of Investment Managers, Ladies in Real Estate. She is a mentor at Chancerygate supporting real estate undergraduates entering the industry, and conference moderator and panel speaker on real estate and investment topics. Listen and learn more about how her deep expertise in real estate investment dynamics and global investor network spanning multiple markets and geographies are creating value where it counts. Where to find Nioki? On LinkedIn @ Ladies in Real Estate (LiRE) What’s Nioki watching? Grey’s Anatomy and other shows by Shonda Rhimes Apprentice UK Dragon’s Den What’s Nioki listening to? Bruno Mars Marvin Sapp Adele Olivia Dean Daniel Caesar Other topics of interest: About Black Women in Real Estate About Barbados now and Bajan roots Reading, Berkshire Royal Borough of Windsor Special Guest: Nioki Doggett.

    57 Min.
  4. Episode 317: Impact-Driven Fintech Solutions with Jemima Lewis

    28. APR.

    Episode 317: Impact-Driven Fintech Solutions with Jemima Lewis

    Greetings Glocal Citizens! 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 commercial and growth leader with a foundation in marketing, brand, and communications, her expertise lies in a unique combination of strategic positioning and operational discipline, which she uses to successfully build and scale businesses. Across the leadership roles she has held at Fincra, she has consistently focused on the intersection of commercial growth, brand, and communications, enhancing Fincra's go-to-market strategies, refining its value proposition, and ensuring scalable systems support business goals. Today, in her commercial and growth leadership role, she combines that narrative craft with revenue-minded discipline, helping align teams, messaging, and market motion to support sustainable growth. She oversees the management of commercial revenue strategy, strategic partnerships, and market expansion, converting Fincra’s technical capabilities and vision into commercial success. Her portfolio of experience includes work for organisations such as microfinance fintech Aella, Wild Fusion—Africa's leading integrated marketing communications agencies, The Republic Agency, Oando PLC, Lafarge Africa, UBA, Chivita 100%, and more, with responsibilities spanning digital strategy, content development, campaign execution, community management, growth and PR. When she’s not wearing the commercial or growth hat, Jemima dedicates her time to podcasting. Where to find Jemima? @The Shrine Podcast On LinkedIn On Instagram What’s Jemima reading? The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey What’s Jemima watching? The Mentalist Other topics of interest: Ekiti State, Nigeria City of Leeds, UK Discover Halifax, UK #EndSARS About the UK’s Global Talent Visa Programme What is an API? Central Bank of Nigeria - CBN Special Guest: Jemima Lewis.

    49 Min.
  5. Episode 316: Building Community Assets Grounded in Love with Bakajika Tshinanga

    21. APR.

    Episode 316: Building Community Assets Grounded in Love with Bakajika Tshinanga

    Greetings Glocal Citizens! 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 conservatively valued at $150M+ in incremental revenue for the university. That experience shaped how he thinks about infrastructure: who builds it, who benefits, and who owns the upside. He went on building hospitality programming delivering the cultural insight that prompted AT&T to sponsor Drake's inaugural headline tour and leading the campaign that introduced the Lyft ridesahre app to Atlanta. He’s produced work with cultural figures including Michael Jordan, and while an undergraduate he producing concerts featuring Outkast, Lauryn Hill, and Dave Chappelle. Also of note, he owns a publishing catalog featuring songs from Lil Wayne, The Neptunes, Sevyn Streeter, Pusha T, and Usher. Coding since age 11, technology is lens he's always looking through. His latest endeavor, the lOlŌ's platform is the direct expression of technology deployed as infrastructure to close the gap between who creates cultural value and who captures it. He's lived the innovator's dilemma firsthand: operating at the riskiest part of the curve, where the work is undeniable but the capital isn't designed to find you. That experience is why lOlŌ exists—a collective ownership vehicle for cultural capital, community-capitalized, community-governed, designed to compound for generations. Where to fine Bakajika? On LinkedIn On Instagram On Threads What’s Bakajika reading? The Science of Scaling by Dr. Benjamin Hardy adn Blake Erickson What’s Bakajika watching? Dreaming Whilst Black on Showtime How’s Bakijika listening to? Who is Joy Leone? Other topics of interest: Kinshasa, DRC About Georgia Daze University of Michigan Supreme Court Affirmative Action Case Atlanta Influences Everything Lɔlɔ̃ means love Special Guest: Bakajika Tshinanga.

    55 Min.
  6. Episode 315: Preserving our Sweet Roots and our Archiving Imperative with Maame Adjei

    14. APR.

    Episode 315: Preserving our Sweet Roots and our Archiving Imperative with Maame Adjei

    Greetings Glocal Citizens! 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, entrepreneur and cultural archivist. As the founder of Sweet Roots Media, she leads a women-driven media hub dedicated to amplifying cultural narratives and preserving history through high-quality storytelling. Their work spans documentary scripted, brand storytelling, and immersive experiences, all crafted to resonate on a global scale. Beyond media, she is the founder of Duruyeh, a bold jewelry brand celebrating heritage, beauty, and self-expression. Every piece tells a story, designed not just as an accessory but as a keepsake to be passed down. Maame is also deeply invested in archival work and co-founded Korabea which focuses on preserving, protecting, and uplifting the stories of Ghanaian women, both past and present, through exhibitions, educational projects, and a forthcoming podcast. #NewPodcastAlert! Where to find Maame? On LinkedIn On Instagram On Facebook On YouTube What’s Maame listening to? Devi Brown’s Deeply Well Podcast On Purpose with Jay Shetty The Myleik Teele Podcast The Emotions Other topics of interest: NAFTI is now UniMAC-IFT Who is GloRilla? The Whites of Our Eyes Trailer On Kenneth B. Clark's Doll Study The Sunday Mirror today Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings Special Guest: Maame Adjei.

    45 Min.
  7. Episode 314: Encore Episode | Going with Grace with Alua Arthur

    7. APR.

    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, particulary since the start of the pandemic. On April 4th, my father, Peter Otoe Adu took his leave from the body that was the man I know as Daddy, Dad, PO, Peter and papa. He was 86. Last week on the podcast, I mentioned the long overdue solutionscape and stretch salon series. The first topic we covered in these live sessions--the future of work in care for the aging, is an ever-timely discussion that will go live later this month. Woven into this series will be small tributes in memory of the briefly, perfectly human life dad lived and what I hope will be inspiration for us all to normalize conversations, pay attention and act in the interest of not just our elders but our inevitably aging selves. Where to find Alua? See the show notes for Episode 164 Special Guest: Alua Arthur.

    47 Min.
  8. Episode 313: Reclaiming Wellness with Nana Amoako-Anin

    31. MÄRZ

    Episode 313: Reclaiming Wellness with Nana Amoako-Anin

    Greetings Glocal Citizens! 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 and early Glocal Citizen, Nana Amoako-Anin. Nana first joined us on the podcast in January 2020 in a time when wellness was often taken for granted or an afterthought for later. Then the global pandemic, COVID-19 changed everything. Wellness is now having a moment. However, as we’ll discuss in the conversation, the moment calls for depth, not trend, to sustain real mindset and lifestyle shifts on the personal and professional levels. Nana writes about this at Wellness in Black and lives and works it as a social entrepreneur and organizational leader. She is best known as the founder of Bliss Yoga Accra, Ghana’s first full-service yoga studio. With a background in law, she brings cross-sector expertise to her work, which bridges global perspectives with local impact, positioning her as a thought leader in mindful leadership, mentorship, social innovation and international executive strategy. In this conversation we catch up on evolving realities around wellness for Africans and in Ghana as well as her experience diversifying the what and how of work, guided by her enduring committment to staying people centered. And much, much more. Where to find Nana? https://www.nanaamoakoanin.com/ @ Bliss Yoga Accra On Glocal Citizens At CrowdReason What’s Nana reading? An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi Other topics of interest: The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic The “official” Vicks story Kemetic Yoga An African History of Africa on YouTube On Legalized Cannabis in Ghana Indigenous vs Colonial Medicine in Ghana Hamamat Shea Butter Museum ishowspeed in Ghana Jill Scott talks with Angie Martinez Special Guest: Nana Amoako-Anin.

    55 Min.
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Glocal Citizenship is the recognition that we are simultaneously citizens of our local communities and of the world as a whole. It's about understanding how local actions have global impacts and how global issues affect our local communities. As Glocal Citizens, we strive to be informed, engaged, and responsible individuals who work to create a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. Explore the intersection of local and global impact with Glocal Citizens! Hosted by Florence Amerley Adu, this podcast delves into the experiences of inspiring individuals bridging their local selves with the wider world. Through engaging conversations with Dynamic Diasporans, Florence explores the personal and professional journeys that define Glocal Citizenship. Along the way, get to know more about the business of their business, including the technical and operational aspects involved in the work of manifesting a new world. Go beyond the headlines and discover how individuals are shaping a more just and sustainable world, both in their own communities and on a global scale.

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